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Interesting take on Santorum

Subject:  Santorum, throwing up and the Grand Inquisitor News item:   The "saintly" Rick Santorum said that John F. Kennedy's take on the U.S. Constitution as to separation of church and state was just plain horrid.  I mean, really!  Kennedy actually believed and had the gall to say that his allegiance to the Constitution as president was more binding than his allegiance to a bunch of priestly old men in skirts who pranced around chancels!  How could that be? Santorum was so incensed by this thought that he "almost threw up"!  Well, you can understand that.  I mean doesn't everybody think that the US of A ought to be ruled by Canon Law, by Santorum's perverted view of Christianity? Not so long ago a group of people gathered to listen to lil' Rick explain his view of the Constitution, religion and the place of religion in our government. Lil' Rick explained the best he could.  It was like moving back in time.  I mean, the sun revolves around the earth?  The earth is flat?  The pope rules?  Jews are bad?  Muslims are worse?  People do not have a right to have sex within the confines of their homes?  Homosexuals are like dogs-on-dogs?  Public education is terrible?  No woman should ever have an abortion?  Sex education is of Satan?  The United States is under the spell of Satan?  Birth control must be outlawed?  Let's bomb Iran ?  Never apologize, even when you're wrong?  The president must follow Catholic theology?  The Crusades were about American values?  The glaciers are not melting?  Drill, drill, drill so we can send even more oil to other countries?  Immigrants are bad and should be driven from our shores (unless, of course they are Irish and Catholic!)? Then, when lil' Rick got to talking about Kennedy and the separation of church and state and how religion is supposed to play an important role in the government (the Catholic religion, of course), all the people stood up .... ... AND THREW UP!!!! -- Posted By Blogger to Contextual Criticism at 2/27/2012 07:43:00 AM

Invasion of Privates?

Do you want the State of Virginia in your "business?"

Christian Values?

Published in Time Magazine, Feb 27, 2012

Quote without Comment

God's Law

There was a time when everyone in Europe;followed Rick Santorum's version of the theocratic state.  It lasted for 1000 years.
It was called the Middle Ages.

Government Regulation and political parties

a man walks into a bar...

A liberal, a moderate and a conservative walk into the bar. The bartender looks up and says, "Hello, Mr. Romney."

World Views of Conservatives & Progressives

Conservative v. Progressive World Views

Big Oil v. Obama

Let us just imagine that the bosses of Big Oil, (You know who they are. They are the ones who put W in office as their puppet.) hate Obama so much that they develop a scheme to bring him down.

How about shutting a few refineries to create a sham shortage?  How about getting together and raising prices so that the public gets screwed by high fuel prices?

An angry public will vote out the party in power, right?

BTW, what has been happening to gas prices lately? 

Keep your eyes open.  My predictions may be right.

Virginia Legislature Passes Occupy Vagina Law

This is not a joke, but the most horiffic invasion of women's bodies since the Middle Ages.

New Virginia Law invades women's bodies.

The One Percent Speak

Oil prices explained

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Severe Conservative Syndrome

Thanks to my friend, Art, for sending me this.

Could it possibly be that Santorum, et al, believe that the American voting public could be that severely stupid? Or, is it that Santorum, et al, are the severely stupid ones?

If God can work up the interest in our politics, may he, or she, intervene to protect us from ourselves come November.
But I hold out little hope of that.  After all, God did not help me win the $300 million PowerBall prize day before yesterday; similarly,  if the Almighty  refuses to help out and   Bring Us Into The Light on Election Day over an equally vital matter, will his or her indifference  truly mark the end of civilization?

Just in case, you missed it this morning, here is Krugman's latest.

Art

 Severe Conservative Syndrome

By PAUL KRUGMAN

Published: February 12, 2012

Mitt Romney has a gift for words — self-destructive words. On Friday he did it again, telling the Conservative Political Action Conference that he was a “severely conservative governor.”

Fred R. Conrad/The New York Times

Paul Krugman

As Molly Ball of The Atlantic pointed out, Mr. Romney “described conservatism as if it were a disease.” Indeed. Mark Liberman, a linguistics professor at the University of Pennsylvania, provided a list of words that most commonly follow the adverb “severely”; the top five, in frequency of use, are disabled, depressed, ill, limited and injured.

