Los Angeles Atheist Convention (Video)

I had a blast and got to meet dozens of fabulous people.  There were tons of guest speakers with different messages for atheists’ future, strategies and tactics to fight ignorance and mythology fanaticism, and talks on the state of American atheism,agnosticism,humanism, and nontheism.

The highlight, for me, was Richard Dawkins’ talk and book signing.

Check out the video:

Mom’s Gift: Underinsured Goes Blind So Daughters Can See

Everyone should have healthcare.  Everyone.   I don’t care if you’re rich, poor, illegal, religious, or non-religious.   Every one of us is human. Oh yeah, this woman HAS insurance.

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More Stupid Americans: Birthers Advertise

You may have heard the phrase ’stupid is, as stupid does.’  By what actions, though, would we define stupidity?  Well, that could be shown on a variety of levels in this example.

Live Prayer, an unfortunately common example of ‘give-me-all-your-money’ faith, is now running advertisements questioning President Obama’s citizenship.  These aren’t the first people to bring this non-issue into the limelight, but they are the first to actually run TV advertising supporting the Birthers.  As we’ve discussing on Left Agenda, the Birthers have no true desire to see a birth certificate and arguably wouldn’t accept it as true even if one were presented.

Now, these people and their ilk are the definition of stupid, on one level at least.  But there’s a deeper level of stupidity that we can see which ironically is also being acknowledged by the first level of stupidity.

Let’s begin with the question, who are these advertisements being shown to?  Well, they’re being shown in seven states: Tennessee, Montana, Texas, Louisiana, Georgia, Alabama, and Florida.  These states tend to have a larger population of conservative voters than, say, California, New York, or Illinois.  The next important question is what does Live Prayer hope to obtain for the thousands (possibly millions) spent on this advertisement?  Is their distrust of Obama so high they are willing to pay simply to get the message out with no hope or desire for retribution?  Nope, ‘that wouldn’t be prudent.’

[Live Prayer] asks late-night viewers to give $30 to have a faxes sent to government officials demanding Obama produce his birth certificate. As a thank you, contributors also get a special Birther bumper sticker.

And now, we come to our second level of stupidity.  Are there people in any of these seven states that will be sooooo stupid as to send $30 to Live Prayer to send a fax to ‘government officials’, i.e. an undefined number or name(s) of people?  They seem to be counting on it.

I’m Gay! Apparently?

That is according to this dumbass at one of the Values Voter seminars.

Yes, so since I received a subscription to Playboy when I was fifteen and began doing what any teenage, heterosexual boy would do with such a magazine (OK, I started doing that before I got the Playboy) I guess that I am now gay.  Wow, do I feel cool or what?

Channeling a little Chandler here, but ‘could this guy BE more of a moran? (Yes, morons the spelling was intentional.)

Right Wingers at their finest.

Jail for School Prayer?

Hell, yes!

Apparently, the separation of church and state isn’t something that’s important to religious fanatics (I guess that goeswithout saying).  These guys have been warned before that prayer is OK for students to do but it can’t be something that is promoted by school staff or administration.  Well, The principal of Pace High School in Florida seems to think that his position gives him the right to push his faith in dog/god on the rest of the student body.  He’s been warned repeatedly, and now may face jail time.

Frank Lay, principal of Pace High School in Pace, Florida, and school athletic director Robert Freeman are accused of violating a consent decree banning employees of Santa Rosa County schools from endorsing religion.

They face a nonjury trial before U.S. District Judge M.C. Rodgers. If convicted, they could be sentenced to up to six months in prison and fined, subject to sentencing guidelines.

The ACLU filed  a lawsuit against Rodgers and other officials some time ago.  Officials agreed that promoting prayer was inappropriate at school.  Case closed, right?  Nah, soon after the Jan. 9 agreement, Principal Lay chose to ignore those rules again:

But on January 28, “Lay asked Freeman to offer a prayer of blessing during a school-day luncheon for the dedication of a new field house at Pace High School,” according to court documents.

The ACLU has said that it isn’t seeking jail time, but I think they should.  It will be up to the judge to decide.  This type of indoctrination is disgusting.

Sign the Anti-Socialism Purity Pledge!

I, ________________________, do solemnly swear to uphold the principles of a socialism-free society and heretofore pledge my word that I shall strictly adhere to the following:

I will complain about the destruction of 1st Amendment Rights in this country, while I am duly being allowed to exercise my 1st Amendment Rights.

I will complain about the destruction of my 2nd Amendment Rights in this country, while I am duly being allowed to exercise my 2nd Amendment rights by legally but brazenly brandishing unconcealed firearms in public.

I will foreswear the time-honored principles of fairness, decency, and respect by screaming unintelligible platitudes regarding tyranny, Nazi-ism, and socialism at public town halls.  Also.

I pledge to eliminate all government intervention in my life.  I will abstain from the use of and participation in any socialist goods and services including but not limited to the following:

• Social Security

Medicare/Medicaid

• State Children’s Health Insurance Programs (SCHIP)
• Police, Fire, and Emergency Services
• US Postal Service
• Roads and Highways
• Air Travel (regulated by the socialist FAA)
• The US Railway System
• Public Subways and Metro Systems
• Public Bus and Lightrail Systems
• Rest Areas on Highways
• Sidewalks
• All Government-Funded Local/State Projects (e.g., see Iowa 2009 federal senate appropriations)
• Public Water and Sewer Services (goodbye socialist toilet, shower, dishwasher, kitchen sink, outdoor hose!)
• Public and State Universities and Colleges
• Public Primary and Secondary Schools
• Sesame Street
• Publicly Funded Anti-Drug Use Education for Children
• Public Museums
• Libraries
• Public Parks and Beaches
• State and National Parks
• Public Zoos
• Unemployment Insurance
• Municipal Garbage and Recycling Services
• Treatment at Any Hospital or Clinic That Ever Received Funding From Local, State or Federal Government (pretty much all of them)
• Medical Services and Medications That Were Created or Derived From Any Government Grant or Research Funding (again, pretty much all of them)
• Socialist Byproducts of Government Investment Such as Duct Tape and Velcro (Nazi-NASA Inventions)
• Use of the Internets, email, and networked computers, as the DoD’s ARPANET was the basis for subsequent computer networking
• Foodstuffs, Meats, Produce and Crops That Were Grown With, Fed With, Raised With or That Contain Inputs From Crops Grown With Government Subsidies
• Clothing Made from Crops (e.g. cotton) That Were Grown With or That Contain Inputs From Government Subsidies

If a veteran of the government-run socialist US military, I will forego my VA benefits and insist on paying for my own medical care

I will not tour socialist government buildings like the Capitol in Washington, D.C.

