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One of the members of Congress most targeted by the tea baggers and other far-right political wing nuts has been Virginia Rep. Tom Periello.

Last August, tea begger demonstrators even threatened to burn Periello in effigy, citing his support for health care legislation that recently passed the House of Representatives! So we are not talking about rational thinking human beings here in the first place.

And now, (This gets really surreal)tea baggers and the University of Virginia College Republicans have enlisted the help of a Christian "civil liberties" organization to make the demand that Pereillo move his office so that protesters will no longer have their ability to protest him be “hindered“!

Yeah! Move closer too us so we can more easily harass you!

The Rutherford Institute, which was founded by conservative constitutional lawyer John W. Whitehead, penned a letter to the freshman Perriello citing the concerns of a local tea party group and the University of Virginia College Republicans that the location of his Charlottesville office interferes with their right to protest there.

“Unfortunately, it is your choice of office location that has hindered the ability of citizens to effectively communicate concerning issues of the utmost importance to you, Congress and the people of the Commonwealth of Virginia,” wrote Whitehead.

Once again the Right Wing Evangelical fucktards have misinterpreted their 1st amendment rights, they have the right to protest all they want, they do not have the right to demand facilitation of those protests, nor do they have the right to demand you presence.....!

Yet these dullards are the ones that feel THEY should be in charge. YOu know the type, the 1st amendment applies to THEIR free speech, not yours, the Constitution is there for THEM, not you, freedom of religion only applies to THEIR sanctioned religion, no other.

Empty headed ignorant hypocritical fools to a man!

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PRODUCTIVITY AND COSTS
Third Quarter 2009, Revised

In the third quarter of 2009 productivity among us nonfarm workers increased at an 8.1 percent annual rate, owing to a combination of "a 2.9 percent increase in output and a 4.8 percent decline in hours worked.

These increases outstripped increases in payment to workers by enough to produce a drop in "unit labor costs" of 2.5 percent in nonfarm businesses and 6.1 percent in the manufacturing sector.

"So what?" you say. For an answer, let me turn the floor over to one of my favorite writers, Natasha Chart, in a Campaign for America's Future blogpost called

American workers have been producing more, in less time, and not getting raises. In short, your boss is stealing from you.

Indeed, if the minimum wage had tracked productivity over the past 30 years, it would be $19/hour. That's how much our bosses have been stealing from us.

Get the picture?

They make more money off of your work and they don't share the increased returns. They invest money, you invest time and expertise, blood, sweat and tears, hours spent commuting and separations from your family. They get to realize a profitable return on their investment, you get to keep treading water and waiting for a ship that probably isn't coming.

They are stealing. From. You.

This is what it means to have organized labor in disarray, in retreat. This is what it means to have politicians in the pockets of the investor class, their donor classes, totally unaccountable to voters. This is what it means when both political parties are the property of the economic aristocracy. This is what it means when consumer debt obligations are sacrosanct, and business pension obligations aren't worth the paper they're written on. To paraphrase Anatole France, this is what it means when it's a crime to steal bread or sleep under a bridge, but not to crash the whole world's economy. It means they get to keep stealing from you, steal more over time, and can steal with impunity.

There are consequences to a lack of political power, to the working classes being too tired (all too understandably) to maintain civic participation, and these are them.

They get to steal from you and no one will stop them.

Just to be clear, and to include the idea of benefits. Businesses will gleefully dump every last cent of the costs of health care onto employees. No business will give up a single penny of its profits to keep its workers healthy. You will be dismissed and a healthy person hired to replace you.

Anyone who wants health care has to pay for it at whatever price the insurance companies want to charge, and business will shift those costs to workers. And there is nothing you can do about it. The profits they suck out of your labor belongs to solely to them , and you the wage slave are not entitled to any of the increases. And it seems that the Republican creed is to protect this status at all costs.

