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

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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.

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Florida homeowners: When did we secede from the U.S.A.?

by Baitball Blogger on Thu Apr 05, 2012 Original It seemed like a simple cause and effect scenario. The case before the Florida Supreme Court would have decided who was responsible for the repairs of defective construction work in a development. But before the Court ruled on the case the Florida legislature came up with House Bill 1013. What it does is interfere with a basic American principle: the right to due process of law. Due Process is a simple concept. It’s defined as “[f]air treatment through the normal judicial system, especially as a citizen's entitlement.” The key words are “citizen’s entitlement.” For most of us, that translates to, constitutional right. We just assume that the courts will be available to reinforce our rights, when nothing else will. It’s just the ordinary concept of checks and balances. But that’s what the Florida legislature interfered with when it passed House Bill 1013. Homeowners are blocked from relying on the court for remedies for shoddy workmanship. So now, instead of holding the developer responsible, homeowners will have to resort to special assessments among their own members to resolve faulty construction work. In some towns and cities, this will mean hardship for future homeowners because much of this work is performed before the first homeowner moves in. If anyone is expecting the local government to act like some fail safe system, performing building inspections to ensure that work meets appropriate standards, they can check into my website, www.keystoneworksite.com for the rude awakening. There’s a lot about this state that many people don’t realize until it’s too late. When you sign that contract and become a homeowner a transformation begins which turns you into something less significant than what you were before you moved in. Like Pinocchio on Donkey Island, none of us realize what we’re in for until it’s too late. Except here in Florida, where the borders are surrounded on three sides by water I’m always reminded of a school of fish which is herded into one big bait ball for someone’s easy pickings. In this case, the special interest group which benefited from the bill at our expense was the Florida Home Builder’s Association. You can understand why they would lobby for this law, but what’s the legislature’s excuse for it? Or the excuse of the people who voted for them? I mean, who in their right mind elects a politician who turns around and treats them in this manner? If this isn’t bad enough, the bill applies retroactively, which will have the effect of hamstringing the one case which the Florida Supreme Court reviewed in December and might have given the homeowners some relief. Right now the bill is on its way to the governor’s office where Rick Scott’s signature will turn it into law. As long as people continue to vote based on party labels, we’re going to see this drift away from the rights that every American assumes is theirs from birth. It’s just hard to comprehend that this roll back in rights is coming from a Republican led state legislature. The disconnect is classic Florida. The Republicans voters, who claim they are against a government that encroaches on their freedoms, vote for representatives who pass laws which encroach on our freedoms. There is no other way to see it because nothing can be more American than the system of checks and balances, yet the bill will prevent us from setting the process in motion. Even the cry for “no-new-taxes” rings hollow when the kind of laws that continue to come out of a Republican led legislature whittles away at our consumer protection laws. House Bill 1013 is just another example of how we exist to feed the system, but we are never allowed to break even. That’s the reality. If you walk into this state for the sunshine and climate, be prepared to pay for it in ways you never dreamed of. I’ve lived here long enough to know that change will not come from within, so the hope is that someone on the outside will step in and remind our Florida leaders that we didn’t relinquish our citizenship at the border. Of course, the extreme would be to throw up our hands, admit defeat and acknowledge that we no longer are part of the union. It might be easier for everyone concerned to just begin the cumbersome process of updating the textbooks to describe the United States as a nation composed of 49 states instead of 50. Though the whole costly mess can be avoided if you allow Puerto Rico to take our place. This entry was inspired by an opinion piece in the Orlando Sentinel. http://www.orlandosentinel.com/..