tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6593465123714885712024-02-18T17:38:43.346-08:00SagaciousHillbillySagaciousHillbillyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09511441325695460501noreply@blogger.comBlogger713125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-659346512371488571.post-87877247016007179942021-02-16T06:29:00.000-08:002021-02-16T06:29:27.552-08:00They're not really "pro-life" if they're anti-universal healthcare, pro-war, pro-death penalty, anti-food stamps, anti-Social Security, anti-Medicare, and have a general aversion to anything that keeps poor people alive.<br />
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They're angry about spending, but they were silent when the Bush administration created the largest deficit in American history before or since.<br />
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They complain that the gov't is taking way their freedoms, but when the Patriot Act and TSA were enacted, they remained silent.<br />
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They say they are taxed too much and that Obama is a taxing them too much, but Obama actually lowered the tax bill of average Americans and we are at the lowest tax rate in over 60 years.<br />
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They want gov't out of our lives and "less gov't, but they want gov't to legislate what a woman can and can't do with their body.<br />
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They claim to have family and Christian values, but According to the Bible and Jesus's teaching they are anti-Christian since they don't believe in feeding the hungry, clothing the poor, healing the sick and injured or housing the homeless.<br />
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They want to create jobs by giving corporations tax breaks and tax incentives, but we've been doing that for over 30 yrs now and jobs have been streaming out of the country, the middle class has been destroyed and any jobs created have been low paying service positions.<br />
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They think it's ok to make the people who are with our children 6-8 hrs a day teaching them essential information to take a 20% pay cut, but it's a horrible idea to increase the tax on mega-millionaires by 3%.<br />
<br />SagaciousHillbillyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09511441325695460501noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-659346512371488571.post-46380588442147176912018-12-18T18:31:00.000-08:002018-12-18T18:31:16.186-08:00I posted this on FB and didn't get any replies. Maybe here?<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">I have a honest and serious question for anyone in America. I don't want arguments, I want opinions.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">I don't want any defensive or offensive comments. I just want to understand.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">There is mounting evidence that the Trump administration and the campaign colluded with representatives of the Russian gov't to influence our presidential election of 2016. Numerous people have been indicted and convicted from said administration and campaign for illegal activities related to the a</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; display: inline; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">dministration and campaign. It seems to be a logical conclusion that the trail will eventually lead to the president himself and members of his family being indicted for criminal activity.<br />Now, I know my friends who dwell on the right are not anti American and they are not against the American rule of law. They are good hard working and honest folks for the most part.<br />So in light of the fact that this president continues to make outrageously false statements about just about about everything including his and his cohorts' involvement in illegal activities. In light of the fact that he continues to use the term "witch hunt" for one of the most productive criminal investigations of a presidential administration in modern history. . . how do you justify continued support of this administration and this president?</span><br />
<span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; display: inline; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">After two years of doing so many things that are contrary to the good of the common people of America, how do you continue to support this presidency?<br />What is your reasoning behind doing so. I don't believe most of you are stupid or ignorant, so please help me be more open minded and understand. I'm tired of the insane polarization.</span><br />
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Hey, there has been an extraordinary primary process in AmerryKKKa these past few months that has blown the doors off any primary season or election cycle of the past 50 yrs when it comes to class and dignity. These right wing fuckers have about as much class and dignity as a homeless drunk shitting behind a dumpster in a ghetto alleyway. We have one of the richest men in the world acting like a backwoods, swamp dwelling dim wit every time he opens his mouth. How sad for our nation.<br />
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So what the hell happened to the republican party? I grew up in the Eisenhower and (don't laugh) Nixon years. I know some of you have only heard of Nixon's shallow reputation, but both those men had a deep concern for the people of the United States and the general well being of our nation. Believe me, if they were alive and well today, they would be considered way over in the ranks of what is now considered the radical left on social issues, national security and anything else that shapes policy.<br />
Eisenhower warned us against the evils of the "military industrial complex" and Nixon gave us the EPA and forged relations with China and the USSR.<br />
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So what happened to this party that was once a shining light for American values across the nation and the world? Reagan and the neo-cons happened. From a historic policy perspective it all starts there even though Eisenhower warned us. "But what happened SagaciousOne?" Well, the very rich decided they didn't want to be just very rich. They wanted to be ultra mega super rich. Thus began the shunting of cash flow away from the middle class and back around to the very rich and the destruction of unionized America. The ultimate result 35 yrs later is what we have today. <br />
What we have are really super rich people like Jackass Trump and a middle/working class that is being strangled out of existence. Our neighborhoods, our infrastructure and our standard of living is crumbling while the ultra rich hoard more and more of our resources.<br />
Let's take a look at some numbers. I've gone after very reliable sources here. I've culled the ones that make outrageous claims like the top 0.1% own 90% of the wealth, and found numbers from very good economic sources.<br />
Let's have a look:<br />
The top 1% own 34.6% of the country's wealth. So if you have 100 people evenly divided economically, one person would own over 1/3 of their collective resources.<br />
Let's drop it down some:<br />
The top 20% own 85% of the nation's wealth. So now, the top 20 people in that group own 85% of all the resources.<br />
That leaves the rest of us in the 80% that is below all these rich people. We only own 15% of the economic resources this country has to offer.<br />
How is is possible that the vast majority of people own a small minority of the wealth. Has it always been like this?<br />
Nope!<br />
In 1982, the top 1% earned 12% of the national income. Now they rake in over 25%.<br />
The average salary of all Americans is $33,000/yr. (much less than it was in 1980).<br />
The average salary of someone in the 1% is $1.3 million. That's $1,300,000/yr.<br />
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We could look at and crunch numbers all day. The bottom line is that American society is being destroyed by the greed and gluttony of the rich and sadly, they genuinely believe that it's OK. They simply can't understand why it's wrong that a Wall Street trader makes million while a paramedic makes barely enough to survive and support a family. THEY do not get it. THEY have lost any empathy and compassion THEY might have had in the past for the working class.<br />
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Are THEY going to rectify this situation? <br />
Nope!<br />
If you think Jackass Trump is going to do anything to lift the working middle class out of the doldrums it is currently stagnating within, you are fucking delusional. <br />
Hillary? A better bet, but how far up the ass of her Wall Street sponsors is she? Does she have the ability to connect and understand the plight of the middle class? She has never been one of us.<br />
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Good luck America. The future does not look good as we spiral into a feudal system of royal patrons and poor proles while the poor proles venerate and patronize their royal masters.<br />
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<br />SagaciousHillbillyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09511441325695460501noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-659346512371488571.post-82514678603577633872015-11-01T09:36:00.002-08:002015-11-01T09:36:25.070-08:00I Told You So!See! I told you this was going to be entertaining. We've got Ben Carson saying all kinds of crazy assed ridiculous bullshit and it's getting covered by the national media, Donald "duck" Trump has been a mega center ring act, we've got Jeb! on the sidelines playing the sad sack Emmett Kelley clown routine and a dozen or so others blowing the doors off of all the liars and theives I can ever remember on the political landscape. What more could we ask for in entertainment.<br />
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Oh fuck. This isn't supposed to be entertainment. This is supposed to be about serious people coming up with serious solutions to our serious problems.<br />
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Sorry, my bad.<br />
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SH out.SagaciousHillbillyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09511441325695460501noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-659346512371488571.post-1783700365729710222015-06-16T15:34:00.003-07:002015-06-16T15:34:46.629-07:00Jeb! 2016. Oh this is going to be fun to watch.So I get this message in my IN BOX from the Jeb Bush campaign and I think, I hope we have a republican candidate who is going to lay out his plan and just tell us what he is going to do for America. Afterall, the last republican to run for president ran an entire campaign based upon attacking the other candidate and never gave the electorate any substantial information on what exactly he'd do as president (and still he got a large percentage of the vote).<br />