I pledge to never take myself, my family, or my children on a tour of the following types of socialist locations, including but not limited to:

• Smithsonian Museums such as the Air and Space Museum or Museum of American History
• The socialist Washington, Lincoln, and Jefferson Monuments
• The government-operated Statue of Liberty
• The Grand Canyon
• The socialist World War II and Vietnam Veterans Memorials
• The government-run socialist-propaganda location known as Arlington National Cemetery
• All other public-funded socialist sites, whether it be in my state or in Washington, DC

I will urge my Member of Congress and Senators to forego their government salary and government-provided healthcare.

I will oppose and condemn the government-funded and therefore socialist military of the United States of America.

I will boycott the products of socialist defense contractors such as GE, Lockheed-Martin, Boeing, Northrop Grumman, General Dynamics, Raytheon, Humana, FedEx, General Motors, Honeywell, and hundreds of others that are paid by our socialist government to produce goods for our socialist army.

I will protest socialist security departments such as the Pentagon, FBI, CIA, Department of Homeland Security, TSA, Department of Justice and their socialist employees.

Upon reaching eligible retirement age, I will tear up my socialist Social Security checks.

Upon reaching age 65, I will forego Medicare and pay for my own private health insurance until I die.

SWORN ON A BIBLE AND SIGNED THIS DAY OF __________ IN THE YEAR ___.

_____________   _________________________

Signed       Printed Name/Town and State

Now, will any Right Wingers that are screaming against the Public Option or, god/dog forbid, a Single Payer System actually have the balls to sign this and live up to it?

Don’t like Socialism, then don’t take part in it.

When are people going to learn that a system that works will involve a healthy mix of many different political philosophies?  Let’s balance the scale between Capitalism and Socialism.  Capitalism only benefits the people with lots of money.  It’s a winner-takes-all system.  America can do better.

Many thanks to Laura Clawson over at the DailyKos family.

Ignorant and Free? You Can’t Be Both

Sad news coming out of Oklahoma.  75% of high school students couldn’t say who was the first President of the United States.  While many of these questions are expected to be answered correctly by people applying for U.S. citizenship, it appears that it’s not important for people born in the U.S. to have any idea about civics or U.S. history.

Question                                            % of Students Who Answered Correctly

What is the supreme law of the land?                                                                 28

What do we call the first ten amendments to the Constitution?              26

What are the two parts of the U.S. Congress?                                                  27

How many justices are there on the Supreme Court?                                  10

Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?                                                14

What ocean is on the east coast of the United States?                                  61

What are the two major political parities in the United States?               43

We elect a U.S. senator for how many years?                                                   11

Who was the first President of the United States?                                           23

Who is in charge of the executive branch?                                                        29

Is it just me or is it, perhaps, even worse that almost 40% of the students didn’t know the name of the Atlantic Ocean?

The No Child Left Behind Act that was put into place by Bush and his lemming Republicans does exactly that.  It leaves children behind.  It leaves them behind in civics, creative thinking, critical thinking, etc.

Oh, on a side note.  OK was decidedly RED during the last presidential election.  What does that say about the Republican constituents?

You know what’s really funny?  I found this book review that seems perfect for this occasion.  Hell, maybe it helps explain what’s going on in America.

What’s ironic about this is that the book review was done by The Oklahoma Daily.  I guess people in Oklahoma need to start doing some more reading.  Kudos to the OK Daily for reviewing this book in possibly one of the states that is being specifically targeted by this book.

My favorite part:

For example, the problems that Pierce addresses are nearly all related to Republicans. It wouldn’t be hard to believe that this book was once titled “Idiot Conservatives,” but changed at the last minute before printing.

It Was a Republican Plan All Along!

Good stuff coming out of SNL. What do you think? Could it have been a Republican plot that fell to tatters while Joe (Racist) Wilson was in the loo?

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Iraq Should be Grateful?

For what, you might ask.

Or, if you’re one of the many idiots in our beloved nation you might think that we ’saved’ people over there.  You could say that was true, except for the 100,000 or more civilians dead from our actions and the Iraq nation’s oil fields being sold off to the highest bidding oil companies.  Oh, and the nation’s ancient relics being dispersed throughout the black market.  Oh, and the thousands of people who are unaccounted for in Iraq.  Oh, and… well, you get the point.

Nope, WMDs were never found and the entire thing was one big hoax perpetrated on the American people and, sadly, the Iraqis.  But, that’s not what this Republican Congressman thought.

“I have never heard one word of gratitude from the Iraqi people about the 4,300 Americans who lost their lives,” he exclaimed.  ”We went to Iraq to try and free your people and now we’re being blamed for sectarian violence,” he said. “Don’t blame us because that type of bloodlust exists in your society.”

The good bad news?  This guy’s from California.  Proof positive that dumb Right Wingers are everywhere.  Is dumb contagious?  I hope not.

Conservatives Irrationally Fear President Obama

If you haven’t been paying attention, the Right is now in full hysteria over President Obama’s election.  The fanatical Right now believes that President Obama, somehow through a conspiracy of over forty years, faked his own birth, was trained by liberal terrorists, and plans on taking over the country and making it either Marxist, Communist, Socialist, or combinations of those three.  I don’t need to give links to these phenomenon, do a quick Google search and you’ll find plenty of examples.

Now, the Right believes that President Obama while speaking to America’s children at school on Sept. 8, which a few other presidents have also done, is going to be indoctrinating America’s youth just like the Hitler Youth organizations of the 30s and 40s in Germany.  It boggles the mind how people could be so frightened of nothing.

Teachers have been offered a lesson plan for the speech President Obama will be making; something many teachers will be happy to use and adapt to their own class room because it saves them the time of having to do it themselves.  Here’s the lesson plan provided.

