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Saturday, April 14, 2012

Romney Vows Continued War On Women’s Birth Control Rights

    Have you noticed over the past few decades how even the Harvard educated Republicans seems to be ignorant and stupid? You haven’t noticed? Then you have not been paying attention to Mitt Romney

Brilliant! Mitt Romney revives Republican war on birth control

by Jed Lewison          Fri Apr 13, 2012

Presenting the encore to Mitt Romney's #fauxtrage at @hilaryr:

In a speech to the National Rifle Association Friday, likely GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney waded back into the contraception wars, attacking President Obama’s health care provision requiring employers, including religiously affiliated groups, to provide contraceptive coverage to female employees — a requirement Romney vowed to repeal.
Romney's anti-birth control pledge:
As President, I will follow a very different path than President Obama. I will be a staunch defender of religious freedom. The Obamacare regulation is not a threat and insult to only one religious group - it is a threat and insult to every religious group. As President, I will abolish it.
Apparently, going after birth control coverage is the fourth prong of Mitt Romney's three-prong strategy to win back the ladies. And I can't think of a better way for him to prove that we were right when we said there is a war on women.

Mitt vaguely calls it the "Obamacare regulation," but let's be clear: the regulation does not require religious institutions to provide birth control to their employees. What it says is that birth control is a preventive medicine and like every other preventive medicine it must be covered without copay by every insurance plan in the country except for churches.

If Mitt Romney abolished it, he wouldn't be expanding freedom for a damn soul—but he would be taking away access to birth control coverage for millions of women.

Friday, April 13, 2012

Saturday Satire: Mitt Romney And Rick Santorum

Jimmy Fallon:  "After dropping out of the GOP race, Rick Santorum emailed his supporters to ask for help paying off his campaign debt. So if you believe in his message of responsible spending and no handouts, just give him a handout to cover all his irresponsible spending."

"Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal announced that he is supporting Mitt Romney for president. Jindal said he couldn’t think of a better way to show his support than waiting until Romney was the only guy left."

"Over the weekend, Mitt Romney was actually spotted body-boarding in California. Romney would've gone surfing, but you know, he hates standing for something."

Jay Leno: "President Obama's popularity is starting to dwindle among well-known liberals like Matt Damon and Gene Simmons. In fact, you know the number one liberal to turn against President Obama? Mitt Romney."

“Today was the annual White House Easter Egg Roll - or, as the Republicans call it, 'President Obama's Socialist Egg Redistribution Program.'”

Jimmy Kimmel:  "West is a guy that some think should be Mitt Romney's running mate. I would like that. We haven't had a truly crazy vice president . . . well, until now."

David Letterman: "Rick Santorum has dropped out of the race. He wanted to ban gambling and outlaw pornography. And this is a guy who claims Romney is out of touch with America."

"Now that Santorum is out of the race, that leaves Newt Gingrich and Ron Paul out there vying for the crackpot vote."

"Gingrich is $5 million in debt. And he's the guy who was going to fix our economy."

Conan O'Brien: “Newt Gingrich says he still has a chance. He say people walk up to him all the time and beg him to stay in the presidential race. It’s a group of people known as Democrats.”

The RomnObama Health Care Mandate

While doing nothing of any lasting value today, I browsed through YouTube just to take a look at a few videos. Little did I know that the gods would be pointing me to this video which features both President Obama and Mitt Romney explaining the health care mandate to a few groups of people.

 

Thursday, April 12, 2012

Allen West: 'I hold in my hand' a list of 80 Communist Party members in the Democratic Caucus

   Even more proof that stupid voters from stupid states elect stupid Representatives.
By Armando on Wed Apr 11, 2012    Original

Serious GOP VP contender Allen West has a list of 80 Communist Party members in the Democratic Caucus:

 

REP. ALLEN WEST (R-FL): I believe there's about 70, 80 to 81 members of the  Democratic Party that are members of the Communist Party [in the House of Representatives].

  If it were not for clowns such as Mr. West, the late night comedians would be off the air.

    As far as this piece of shit being a serious VP contender, Mitt Romney will have to have both of his arms twisted behind his back before that happens because West is not the right color. The Republican brood already knows that they have lost the black vote, so I do not see them placing West in that position. In a national election, West would be an insult to the African-American voters.

Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Zimmerman Charged with 2nd Degree Murder

  Trayvon Martin  killer George Zimmerman is in custody in Florida and has been with 2nd degree murder in the death.