So I read the entire e-mail. Nope, nothing there. Just a big plea for money (have the Bushes gone broke?) Take a look for yourself.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-small;">President Obama has failed us. Hillary Clinton would fail us. We cannot afford another four years of the same failed policies. That’s why I announced yesterday that I’m running for President. That’s why I need your support right now.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-small;">Under their watch, the economic recovery has been the slowest ever, debt has ballooned, and the American dream has been put out of reach for millions of families.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-small;">America deserves better. You deserve better, and I think you know it. If you’re ready for something better, I want you with me today: make a donation right now and, be part of the team that will put America back on the right track.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-small;">I won’t pretend that the challenges ahead aren’t daunting. They are. But the stakes are high, and I know that if we give it everything we can, we will not fail.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-small;">Together, we will expand opportunity for all, put government on the side of free enterprise and free people, and bring back American exceptionalism and leadership across the globe.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-small;">This won’t be easy. A campaign’s not supposed to be.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-small;">But I am ready for this challenge. I hope you will stand with me on Day One and chip in $100, $50, or $25 today.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-small;">The simple truth is this: the Democrats have offered a progressive agenda these past six years that includes everything but progress. You and I know these past six years do not represent America’s best—that’s why I’m running. Our country is on a very bad course. We can’t sit by and let this amazing nation be mismanaged and misled for another minute, much less another 4 years.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-small;">This campaign is about a new beginning. We launched a campaign to revive America and bring conservative leadership back to the White House.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-small;">In this moment, I am focused on all the opportunities our society can extend to every American.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-small;">I am focused on all the dreams that this country can make reality.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-small;">I am focused on all the parents who will hand a life better than their own to their children because of what we will do together.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-small;">I hope you’ll stand with me and make all of this possible: Jeb2016.com/Donate</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-small;">I make you the promise here and now that I will campaign as I would serve: I will go everywhere, speak to everyone, keep my word, face the tough issues without flinching, and stay true to what I believe.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-small;">I will take nothing, and no one for granted. I will run with heart, and together, we will win.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-small;">It begins now.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-small;">I’m Jeb Bush, and I’m asking for your support today:</span><br />
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So I go to the Jeb2016.com web site. There's a big todo about having a Mexican wife. . . sorry, not much else. No policy to be found anywhere.<br />
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And this guy is one of the front runners?! <br />
I have one question: How in the fuck can anyone say they are going to vote for someone who doesn't tell you what they will do in the office they are seeking. WTF?! Where I'm from we call thst "buying a pig in a poke" (a poke is a paper bag). You don't know what the fuck you're getting but you go ahead and buy it anyway because youre stupid.<br />
Republicans have been running these campaigns based upon nothing but attacking the current president for eight years now. They haven't won, but they've come close. All I can figure is that those 45-48% republican voters are a bunch of dumb fucking ignorant bozos!<br />
Well, the rpeublican circus train has left the station and we might as well watch and be entertained.<br />
SagaciousHillbillyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09511441325695460501noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-659346512371488571.post-77717409240912915332015-05-27T19:28:00.001-07:002015-05-27T19:28:26.466-07:00Random notes, or Things that will get my attention if I ever return to blogging.Random notes:<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, 'lucida grande', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px; widows: 1;">In the past few days I've seen lots of post from people about honoring those who have served and those who never came back.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, 'lucida grande', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px; widows: 1;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, 'lucida grande', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px; widows: 1;">Spare me your cheap grace.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, 'lucida grande', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px; widows: 1;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, 'lucida grande', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px; widows: 1;">Veterans benefits have been systematically reduced over the past few years. Congress has done little or nothing to help the tens of thousands of veterans who have come back with all sorts of physical and mental conditions. Veterans are dying because they can't get the healthcare they need. Over 100,000 veterans deal with hom</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #141823; display: inline; font-family: helvetica, arial, 'lucida grande', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px; widows: 1;">elessness and addiction without any help.<br />How can we have homeless veterans in this country when there is vacant housing all over the place?<br />Do something about that. Vote against politicians who vote against veterans. Make this a topic of discussion in political forums and when talking to your representatives. Demand change.<br />Sure, it's great to honor veterans, but that does NOTHING for the homeless, addicted, sick and hungry veterans who live in this country.<br />It is THE national shame.</span><br />
<span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #141823; display: inline; font-family: helvetica, arial, 'lucida grande', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px; widows: 1;"><br /></span>
<span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #141823; display: inline; font-family: helvetica, arial, 'lucida grande', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px; widows: 1;">Racism is alive and obvious. Those who claim otherwise are fucking morons. . . and probably racist pricks.</span><br />
<span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #141823; display: inline; font-family: helvetica, arial, 'lucida grande', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px; widows: 1;"><br /></span>
<span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #141823; display: inline; font-family: helvetica, arial, 'lucida grande', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px; widows: 1;">Only unions will save the working and middle class. Only voters will save unions when they decide to quit giving all our resources to the ultra rich and guzzling the lies the corporatists force down their throats.</span><br />
<span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #141823; display: inline; font-family: helvetica, arial, 'lucida grande', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px; widows: 1;"><br /></span>
<span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #141823; display: inline; font-family: helvetica, arial, 'lucida grande', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px; widows: 1;">The homophobes are going to go down in history the same as the southern bigots of the 50s and 60s.</span><br />
<span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #141823; display: inline; font-family: helvetica, arial, 'lucida grande', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px; widows: 1;"><br /></span>
<span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #141823; display: inline; font-family: helvetica, arial, 'lucida grande', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px; widows: 1;">Fuck you and your confederate flag. Go fly your symbol of racism, slavery and treason somewhere else, you backwoods ignorant POS.</span><br />
<span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #141823; display: inline; font-family: helvetica, arial, 'lucida grande', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px; widows: 1;"><br /></span>
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. . . so I probably don't have some skanky green stuff growing from my testicles. That happens ya know to idiots who spend all their free time sitting on bar stools singing stupid tribal songs and partaking in alcoholic drinking.<br /><br />What the fuck gives with these potato eating corned beef gobbling fucktards? I mean, who the fuck cares if you're Irish? Nobody but your fellow drunken mick buddies. We all know why you dress in green. . . to camouflage the puke you get all over yourself when you drink yourself sick like the white trash slobs that you are.<br /><br />So now we have to tolerate that once per year drink fest where every light weight weenie old enough to buy a drink goes out claiming to be Irish and getting shit faced. Another amature night on the town, but this time with green beer and donuts.<br /><br />So who was this "St. Patrick" besides some Irish mackerel snapper? This guy has been around for hundreds of years. Irishmen and their freckled skank hos all over the world worship this mick patron once every year. Guess what, his only claim to fame is that he "drove the snakes out of Ireland. Oh good, is that why Ireland is a rat infested shit hole? There were probably never any snakes in Ireland, hence the assumption that it was always a rat infested shit hole, but St. Patrick was a typically drunken Irish sot who thought he saw snakes and you know how easily talked into anything Irishmen are. . . at least, I assume they're the same as those speckled Irish women.<br /><br />And what's with all you neo-Irish-American yuppies naming your kids dumbass shit like Seamus, Caleb and Connor? Yea, sounds like a good idea when you're 25, et up with yourself and drinking every night at the corner Irish shit hole for your social fix, but remember, this kid is someday going to have to deal with real people in the real world and when he says in his NY or Atlanta accent, "hi my name is Liam," people are going to crack up spontaneously in their face. Do you want your kid humiliated on a daily basis throughout his life?<br /><br />So all you Irish wankers; STFU! Assimilate for god's sake. It's been over 100 years since your pitiful starving potato eating ancestors crawled ashore in North America begging for a mouthful of anything. Get over yourselves. You got nuthin.<br /><br />Oh, and here's a good one. The Amurkin Irish want to make St. Patrick's Day a national holiday. I don't think so, morons. You gotta come up with someone better than a hallucinagenic drunken Irishman before you get a national holiday. You want to put some mythological snake charmer up there with Lincoln, Washington and King? Uh huh. Like that's gonna happen.<br /><br />What else do you have to offer? Irish food? BWAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! On that basis, India, Thailand, China, Mexico, Japan, about anywhere else but Ireland has a better chance of getting a national holiday in the USA. Go stew ya up some meat and potatoes.<br /><br />Maybe an inspiring liberation movement would convince us there is some merit in an Irish national holiday. HAR! Nope, the Irish simply killed a whole bunch of their fellow citizens over a period of a decade or so and then caved back in to British dominance. And we thought the IRA was such a bunch of toughies.<br /><br />It's bad enough that every year around March 17th, everything turns puke green. I think we'll pass on any further adoration of a useless excersise in self abuse and ignorance.<br /><br />Happy St. Patrick Day. Come on by and I'll give you a kiss for being Irish.</div>
SagaciousHillbillyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09511441325695460501noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-659346512371488571.post-4475559034834562412013-11-26T19:50:00.000-08:002013-11-26T19:50:12.904-08:00Same Old Song and DanceHey, remember we elected the GenX liberal dude who had all that Hope and Change up his sleeve? Man he sure sounded good, looked good and made a shit load of promises. I believed him. Hell yea. How could you not?<br />
When was that? 2008? WTF happened? We're still occupying other countries and our soldiers are still killing and being killed. We spent hundreds of billions on corporate welfare in the biggest corporate give-away in the history of the world. Did anyone ever sit down and figure out how much of all that went into the pockets of the ultra rich? Naw, I guess we didn't really have to. It wouldn't be broadcast anyway. I'm sure it wouldn't interest, anybody, outside of a small circle of friends.<br />
Meqnwhile there is this big push to cut the measly benefits to the poor and keep our antiquated and expensive healthcare system that only serves the privileged.<br />
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Dadadaaaaa dadadaa<br />
Dadadaaaaa dadadaa<br />
Meet the new boss<br />
Dadadaaa<br />
Same as the old boss<br />
Dadadaaa<br />
Da da da da dadadaaaaaaaa<br />