That’s clearly not what Mr. Romney meant to convey. Yet if you look at the race for the G.O.P. presidential nomination, you have to wonder whether it was a Freudian slip. For something has clearly gone very wrong with modern American conservatism.

Start with Rick Santorum, who, according to Public Policy Polling, is the clear current favorite among usual Republican primary voters, running 15 points ahead of Mr. Romney. Anyone with an Internet connection is aware that Mr. Santorum is best known for 2003 remarks about homosexuality, incest and bestiality. But his strangeness runs deeper than that.

For example, last year Mr. Santorum made a point of defending the medieval Crusades against the “American left who hates Christendom.” Historical issues aside (hey, what are a few massacres of infidels and Jews among friends?), what was this doing in a 21st-century campaign?

Nor is this only about sex and religion: he has also declared that climate change is a hoax, part of a “beautifully concocted scheme” on the part of “the left” to provide “an excuse for more government control of your life.” You may say that such conspiracy-theorizing is hardly unique to Mr. Santorum, but that’s the point: tinfoil hats have become a common, if not mandatory, G.O.P. fashion accessory.

Then there’s Ron Paul, who came in a strong second in Maine’s caucuses despite widespread publicity over such matters as the racist (and conspiracy-minded) newsletters published under his name in the 1990s and his declarations that both the Civil War and the Civil Rights Act were mistakes. Clearly, a large segment of his party’s base is comfortable with views one might have thought were on the extreme fringe.

Finally, there’s Mr. Romney, who will probably get the nomination despite his evident failure to make an emotional connection with, well, anyone. The truth, of course, is that he was not a “severely conservative” governor. His signature achievement was a health reform identical in all important respects to the national reform signed into law by President Obama four years later. And in a rational political world, his campaign would be centered on that achievement.

But Mr. Romney is seeking the Republican presidential nomination, and whatever his personal beliefs may really be — if, indeed, he believes anything other than that he should be president — he needs to win over primary voters who really are severely conservative in both his intended and unintended senses.

So he can’t run on his record in office. Nor was he trying very hard to run on his business career even before people began asking hard (and appropriate) questions about the nature of that career.

Instead, his stump speeches rely almost entirely on fantasies and fabrications designed to appeal to the delusions of the conservative base. No, President Obama isn’t someone who “began his presidency by apologizing for America,” as Mr. Romney declared, yet again, a week ago. But this “Four-Pinocchio Falsehood,” as the Washington Post Fact Checker puts it, is at the heart of the Romney campaign.

How did American conservatism end up so detached from, indeed at odds with, facts and rationality? For it was not always thus. After all, that health reform Mr. Romney wants us to forget followed a blueprint originally laid out at the Heritage Foundation!

My short answer is that the long-running con game of economic conservatives and the wealthy supporters they serve finally went bad. For decades the G.O.P. has won elections by appealing to social and racial divisions, only to turn after each victory to deregulation and tax cuts for the wealthy — a process that reached its epitome when George W. Bush won re-election by posing as America’s defender against gay married terrorists, then announced that he had a mandate to privatize Social Security.

Over time, however, this strategy created a base that really believed in all the hokum — and now the party elite has lost control.

The point is that today’s dismal G.O.P. field — is there anyone who doesn’t consider it dismal? — is no accident. Economic conservatives played a cynical game, and now they’re facing the blowback, a party that suffers from “severe” conservatism in the worst way. And the malady may take many years to cure.

This is an excerpt from columnist Joe Klein's article in the Feb 20, 2012 issue of Time Magazine.
He defines Karl Rove spot on!

Oil or Children? Who do we love more?

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Reactions to some of the nutty stuff from the Far Right going around.

I have hidden the email addresses of the posters to protect the innocent.