There used to be an unspoken deal between labor and ownership that profits from productivity increases would be split, wages would rise as productivity and profit increased. That deal was broken in 1980, and since then, ownership has taken all the money, at least the part that didn’t go to pay bonuses on Wall Street.
Wages have been stagnant. Jobs are being sent overseas where employee safety, overtime and paid time off are non existent, as business looks for the serfs it feels it so richly deserves!

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Today the need is even more pressing because of the higher costs of medical care. Efforts to control medical costs under the New Economic Policy have been Inept with encouraging success, sharply reducing the rate of inflation for health care. Nevertheless, the overall cost of health care has still risen by more than 20 percent in the last two and one-half years, so that more and more Americans face staggering bills when they receive medical help today.

Upon adoption of appropriate Federal and State legislation, the Comprehensive Health Insurance Plan would offer to every American the same broad and balanced health protection through one of three major programs:

[1]--Employee Health Insurance, covering most Americans and offered at their place of employment, with the cost to be shared by the employer and employee on a basis which would prevent excessive burdens on either;

Every employer would be required to offer all full-time employees the Comprehensive Health Insurance Plan. Additional benefits could then be added by mutual agreement. The insurance plan would be jointly financed, with employers paying 65 percent of the premium for the first three years of the plan, and 75 percent thereafter. Employees would pay the balance of the premiums. Temporary Federal subsidies would be used to ease the initial burden on employers who face significant cost increases.

[2]--An improved Medicare Plan, covering those 65 and over and offered through a Medicare system that is modified to include additional, needed benefits.

[3]--Assisted Health Insurance, covering low-income persons, and persons who would be ineligible for the other two programs, with Federal and State government paying those costs beyond the means of the individual who is insured;

The program of Assisted Health Insurance is designed to cover everyone not offered coverage under Employee Health Insurance or Medicare, including the unemployed, the disabled, the self-employed, and those with low incomes. In addition, persons with higher incomes could also obtain Assisted Health Insurance if they cannot otherwise get coverage at reasonable rates. Included in this latter group might be persons whose health status or type of work puts them in high-risk insurance categories.

Assisted Health Insurance would thus fill many of the gaps in our present health insurance system and would ensure that for the first time in our Nation's history, all Americans would have financial access to health protection regardless of income or circumstances.

A principal feature of Assisted Health Insurance is that it relates premiums and out-of-pocket expenses to the income of the person or family enrolled. Working families with incomes of up to [a certain amount], for instance, would pay no premiums at all. Deductibles, co-insurance, and maximum liability would all be pegged to income levels.

There would be no exclusions of coverage based on the nature of the illness. For example, a person with heart disease would qualify for benefits as would a person with kidney disease.

The States would approve specific plans, oversee rates, ensure adequate disclosure, require an annual audit and take other appropriate measures. For health care providers, the States would assure fair reimbursement for physician services, drugs and institutional services, including a prospective reimbursement system for hospitals.

That’s… a massive amount of government regulation. This guy loves his government oversight and intervention. Moreover, he doesn’t seem to want to leave anything to the free market system! He must be a Socialist!!!

So any guesses as to who's radical far more reaching than anything proposed today, health care proposal this is?

Richard Nixon's....
http://www.kaiserhealthnews.org/Stories/2009/September/03/nixon-proposal.aspx

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But Democrats voted against women's health and reproductive rights!

Last night's big disgrace was the first substantive vote when 64 Democrats joined all the Republicans to support the horrifying Stupak anti-choice amendment. It passed 240-194-1, that "1" reflecting a "present" by wily John Shadegg. Not one "pro-choice Republican" voted against it. Political Cowards all!