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It's the same old story, just a different decade with different players from a different generation.<br />
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Back and forth, back and forth.<br />
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The problem is that the old adage "the rich get richer and the poor get poorer" is very real now and it's killing us. These motherfuckers are truly hoarding the monetary resources of our nation. <br />
I recently read that the Walton family who own Wal-Mart have as much money as the bottom 40% of the population. Whaaaaaa? A single handful of family members who own a single company have more money that 40% of the entire population?!?! <br />
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Consider this:<br />
The top 1% earned 20% of the total income in the nation in 2012.<br />
Worse than that:<br />
Since 2009, the top 1% received 95% of all income gains.<br />
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What kind of wimpy lemming types are we to allow that to happen? <br />
Why isn't there fighting in the streets? <br />
Why aren't we defending our children's futures? <br />
What exactly are our moral values that we would allow these elitist arrogant fucks to fuck us over like this?<br />
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<br />SagaciousHillbillyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09511441325695460501noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-659346512371488571.post-2521103037100185012013-08-11T20:49:00.000-07:002013-08-11T20:49:00.339-07:00New material, same old motivation levelSo much new good material. I should probably come back to this again.SagaciousHillbillyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09511441325695460501noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-659346512371488571.post-49690020406344066492013-02-19T11:05:00.000-08:002013-02-19T11:05:04.358-08:00Why I Never Post These DaysGee it's kinda boring making political statements when your party is in control and the other party is doing such a good job of self destructing.SagaciousHillbillyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09511441325695460501noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-659346512371488571.post-58364566315695813982012-11-21T20:41:00.003-08:002012-11-21T20:41:40.110-08:00Thanksgiving Message<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.799999237060547px;">Hello my friends.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.799999237060547px;"> </span><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.799999237060547px;">Here in America it's Thanksgiving. It's a time for families to gather, be grateful for their fortune, however large or small it may be, and feast. We should enjoy our family and celebrate our personal triumphs and tragedies. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.799999237060547px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.799999237060547px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.799999237060547px;">It should also be a time to reflect upon what has happened between today and when people from Europe first set foot upon this great land. If you are of European descent, it's not YOUR fault that our ancestors raped, pillaged, stole and committed genocide against the native population, but it is your responsibility to recognize and be aware of what transpired before we came to be here. In that awareness, perhaps we can recognize the ongoing oppression perpetrated by those who find themselves in positions of authority and rule. We can recognize and speak out against the third world conditions to which many Native American people have been relegated. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.799999237060547px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.799999237060547px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.799999237060547px;">Sometimes, it only takes one person to speak up and voice concern when injustice occurs. A single voice raised with or against another single voice can sometimes make a difference. If we are grateful for what we have, and humbly accept our good fortune, we can also be a voice for reason and justice.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.799999237060547px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.799999237060547px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.799999237060547px;">So be happy on this day of thanks and celebrate family, friends and good fortune, but never ever forget the past, for those who do, are doomed to repeat it with all its horrors.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.799999237060547px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.799999237060547px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.799999237060547px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.799999237060547px;">Bedagi (Big Thunder) late 19th century.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.799999237060547px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.799999237060547px;">Wabanaki Algonquin writer</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.799999237060547px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.799999237060547px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.799999237060547px;">Give us hearts to understand;</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.799999237060547px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.799999237060547px;">Never to take from creation's beauty more than we give;</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.799999237060547px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.799999237060547px;">never to destroy wantonly for the furtherance of greed;</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.799999237060547px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.799999237060547px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.799999237060547px;">Never to deny to give our hands for the building of earth's beauty;</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.799999237060547px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.799999237060547px;">never to take from her what we cannot use.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.799999237060547px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.799999237060547px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.799999237060547px;">Give us hearts to understand</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.799999237060547px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.799999237060547px;">That to destroy earth's music is to create confusion;</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.799999237060547px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.799999237060547px;">that to wreck her appearance is to blind us to beauty;</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.799999237060547px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.799999237060547px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.799999237060547px;">That to callously pollute her fragrance is to make a house of stench;</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.799999237060547px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.799999237060547px;">that as we care for her she will care for us.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.799999237060547px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.799999237060547px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.799999237060547px;">We have forgotten who we are.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.799999237060547px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.799999237060547px;">We have sought only our own security.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.799999237060547px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.799999237060547px;">We have exploited simply for our own ends.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.799999237060547px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.799999237060547px;">We have distorted our knowledge.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.799999237060547px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.799999237060547px;">We have abused our power.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.799999237060547px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.799999237060547px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.799999237060547px;">Great Spirit, whose dry lands thirst,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.799999237060547px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.799999237060547px;">Help us to find the way to refresh your lands.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.799999237060547px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.799999237060547px;">Great Spirit, whose waters are choked with debris and pollution,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.799999237060547px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.799999237060547px;">help us to find the way to cleanse your waters.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.799999237060547px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.799999237060547px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.799999237060547px;">Great Spirit, whose beautiful earth grows ugly with misuse,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.799999237060547px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.799999237060547px;">help us to find the way to restore beauty to your handiwork.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.799999237060547px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.799999237060547px;">Great Spirit, whose creatures are being destroyed, help us to find a way to replenish them.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.799999237060547px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.799999237060547px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.799999237060547px;">Great Spirit, whose gifts to us are being lost in selfishness and corruption,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.799999237060547px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.799999237060547px;">help us to find the way to restore our humanity.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.799999237060547px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.799999237060547px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.799999237060547px;">Oh, Great Spirit, whose voice I hear in the wind, whose breath gives life to the world,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.799999237060547px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.799999237060547px;">hear me; I need your strength and wisdom. May I walk in Beauty.</span>SagaciousHillbillyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09511441325695460501noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-659346512371488571.post-35301297018182470002012-09-05T19:15:00.001-07:002012-09-05T19:15:54.990-07:00Anybody but Obama? Is that it?REPUBLICANS! PLEASE! Tell me; what's your plan?<br />
I've been hearing all these terrible things about Obama and how he has done such an awful job and how we MUST get him out, but I have not heard a word about what YOUR plan might be. I've also not heard a single word about what republicans (McCain and Palin) would have done different. Nothing, nada, crickets and all that. <br />
Is that all you've got is Obama bashing and just a really bad need to get Mr. Obama out of the WHITE House? What is it about him that makes you guys so angry? Why do you seem single mind in your efforts to simply get him out with anyone but him?<br />
Very strange and unprecedented in my political experience.SagaciousHillbillyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09511441325695460501noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-659346512371488571.post-34834325577060958662012-09-04T18:51:00.003-07:002012-09-04T18:52:56.908-07:00Conspicuously absentThere is quite a spectrum of speakers scheduled for the Democratic National Convention. For me, they will all deliver prepackaged boring speeches that will contain nothing new. IT will be a rehash of the same old political rhetoric that we've heard over and over. Promises that are meant to be broken and a lot of broad statements designed to elicit emotional reactions from anyone listening. I won't be listening just like I wasn't listening when my once past hero Clint Eastwood embarrassed himself before the nation by having a conversation with an empty chair. What a sad way for such a heroic figure to be remembered.
