Jon Stewart's "Rally To Restore Sanity"

Amen.

Abortion Protesters Get What They Deserve

Shit Happens - Deal With It !

Chilean Miners Are Being Rescued As I Type !!

Nothing to say - too excited and emotional. Family members are greeting their loved ones as they exit the tiny shaft... unbelievable. This is great news. :)

The Tragedy of Today's Republican Party

Here are just a few examples of the kind of radical views that are perfectly at home in today’s Republican Party:

Eliminating Medicare” Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI), the top Republican on the House Budget Committee, proposed phasing-out Medicare by replacing the entire Medicare program with a privatized voucher system and then having that voucher gradually decrease in value over time. Yet Republicans have kept Ryan as their chief budget policymaker in the House, and Cantor even co-authored a book touting himself and Ryan as the party’s new “Young Guns.” Some Republican candidates have even claimed that Medicare is unconstitutional.
Privatizing Social Security: Countless GOP lawmakers and candidates — including Republican budget chief Ryan — want to privatize Social Security, even though privatization imposes significant new risks on seniors, creates new administrative costs, forces benefit reductions, and costs more money than the present system. Some of these candidates also believe that Social Security is unconstitutional.
Tearing Up The Constitution: Beyond the fringe claims that Social Security and Medicare are unconstitutional, leading GOPers have embraced repealing the Constitution’s grant of citizenship to all children born in the United States, repealing the constitutional right to elect your own senators, and one leading GOP Senate candidate claimed that it is unconstitutional for the United States to belong to the United Nations.
Former Witches Against Masturbation: The National Republican Senatorial Committee even cut a $42,000 check to Delaware GOP Senate candidate Christine O’Donnell, an anti-masturbation activist who “dabbled into witchcraft” and who wants to stop the “whole country from having sex.”
Lest there be any confusion about what positions GOP candidates are allowed to embrace, ThinkProgress is happy to provide this handy chart explaining which stances the GOP does and does not view as too extreme:

Christine O'Donnell - Cuckoo For Cocoa Puffs

WASHINGTON — Republican Senate nominee Christine O'Donnell of Delaware said in a 2006 debate that China was plotting to take over America and claimed to have classified information about the country that she couldn't divulge.

O'Donnell's comments came as she and two other Republican candidates debated U.S. policy on China during Delaware's 2006 Senate primary, which O'Donnell ultimately lost.

She said China had a "carefully thought out and strategic plan to take over America" and accused one opponent of appeasement for suggesting that the two countries were economically dependent and should find a way to be allies.

"That doesn't work," she said. "There's much I want to say. I wish I wasn't privy to some of the classified information that I am privy to."

"A country that forces women to have abortions and mandates that you can only have one child and will not allow you the freedom to read the Bible, you think they can be our friend?" she asked. "We have to look at our history and realize that if they pretend to be our friend it's because they've got something up their sleeve."

O'Donnell's campaign didn't immediately respond to questions about the comments.

A Glimpse of America With The Tea Party In Control

As ThinkProgress has noted, there are currently two competing visions of governance in the United States. One, the conservative vision, believes in the on-your-own society, and informs a policy agenda that primarily serves the well off and privileged sectors of the country. The other vision, the progressive one, believes in an American Dream that works for all people, regardless of their racial, religious, or economic background.

The conservative vision was on full display last week in Obion County, Tennessee. In this rural section of Tennessee, Gene Cranick’s home caught on fire. As the Cranicks fled their home, their neighbors alerted the county’s firefighters, who soon arrived at the scene. Yet when the firefighters arrived, they refused to put out the fire, saying that the family failed to pay the annual subscription fee to the fire department. Because the county’s fire services for rural residences is based on household subscription fees, the firefighters, fully equipped to help the Cranicks, stood by and watched as the home burned to the ground:

Imagine your home catches fire but the local fire department won’t respond, then watches it burn. That’s exactly what happened to a local family tonight. A local neighborhood is furious after firefighters watched as an Obion County, Tennessee, home burned to the ground.

The homeowner, Gene Cranick, said he offered to pay whatever it would take for firefighters to put out the flames, but was told it was too late. They wouldn’t do anything to stop his house from burning. Each year, Obion County residents must pay $75 if they want fire protection from the city of South Fulton. But the Cranicks did not pay. The mayor said if homeowners don’t pay, they’re out of luck. [...]

We asked the mayor of South Fulton if the chief could have made an exception. “Anybody that’s not in the city of South Fulton, it’s a service we offer, either they accept it or they don’t,” Mayor David Crocker said.

The fire reportedly continued for hours “because garden hoses just wouldn’t put it out. It wasn’t until that fire spread to a neighbor’s property, that anyone would respond” — only because the neighbor had paid the fee.

A local newspaper further pressed Mayor Crocker about the city’s policy, which has been in place since 1990. Crocker, a Republican who was elected in 2008 and serves with a county commission where every seat is also filled by a Republican, likened the policy to buying auto insurance. The paper said he told them that, after all, “if an auto owner allowed their vehicle insurance to lapse, they would not expect an insurance company to pay for an unprotected vehicle after it was wrecked.”

Ironically, in the county commission’s latest report on its fire services, which outlines which parts of the municipal area will receive fire services only through subscriptions, the commissioners and fire service officials brag that the county is “very progressive.”

UGH !!! The insanity of it all...

"Sister Wives" is a new show on TLC. I used to think that TLC was an anagram for the words "The" "Learning" "Channel". Obviously I was wrong.... It seems that TLC is an anagram for "Total" "Loser" "Channel". I say this because of shows like "Sister Wives" where the documentary style drama follows a Utah man and his three and soon to be four wives.

This B.S. is unbelievable... to watch these poor women with HORRIBLE self esteem issues, get involved with a total DOUCHEBAG polygamist is more than a normal person can deal with. The women are visibly angry, sad, confused and bitter. The DOUCHEBAG guy gets to "court" any woman he wants and pretends to break down and cry in order to manipulate his other wives into feeling sorry for him, which in turn gives him permission to screw any woman he wants. The real problem is that all of these women have children... and the children grow up in this toxic, dangerous, gang family style chaos.

My question is this: WHERE THE FUCK IS NOM ?? Seriously.. where are they? Where is Maggie Gallagher?? Where is Bryan Brown? Where is the "ONE MAN, ONE WOMAN" Hate Bus ??? Where is Focus on the Family ?? Where are the religious fringe fundamentalists ??? Where is the American Family Association? Concerned Twats, I mean, Women for America? HELLO - ????

These women are visibly shaken, damaged, insecure, manipulated, emotionally abused, subservient, etc - the list goes on, and to be perfectly honest, that's their decision. However, the line that is crossed is that they are damaging their children by exposing them to the abuse and chaos of a polygamist lifestyle.

TLC films the abuse of children who are trapped in the polygamist lifestyle and sells shares to advertisers. They need to be held accountable and every social service and child protection agency should be knocking down the door of these sick individuals and rescue these helpless young victims of these damaged, twisted harmful people.