The 64 Democrats who crossed the aisle:

Jason Altmire (Blue Dog-PA)
Joe Baca (Blue Dog-CA)
John Barrow (Blue Dog-GA)
Marion Berry (Blue Dog-AR)
Sanford Bishop (Blue Dog-GA)
John Boccieri (D-OH)
Dan Boren (Blue Dog-OK)
Bobby Bright (Blue Dog-AL)
Dennis Cardoza (Blue Dog-CA)
Ben Chandler (Blue Dog-KY)
Travis Childers (Blue Dog-MS)
Jim Cooper (Blue Dog-TN)
Jim Costa (Blue Dog-CA)
Jerry Costello (D-IL)
Henry Cuellar (Blue Dog-TX)
Kathy Dahlkemper (Blue Dog-PA)
Artur Davis (D-AL)
Lincoln Davis (Blue Dog-TN)
Joe Donnelly (Blue Dog-IN)
Mike Doyle (D-PA)
Steve Driehaus (D-OH)
Brad Ellsworth (Blue Dog-IN)
Mike Etheridge (D-NC)
Bart Gordon (Blue Dog-TN)
Parker Griffith (Blue Dog-AL)
Baron Hill (Blue Dog-IN)
Tim Holden (Blue Dog-PA)
Paul Kanjorski (D-PA)
Marcy Kaptur (D-OH)
Dale Kildee (D-MI)
Jim Langevin (D-RI)
Dan Lipinski (D-IL/TN)
Stephen Lynch (D-MA)
Jim Marshall (Blue Dog-GA)
Jim Matheson (Blue Dog-UT)
Mike McIntyre (Blue Dog-NC)
Charlie Melancon (Blue Dog-LA)
Mike Michaud (Blue Dog-ME)
Jack Murtha (D-PA)
Richard Neal (D-MA)
Jim Oberstar (D-MN)
David Obey (D-WI)
Solomon Ortiz (D-TX)
Tom Perriello (D-VA)
Collin Peterson (Blue Dog-MN)
Earl Pomeroy (Blue Dog-ND)
Nick Rahill (D-WV)
Silvestre Reyes (D-TX)
Ciro Rodriguez (D-TX)
Mike Ross (Blue Dog-AR)
Tim Ryan (D-OH)
John Salazar (Blue Dog-CO)
Heath Shuler (Blue Dog-NC)
Ike Skelton (D--MO)
Vic Snyder (D-AR)
Zach Space (Blue Dog-OH)
John Spratt (D-SC)
Bart Stupak (D-MI)
John Tanner (Blue Dog-TN)
Gene Taylor (Blue Dog-MS)
Harry Teague (D-NM)
Charlie Wilson (Blue Dog-OH)

If you believed the bullshit about the Blue Dogs just being "fiscal conservatives," you saw the truth last night as almost the entire caucus crossed the aisle to vote with the Republicans against women's health!

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Wal-mart, due to their draconian attendance practices demand that employees be at work, even if they are sick, or be fired. According to a new report from ABC

So Wal-Mart is now a hot zone for H1N1!

According to the report, which includes personal accounts from Walmart employees as well as documents outlining the company's attendance and sick pay policies, Walmart doles out points or demerits to employees who must miss work due to their own or a child's illness or because of an emergency not specified by the company.

So shop at your own risk!!

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Here's the full list of the anti-choice Democrats who are voting against allowing a vote on the health care bill unless women's choice is explicitly denied:

Jason Altmire (Blue Bog-PA)
John Barrow (Blue Bog-GA)
Dan Boren (Blue Bog-OK)
Bobby Bright (Blue Bog-AL)
Chris Carney (Blue Bog-PA)
Travis Childers (Blue Bog-MS)
Jerry Costello (D-IL)
Kathy Dahlkemper (Blue Dog-PA)
Artur Davis (D-IL)
Lincoln Davis (Blue Dog-TN)
Steve Driehaus (D-OH)
Parker Griffith (Blue Dog-AL)
Tim Holden (Blue Dog-PA)
Dale Kildee (D-MI)
Frank Kratovil (Blue Dog-MD)
Dan Lipinski (D-IL/TN)
Jim Marshall (Blue Dog-GA)
Jim Matheson (Blue Dog-UT)
Mike McIntyre (Blue Dog-NC)
Charlie Melancon (Blue Dog-LA)
Michael McMahon (D-NY)
Alan Mollohan (D-WV)
Jim Oberstar (D-MN)
Collin Peterson (Blue Dog-MN)
Nick Rahall (D-WV)
Mike Ross (Blue Dog-AR)
Heath Shuler (Blue Dog-NC)
John Tanner (Blue Dog-TN)
Gene Taylor (Blue Dog-MS)

Basically just a bunch of reactionary Blue Dogs who are opposed to health care reform regardless of choice issues. And that's just the House.....Our own Evan Bayh, is likely to vote against it, but then again, Wellpoint pays better than civil service anyway, his wife sits on the Boards of 4 different insurance and health care giants.