The right-wing lies just keep coming. They use unadulterated hate to recharge their batteries. I haven't seen anything to match it since Joe McCarthy. --- On Sat, 2/11/12,  [name deleted] wrote: Subject: Re: Medicare Premium Increase Rate for 2014 IMPORTANT Date: Saturday, February 11, 2012, 10:45 PM ...only important if you accept lies as truth.... Steve, Bob,   It's been a bad day for the truth; this morning Merrill forwarded some very clever, very false information once again challenging Obama's birth.  The birthers seem unable to stop themselves. Maybe they oughta see a shrink about their compulsion. This evening Steve, and you Bob, forwarded sinister nonsense about  Obama's sly plan to raise monthly Medicare premiums in 2014 to an outrageous $247.  Makes you wanna hate the creep in the White House for things he isn't, and hasn't done.  But then, the charlatans who hate him so intensely can't congenitally limit themselves to the things Obama has actually done wrong; they are compelled to manufacture the foulest kind of personal assassination in an attempt to persuade all America we mistakenly elected the biggest bum who ever lived to lead our native land.  I think it's also to convince themselves they got  every right to hate the man  to his core by making up facts and crimes he never committed--and that, friends, is really sad. They don't seem capable of admitting to themselves that there may really have been much more destructive bums to hold the Oval Office the past forty years, maybe because those Presidents weren't Democrats and, particularly, because they weren't black. Please remember, no matter what you may wish to believe, Obama didn't bring on the recession or the current descent into poverty of  more than a quarter of the American population, not all by himself. He ain't blameless but neither is he mainly to blame Ask Merrill to forward the dissection of the latest lies from the birthers, because I am tired of repeating myself.  Instead, add the following to your store of legitimate knowledge, and think twice before passing along ugly tales without checking them at least... twice.  In short, don't let the bogeymen control your minds.  Before you reread the junk about Obama's alleged Medicare trickery, please read the facts as they exist, and then have the kindness to pass them along--hopefully, with Merrill's new information about birther distortions--to the people who sent you the junk in the first place. By now, you should have realized that you've been too often taken to la la land by some really creepy con artists.  You may have the same hope for the outcome of the 2012 election,  but I know you guys, and I don't believe you are willing to deliberately lie like they do, but you two seem to take undue pleasure passing along turds. Art Home • Ask FactCheck • Premium Nonsense On Medicare Premium Nonsense On Medicare Posted on April 1, 2011 Q: Will the new health care law raise Medicare’s basic monthly premium to $247 in 2014, as a viral message claims? A: No, Medicare officials project the basic premium will be less than half that. But the law will eventually cause 14 percent of seniors with incomes over $85,000 a year ($170,000 for couples) to pay higher "income-related" premiums, up from 5 percent currently. FULL QUESTION Please advise the accuracy of contents below. Thank you, MEDICARE PAY INCREASE For those of you who are on Medicare (or will be soon), read the short article below. It is about the monthly amount of money you are going to pay into Medicare in 2011, 2012 and the huge increase you will pay in 2013. You will pay it. Social Security Congress will not allow an increase in the social security COLA (cost of living adjustment). However, the per person monthly Medicare insurance premium will be increased from the 2009 premium of $96.40 to $104.20 in 2010, $120.20 for the year 2011, AND a yearly increase to a wonderful $247.00 in 2014. Thank You Obamacare! In the meantime, Congress gave themselves a $3,000 a month Cost of Living Adjustment! Send this to all seniors that you know. REMEMBER IN NOVEMBER 2012 FULL ANSWER This widely circulating message is similar to a falsehood-filled screed that went around last year, urging "retribution" against members of Congress in the 2010 midterm elections. This message makes somewhat different accusations — also false — and urges voters to "remember" in November 2012. It falsely claims "Congress gave themselves a $3,000 a month Cost of Living Adjustment," when the truth is that Congress voted to deny itself any pay increase at all, both for 2010 and 2011. It wrongly blames Congress for disallowing any cost-of-living increase for Social Security recipients. It’s true there was no COLA for Social Security recipients in 2010 or in 2011, but that was due to the workings of a long-standing formula and not the result of any vote by the current Congress or the previous one. We covered this in detail in 2009 and the Social Security Administration has an explanation posted as well. It claims that "those of you who are on Medicare" can thank "Obamacare" for increases in the per-person monthly Medicare premium — "to a wonderful $247.00 in 2014." This is also false. The basic premium for Medicare Part B (which covers physician services) was indeed $96.40 in 2009. But the other numbers are all wrong. It was $110.50 last year, for example, and not $104.20 as claimed. And it is $115.40 this year, not $120.20 as claimed. Actually, only 27 percent of Medicare beneficiaries are paying the basic rate. The rest — 73 percent — are paying less under a "hold harmless" provision triggered by the lack of a cost-of-living increase in Social Security this year or last year. Most are still paying $96.40. As for the future, nobody can say with precision what the basic Part B premium will be next year or the year after, let alone in 2014. The premium is set each year at a level calculated to pay for 25 percent of the cost of the coverage. Medicare officials do keep close watch on the trends, however. And when we contacted Medicare’s Office of the Actuary, we were given these projections — the most recent available — which are current as of the president’s budget for fiscal year 2012 issued in mid-February: Medicare Part B Standard Premium (projected, February 2011) 2012 $108.20 2013 $112.10 2014 $117.10 Source: Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services Office of theActuary Subject: Fw: Fwd: Medicare Premium Increase Rate for 2014 IMPORTANT I did not check to make sure this info is correct   Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2012 8:40 AM Subject: Fwd: FW: Medicare Premium Increase Rate for 2014 IMPORTANT   Medicare Premium Increase Rate   Look clearly at the 2014 rate compared to the 2013 rate. For those of you who are on Medicare, read the following. It's short, but important and you probably haven't heard about it in the Mainstream News: "The per person Medicare Insurance Premium will increase from the present monthly Fee of $96.40, rising to: $104.20 in 2012 $120.20 in 2013 And $247.00 in 2014." These are Provisions incorporated in the Obamacare Legislation, purposely delayed so as not to confuse the 2012 Re-Election Campaigns. Send this to all Seniors that you know, so they will know who's throwing them under the Bus. REMEMBER THIS IN NOVEMBER 2012 AND VOTE!!! From now through November 2012 this should be required weekly or at least monthly, reading - BY ALL WHO VOTE!!! Did you notice who Obama threatened when he wasn't getting his way on raising the debt ceiling? He threatened to not pay: Social Security Retirees, Military Retirees, Social Security disability and Federal Retirees. Now.. Let this sink in really good - He did not threaten to stop payments to illegal aliens, he did not threaten to take frivolous benefits such as Internet access away from violent inmates. He did not offer to fire some of the thousands of unnecessary federal employees that he hired. He did not offer to cut down on his or his wife's frivolous gallivanting around.They went to Hawaii for 17 days over Christmas 2011. He did not threaten to not pay the senators and representatives or any of their staff. He did not threaten to take benefits away from welfare recipients. He did not threaten the food stamp programs. He did not threaten to not pay foreign aid. He did not threaten to cut back on anything that involves his base voters. The list could go on and on. He is in full political re-election mode! * Why are we allowing this person to destroy this wonderful country with his selfishness and his lies? * His type of change is killing our country. He needs to be stopped and only our Votes can stop him. * Do not forget about his tactics when it's election time. Vote Obama OUT of the Presidency in 2012. LET'S MAKE 2012 - THE END OF AN ERROR! "Democracy... Is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty ... Is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote." -- Benjamin Franklin AMERICA ..... HOME OF THE FREE BECAUSE OF THE BRAVE PRAY FOR OUR TROOPS ELECTION 2012 IS COMING!!! A Nation of Sheep Breeds a Government of Wolves! I'M 100% for PASSING THIS ON!!! Let's Take a Stand!!! Obama: Gone! Borders: Closed! Language: English only Culture: Constitution, and the Bill of Rights! Drug Free: Mandatory Drug Screening before Welfare! NO freebies to: Non-Citizens! We the people are coming   =

Inside the New Hate

Inside the new hate
This is quite a link.
http://www.salon.com/2012/02/04/inside_the_new_hate/singleton/

Arizona Politics Satire

Don't miss this link by the creator of the comic strip La Cucaracha!
 
http://pocho.com/tag/arizona/

Carlin is gone, but not forgotten

GOP Assault on Workers Succeeds

Indiana has just dropped a bomb on the working people of its state with the passage of a Right to Work (for less) law.  The law is part of a continuing assault on working Americans.

And Romney and company speak out against class warfare?  His upper class has already won!

See link to story 

 

The oil billionaires on the block

Do you mind spending a million or so a night for a hotel?

Read how the Koch Bros. used their billions this week.

http://www.mydesert.com/article/20120201/NEWS01/202010306/Koch-group-quietly-met-valley

I guess the protestors can't get to them here.

Just plain folks!