Now, as you would assume, the lesson plan gives some vague questions to ask the students about the U.S. President in general, and very little about Barack Obama specifically.  But an e-mail sent out by Right Wing Teabag Nutjobs seems to think that Obama’s going over the line,

I wouldn’t have such a problem with the Department of Education were this presented in a non-Orwellian fashion. Oh yes, it is, as the lesson plan directs, to listen to what t he president, the mayor, et al. says, to respect their “authoritah” </Cartman>, but there is no emphasis in here on why the president and other elected officials should listen to US. The focus is solely on authority. There is no consideration given to the authority of the American people. That’s what concerns me.

For one, the “fashion” this lesson plan is presented in is exactly how lesson plans are presented.  With a M.Ed, and three years teaching experience, I’m confident in that.  Secondly, did teaching our children to respect authority suddenly become a bad thing?  Don’t we want our children to respect authority?  Respecting and questioning authority are not opposites.  You can respectfully question authority; it is possible.  Lastly, the President of the United States does have authority, authority vested in him by the people; we, generally, call that an election.  I understand that the Right can’t bare the fact that a black, moderately liberal, and not zealously religious man won the election but you’re going to have to live with it.  Besides, the Left dealt with Bush stealing his election; you should be able to deal with Obama actually winning his.

Leaving me in further confusision is that people are already sure of what he’ll say.  Now, rationally, what do you think Obama will say to America’s youth?  I’m guessing that he’s going to say something about working hard, staying in school, and staying away from drugs.  Nothing shocking.  But, comments on the Right seem more hysterically frightened:

Go to school with your children…don’t keep them home.

I’m going to school with my child. I’m going armed with facts and information to counter any level of indoctrination that this government or any faculty member tries to cram down her throat. Instead of just keeping your child home, go to school with them. Stay for any discussion that occurs, and present the information as it really is. Going to class with your child will accomplish 3 things: 1. It will let the faculty know that you will not tolerate attempts to politically indoctrinate your child while they should be receiving an education. 2. It will show those that intend to indoctrinate school aged children that you are not blind to their attempts, nor are you afraid. Rather, you will meet them head on and will not allow the propaganda to go unchallenged to your community children. 3. It will reach more than just your child. It will reach his/her whole class. Bring cookies. Be the “cool” parent, and educate the whole class at the same time. If this is the arena they choose, this is where we meet them. Stand up…don’t stay home.

Notice the use of words like “armed” and “arena?”  This is a fight, I guess.  Who would’ve thought that parents would be so upset that their children would be told to work hard?  Hmmm.  I wonder, does this parent show this same type of zeal when their local church “authority” is educating their children?

NO WAY!

I’m SO glad this was brought to my attention! I’ve contacted all the mothers on my block and we’re ALL planning on keeping our kids HOME Sept 8th and 9th. We’re going to meet at our local park for a play date. We do NOT send our children to school to be INDOCTRINATED! If public school teachers are choosing to exchange EDUCATION for political brainwashing, they’re going to find many EMPTY desks! With this being a small town, it will take a huge toll on them financially. We’ll be pulling our kids out to HOME-SCHOOL! Amercians need to ban together and start taking a stand, demanding they get this clown OUT of the White House. Apathy is no longer an option! If we want to make sure we have a land of the free left, we need to oppose this idiot’s move toward MARXISM at every turn! TODAY is the day of redemption! There may not be a tomorrow!

I think my favorite part is that “Americians need to ban together…,” so we can, “get this clown OUT of the White House.”  Another parent that apparently doesn’t understand what elections are.  Hello, we just got the “clown” out of office, and prevented further clowns from holding office.  Also, we people work together isn’t it being “band together?”  It’s like negation is built right into their thinking, “No, no, no, no, no…”

creepy

I thank God (yes I said God) every day that I am fortunate enough to send my child to private school and my older child is in a Christian college. My high schooler is appalled that the president is so ego centric that he needs to be seen on television everyday of the week and now is injecting himself into schools. This reeks of socialism/Marxism/communism. I cannot believe that so many people in this country were blind enough to vote for this person. I am also to blame because I did not speak loudly enough against this regime. Now is the time to move forward. Educate your children about real American history that they don’t teach in public school. Keep them home from school and go to the library to read the Constitution, read about the founding fathers and read about the 2 world wars. Many of you are going to say, but I work, how do I take the day off??? I work also. If my child’s school shows this I will ask that she be exused from the class at that time. If she chooses to watch it we will talk about it later. Never turn a blind eye or deaf ear to what this man is saying.

I’m not sure if the title, “creepy” is meant for Obama’s speech or for what the person has to say.  Home schooling has got to be one of the biggest jokes.  What “real American history” is she talking about?  The one that covers in detail all of the horrible lies we made to Native Americans, or maybe the years and years of bigotry perpetrated by the American majority against racial, sexual, and religious minorities?

Conservatives need to wake up and stop the irrational religious nutjob take over.  The Right use to make rational arguments; I didn’t agree with them and I’d argue against them, but they were arguable and rational points.  Since Newt Gingrich’s false and misleadingly titled Contract with America, the Religious Right has taken over the conservative movement.  Conservatives, it’s time to clean house and toss out the nutjobs, i.e. Glenn Beck, Pat Buchanan, Michelle Bachmann, Sarah Palin, Newt Gingrich, etc., etc.  It could be the dawning of a new conservative era; one I will, gladly, continue to debate.  But this mass hysteria nonsense?  Please, it’s like going to the psych ward and arguing with Napoleon.

Glenn Beck, the Idiot: Can I Hsa a ‘C’

Hello, America!

How’s your spelling?

How are your critical thinking skills?

Thankfully, you don’t need either of those skills to trust in Glenn Beck.

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For Glenn Beck fans: I know that you’re use to Glenn Beck speaking really, really slow for you.  Keith Olbermann talks a little faster, so you might have to watch the video twice.

Cheney Gets Bitch-Slapped… Metaphorically

Anyone following the news can see that Dick(head) Cheney doesn’t take kindly to any kind of investigation of the Bush Crime Family’s practices, or the Bush Administration’s practices as it’s more widely known.  But, it’s the terrorists that he’s really worried about.  It’s the terrorists that he keeps saying America was defended against by the Bush administration which President Obama is now ruining.  Cheney has said, basically, that Obama is making America less safe by not following the Bush administration guidelines on torture.  Guidelines, which even McCain has described as being illegal.

I think the interrogations were in violation of the Geneva Conventions and the Convention Against Torture that we ratified under President Reagan.