Speaking of wives that are in the insurance company pockets, the Liebermans.....Lieberman and his wife have taken millions of dollars in barely disguised bribes from the insurance industry and medical industry, she as one of Washington's more notorious K Street Whores, as Joe Wilson so eloquently put it, and he as a senator is always willing to sell his votes to the highest corporate bidder.

There's no way to know precisely how much money she's been paid as a lobbyist for these sleazy characters-- it's widely believed to be in the millions-- but the hypocritical senator from Connecticut has gobbled up $1,037,402 from Big Insurance and another $2,397,369 directly from the "Health" lobby. Remember, when he was losing in 2006, he was for Universal Health Care, now that he has been elected, he is firmly against it, and firmly for insurance company profits!

http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/industries.php?cycle=2008&type=I&cid=N00000616&newMem=N&recs=20

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Evan, following his masters commands from Wellpoint, has joined the Republicans to filibuster the health care issue.

So I wrote him a letter.
I suggest you do the same.

While he only accepts email from Indiana, he accepts contributions from 36 states......Hmmm.

Here is the letter I sent:

Mr. Senator,

I am asking you as a Hoosier to abandon your filibuster ideas. Instead, make sure the bill works for the People of Indiana. According to recent polls, 52% of Hoosiers favor the public insurance option, your filibuster threats throws into question who you represent; your wife's employers at Wellpoint, your stock portfolio or your constituents in Indiana.

The fact that your wife sits on the BOD of four health insurance and pharmaceutical companies, and that one half to one million dollars worth of Wellpoint stock is substantial, and that $270,000 in "Contributions" from the health and insurance industry is I am sure a measure of their faith in your skill, not payment for services rendered, one must ask, Is this why you ran for the Senate? To enrich yourself at the expense of your constituents?

Of course you will counter that contributions have no bearing on how you vote, That however has not been in evidence during this debate. You seem to strongly support the status quo, and oppose increasing competition and lowering costs.

Show us that we elected the right man for Indiana, or you will not be going back to the Senate in 2010.

In a related bit of asshattery, Blue Cross/Blue Shield sent its South Carolina customers notice of an 11% increase in premiums, and a lowering of the caps...Also enclosed was a pre-printed, postage-paid note to Sen. Kay Hagan urging her to vote against reform as "Unfair competition"....

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Sen. Lieberman, putting the con in Connecticut, has magically voted against his Democratic constituency since he came to the Senate!

A consummate liar, and corporate whore, he votes for whatever lobby group pays him the most!
Lieberman, has already taken $5 million in legalized bribes from the insurance lobby! http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/industries.php?cycle=2010&cid=N00000616&type=I&mem=

Other things he has fucked up pretending to be a Democrat:

Back in 1993, Lieberman called Bill Clinton's health care reform "too governmental, too regulatory and too costly." Worked hard to earn his insurance lobbyist cash....

Lieberman condemned the 2005 bankruptcy bill as "seriously flawed" and touted his vote against it but he voted to end a Democratic filibuster, allowing the bill to pass, which was when it mattered.

n 2005, Lieberman was part of the "Gang of 14" that ended a Democratic filibuster of some of President Bush's judicial nominees and promised that filibusters would end in "all but extraordinary circumstances." Which brought you Roberts AND Alito, Two complete conservative yes men....

In 2005, Lieberman voted for Alberto Gonzales to become Attorney General and said when the disgraced official resigned that he "deserved our appreciation." Showing all of us his complete ignorance of reality!

During Bush's Social Security privatization push, Lieberman refused to make his position clear. In 2008 he defended John McCain's privatization plan.