Just out of curiosity, I was just looking at the list of speakers at the DNC this week. I was amazed at the variety of speakers from all spectrums of the democratic political arena. All the congressional leaders and many not so highly places members of congress will be speaking. Union presidents, organizations such as Planned Parenthood, governors, former governors, former presidents and former members of presidential administrations. All that got me wondering: where were the former president and members of his administration at the RNC. The only one we saw was Condoleezza Rice. Where was Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld, where was Bush the Elder?
Hmmm, are the republicans afraid to open themselves up to scrutiny of past deeds? I guess when your past is of certain caliber, you don't want anyone connecting the dots or uncovering the links to the chain.
Rest assured, the policies being touted by the right wing extremists of the republican party at the RNC were nothing but repackaged versions of the same old policies they've been peddling for decades now. Giving more tax breaks to the rich and corporations WILL NOT create jobs. In fact, the money the rich and corporations save get put in their pockets or sent over seas with the American jobs. Getting all riled up over abortion is pointless, but every four years for the past three decades the republicans have gotten their troops all riled up about it. Ask yourself: "What has changed in three decades?" The answer: "nothing." Abortion is still as legal as it ever was and will continue to be. Even the right wing supreme court that is currently sitting won't touch the issue.
How about those illegal aliens. President Obama has deported more "illegals" than Bush did in eight years. There are currently less people coming across the border illegally than ever in the past couple decades. Are the "illegal aliens" really taking away American jobs? What jobs are they taking away? How many good paying middle class jobs do you think people like Rmoney have taken away with moving corporate assets overseas compared to how many minimum wage or lower jobs get taken by "illegal aliens." See, it's a non-issue, but a big issue for the right wing proles.
So back to the original question? Where was George and Dick and Boner?
Better yet: Where was their plan? Where was the beef?
SagaciousHillbillyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09511441325695460501noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-659346512371488571.post-7766299599482501502012-08-30T08:46:00.001-07:002012-08-30T08:46:49.183-07:00Yes, I'm back, now THINK!I'm Baaaaack.
We'll see how long it lasts.
I've been highly focused the past year or so on pursuits of a non political nature. Accomplished a lot academically and now maybe I'm ready to spend the next couple months pointing out why the republican agenda for America is bad for the working class and good for the elite of this country.
How obvious does it have to be? The republicans are running a candidate who was responsible for much of the devastation that has hit the middle class over the past few decades. Out sourcing of jobs is what it's all about. The destruction of the manufacturing base in America is what has killed the middle and working class and it all happened because cheap labor is what the elite class is all about. They don't give a rat's ass about how they get it, they just want to minimize costs for their production of goods. They don't even care that their market base in America is shrinking, they'll take their product elsewhere. Then, in some cockeyed scheme, they finagle huge tax breaks under the guise of creating jobs.
Add to all that the hundreds of billions that the military is pumping into the pockets of the Halliburtons and General Dynamics and it's easy to see what's happening in America. . . UNLESS, you're listening to the extremist right wing conservatives who are twisting the public discourse into having you believe that your freedom is at risk every day, your security is threatened around every corner and the only way to reproduce the jobs that have been lost is to take more money out of your pockets and put it into the pockets of the uber rich.
Then you need to believe that it's not these uber rich corporate royalists who are causing our problems, it's actually . . . get ready for this. . . those hard working brown people from Mexico who are taking away your jobs. Really? All those landscaping, dry walling and pool cleaning jobs being taken away from Americans is the problem? How fucking stupid do you had to be to believe that?!
Oh, and all those illegals are collecting welfare, social security and free healthcare. BULLSHIT! Do you dumb fuck proles really believe that just anyone can walk into a welfare office or a social security office and sign up for a check? The whole premise is ridiculous, but stupid people believe stupid things. Geez, I could have signed up for unemployment after I received my severance package when I retired, but the process was so damn long and drawn out and I had to produce so much documentation that it wasn't worth the bother. What the fuck is the matter with you people for believing things without even thinking about it for a minute?
Free healthcare? Ok, anyone can walk into most hospital EDs and be stabilized. "Stabilized." That's it. No long term care. No advanced treatments. They put a bandage on it and send you back out the door. Think about it. No, really, THINK! There is a big difference between stabilization and advanced care. Millions of people lack access to advanced care in this country. . . that means no endocrinologist if you have diabetes, no orthopedic surgery if you break a bone. . . symptoms of disease are treated rather than advanced therapy and care. Come on, THINK!
I don't care how bad a job President Obama has done (and I don't believe he has done a bad job, but that's for another post), the republican formula has been applied for the past 30+ years and it has gotten us where we are today. Our standard of living has eroded to the point where we are now no longer the country with the highest standard of living and in fact, lag behind numerous nations. We have a percentage of poor that is second to none among developed nations.
Now the republican agenda is to further cut social programs. Remember when they talked about maintaining a "safety net?" Well fuck that, it's been blown to shreds already. So keep listening to the fear mongering and the falsehoods saturating the public discourse then imagine what it will be like 30 yrs from now if we continue to see the erosion of the middle class and the poor and desperate increase in our country. . . yea, I know, more tax cuts for the rich will fix all that.