This is obvious.  In as much as torture has been defined, the use of “enhanced interrogations” or torture, is plainly within those defined instances of torture.  The argument, instead, hasn’t rested on its legality.  No, the GOP has been trying to convince America that torture was OK, nonetheless, because we needed it to protect our country.  Even with the CIA documents released which Cheney swore would relieve him of any blame of wrong doing and prove that torture gave us valuable information, the opposite was true because the documents didn’t show anything of the sort.

But, more important than what Cheney says was OK, since he says it was OK, is what was actually taking place.  National Security Adviser, Gen. Jim Jones (Ret.), that’s Marine General Jim Jones (Ret.), states that Obama is actually doing a better job of defending us against terrorism than Bush ever did.

“This type of radical fundamentalism or terrorism is a threat not only to the United States but to the global community,” Jones said. “The world is coming together on this matter now that President Obama has taken the leadership on it and is approaching it in a slightly different way – actually a radically different way – to discuss things with other rulers to enhance the working relationships with law enforcement agencies – both national and international.”

Jones said that “we are seeing results that indicate more captures, more deaths of radical leaders and a kind of a global coming-together by the fact that this is a threat to not only the United States but to the world at-large and the world is moving toward doing something about it.”

(emphasis lovingly added)

Yeah, so in your face Mr. Darth Cheney!  No, really guys, are we going to allow our public officials to break the law without any recourse?  The Right got so angry about a guy getting a little under-the-desk-action, but kill a few hundred thousand people in the name of Christ oil and you’re A-OK. (Yeah, that’s a few hundred THOUSAND, including Americans, Iraqis, and other Muslim people that our hired mercenaries decided to abduct.)

Now, all the little Murdoch goon-watchers (that includes all of the vast Ruport Murdoch media corporations: Wall Street Journal, Fox News, etc.) will continue to mimic the speaking box that is their news, for their certainly are no brains over at Fox, and instead of thinking about their actions maybe they’ll pray to their god/dog and ask for forgiveness.

Why does being white and born-again Christian allow other people to totally disregard any of your faults, present or past?  Is it that they aren’t responsible for their actions anymore?  It must be so nice to not take any responsibility for any of your wrong doings since you think some poor guy died for all of those sins two thousand years ago.  Hey, fun game you can play.  Count how many people were killed and how many were saved by Christianity.  Does it even break even?

The Great Liberal Lion: Ted Kennedy will be missed.

The last of the great Kennedy trio.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/08/26/ted-kennedy-dead-legendar_n_268978.html

For a great pictorial of the life of Ted Kennedy, check out:

http://a.abcnews.com/Politics/popup?id=4877700&contentIndex=1&page=4&start=false

Yes, We Can… Study Stupidity! (Neither Palin nor Gingrich will be teaching, sorry)

I wondered if this was for real after I read Alex Leo’s post on The Huffington Post, but it seems legit.

180. STUPIDITY. Stupidity is neither ignorance nor organicity, but rather, a corollary of knowing and an element of normalcy, the double of intelligence rather than its opposite. It is an artifact of our nature as finite beings and one of the most powerful determinants of human destiny. Stupidity is always the name of the Other, and it is the sign of the feminine. This course in Critical Psychology follows the work of Friedrich Nietzsche, Gilles Deleuze, and most recently, Avital Ronell, in a philosophical examination of those operations and technologies that we conduct in order to render ourselves uncomprehending. Stupidity, which has been evicted from the philosophical premises and dumbed down by psychometric psychology, has returned in the postmodern discourse against Nation, Self, and Truth and makes itself felt in political life ranging from the presidency to Beevis and Butthead. This course examines stupidity.

Yes, I added the emphasis.  Yes, stupidity has returned in postmodern discourse, and yes, it is felt in politics(here, here, here, here, here, here).  America, I think, is seeing a resurgence of Stupidity when millions of people will actively fight against their own best interests (here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here).

Death Panels do Exist, Conservatives Support Them

While many conservatives have been bleating out about the supposed Death Panels that are included in “the bill” (which is an inaccurate account of the legislative process), they’ve ignored the fact that Death Panels do exist already.  There are no provisions that support a belief that there are Death Panels in any of the bills for healthcare reform, but insurance companies have had them for years.

The false Death Panel rumors became general knowledge to the public after Sarah Palin, in all of her ignorant god-fearing glory, spoke these fittingly ignorant words:

The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down Syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama’s “death panel” so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their “level of productivity in society,” whether they are worthy of health care. Such a system is downright evil.

These insane, fictional comments didn’t originate in Sarah Palin’s mind.  How could anything originate in a barren waste-land?  They instead came from the fear mongering and false research and evidence gleamed by Betsy McCaughey, who incidentally couldn’t handle a real debate with Jon Stewart early this week.

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McCaughey’s appearance in the spot light apparently didn’t sit well with the Cantor Medical where she sat on the Board of Directors, because she resigned the following day.

Many conservatives have also been bleeting on about the articles written by Dr. Emmanuel in which he talks about euthanasia and the allocation of healthcare, neither of which have been honestly talked about by the Right Wing Nutjob punditry.  While they’ve termed Dr. Emmanuel “Doctor Death” if anyone had bothered to read either of his essays you would notice that he is completely against legalized euthanasia in the U.S.  Never mind reality, the conservatives seem to say, he’s related to President Obama’s Chief of Staff Rahm Emmanuel and we must find some sort of evil plot within the White House to demonize President Obama with.  Never mind reality, god and insurers are on their side.

So, while Right Wing Bleating Machines continue their unwarranted ranting and raving, while they continue to assist in the destruction of the American middle class, while they continue to fight for the right of insurance companies to rape the American public, and while real Americans fight for the healthcare reform that America deserves remember that there are actually Death Panels in existence. They aren’t run by the government, they’re run by capitalism’s beloved insurance companies.

God’s on a Comet?

The amino acid glycine, a fundamental building block of proteins, has been found in a comet for the first time, bolstering the theory that raw ingredients of life arrived on Earth from outer space, scientists said on Monday.

The building blocks of life, hmm.  Does that mean it’s a piece of god/dog?  Is it maybe something god/dog left behind?  Is it dog/god scat?  If only we could answer these tough questions in life.  Oh, wait…

The latest findings add credence to the notion that extraterrestrial objects such as meteorites and comets may have seeded ancient Earth, and other planets, with the raw materials of life that formed elsewhere in the cosmos.