Lieberman has repeatedly and yet falsely intimated that the U.S. might need to bomb Iran and claimed Iran was going to war with us.

In 2008, Lieberman backed the Republican candidate for president.

Lieberman, a Jew, came to the defense of John Hagee, the pastor who said “Hitler was a hunter” sent by God to get “the Jewish people”.

In 2008, Lieberman refused to condemn waterboarding as torture and voted against banning it.

For years, Lieberman has championed the Iraq war and savagely attacked its critics. Even after the lies and cherry picked intelligence came to light..

During the 2008 campaign, Lieberman said it was "a good question" to ask whether Sen. Barack Obama was a "Marxist." He also suggested that Obama was a Muslim, despite all evidence to the contrary.

On Election Day 2008, Lieberman told Glenn Beck he feared America as we know it would not survive if Democrats got a 60 seat majority in the Senate.

In October, 2009, Lieberman announced that he would support a filibuster of health care reform if it contained a public option after saying that he would support a vote.

He is also a complete hypocrite! He has done a complete turn around since the last time the people of Connecticut voted for him! He's a demonstrable lying sack of shit!

How about this whopper from July 6, 2006:

What I'm saying to the people of Connecticut, I can do more for you and your families to get something done to make health care affordable, to get universal health insurance.

Or this one from October 23, 2006:

I've been working on health insurance reform for more than a dozen years. ... I have offered a comprehensive program. Small business health insurance reform, plus something I call MediKids to cover all the children in America on a sliding fee basis up until the age of 25.

Lieberman also had Obama come to Connecticut and campaign on his behalf while he was loosing in 2006, he re-payed that by backing McCain, and furthering the Republican lies! Seems that Joe is only loyal to the lobbyist that pay him the most!

Joe is no more a Democrat than Limbaugh is. He is a lying fickle K street whore!

The sooner he is out of a job, the better!!!

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Two years ago the richest 400 Americans had a combined wealth of $1.57 trillion. That is roughly $3.2 Billion apiece. These are the folks that Bush targeted his tax cuts for, and the folks that will do anything to maintain the status quo!

For the past thirty years we have minted billionaires, and we have created the most unequal distribution of wealth since 1928-29. This didn't happen by accident. Corporatist operatives lobbied and bribed elected officials like Phil Gramm to sponsor legislation that deregulated the financial sector and Certain presidents, to curry favor and campaign funding deliberately eliminated the steep progressive taxes on the super-rich that had kept this sort of thing in check.

Removing the fetters of capital and finance we were told by Regan and his cronies, there would be this enormous investment boom in real goods and services, that would lift us all up, he called it the "Trickle down" effect.

Instead we got a bogus finance boom as Wall Street marketed derivatives and credit default swap schemes to those with excess capital.

We also got the biggest financial crash since the Great Depression. And Conservatives and their pet economists will do anything to make sure you do not connect the dots!

Perhaps the most stark measure of our emerging billionaire bailout society is seen by comparing compensation for the top 100 CEOs and to that of average workers (the 100 million or so non-supervisory production workers).
In 1970 the ratio was 45 to 1. By 2006 it was 1,723 to one. (The Looting of America p.167)

The most destructive element of our billionaire bailout society is the "jobless recovery."
This oxymoron refers to an economy that is growing, but that doesn't produce enough jobs to reach full employment (an unemployment rate below 5 percent).

Our current jobless recovery will be the worst ever. Right now the Bureau of Labor Statistics puts the jobless rate at 17.0 percent and rising. (This counts the unemployed and the under employed.) If the billionaire bailout society becomes permanent, we may never see full employment again. It is just more profitable to employ Third World workers for pennies than it is to employ an American.

But that's OK by them, you don't need a full employment society to make billionaires! Take for instance Goldman Sachs.
They do not have individual depositors.
They are not public brokers.
They do not make loans to small business.
They are in the business of making money by playing the financial markets, (with other peoples money)from mergers and acquisitions, from trading, and from creating and selling unfunded fantasy high risk finance instruments.