Wake up you ignorant proles! THINK! REALLY THINK!SagaciousHillbillyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09511441325695460501noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-659346512371488571.post-40395631965165603612011-12-21T09:18:00.000-08:002011-12-21T10:47:36.298-08:00Politics that are fucking hilarious!I'm in love with all these republican candidates. Really, I absolutely LOVE them. Look, they are the greatest piece of political entertainment to hit the media air waves since Watergate (yes, I was alive and a young college student on summer break working my ass off during Watergate and watched diligently every evening when they rebroadcast the hearings). Like Watergate, every step of this election cycle has been a phenomenal side show of political amusement. <br /><br />Let's see, we've had Bachmann who was leading the polls for a while after winning some completely insignificant caucus at some completely insignificant republican gathering at some completely insignificant location. Then she began really opening her mouth, or at least the things she said began to really get covered and WOW, Amurrykkka found out what a total asshat they had been routing for. NEXT! <br /><br />Then there was . . aw hell, my mind can't keep them in order anymore (remember I was alive in 1974). But let's survey the contenders anyway. . . <br /><br />Cain was a hoot. He was some sort of Uncle Ruckus type character with a little bit charm. What a douche bag. Sadly, the ridiculous moral standards that he and his republican brethren think ought to be imposed upon us all are what brought him down. I love it when that happens. NEXT!<br /><br />Rick Perry gave it the old brash, big mouthed Texas try. What's with the people of Texas? Why are they so attracted to such openly moronic bozos to be their governor? Sorry Rick (I once had a co-worker who had a sign over her desk that said "never trust a man named Rick), but you don't have an uber-rich daddy sitting with the highest, most powerful levels of world, national and corporate politics to propel you into the White House despite your obvious buffoonery, ridiculous lack of knowledge about anything and blatant bigotry. NEXT!<br /><br />Newt; just the name is enough to amuse. "FINALLY," the corporate media declared, "someone who can lead us and take control of this primary cluster fuck." BWAAAAHAHAHAHAHA! I guess they weren't really paying attention to this fat assed dick wad the past couple decades. Can a scumbag who dumped his wife while she was in the hospital being treated for cancer for a hot young skank really get elected president. . . who twice dumped women for other women he was having affaires with? Can he really win an election where he is championing family values and at every turn trying to tell US what is wrong with Amurikkka and ourselves? NEXT!<br /><br />So who is next? Ron Paul? Paul has a certain charm about him and sometimes makes a bit of sense when he talks about getting gov't out of our lives, cutting defense spending and gov't waste. Then you start paying attention and realize that he is a fucking nut case and wants to get rid of the EPA, Dept. of Education, Commerce, FDA, Dept. of Agriculture and a number of other gov't agencies that are the backbone of keeping some semblance of order in this huge complicated society we live in. Hopefully, he aint next. . . <br /><br />Palin has recently stated that it's not too late to get into the race. Oh please, oh please, oh please. I would so love to see her enter the fray at this point. Wow, would that be some monumental buffoonery or what?<br /><br />Huntsman? This guy is about as dynamic as an old possum. Aint gonna happen.<br /><br />My hope is that "santorum" will whip it good and froth to the top and take the lead for a while. Oh what fun that would be. <br /><br />Sadly, or hell, for the better entertainment wise, all this is wrapped up in christian mysticism and extremist nationalism. Either of which is poison. . . combine them together and take a look at the middle east.<br /><br />So stay tuned, Newt is slipping, Paul is trending positive and the republican electorate has GOT to be wringing their hands thinking "WTF?!" and ready to grasp at anything that comes along that even has the slightest scent of a candidate that can possibly compete with the current sitting President of the United States. . . and let's face it, they know in their hearts that once again, the democrat president has come along and saved this country from the absurdity of another failed republican administration. Obama is to the devastation wrought by the Bush administration what Clinton was to that perpetrated by the Reagan-Bush fiasco. They both brought order and hope to a catastrophic condition left to them to fix by a failed republican administration. Will the Amurrykkkin voters realize this or will they again vote against the best interests of the country and themselves?SagaciousHillbillyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09511441325695460501noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-659346512371488571.post-52360347590139264802011-11-23T19:17:00.000-08:002011-11-23T19:19:31.550-08:00Thanksgiving MessageThanksgiving Message<br />Hello my friends. <br />Here in America it's Thanksgiving. It's a time for families to gather, be grateful for their fortune, however large or small it may be, and feast. We should enjoy our family and celebrate our personal triumphs and tragedies. <br /><br />It should also be a time to reflect upon what has happened between today and when people from Europe first set foot upon this great land. If you are of European descent, it's not YOUR fault that our ancestors raped, pillaged, stole and committed genocide against the native population, but it is your responsibility to recognize and be aware of what transpired before we came to be here. In that awareness, perhaps we can recognize the ongoing oppression perpetrated by those who find themselves in positions of authority and rule. We can recognize and speak out against the third world conditions to which many Native American people have been relegated. <br /><br />Sometimes, it only takes one person to speak up and voice concern when injustice occurs. A single voice raised with or against another single voice can sometimes make a difference. If we are grateful for what we have, and humbly accept our good fortune, we can also be a voice for reason and justice.<br /><br />So be happy on this day of thanks and celebrate family, friends and good fortune, but never ever forget the past, for those who do, are doomed to repeat it with all its horrors.<br /><br /><br />Bedagi (Big Thunder) late 19th century.<br />Wabanaki Algonquin writer<br /><br />Give us hearts to understand;<br />Never to take from creation's beauty more than we give;<br />never to destroy wantonly for the furtherance of greed;<br /><br />Never to deny to give our hands for the building of earth's beauty;<br />never to take from her what we cannot use.<br /><br />Give us hearts to understand<br />That to destroy earth's music is to create confusion;<br />that to wreck her appearance is to blind us to beauty;<br /><br />That to callously pollute her fragrance is to make a house of stench;<br />that as we care for her she will care for us.<br /><br />We have forgotten who we are.<br />We have sought only our own security.<br />We have exploited simply for our own ends.<br />We have distorted our knowledge.<br />We have abused our power.<br /><br />Great Spirit, whose dry lands thirst,<br />Help us to find the way to refresh your lands.<br />Great Spirit, whose waters are choked with debris and pollution,<br />help us to find the way to cleanse your waters.<br /><br />Great Spirit, whose beautiful earth grows ugly with misuse,<br />help us to find the way to restore beauty to your handiwork.<br />Great Spirit, whose creatures are being destroyed, help us to find a way to replenish them.<br /><br />Great Spirit, whose gifts to us are being lost in selfishness and corruption,<br />help us to find the way to restore our humanity.<br /><br />Oh, Great Spirit, whose voice I hear in the wind, whose breath gives life to the world,<br />hear me; I need your strength and wisdom. May I walk in Beauty.SagaciousHillbillyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09511441325695460501noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-659346512371488571.post-33525273560761957842011-11-09T10:02:00.001-08:002011-11-09T10:34:12.873-08:00The Entertainment Value of Politics and Squirmin HermanWatching Cain self destruct is really hilarious. Now don't get me wrong, if he was some low level gov't servant who got accused of some silly little inappropriate remark ended up losing his pension and job I'd be very sympathetic, but this is some billionaire right wing religious fundamentalist who thinks he ought to be put in a position to legislate his brand of twisted religious morality on the rest of us. Which is: Go ahead and sin, but deny everything and it's ok to say "I don't remember." Sorry Hermy, that only worked for Ronald Raygun.<br /><br />So like I said, it's downright enjoyable watching this holier-than-thou prick who thinks he is so morally superior succumb to the temptations of the flesh and end up being politically destroyed because of it. <br /><br />Now, if I were running for office and a bunch of the women I've sexually harassed in my lifetime came forward, I'd send them all greeting cards, tell the world whatever I could remember about the situation (I was usually never one to harass those who didn't harass me first) and then get on with the campaign. I suspect the overwhelming majority of voters would shrug their shoulders and come to the realization of "yes, he IS human" and "well, he has always admitted he's an asshole."