The Stardust spacecraft creeps up on the comet's tail.

The emphasis was pleasingly added.  ”Seeded,” did they say?  Well, I’ll be a chicken’s filleted patootey.  Are comets just god/dog sperm?  Does that mean that if a comet is cuming towards Earth, and it’s big enough to just tear us in two, that we can’t use protection against them?  What will we ever do?  Abort the planet?  Wait, we can’t do that either…

Video: Red House; Raceyness and Furniture in America

Alright, watch the video; these guys are fucking hilarious!

Drudge Report: More Misleading Headlines; Their Bread and Butter

Matt Drudge doesn’t have a chance when he reports the facts as they are.  A frequent abuser of headlines and false stories, The Drudge Report has become synonymous with bottom-of-the-barrel news.  Fox News, The Drudge Report, Rush Limbaugh, and the GOP have got themselves a fine operation of misinformation going between them.

As we’ve shown ad nauseum here on Left Agenda here, here, here, here, here, and here, The Drudge Report makes a special effort to give misleading headlines, false no-link headlines, spread obvious lies as truths, etc., etc.  Basically, if it’s in the name of conservatism they are willing to lie and fraud their readers.

Well, here’s another example.  Assisting the false rhetoric of ‘Canada’s healthcare system is just awful’ even though Canadians wouldn’t want our system at all, The Drudge Report puts these misleading headlines on their page today:

That is as misleading as you can get once you read the article.  But, Matt Drudge relies on the fact that many readers do not read past the headlines.  Especially when the headline only supports something they’ve know all along, or think they’ve known.

Let’s look beyond this headline.  While it’s true that in the third paragraph, it states:

“We all agree that the system is imploding, we all agree that things are more precarious than perhaps Canadians realize,” Doing said in an interview with The Canadian Press.

It is important to get a few facts straightened out.  For one, it is the “incoming president of the Canadian Medical Association,” Dr. Anne Doig, that says these comments.  Calling her Canada’s “top doctor” is false and misleading.  We wouldn’t refer to the president of the American Medical Association as America’s “top doctor”.  But more importantly are further comments made by the currect president of the CMA, Dr. Robert Ouellet, which Drudge didn’t read, because it’s a whole two paragraphs further in the article, or doesn’t want you to notice:

The pitch for change at the conference is to start with a presentation from Dr. Robert Ouellet, the current president of the CMA, who has said there’s a critical need to make Canada’s health-care system patient-centred. He will present details from his fact-finding trip to Europe in January, where he met with health groups in England, Denmark, Belgium, Netherlands and France.

His thoughts on the issue are already clear. Ouellet has been saying since his return that “a health-care revolution has passed us by,” that it’s possible to make wait lists disappear while maintaining universal coverage and “that competition should be welcomed, not feared.”

It’s interesting, for one, that on their “fact finding trip” they aren’t bothering to come to America.  It’s also interesting that they are in fact talking about adding competition which is exactly what the Obama administration has been trying to do with healthcare reform this entire time.   Dr. Ouellet also says, very specifically, “maintaining universal coverage,” is the primary concern.

As she continues, she explains what changes can be made more quickly to accelerate the patient centered healthcare,

“A short-term achievable goal would be to accelerate the process of getting electronic medical records into physicians’ offices,” she said. “That’s one I think ought to be a priority and ought to be achievable.”

A long-term goal would be getting health systems “talking to each other,” so information can be quickly shared to help patients.

Simply astounding, he wants healthcare records to be updated and electronically kept, and he wants health systems to communicate with each other, another aspect of the Congressional plans here in America.

So while The Drudge Report readers and bloggers will surely glue onto this headline and say, ‘See, here’s more proof that Canada’s healthcare system is just awful,’ don’t believe the hype and lies.  There is no perfect system, and there’s always room for improvement.  In Canada, no one is left out in the cold without healthcare; can America say the same?

And while you think about those lies, notice, if you will, how poorly America rates in healthcare.

How Can Americans Have Respect For This?

We’re all told that we should respect each others religions, our beliefs, our faiths, or our lack of them.  Well, not here at Left Agenda.  We certainly believe that everyone has the right to be Christianschildish, and Christianssimple, and Christiansfoolish (depending on your beliefs or lack of, that may mean different things) but, respecting those beliefs?  Come on?

As most will agree that the Tooth Fairy doesn’t exist, and most ‘Christians’ don’t actually believe the world was built in six days, or that the universe is only 6000 years old, do we really have to deal with this issue in public debate?  And if we’re still debating things like that, how can we ever hope that real debate will take place on actual issues and not fairy tale issues?

Republican mayoral candidate Anna Falling said Tuesday that putting a Christian creationism display in the Tulsa Zoo is No. 1 in importance among city issues that include violent crime, budget woes and bumpy streets.

“It’s first,” she said to calls of “hallelujah” at a rally outside the zoo. “If we can’t come to the foundation of faith in this community, those other answers will never come. We need to first of all recognize the fact that God needs to be honored in this city.”

I swear this could have been an Onion article.  If we weren’t in America, and I wasn’t use to the unusually strong religious beliefs of some Americans, I’d think this was all a joke.  Just like they see fundamental religion in most other industrialized nations,

Now, we’ve documented stupid people on Left Agenda many times here, here, and here.  But I think, “Republican mayoral candidate Anna Fallin,” is going straight up to the top.  Right next to Sarah Palin.

Why is Jon Stewart the Only One that Mentions This?

Anybody what to see some further evidence that our media conglomerates continue to miss a lot like CNN, or just completely misinform like Fauxnews?

Glenn Beck has been the biggest noise machine against “government run healthcare”, or what we refer to in reality as a “public option”.   While he’s going on an on about how America has the best healthcare in the world, which it doesn’t, it was only 16 months ago after his last run in with healthcare in America that he had a very different take on it.   Watch the video.

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While the fear tactics and hate-mongers continue to fight against any necessary healthcare reform, which may end up getting rid of the public option, no one on the Right seems to hear or understand the lying that is taking place.  This is a prime example.  Glenn Beck, the man completely opposed to any type of reform, the man that says American healthcare is fabulous, has only been saying that since Obama took office.  Prior to that, he was completely against healthcare in America.  What changed?  Why would Beck completely flip-flop?  Why do his viewers not notice this?