In our corporatist society these are unquestioned positive activities. But what value do they produce in the real economy? What is their contribution to market efficiency? How do they lower the cost of capital? How do these activities create jobs in the real economy? Good luck answering those questions because they don't do any of that. They just make money for themselves while producing little or no value to our society.

To break away from the billionaire bailout society we need to tie the creation of wealth to the creation of work. We no longer have a system that can produce an adequate number of jobs through the normal working of the business cycle. The nonsensical invisible hand of the market just won't do it. That's why it's called a jobless recovery.

We need to stop allowing companies to send jobs overseas to boost profits! It really is that simple. Or charge tariffs or VAT or duty fees to make the re-importation of manufactured goods expensive enough to eliminate the profitability of shipping off the jobs in the first place!

Or, force them to relocate their offices to the country in which their factories are located, I am sure there are American entrepreneurs that will be happy to fill the void!

We once understood that the common good required full employment. We once understood that the common good was more precious than individual riches. We once believed that public service to achieve such goals was a high calling.

Now some weepy pantywaist college drop out calls that spirit of service "Communism" to the applause of the uneducated masses. Maybe it's not too late to stop or decent into Feudalism.

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Ignorance on display! Why use logic reason or fact when you can turn to Jeebus!!!!

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The REAL reason I hate religion and all of the imaginary trappings that go with it, every Tom, Dickhead and Harry has their own interpretation of the Bible.

Some like Fred (I am a closet homosexual) Phelps, preaches hatred, others preach that Jesus' ministrations of the poor were a smoke screen, and he really wants you to be rich....

While still others....Think there are fucking zombies in the Bible!!!

http://www.biblestudymeat.org/prophecy/zombies%20in%20the%20bible.htm

This past Tuesday, HuffPost's Ryan Grim posted a story that clearly demonstrated the comedy of the Law of Unintended Consequences. In its zeal to quickly and unthinkingly get on the side of hammering ACORN for its recent transgressions, Congress passed the Defund ACORN Act, a measure written so broadly that it could apply to just about anyone! In other words, Congress made a decision to apply robust oversight to all manner of government contractors by mistake!

To his credit, Representative Alan Grayson, a rookie Democrat from Florida, out-thought and out-maneuvered all of his colleagues and quickly went to work with the Project of Government Oversight (POGO) to compile a list of contractors that "might be caught in the ACORN net."

http://www.contractormisconduct.org/

Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman had 20 fraud cases between them? And that your Congress didn't care? It's true! Furthermore, let's allow POGO to put all of this into perspective:

Since 1994, ACORN has reportedly received a total of $53 million in federal funds, or an average of roughly $3.5 million per year. In contrast, Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman respectively received over $35 billion and $18 billion in federal contracts last year alone. Their totals since 2000 are $266 billion for Lockheed and $125 billion for Northrop!

How about this:
A taxpayer-funded contractor for Blackwater USA got drunk and murdered an Iraqi in the Green Zone back in October 2007. That's a month after Blackwater employees went on a killing spree in Nisour Square in Baghdad. The taxpayer-funded contractors who guard the State Department facilities in Kabul spend their time taking photos of each other "peeing on one another, simulating anal sex, doing 'butt shots,' and 'eating potato chips out of ass cracks.'" Halliburton, another government contractor, bilked the Pentagon to the tune of $100 million dollars, and basically covered it up through lies and accounting tricks.

And while we're on the subject of ACORN, which had a handful of employees busted for offering assistance to a fake pimp and his fake prostitution business, let's consider the case of taxpayer-funded contractor DynCorp -- its employees actually, LITERALLY, did service a prostitution ring in Bosnia in August of 2002. Girls between the ages of 12 and 15 were involved. And then six years later, employees of the very same contractor went to Iraq and DID IT AGAIN! And this time somebody got killed!

That's one government contractor, two war zones, two continents, two prostitution rings, one known death, zero consequences.
ZERO!!!!!
What has your member of Congress done about it? Not a fucking thing, that's what! And DynCorp is still "supporting U.S. interests worldwide."