<br /><br />Hilariously, Squirmin Herman is denying everything. He's denying he knew these women and he's making absurd statements like: "I have never acted inappropriately toward anyone." What a total asshat. Somebody needs to tell this bozo the clown that his act has ended and escort him off the stage. <br /><br />But seriously, isn't political buffoonery fun to watch?SagaciousHillbillyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09511441325695460501noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-659346512371488571.post-85578960085406381842011-11-05T12:20:00.000-07:002011-11-05T12:29:18.916-07:00Self destruction in the GOPSo the GOP keeps presenting these extreme right wing whack jobs who keep self destructing like mentally challenged participants in an college quiz bowl competition (I mean really, could you imagine any of them in a college quiz bowl?). How many of them will it take before the moderate faction of the GOP rises up like some kind of phoenix from the ashes and says loudly and clearly "ENOUGH!" Will the real GOP with real traditional conservative values which I can sometimes talk to and embrace and at least live with in peace please stand up and show us your true colors? Will you guys please get off your asses and give us a candidate that we don't have to get out the razor blades if elected?<br /><br />What did you say? Aw come on, there has to be. Really? There is no moderate faction of the GOP? You mean they're all a bunch of whacked out right wing religious fundies or at least cater to that faction? Oh my. You mean there isn't a group of conservatives who embrace the Eisenhower or even the Goldwater philosophy of gov't and social progress? That's kinda scary.SagaciousHillbillyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09511441325695460501noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-659346512371488571.post-83692872600964422742011-11-01T14:56:00.000-07:002011-11-01T15:01:02.363-07:00Oh boy. We funded another bunch of whack jobs.Viva La Revolucion!<br /><br />I told ya so. . . right here. . . bout a week ago.<br /><br />When will we ever learn?<br /><br /><b>Flying proudly over the birthplace of Libya's revolution, the flag of Al Qaeda<br />By SAM GREENHILL<br /><br />The black flag of Al Qaeda was hoisted in Libya yesterday as Nato formally ended its military campaign.<br />The standard fluttered from the roof of the courthouse in Benghazi, where the country’s new rulers have imposed sharia law since seizing power.<br />Seen as the seat of the revolution, the judicial building was used by rebel forces to establish their provisional government and media centre.<br /><br /><br />Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2055630/Flying-proudly-birthplace-Libyas-revolution-flag-Al-Qaeda.html#ixzz1cUeFDMIn</b><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTQce-Ot8NX1jP6Hm71C5c2dHWNpLaxGDIhZ5an1fSDLZWtM0EieaEBLNn-zmzIssDUf7CKpp9BTTSx9DUqCBsypO0m6yKPNA9aTadqTpy3qOYHbjm5TUaUErGaNxVGNYaI2safFT9Amo/s1600/article-2055630-0E9C4B0C00000578-536_468x347.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 238px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTQce-Ot8NX1jP6Hm71C5c2dHWNpLaxGDIhZ5an1fSDLZWtM0EieaEBLNn-zmzIssDUf7CKpp9BTTSx9DUqCBsypO0m6yKPNA9aTadqTpy3qOYHbjm5TUaUErGaNxVGNYaI2safFT9Amo/s320/article-2055630-0E9C4B0C00000578-536_468x347.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5670149995746560770" /></a>SagaciousHillbillyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09511441325695460501noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-659346512371488571.post-44638233932513377162011-10-25T12:43:00.000-07:002011-10-25T13:00:20.510-07:00Putting an end to corpo-fascismTaxes are lower than they've been in over 60 years. We're spending less on traditional "welfare" programs than we have since before the 60s. Still, all we hear from the republican candidates is bullshit about cutting taxes and cutting entitlement programs. WTF do these mother fuckers want? I suspect they want to be able to compete with the Chinese on our soil. That means turning the middle class into serfs just slightly above slave status. I'm sick of their corporate bullshit and I hope the proles are finally getting fed up with it as well.<br /><br />I've got a simple solution to bringing manufacturing BACK to America. It's called Tariffs. . . BIG tariffs.<br /><br />If you are a corporation operating in America it will become difficult for you to manufacture overseas and then import those goods for sale in America. We're talking really big tariffs. Corporations that manufacture onshore and have been doing so all along will be given big tax breaks in accordance with their degree of job creation. Companies like New Balance will win big, Nike will lose big.<br /><br />I'm all for global economy and markets, but we've got to take care of our people. If cheap foreign products are putting Americans out of work then<b> lets make really good domestic products that people around the world will want. </b> Let's keep the crap out of our markets unless it can compete in a way other than price point.<br /><br />The only thing standing in the way of this is corporate greed. The pricks and traitors who run America's corporations only want to increase profits. They don't care how they do it or who dies in the process. It's time for the government of, by and for the people to step in and protect the people. We've been protecting the corportions for too long and swallowing the jizz they've been spewing for too long.<br /><br />I'm not talking compromise here or some program that throws the public a bone and allows the corporations to continue raping and pillaging the masses. I'm talking about hard controls and tariffs on imports. I'm talking about real wage controls and profit margins. We'll have no more of $100 million dollar CEO salaries in this country while workers are being laid off or at any other time.<br /><br />It's a new world. Corporations have pushed too hard and taken it too far. It's time to push back and push back hard or else this country and the world in general will not survive with a civilized and flourishing human occupancy for many more generations.SagaciousHillbillyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09511441325695460501noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-659346512371488571.post-47759169272391959202011-10-23T16:10:00.000-07:002011-10-24T06:23:20.591-07:00Muslim SpringSo dictators have fallen in Tunisia, Libya and Egypt. Getting rid of dictators is always a good thing. What's next? Each revolution was accompanied by the clear outcrys of "Allah is great!" The people who are now leading thee countries until elections can be held, have all promised to "uphold muslim law." So have they traded in totalitarianism for theocracy? What is more irrational? Which will be more oppressive? Will these places end up with clerics and ayatolahs in charge?<br />Congratulations, you're free to be oppressed and confined by islamic law now. How refreshing.<br />Looks like a classic case of 'the inmates have taken over the insane asylum.' I guess we'll just have to wait and see.<br />Remember, you read it here first.<br /><br /><b>Harvesting the Arab Spring: Tunisia Goes to the Polls<br />By ABIGAIL HAUSLOHNER / TUNIS | Time.com – 4 hrs ago<br />As political analysts predicted — and liberals across the region feared — many of Sunday's voters said they voted for the popular Islamist party, Ennahda. Some said they chose the party almost automatically — "they're everywhere" was a common refrain; "they're known" was another reason for voting for a party that was heavily repressed by Ben Ali but challenged him all along. Still, many others said they found the party's religious message inspiring. "Islamic law," exclaimed Tawfiq Bin Mohamed, 62, listing the things that <i>he hoped an Ennahda-led government would ban: gambling, drinking, adultery, homosexuality and bribery.</i> "I have no problem with women voting," he added. "They are free. What I want is Muslim women who fear God and do not do things that oppose Islam. There are many women in Tunisia who don't know the word of God because they have European ideas."</b>SagaciousHillbillyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09511441325695460501noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-659346512371488571.post-6747490669905255772011-10-08T13:13:00.000-07:002011-10-08T15:11:33.069-07:00Radical right wing whack jobs. . . main stream republicanism and 2012.It's been an interesting couple of months watching each new GOP candidate rise and fall like penny ante crack dealers on some rat infested low rent urban street corner. Each one has come out of the gate with their teeth bare ready to take a big bite out of the big dog in the White House, but in succession each one ends up squeaking in the corner like a shit house mouse. Every time one rises to the top the question becomes "Can Obama beat this guy/gal?" Well, it looks like he doesn't have to. The fucked up mess called the republican party, and by "fucked up mess I mean" the self fellating, shit eating, scumbags who guzzle the jizz of the pricks who run corporate Amurkkka, seems to be capable of beating no one but themselvs and their own puds. What a bunch of ignorant fucktards. Every candidate has taken a stand that placates the extremists on the right who call themselves teabaggers (see definition in urbandictionary.com for "teabagging"). When they do the extremists on the right, meaning; the mainstream republican party, gather around and praise their new leader like twelve year old teeny boppers at a Justin Beiber mall appearance. So why is the question "can Obama beat this or that GOP douch bag?" Why isn't the question "can this GOP douch bag beat Obama?"