CBS/AP) George Zimmerman, the neighborhood watch volunteer who shot unarmed teenager Trayvon Martin to death in Sanford, Florida nearly two months ago, will be charged with second-degree murder in the incident.

The special prosecutor in the case, Angela Corey, announced the charge against Zimmerman at an early Wednesday evening news conference held at the Jacksonville State Attorney's office in Jacksonville, Florida.

The charge carries a maximum sentence of life in prison. Second-degree murder is typically charged when there is a fight or other confrontation that results in death and where there is no premeditated plan to kill someone.     CBS News

Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Monsanto Threatens To Sue Vermont For Putting Accurate Labels On Food Products.

MinistryofTruth      MON APR 09, 2012

More proof that the one thing big corporations don't want is a real "Free market", not if "free markets" mean a place where consumers are given exact information on what goes into the products they can choose from. Corporations are not for "free markets", they are for fixed markets, fixed markets where corporations write their own rules and the only rule is "Let the buyer beware."

To whit . . .

. . . But as it turns out, their fears of a lawsuit-happy Monsanto are somewhat justified. According to reports, the biotech behemoth has threatened to sue the state of Vermont if it presses ahead with the signing of the Vermont Right to Know Genetically Engineered Food Act (H. 722), a bill that would make Vermont the first of the United States to require labeling of genetically engineered food.

~snip~

According to the bill’s website, Vermont Right to Know GMOs, it’s backed by Vermont representative Kate Webb and would require food sold in Vermont retail outlets to clearly label any food that has even been produced through genetic engineering, and would bar GMO foods from bearing an “all-natural” label.

foodanddrinkdigital.com

  You would think if Monsanto had faith in their products they would seek to defend it with and the wonderful benefits of genetically-engineered food in a positive pr campaign or something, but no, instead Monsanto Corporation would rather limit the ability of the people of Vermont to govern themselves. If the people of Vermont vote for a government that chooses to make sure that the citizens of Vermont have the right to know exactly what goes in their food so they can make their market choices according to their own preferences, Monsanto is against that and is willing to sue.

   We Occupy Wall Street protesters have a little saying. That saying is "Fuck Monsanto." Things like this are the reason why.

   More below the fold.

   Mirror, mirror on the wall, who are the slimiest corporate douchenozzles of all? Banksters, health insurers and Monsanto, oh my!

    It seems simple – give consumers the choice and let the market decide what’s important – but it clearly isn’t the kind of act that would make companies trading in in this form of biotechnology very happy. According to news site RT, Monsanto representatives have outright threatened to sue if H. 722 is passed in the Vermont senate and house. What’s more, AlterNet reports that the threat is already having an effect on legislators’ will to move the bill forward . . .

foodanddrinkdigital.com


    Yes, by applying pressure to Vermont State lawmakers with their massive corporate influence (money), Monsanto has already managed to slow down the passage of H. 722 through the Vermont State legislature. All because Monsanto badly wants to ensure that Vermont consumers don't know what they are eating.

   And doesn't that sum up our corrupt and duplicitous corporate governance nicely? Corporate governance, where the motto is "Eat shit, the other bio-genetically engineered white meat."

   Yes, a nation where Monsanto writes your laws. you know, when I thought about the future as a child I thought we might have talking animals like the dog Astro from the Jetson's or that weird little white fuzzy talking alien that used to hang out with George Jetson, but I never thought that the weird little white fuzzy talking alien that used to hang out with George Jetson would be part of my "all-natural" Vermont Chef Salad. And aren't the religious social Conservatives who can't stand the thought of gay sex because it ain't natural or stem-cell research, and evolution because it is not God's will, that and  a bunch of other far flung scientific ideas like arithmetic, well arent these guys supposed to be outraged and tearing at their golden waist-coats over this? Instead I hear silence. It's mighty hard dragging the right wing kicking and screaming into the 21st century when they are so dead set on living in 1855 Charleston, South Carolina, do I have to prove that Monsanto's new Frankenfish McRiblet wasn't on Noah's Ark to get you religious retrogrades interested?

   In a truly "free" marketplace consumers need full information to make informed decisions, denying consumers this information deprives the free hand its' mythical ability to do its' thing, if you believe in such nonsense. By restricting the ability of consumers to obtain the information they seek when choosing one product over another Monsanto is acting very un-"free market". They want to rig the market so you don't know what you are buying. In a supply side "free market", if consumers have only a choice between horseshit and GMO's, they will eat horseshit and GMO's.