Now, this isn't to say that the measure passed offers the authority to pursue all of these scofflaws to the ends of the Earth. But Congress surely ought to do whatever it takes to end this wrongdoing and abuse, if for no other reason than that it's done on the taxpayer dime.

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Homosexuality is inflicted on people... But all pornography is homosexual pornography because all pornography turns your sexual drive inwards. And that in fact is what it does. I know couples now who are struggling with the husband's addiction to pornography. It's a terrible thing. And that's what happens. And, you know, if it doesn't turn you homosexual, it at least renders you less capable of loving your wife. And it's something you need to be healed of.

This is the way Republicans actually feel? Fact-less science, Bible led psychology....
No wonder they are systematically fucking up the planet!

Republican Congressman Phil (I must apologize to El Rusbo for calling him an entertainer) Gingrey of Georgia showed his complete lack of understanding of the actual health care situation during a speech on the floor of the House. At one point during his long speech railing against health care reform, Gingrey found the idea that 14,000 Americans losing their health insurance every day constituted some kind of health care crisis somehow amusing.......

Just illustrates the disconnect between the actual situation his constituents and all Americans below a certain income level face every day, and the GOP fact challenged talking points.

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It is intellectually dishonest to continue to frame the anger from the left at the blatant and subtle racism on display by many of the "Health care" protesters, as simply "Any opposition to the president is racist".

You know this is not the case. Policy opposition, political opposition are not being described as such. Except by a few conservative pundits. Like yourself.

Please explain how "Welfare thug", Watermelons on the White House lawn, "Barak the Magic Negro", confederate flags, "Take our country back" signs, hanging in effigy, Beck's comments, Limbaugh's new assertions that "In Obama's America, the white kids get beat up while the black kids cheer" is policy opposition?

Your continued assertion that we on the left are calling all opposition racism is a LIE! By continuing such an obvious falsehood, you damage your credibility, so stop it.

We have little problem with fact based policy opposition, those are not the issues or the people we are talking about here, and the willful obfuscation of that fact is fomenting the "Leftist rage" you reported on this morning.

Sincerely

Me.

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US District Court Judge Clay Land issued a written ruling Wednesday denying Captain Connie Rhodes‘ motion for a temporary restraining order and dismissed the case in its entirety.

Rhodes, a military doctor, challenged deployment orders to Iraq, claiming the orders were unlawful because the Commander In Chief is not a legal citizen of the United States. Rhodes maintains that despite all evidence and confirmation to the contrary, President Barack Obama was born in Kenya, not Hawaii.

During Monday's hearing, Judge Land also refused to accept into evidence a document Rhodes' attorney, Orly Taitz says a person in her California office obtained from Kenya for a fee. Judge Land commented that the process sounded like bribery and therefore, could not justify the authentication of the birth certificate.

In his ruling, Land also cited that the plaintiff's attorney will be subject to counsel sanctions for bringing any future actions in his court which are similarly frivolous.

"(Rhodes) has presented no credible evidence and has made no reliable factual allegations to support her unsubstantiated, conclusory allegations and conjecture that President Obama is ineligible to serve as president of the United States," Land states in his order. "Instead, she uses her complaint as a platform for spouting political rhetoric, such as her claims that the president is 'an illegal usurper, an unlawful pretender, [and] an unqualified imposter.'"
Rhodes had objected only to deployment to Iraq under President Obama, not to serving in the military generally.

http://ftpcontent.worldnow.com/wtvm/ConnieRhodesvsArmy.pdf

According to testimony from Major Ausprung, an attorney representing the army, Rhodes will deploy to Iraq in about a week to provide medical assistance to the military in combat.

Rhodes is not the first soldier to object to overseas deployment on the grounds that Obama is not a legitimate president. Stefan Frederick Cook, a reserve soldier who volunteered for an active duty tour, argued that he should not have to go to Afghanistan for similar reasons to Rhodes. The army revoked his deployment orders.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/14/stefan-frederick-cook-sol_n_231383.html

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