<br />Well, it seems irrational now doesn't it? There seems to be a lot of irrationality and lack of logic in the minds of political analysts and the voting public these days. Just like the teabaggers who rose up because they believed that Obama had "taxed [them] enough already" when in fact Obama has done nothing but lower taxes, and just like the teabaggers who scream "fascism" and "dictator" at the Obama administration but remained silent when Bush and Co. pushed for "the patriot act." And just like the tea baggers who were shocked at the spending the Obama administration pushed for and enacted to rescue the US economy but never whimpered a sound when Bush and Co. enacted sednig levels that had never been seen before or since, the protests against the Obama administration and the rhetoric from the mainstream press seem illogical.<br />I'm wondering, could there be reasons other than the ones being proposed as to why all the right wingers hate Obama and call him so many derogatory names. Could there be reasons other than logic as to why this president has received less respect than any president ever? IS it possible that the republican party and the other puppets of corporate Amurkkka in the media could be prompted to have a racist agenda? Yes, I said RACIST you bunch of blind, head in hole hiding ignorant mother fuckers! Take a look. Their rhetoric makes no sense to anyone paying attention to fact. Their lack of agreement with democrat policy and that of the Obama administration is fanatical and borders on hysterical. FACE FACTS! These mother fuckers don't like having a negro running the show. They have lived their lives believing that every black person in America is below them. Sure, they see black people in positions of power and authority, but they excuse that with snarky ignorant comments about equal opportunity and 'white people losing jobs jest becuz that guy is black,' when the fct of the matter is "that guy' probably worked twice as hard and twice as long as the white guy standing next to him to get where he is at. White rednecked racist hate that shit and believe me, they REALLY HATE that a black guy with a Harvard law degree is President of the United States. They hate it a lot.<br />Come on all you white people. Admit this shit. you hear the comments. You hear the racist bullshit. Sadly, most of you, even those of you who disagree, let it all pass. You don't turn around and say "what did you say?" "or "excuse me, what did you call the President of the United States?" or "I'm sorry, but I don't like hearing people talk like that, I find it offensive and totally unacceptable in modern civilized society." Then there's my favorite: "you dumb ignorant backwoods fuck. What did you just say?" But really, I don't recommend using that line if you're not a 6' tall 200lb. fairly intimidating looking white guy.<br /><br />Sure, many of us are pissed because Obama turned out to NOT be the reincarnation of Jesus Christ who was about to save the world and the United States of Amerryca from itself. Yea, at least we wanted to have our environmental, economic, social and international diplomatic problems all fixed and tucked away in a disposable container by now. We wanted total and complete parity in the workplace and in society for everyone. We knew he would make all men strong and handsome and all women beautiful and all babies healthy and happy. Well, that didn't happen, so get over it. <br /><br />Now the question you have to ask yourself is, "who ya gonna vote for?" Some twisted right wing whack job who panders to the lunatic fringe, and by lunatic fringe I mean every right wing republican white assed racist mother fucker with an opinion, or are you going to vote for the intellectual, rational and reasonable man who, despite his short comings is trying to enact a more progressive agenda for the United States of America and push us away from the rabis ignorance of the radical right.<br /><br />If you are ready to throw in the towel and watch America accelerate it's long flow down the drain, then go for one of those teabagging morons. If not, shut the fuck up for now with the criticism and idle threats of non support and get behind the only candidate that has any sense whatsoever. NOW!<br /><br />ed. note: I've heard that there might be more people reading this blog than is evident by the comments it attracts. If so, leave a fucking comment. One or two might encourage me to rant like a rabid hillbilly barnyard dog more often.SagaciousHillbillyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09511441325695460501noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-659346512371488571.post-31101373658337885732011-09-12T09:54:00.000-07:002011-09-12T09:59:45.074-07:00A terrorist threat! Be afraid!According to an article in Reuters, on 09/11/11, a passenger jet was given military escort and diverted for "suspicious activity." Here is a description of said "suspicious tivity."<br /><br /><b>The three passengers were sitting in the same row of the airplane, but did not know each other, Berchtold said. One of the men got up to use the restroom during the flight because he was not feeling well and the other man did the same, she said.<br />Berchtold said the FBI wanted to dispel media reports that there had been sexual activity on the airplane.<br />"At no time were any two people in the bathroom at the same time, and the three individuals who were questioned were totally cooperative with us ... and they were never uncooperative with the flight crew," Berchtold said.</b><br /><br />Two men went to the bathroom. AND, there was no sexual activity because they went into different bathrooms. Thank god for the vigilance of those on the airplane who pointed out this highly suspicious activity. Where would we be without all this anti-terrorist activity.<br /><br />As stated by Mr. Weaver below, Bin Laden got what he wanted. This country has become totally fucked up.SagaciousHillbillyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09511441325695460501noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-659346512371488571.post-42821687503236828342011-09-09T21:40:00.000-07:002011-09-09T22:07:55.198-07:00That horrible day in Sept., 2001. . .Back when I was in HS, we used to go down to NYC on weekends. A buddy of mine had music classes every Sat. moerning, so he would drive and I'd just go with him and hang out. Quite a few ties I found myself down on the lower west side staring up at the incredible towers they were building. It was called "The World Trade Center" and it was going to be the tallest building in the world. Not just one, but TWO identical towers. The top few floors were always wrapped in yellow plastic and over the months, that yellow plastic got higher and higher until it was so fucking high up you could hardly believe it. They were amazing structures to see, but back then, we were flying spaceships to the Moon where 10 years before, they were still not flying jets into Laguardia Airport, so amazing things were almost standard faire for the time. We expected such things. and like going to the Moon, I was fascinated with the Twin Towers. I'd walk down West Side Drive and just stare up at them. For decades after that, every time I went to NYC, I'd look downtown and eye the World Trade Center. They stood out like giant monuments on the greatest urban skyline in the world.<br /><br />when I saw one of them burning that day ten years ago I was sick. I couldn't believe it. Then incredibly, the other one was attacked. Till that point, no one was sure what was going on. Then, as we watched in horror, the first tower of the World Trade Center collapsed. The TV announcer didn't know what was happening, but it was obvious to me that the tower has collapsed. I could not believe what I had just seen and I never felt such a horrible feeling inside of me. The tower had collapsed and I was sure there had to be many thousands of people inside who were being crushed before my eyes. Then the second one went. Twice the horror and the feeling inside was wretched. I thought I was going to vomit so I ran to the bathroom. When I got there I sat down and cried like a little baby. I never felt such despair in my life. All those people vanished and those beautiful towers that I loved as icons of greatness, gone. It was perhaps the worse day of my life. I know it was the worse feeling I ever had inside of me.<br /><br />Whenever I think of that day I think of those towers collapsing and the true horror that I felt inside myself. I don't have nightmares anymore about, but that nasty feeling creeps in now and then. I can only imagine how those who were there felt. I can only imagine the horror of those who watched, knowing that perhaps their loved one was inside those building.<br /><br />I later learned that more people from my own hometown died at The World Trade Center than from any place outside of NYC. I know and have met many who had friends, co-workers and relatives who died there. <br /><br />So here we are ten years later and sometimes it seems like only yesterday that it happened. Hard to believe that it's been ten years, but now, everywhere I look there are signs all over the place saying "Never Forget," and pictures of the burning tower posted all over the place.<br /><br />OK, so here's all I really want to say:<br />I've been trying to forget for ten years. I've been trying not to relive that day for ten years. So, why don't you people with your signs and your superficial patriotic bullshit just take it all and shove it up your fucking asses and shut the fuck up!SagaciousHillbillyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09511441325695460501noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-659346512371488571.post-47688425493827871012011-08-20T11:13:00.000-07:002011-08-20T11:41:24.127-07:00Rick Perry's batshit crazy plan for America. . . with Sagacious commentary<b>1. Abolish lifetime tenure for federal judges by amending Article III, Section I of the Constitution.
