1520 - Martin Luther publicly burned the papal edict demanding that he recant or face excommunication.
1869 - The territory of Wyoming authorized women to vote and hold office.
COINCIDENCE? I think NOT!
"When I see a 9/11 victim family on television, or whatever, I'm just like, 'Oh shut up' I'm so sick of them because they're always complaining."
--- Glenn Beck
"The only [Katrina victims] we're seeing on television are the scumbags."
---- Glenn Beck
FROM THE CHURCH OF INEFFABLE STUPIDITY:
EXHIBIT A) Rahm Emanual
Imagine running the great city of Chicago as well as he ran the White House.
Oh Noez!
Rahm has deliberately ignored every public forum where other candidates would want to debate the issues important to the city. In fact, his press spokesspinner admitted that he has no plans to ever show up for any debate. There are two reasons for this, quite good ones, actually:
- He is far more comfortable rubbing elbows with LA glitterati, raising obscene amounts of money for his campaign.
- Showing up in public for a debate on Chicago issues would highlight just how ignorant and disconnected he is from the administrative, legal, and political needs of the best city in the country.
You think I jest? Try this out for size. Go to this link and try voting "NO."
I fear for my fair haired city of Rahm wins. He would do to us what he did to the White House. And that ain't good.
On edit. There are now 30 complaints pending before the CHicago Board of Elections. Rahm apparently did not have a long enough residency to ruin for mayor.
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EXHIBIT B) Speaker-Erect Boehner
What more can we say that Boehner himself hasn't said? By selecting this male sex and urine appendage as his chief of staff, the only thing that is erect is his middle finger.
The lobbyist, Brett Loper, is the senior executive vice president of the Advanced Medical Technology Association, a pharmaceutical and health products industry, which lobbied in opposition to Democrats' health care reform legislation.
"I'm very pleased Brett will be joining our team," Boehner said Thursday in a statement, according to Politico. "There are few people who are better equipped to help our new majority change the way the House works and advance a new governing agenda that reflects the will of the people we serve."
He reflects the will of the people we serve. How true. The rich, the powerful, the medical industry, the Street of Wall. Those are his people.
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EXHIBIT C) 9/11 Victims
How DARE they get sick? First, a bit of background, from a 2006 report:
Today, five years after the World Trade Center attack, our federal government still has not taken sufficient actions to help those who were sickened by toxic 9/11 exposures or to investigate and clean up any remaining contamination from the disaster. And rather than strengthen its disaster response plans to better protect human health, the federal government is taking steps to make things even worse. This report documents continuing missteps that further endanger human life and health:
- The Bush administration has failed to admit that its environmental response to the toxic aftermath of the WTC disaster was severely inadequate and its risk communications irresponsible. And it used the same failed approach in the Katrina disaster – the first incident at which its post-9/11, flawed new National Response Plan was implemented.
- Instead of fixing these problems, the Bush administration is making the situation worse, instituting a new policy that would weaken health protection after a disaster caused by radiological contamination (such as a “dirty bomb” or illegal nuclear device). Why should our federal government treat the contamination caused by terrorists more leniently than contamination caused by business negligence or an accident?
- The Department of Homeland Security is expanding its activities into areas that encroach on the duties of the Environmental Protection Agency and Occupational Safety and Health Administration, while also issuing directives that make it more insulated from public disclosure and Congressional oversight. This includes a directive instructing employees to destroy certain types of unclassified documents “when they are no longer needed.”
The Sierra Club Report
There are thousands of people still suffering from serious illnesses because of 9/11, including those who put their lives on the line to save others. How did our GOP respond to these responders?
Senate Republicans derailed a bill Thursday to aid people who got sick after exposure to dust from the World Trade Center's collapse in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
Supporters were three votes short of the 60 needed to proceed to debate and a final vote on the bill that would have provided as much as $7.4 billion in health care and compensation to Sept. 11 responders and survivors. The bill failed on a test vote, 57-42.
Thank you, GOP. You guys are so . . . .
For those who forgot what our founding fathers sought to create, here is but a taste:
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
It is a pity that the GOPers in office don't know how to read.
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EXHIBIT D) Taking aim at their own feet with an F-22 attack fighter
Maj. Gen. Richard Webber, commander of Air Force Network Operations, issued the Dec. 3 “Cyber Control Order” — obtained by Danger Room — which directs airmen to “immediately cease use of removable media on all systems, servers, and stand alone machines residing on SIPRNET,” the Defense Department’s secret network. Similar directives have gone out to the military’s other branches.
“Unauthorized data transfers routinely occur on classified networks using removable media and are a method the insider threat uses to exploit classified information. To mitigate the activity, all Air Force organizations must immediately suspend all SIPRNET data transfer activities on removable media,” the order adds.
It’s one of a number of moves the Defense Department is making to prevent further disclosures of secret information in the wake of the WikiLeaks document dumps. Pfc. Bradley Manning says he downloaded hundreds of thousands of files from SIPRNET to a CD marked “Lady Gaga” before giving the files to WikiLeaks. . . .
One military source who works on these networks says it will make the job harder; classified computers are often disconnected from the network, or are in low-bandwidth areas. A DVD or a thumb drive is often the easiest way to get information from one machine to the next. “They were asking us to build homes before,” the source says. “Now they’re taking away our hammers.”
WE MUST KEEP THE TRUTH FROM THE AMERICAN PEOPLE! AT ALL COSTS!
When you have a chance, check out Europe's reaction to America's hysterical reaction to Wikileaks.
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EXHIBIT E) Tilting at Windmills:
Which best expresses today's political reality?
Just then they came in sight of thirty or forty windmills that rise from that plain. And no sooner did Don Quixote see them that he said to his squire, "Fortune is guiding our affairs better than we ourselves could have wished. Do you see over yonder, friend Sancho, thirty or forty hulking giants? I intend to do battle with them and slay them. With their spoils we shall begin to be rich for this is a righteous war and the removal of so foul a brood from off the face of the earth is a service God will bless."
"What giants?" asked Sancho Panza.
"Those you see over there," replied his master, "with their long arms. Some of them have arms well nigh two leagues in length.
versus
Holding fast to "a purist position to feel good about ourselves and sanctimonious about how pure our intentions are and how tough we are. That can't be the measure of how we think about public service. That can't be the measure of what it means to be a Democrat."
ICE Deports
You Decide.