The Deathers have attacked any reasonable discussion concerning end of life consultation, and now that’s being dropped from the bill.  Why?  Because people like Sarah Palin and Grassley call these things Death Panels?  In 2003, Grassley voted for those very same “Death Panels.”  And people trust Sarah Palin when she can barely read or write.  End of life consultation is important, but it was never going to be mandated.  It was voluntary, just like the public option.

And now, even after all the lies that have already been uncovered in Conservative for Patients’ Rights, there appears to be even more.  Remember this commercial ran by CPR?

Unfortunately, the British woman feel like they were fooled.

Although standing by her views, Ms Spall said she was horrified by how the CPR had used her words.

‘What I said is what I believe, and I stand by it, but the context it has been used in is something I was not aware would happen,’ she said.

‘The irony is that I campaign for exactly the people that socialised healthcare supports. I would not align myself with this group at all.’

Are they happy with the system in the UK, not completely because they want a socialized system.  How about a more brilliant man like Stephen Hawking who stated:

“I wouldn’t be here today if it were not for the NHS,” he told The Guardian. “I have received a large amount of high-quality treatment without which I would not have survived.”

NHS, that’s National Health Servie, a government run healthcare provider.  But these facts, these true comparisons to foreign healthcare aren’t being listened to.  A UK doctor volunteering in America to give people free healthcare agrees,

Though anxious not to interfere in the potent healthcare debate, Mr Brock [volunteer medical professional with Remote Area Medical] said yesterday that he, and many other professionals, believes the NHS should provide a benchmark for the future of US healthcare.

“Back in 1944, the UK government knew there was a serious problem with lack of healthcare for 49.7 million British citizens, of which I was one, so they said ‘Hey Mr Nye Bevan, you’re the Minister for Health… go fix it’. And so came the NHS. Well, fast forward now 66 years, and we’ve got about the same number of people, about 49 million people, here in the US, who don’t have access to healthcare.”

“I’ve been very conservative in my outlook for the whole of my life. I’ve been described as being about 90,000 miles to the right of Attila the Hun. But I think one reaches the reality that something doesn’t work… In this country something has to be done. And as a proud member of the US community but a loyal British subject to the core, I would say that if Britain could fix it in 1944, surely we could fix it here in America.

Remote Area Medical doesn’t just provide medical care in third world countries, it also comes to America.  It’s beenhere in Los Angeles for the last few days:

In the first two days, more than 1,500 men, women and children received free treatments worth $503,000 (£304,000). Thirty dentists pulled 471 teeth; 320 people were given standard issue spectacles; 80 had mammograms; dozens more had acupuncture, or saw kidney specialists. By the time the makeshift medical centre leaves town on Tuesday, staff expect to have dispensed $2m worth of treatments to 10,000 patients.

And while many Americans don’t or won’t understand that America’s healthcare system is broken, millions are suffering.

America, we can do better.  Let’s stop the hate, let’s stop the lies, let’s stop the fear-mongering.  America needs healthcare, not more of the same.

The Great Nationwide Kiss-In (Videos)

Had a great time today in beautiful Santa Monica, CA.

Obama: Healthcare IS Paid For

This is exactly how a town hall meeting should be operating.  I question is asked.   It is answered.  Watch President Obama explain how the healthcare bill is more than paid for.

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Facts vs. Glenn Beck

Finally, Reps are addressing the nonsense coming out of Glenn Beck’s mouth and the insane mass of people that listen and actually believe him.  There’s a big difference between facts, and what Glenn Beck says.

Will conservatives actually look things up for themselves, or continue to rely on Fox and affiliates doing all of their thinking for them?

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Article 1, section 8 begins,

“The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Impostsand Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;”

Family Guy Abortion Videos: Not Just Funny, But Jesus Funny Part III

And the finale.

Family Guy Abortion Videos: Not Just Funny, But Jesus Funny Part II

I think this part might be the funniest.

Family Guy Abortion Videos: Not Just Funny, But Jesus Funny Part I

These videos were censored from ever being aired on TV, but they were performed live for the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. It’s not really that controversial, to me anyways. But, then some people don’t have any sense of humor.

Update: Swiss Bank Accounts; Tax Havens and Cheating the American Tax System

As was mentioned awhile back on Left Agenda, there are thousands millions of people and corporations that are evading taxation through the use of tax havens.

It’s not that hard really.  Here, watch an intern do it:

As stated earlier,

The BBC has reported that the United States IRS has requested the identities and account information of over 50,000 U.S. residents believed to have illegally cheated on their taxes.  For now, the UBS (one of the largest Swiss banks famous for this type of activity) is denying said information because it would go against Swiss law.

Well, now reports are stating:

The Swiss and U.S. governments announced a deal Wednesday to settle American demands for the identities of suspected tax dodgers, despite Switzerland’s vaunted bank secrecy. But they kept all details under wraps, including how many of the 52,000 names sought by the IRS from banking giant UBS AG will be revealed.

We don’t know how many are being revealed, but we know that some of them are.  That’s improvement, and that’s less tax evasion.

The best part is that no one knows whose names are being turned over, including those people that have accounts with UBS, so many people are turning themselves in while amnesty is still available:

UBS paid a $780 million penalty earlier this year and turned over names of about 300 American clients in a deferred prosecution agreement with the Justice Department. In that case, UBS admitted helping U.S. citizens evade taxes, which experts say is not a violation of Swiss bank secrecy laws.

So far, three UBS customers whose names were divulged under the prior agreement have pleaded guilty to tax charges in federal court. Hundreds of others holders of secret accounts at UBS and other Swiss banks have voluntarily come forward to the IRS under an amnesty program that requires payment of taxes and penalties but generally does not include the threat of prison.

That amnesty program ends Sept. 23.

News of the agreement has had an immediate effect at tax lawyer Sharp’s office: “Our phone has been ringing off the hook since this morning. Clients recognize that voluntary disclosure is the only way to avoid the risk of being turned over,” he said.

Glenn Beck’s Advertisers are Fleeing!

Crazy only works for so long.  The public pressure is working and now corporation after corporation is pulling advertising off of the Glenn Beck show.  Can you guess what happens if enough of them pull their ads?  Bingo!  Glenn Beck might lose his position there on Fox News unless he changes his ways.

Red Lobster?  I thought Christians couldn’t eat shell fish.