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<br />The nation's framers established a federal court system whereby judges with "good behavior" would be secure in their job for life. Perry believes that provision is ready for an overhaul.
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<br />"The Judges," reads Article III, "both of the supreme and inferior Courts, shall hold their Offices during good Behavior, and shall, at stated Times, receive for their Services a Compensation which shall not be diminished during their Continuance in Office."
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<br />Perry makes it no secret that he believes the judges on the bench over the past century have acted beyond their constitutional bounds. The problem, Perry reasons, is that members of the judiciary are "unaccountable" to the people, and their lifetime tenure gives them free license to act however they want. In his book, the governor speaks highly of plans to limit their tenure and offers proposals about how to accomplish it.
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<br />"'[W]e should take steps to restrict the unlimited power of the courts to rule over us with no accountability," he writes in Fed Up! "There are a number of ideas about how to do this . . . . One such reform would be to institute term limits on what are now lifetime appointments for federal judges, particularly those on the Supreme Court or the circuit courts, which have so much power. One proposal, for example, would have judges roll off every two years based on seniority."</b>
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<br />So Rick Perry knows better than our founding fathers. The fathers expected the judges to grow and develop a profound wisdom in their positions. They didn't expect them to become great jurists in six month and serve a two year term. They expected them to become truly great jurists over a long period of service which would be the culmination of a long judicial career. The founding father knew what they were doing and 230 years of experience has proven them right.
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<br /><b>2. Congress should have the power to override Supreme Court decisions with a two-thirds vote.
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<br />Ending lifetime tenure for federal justices isn't the only way Perry has proposed suppressing the power of the courts. His book excoriates at length what he sees as overreach from the judicial branch. (The title of Chapter Six is "Nine Unelected Judges Tell Us How to Live.")
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<br />Giving Congress the ability to veto their decisions would be another way to take the Court down a notch, Perry says.
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<br />"[A]llow Congress to override the Supreme Court with a two-thirds vote in both the House and Senate, which risks increased politicization of judicial decisions, but also has the benefit of letting the people stop the Court from unilaterally deciding policy," he writes.</b>
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<br />Everyone (except Rick Perry) learned in the 6th grade about our system of checks and balances. Each branch of gov't has limited power. Here Mr. Perry wants to give the legislature the power to make laws AND the ability to decide the constitutionality of those laws. Do we really want these elected yahoos to be deciding what is and isn't constitutional?
<br />This is an insane idea and as far as I'm concerned goes against the very foundation of our country.
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<br /><b>3. Scrap the federal income tax by repealing the Sixteenth Amendment.
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<br />The Sixteenth Amendment gives Congress the "power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration." It should be abolished immediately, Perry says.
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<br />Calling the Sixteenth Amendment "the great milestone on the road to serfdom," Perry's writes that it provides a virtually blank check to the federal government to use for projects with little or no consultation from the states.</b>
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<br />And do what for revenue to run the gov't? Increase taxes on corporations? I suspect he's all for removing corporate taxes. This is simply ridiculous.
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<br /><b>4. End the direct election of senators by repealing the Seventeenth Amendment.
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<br />Overturning this amendment would restore the original language of the Constitution, which gave state legislators the power to appoint the members of the Senate.
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<br />Ratified during the Progressive Era in 1913 , the same year as the Sixteenth Amendment, the Seventeenth Amendment gives citizens the ability to elect senators on their own. Perry writes that supporters of the amendment at the time were "mistakenly" propelled by "a fit of populist rage."
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<br />"The American people mistakenly empowered the federal government during a fit of populist rage in the early twentieth century by giving it an unlimited source of income (the Sixteenth Amendment) and by changing the way senators are elected (the Seventeenth Amendment)," he writes.</b>
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<br />Wow, legislation without representation. Who would these new grand and elite senators be? The captains of industry? Religious leaders? Other agenda ladened extremists? Wow, this is amazing and thoroughly unAmerican.
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<br /><b>5. Require the federal government to balance its budget every year.
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<br />Of all his proposed ideas, Perry calls this one "the most important," and of all the plans, a balanced budget amendment likely has the best chance of passage.
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<br />"The most important thing we could do is amend the Constitution--now--to restrict federal spending," Perry writes in his book. "There are generally thought to be two options: the traditional 'balanced budget amendment' or a straightforward 'spending limit amendment,' either of which would be a significant improvement. I prefer the latter . . . . Let's use the people's document--the Constitution--to put an actual spending limit in place to control the beast in Washington."
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<br />A campaign to pass a balanced budget amendment through Congress fell short by just one vote in the Senate in the 1990s.
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<br />Last year, House Republicans proposed a spending-limit amendment that would limit federal spending to 20 percent of the economy. According to the amendment's language, the restriction could be overridden by a two-thirds vote in both Houses of Congress or by a declaration of war.</b>
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<br />So what happens when a huge natural disaster occurs such a what happened in Japan this spring? What if Yellowstone exploded. A horrible drought? War? How about just lean economic times when we need to be taking care of the citizenry?
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<br />This would effectively tie the gov't's hands behine their backs and is another example of what a whack job this guy is.
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<br /><b>6. The federal Constitution should define marriage as between one man and one woman in all 50 states.
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<br />Despite saying last month that he was "fine with" states like New York allowing gay marriage, Perry has now said he supports a constitutional amendment that would permanently ban gay marriage throughout the country and overturn any state laws that define marriage beyond a relationship between one man and one woman.
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<br />"I do respect a state's right to have a different opinion and take a different tack if you will, California did that," Perry told the Christian Broadcasting Network in August. "I respect that right, but our founding fathers also said, 'Listen, if you all in the future think things are so important that you need to change the Constitution here's the way you do it'.
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<br />In an interview with The Ticket earlier this month, Perry spokeswoman Katherine Cesinger said that even though it would overturn laws in several states, the amendment still fits into Perry's broader philosophy because amendments require the ratification of three-fourths of the states to be added to the Constitution.</b>
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<br />Fuck you, you bigoted, religious fundamentalist, fanatical prick. Nothing more to say about this.
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<br /><b>7. Abortion should be made illegal throughout the country.
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<br />Like the gay marriage issue, Perry at one time believed that abortion policy should be left to the states, as was the case before the 1973 Supreme Court case Roe v. Wade. But in the same Christian Broadcasting Network interview, Perry said that he would support a federal amendment outlawing abortion because it was "so important...to the soul of this country and to the traditional values [of] our founding fathers."</b>
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<br />"the traditional values [of] our founding fathers" I know, and Rick Perry knows what god is thinking too and will be glad to tell you. This dumbfuck does not know a thing about history, technology and social conditions. I have no idea what this MonkeyBoy did in his previous life, but whatever it was I suspect he lived some weird cloistered existence submerged in religious fanaticism. How do batshit crazy fucktard buffoons like this get a seat on the stage of national affairs? I don't get it.
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<br />Now take a look at most of this pile of shit. It is designed to give more and more power to fewer and fewer people. Care to guess who those few people would be? I guarantee you it would be corporate interests with a sprinkling of religious fanaticism thrown in just to keep the populous in check.
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<br />I believe we need to make some serious changes in how we do business in this country, but this guy is seriously dangerous to the American way of life.SagaciousHillbillyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09511441325695460501noreply@blogger.com0