   But never mind that, the bottom line is this, Monsanto and other huge corporations have an enemy, and they are called "informed people". Yes, a mind is a truly terrible thing to waste, and Monsanto agrees with that sentiment, that is why they are suing Vermont so they can put Bio-engineered lizard brain in your all-natural soy milk without you ever knowing it.

Fuck Monsanto.

Monday, April 09, 2012

Who Makes Up The ALEC Establishment?

   Funny that you should ask. The following is a list of those communist republicans who should never be elected to any American political office as they promote the finest corporate laws that money can by.

Here is their board of directors:             SOURCE

2012 ALEC National Chairman

Rep. Dave Frizzell
Indiana

First Vice Chairman
Rep. John Piscopo
Connecticut

Second Vice Chairman

Rep. Linda Upmeyer
Iowa

Treasurer

Sen. Chip Rogers
Georgia

Secretary

Rep. Liston Barfield
South Carolina

Chairman Emeritus

Rep. Noble Ellington
Louisiana

Sen. Owen Johnson
New York

Rep. Dolores Mertz
Iowa

Immediate Past Chairman

Rep. Tom Craddick
Texas

Board Members

Sen. Curt Bramble
Utah

Rep. Jon Brien
Rhode Island

Rep. Harold Brubaker
North Carolina

Sen. Bill Cadman
Colorado

Sen. Jim Buck
Indiana

Rep. Philip Gunn
Mississippi

Rep. Joe Harrison
Louisiana

Speaker Bill Howell
Virginia

Sen. Michael Lamoureux
Arkansas

Rep. Steve McDaniel
Tennessee

Sen. Ray Merrick
Kansas

Sen. Dean Rhoads
Nevada

Sen. William Seitz
Ohio

Rep. Fred Steen II
North Carolina

Rep. Curry Todd
Tennessee

Sen. Leah Vukmir
Wisconsin

Sen. Susan Wagle
Kansas

Monsanto Threatens to Sue Vermont For Putting Accurate Labels On Food Products

MinistryofTruth MON APR 09, 2012 More proof that the one thing big corporations don't want is a real "Free market", not if "free markets" mean a place where consumers are given exact information on what goes into the products they can choose from. Corporations are not for "free markets", they are for fixed markets, fixed markets where corporations write their own rules and the only rule is "Let the buyer beware." To whit . . . . . . But as it turns out, their fears of a lawsuit-happy Monsanto are somewhat justified. According to reports, the biotech behemoth has threatened to sue the state of Vermont if it presses ahead with the signing of the Vermont Right to Know Genetically Engineered Food Act (H. 722), a bill that would make Vermont the first of the United States to require labeling of genetically engineered food. ~snip~ According to the bill’s website, Vermont Right to Know GMOs, it’s backed by Vermont representative Kate Webb and would require food sold in Vermont retail outlets to clearly label any food that has even been produced through genetic engineering, and would bar GMO foods from bearing an “all-natural” label. foodanddrinkdigital.com You would think if Monsanto had faith in their products they would seek to defend it with and the wonderful benefits of genetically-engineered food in a positive pr campaign or something, but no, instead Monsanto Corporation would rather limit the ability of the people of Vermont to govern themselves. If the people of Vermont vote for a government that chooses to make sure that the citizens of Vermont have the right to know exactly what goes in their food so they can make their market choices according to their own preferences, Monsanto is against that and is willing to sue. We Occupy Wall Street protesters have a little saying. That saying is "Fuck Monsanto." Things like this are the reason why. More below the fold. Mirror, mirror on the wall, who are the slimiest corporate douchenozzles of all? Banksters, health insurers and Monsanto, oh my! It seems simple – give consumers the choice and let the market decide what’s important – but it clearly isn’t the kind of act that would make companies trading in in this form of biotechnology very happy. According to news site RT, Monsanto representatives have outright threatened to sue if H. 722 is passed in the Vermont senate and house. What’s more, AlterNet reports that the threat is already having an effect on legislators’ will to move the bill forward . . . foodanddrinkdigital.com Yes, by applying pressure to Vermont State lawmakers with their massive corporate influence (money), Monsanto has already managed to slow down the passage of H. 722 through the Vermont State legislature. All because Monsanto badly wants to ensure that Vermont consumers don't know what they are eating. And doesn't that sum up our corrupt and duplicitous corporate governance nicely? Corporate governance, where the motto is "Eat shit, the other bio-genetically engineered white meat." Yes, a nation where Monsanto writes your laws. you know, when I thought about the future as a child I thought we might have talking animals like the dog Astro from the Jetson's or that weird little white fuzzy talking alien that used to hang out with George Jetson, but I never thought that the weird little white fuzzy talking alien that used to hang out with George Jetson would be part of my "all-natural" Vermont Chef Salad. And aren't the religious social Conservatives who can't stand the thought of gay sex because it ain't natural or stem-cell research, and evolution because it is not God's will, that and a bunch of other far flung scientific ideas like arithmetic, well arent these guys supposed to be outraged and tearing at their golden waist-coats over this? Instead I hear silence. It's mighty hard dragging the right wing kicking and screaming into the 21st century when they are so dead set on living in 1855 Charleston, South Carolina, do I have to prove that Monsanto's new Frankenfish McRiblet wasn't on Noah's Ark to get you religious retrogrades interested? In a truly "free" marketplace consumers need full information to make informed decisions, denying consumers this information deprives the free hand its' mythical ability to do its' thing, if you believe in such nonsense. By restricting the ability of consumers to obtain the information they seek when choosing one product over another Monsanto is acting very un-"free market". They want to rig the market so you don't know what you are buying. In a supply side "free market", if consumers have only a choice between horseshit and GMO's, they will eat horseshit and GMO's. But never mind that, the bottom line is this, Monsanto and other huge corporations have an enemy, and they are called "informed people". Yes, a mind is a truly terrible thing to waste, and Monsanto agrees with that sentiment, that is why they are suing Vermont so they can put Bio-engineered lizard brain in your all-natural soy milk without you ever knowing it. Fuck Monsanto.