Public Option Would be Cheaper Than Healthcare Now

While many of America’s uneducated masses are screaming and crying against a healthcare reform act that would insure America’s well-being in the future, the insurance companies are lapping up the profits and disregarding the flagrant misuse of money spent on healthcare.  The common cry from the ignorant masses, along with the unsupported and maniacal fears of euthanizing elderly and  children with special needs, is that it’s impossible for the public option, not to mention a single-payer system which is even better, to be paid for by government without a monstrous increase in taxes.

What isn’t understood is that the cost of healthcare would substantially decrease once a public option was included, and more so with a single-payer healthcare system.  Why?  Because while we work together to negotiate costs with the healthcare providers, they lose the ability to gouge prices and abuse the system.  Working together, through the public option and more so with the single-payer system, will improve Americans’ Constitutional right to “pursue life” which cannot be attained when healthcare isn’t available.  Conservatives commonly ignore that small but important detail in the Constitution, preferring instead to rail against any type of gun laws because of an outdated 2nd Amendment.

So, what are all of these costs that would drop expodentially once a public option was in place?

That’s a lot of waste.  While some of these would continue perhaps, there are those expenses that would not be involved any longer: overtesting, costing $210 billion/year, is mainly done to increase profits for hospitals, doctors, and other healthcare professionals, or to provide coverage against a malpractice suit; processing claims, costing upto $210 billion/year, is a symptom of  corrupt insurance practices which intentionally make it difficult for doctors to process claims with insurance companies because then they can hold out from paying said costs and said costs may be unintentionally disregarded by the doctor, or the more difficult the insurance company makes their claims process, the more claims are going to be lost or filed incorrectly thus saving the insurance company the expense of actually covering their customers; and unnecessary ER visits is another large expense with $14 billion/year spent on illnesses that could have easily been taken care of for a small fraction of the costs with regular doctor visits.

It’s time to wake-up sleepy conservatives… your doe eyed love of all things anti-government is illegitimate and unfounded.  While you disregard public healthcare, none of you have yet to disregard your police protection, your fire department, your roads, etc., etc.  It was because of liberal politics and social progression that those things were provided when they were.

Here’s something, Denmark’s approval of healthcare is 90%.  90%!!!!!  It’s unbelievable, and yet their healthcare professionals are government employees.  That’s socialized medicine baby!  Lou Dobbs makes only one thing clear, that we need to be looking at socialized medicine.  The public option and the single-payer system are only going to partly fix the problem.

Bush Administration Still Needs to be Investigated for Torture

Lest we forget…

Eric Holder needs to remember that it wasn’t just those CIA operatives that went beyond the orders given by Bush administration officials, it’s also those original orders that need to be investigated.  Torture is wrong, it’s immoral, it’s illegal.

Gallup Poll: Republicans Don’t Have a Chance in 2010

This Gallup Poll chart shows that the Republicans have one-hell-of-a battle coming in 2010.  Did conservatives shriek when they heard that Dems had a 60 seat majority in Senate?  Well, they’re going to be crying in their beer once 2010 rolls around and they lose even more seats in Congress and the Senate.

The numbers look grim for conservatives:

Here’s to hoping the Republican party continues to destroy itself with it’s strategy of, “Just say no,” and continues to offer Americans little to nothing in the way of policy reform.  The Democrats continue to not show much courage in the face of adversity, but luckily for them the Republicans are labeling themselves stupid while the majority of Americans want smart politics.  While conservatives stretch themselves thin from splitting between Republicans and Libertarians, many on the Left will be continuing to back up the Democrats.  Let’s hope the Democrats don’t mess this chance up.

I’d like to see the Republican party become so distasteful and out-dated that even conservatives wouldn’t be a part of it, and the Democrats can take over as the conservative party.  Then we could have the Center where it should be, left of the Blue Dogs instead of on them.  Democrats care too much about Big Business, just like the Republicans, but seem to not be as ignorantly biased against change.  True reform from any party won’t occur though until we reform campaign contributions.

Palin: Open mouth, insert anything please! Just Shut-Up!

She’s been nice and quiet for the last couple of weeks and besides missing her insane Twitter updates, we’ve been pretty happy to have her begin to fade away from the media spotlight.  But it seems that she just can’t stay away:

“Who will suffer the most when they ration care? The sick, the elderly, and the disabled, of course,” the former vice presidential candidate wrote on her Facebook page.

“The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down Syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama’s ‘death panel’ so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their ‘level of productivity in society,’ whether they are worthy of health care. Such a system is downright evil,” Palin wrote.

Aside from her asinine comments and inaccuracies about healthcare, what sets me off more is the continued fairy-tale land belief of evil and good.  Ooooh, Obama’s healthcare plan is eeeeviiiillll… ooooohhhh, aaaaahhhhh (release the ghost cut-outs, cue smoke machines).  Really, does anyone over the age of five believe their is some absolute evil or good in the world?

For some information on healthcare fact and fiction you can check out this list, or you could listen to the same guys that the GOP listen to,

As it is, the healthcare that is needed is being watered down and destroyed by Blue Dog Dems, and fake constituent mob attacks.  What America needs is a single payer healthcare system; screw private insurers because we all know they’ve been doing it to us for years.

Oh, Sarah Palin, Fairy God Mother of all that is ignorant and confused, when will the Tooth Fairy take you back to La La Land?

Finally, a Reasonable Response to John Bolton

Thank you Hillary! The man’s a joke, he’s always been a joke, everyone knew he was a joke when he was appointed by Bush.

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Sarah Palin Born in Canada?! Birth Certificate Released, Makes her Ineligible as President!

It’s real!  It’s totally real!  I swear!

That’s it, she’s out of the race for President before it ever began.  Too bad, I know you conservatives just loved her.

Thank Ed in Michigan for the fun.  Consider it a fish hunt, and all the fish are in one barrel.  How many obvious points of forgery can you find?  If you’re a Birther, I understand you’re at a disadvantage when it comes to understanding public documents or satire; try and do your best, we promise no one will judge you for making mistakes (provided that you understand they were mistakes).

GOP/CNN Won’t Run Advertisement

CNN/FOX. Are any of the news channels unbiased anymore?

CNN runs commercials all the time talking about how great insurance companies are (it’s called “advertising”), so why won’t CNN run a commercial that specifically targets an insurance company’s failures?  First, CNN is supporting Lou Dobbs’ lunacidal spouts on Obama and his “un-documented” status, and now they won’t run an advertisement bashing private insurer, Cigna.  Why is CNN supporting private insurers instead of human beings?

What the hell liberal media are conservatives talking about?  I mean, conservatives support money over people’s rights and corporations, like media conglomerates, also are trying to make money, so most media conglomerates wouldn’t support social progress if it means losing revenue.  Republicans don’t support social progress because they want corporations and churches in charge of everything.  The two obviously have more in common than any silly notion of there being a “liberal media.”  True, statistics have shown that most reporters are liberal, but they’re not the editors nor are they the employers that decide what to write, who to write about, and what questions to ask or not ask.  The majority of news media is by far, conservative.  But, that won’t stop wack-job conservatives from calling even CNN a liberal front.  Hell, many of them don’t seem to think that Fox is even biased.

Here’s the clip that CNN won’t run.  I guess there’s too much truthiness for teh FOX CNN team to handle.

There is no reason that anyone should be receiving a salary of 12.2 million dollars a year.  That money is being stolen from the majority of Americans through false health insurance benefits, lying insurance companies, and inhumane practices.

No Rain, No Rainbow: Shatner reads Palin tweets

I do so love William Shatner.

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Maybe Sarah Palin should become a poet.  Apparently, she has a better chance than what she was hoping to do.  She wasn’t just denied, she was schooled:

The main objection to Palin as radio talk-show host is that she would have to hold forth for three hours a day.

Nope, she wouldn’t be able to talk for three straight hours and make a damn bit of sense to anyone.

Can’t Fight with Facts, Fox Fights with Lies

This is exactly the type of bullshit that is ruining the debate on healthcare reform.   We need reform, but this is how FOX decides to address the issue.  Fear mongering at its greatest.

Old people will be turned over for euthanasia?  Completely false; a fabricated lie.   Elderly people are dying now because their healthcare is being denied, and this is how Fox news addresses the issue.

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Is America dumb enough to believe this?  Sadly, I think a lot of America is.

New Republican Healthcare Plan Approves of Public Option!

Given the state of healthcare in America, if you don’t agree with some form of public option than you either haven’t had a major medical problem, or you’re lucky (i.e. richest 1%, well-connected, etc.).

Though it has mostly been Obama and the Dems pushing for the public option plan which would ensure that millions of Americans would received healthcare regardless of their past medical problems, it seems the GOP is jumping on-board with their own plan which also includes a public option.

The Republican plan would offer tax deductions and tax credits to help make the purchase of health insurance more affordable for individuals. It would provide grants to states to help set up high-risk pools for people with medical problems who are denied coverage by commercial insurers.

Emphasis was added, and for an important reason.  In the current medical climate you are either being covered because nothing is wrong yet, or you will be dropped later when something does go horribly wrong.  With the GOPs plan, insurance companies would actually be given further reason to drop you from their coverage.  Note: you wouldn’t be able to take advantage of the public option until private insurers dropped you.  Then, you could get covered under a public healthcare system.  These “high-risk pools for people with medical problems” are what insurance companies are actually suppose to be.  The idea is that since we all pay our fee, when any of us need it, we get help.  The current system though is that we all pay, and when you need it you’re kicked out.  That’s where all the profit comes from.

So, Republicans agree that their needs to be a “pool” for “people with medical problems.” Doesn’t that include all of us, sooner or later? Isn’t this complete support for a public option?  One difference is that they are saying that each state should provide that coverage for those within the “pool” with the help of “grants’ from the federal government.  Another, is that private insurers get to choose who they want to cover first, and then leave Americans that actually need healthcare to the state.  Why do we need to cushion the private insurers’ pockets? Besides money being filtered through states first, and people not getting to choose when they join the public healthcare system but having commercial insurers decide for them, how is this any different from having a public option?

Is keeping commercial insurers’ profit margins up the only argument against public healthcare?  Because all the rest have been put to rest.  Yes.  All of the other excuses have been put to rest.  Give me one good reason why it shouldn’t happen.

Obama- ‘Let’s Have a Beer’, GOP- ‘He Must Officially Apologize’

In another attempt to scratch out whatever they can against President Obama, even if that means making things up, the GOP has turned to a yet another problem that has already been solved and taken care of.  Not only has the President spoken directly to Crowley and Gates about the arrest in Cambridge, MA, but they have both agreed to come to the White House this week to talk things over.

When President Obama said last week that the whole incident involving Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Sgt. James Crowley of the Cambridge police department could be worked out over a beer at the White House, he wasn’t speaking figuratively. CNN is reporting today that the White House has confirmed that the president is to meet with the two men this week to do just that.

Apparently, the GOP has other plans,

At a time of economic distress, two wars, and a health care reform effort stalled by political friction, Rep. Thaddeus McCotter, (R-Mich.) is set to introduce a bill calling on Barack Obama to formally apologize to the Cambridge Police.

Yes, while the country is in need of vast changes, Rep. McCotter will be wasting time trying to pass this resolution.  And for what?  What could this possible do?  Is Crowley supporting this action?  Is anybody supporting this action?  As for Thaddeus, he gives his reasons within the writing of the resolution:

Whereas, as a former Constitutional Law Professor, President Obama well understands that all Americans are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law, and their actions should not be prejudged prior to being fully and fairly judged by an appropriate and objective authority after due process;

Whereas, President Obama’s nationally televised remarks may likely detrimentally influence the full and fair judgment by an appropriate and objective authority after due process regarding this local police response incident and, thereby, impair Sergeant Crowley’s legal and professional standing in relation to said incident

One thing that is nice to see is a Republican actually acknowledging President Obama’s career experience instead of trying to say that he’s never had a job.  But, in what way could “President Obama’s nationally televised remarks… likely detrimentally influence the full and fair judgement by an appropriate and objective authority after due process regarding this local police response,” when there is no action being taken by either Gates, the city of Cambridge, or the state of Massachusetts? There isn’t any “judgement” necessary.  The issue is closed.

The Great Nationwide Kiss-In!

Great video!

What a wonderful group of beautiful people. Can’t wait until August 15th, at 2:00pm.

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For more information about the Great Nationwide Kiss-In, you can check this out.  If you’re on Facebook, you can join the group too!

Come one, come all!  Grab a partner and go out to the nearest local park or church or where ever and celebrate loving and kissing on August 15th at 2:00pm.  There will be thousands of people all kissing at the same time all around the country!