Former National Review Racist Columnist John Derbyshire To Market Phone App

   So, just who is this piece of trash?  Read about his exploit here.

   By the way, the following is only snark, but, it  points out just how racist this former columnist truly is.

By MacDaffy   on Sun Apr 08, 2012     Original Article

PALO ALTO, CA -- Former National Review Columnist John Derbyshire announced today the launch of iWhite Software, a new Silicon Valley tech startup created to develop and market an idea first broached in the column that got him fired.

Venture capitalists are excited about prospects for Derbyshire's first announced product, a social media app for iPod, iPad, and Android devices called iCoon--software that will allow users to characterize the racial "weather" at sporting events, concerts, beaches, and other public gatherings.

"iCoon is going to change the complexion of white privilege in America," Derbyshire told a packed press conference. "It's revolutionary."

A prototype of the app was demonstrated by iWhite co-founder and chief technology officer Simon Legree who was joined onstage by iCoon mascot, Rocky The iWhite Coon for the presentation.

"iCoon is powerful and easy-to-use," Legree said. "All an iCoon user has to do is open the GPS-assisted map, choose the iCoon icon, and characterize the concentration of coloreds at a location by changing the number of rings on Rocky's tail. Tail's white? Event's all right. Tail's black? Turn around and go back."

Derbyshire was fired by the conservative National Review magazine after a racist column he wrote for another publication created a firestorm of protest. Couched as a "talk" he would deliver to his children about race, some of his prescriptions were:

10a) Avoid concentrations of blacks not all known to you personally.
(10b) Stay out of heavily black neighborhoods.
(10c) If planning a trip to a beach or amusement park at some date, find out whether it is likely to be swamped with blacks on that date (neglect of that one got me the closest I have ever gotten to death by gunshot).
(10d) Do not attend events likely to draw a lot of blacks.
(10e) If you are at some public event at which the number of blacks suddenly swells, leave as quickly as possible.
(10f) Do not settle in a district or municipality run by black politicians.

The erstwhile National Review scribe described the controversy as "a blessing in disguise."

"People were deriding me right-and-left, not only about my ideas being racist; they were calling me stupid because they thought what I was saying wasn't possible. But Simon got in touch with me, explained that this was a technological, entrepreneurial, and sociological gold-mine, and we got started," Derbyshire said.

Legree told the gathering that other apps were in the works.

"My pet peeve is these H1-B workers who come over here from Taipei having driven nothing faster than an oxcart, and suddenly they're zooming around on our freeways in leased Maseratis that apparently were sold without TURN SIGNALS! There's going to be an iSlant app for them, I guarantee," Legree said.

Legree didn't go into detail, but said that future titles would include iJew, iRab, and iWop.