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…over Cantor’s heartless remarks and his playing games with the tornado victims.
No emergency relief funds unless it is cut from other programs? WTF?? Cantor, as is true of the majority of the American Taliban, has no morals.
Be INFORMED
Saturday, May 28, 2011
Friday, May 27, 2011
Friday Funnies: Memorial Day Weekend Edition!
So, many of you will be hitting the highways to go visit the beaches, relatives, or lost loved ones on this weekend. Drive safe and be observant because stupid drunk drivers do not take holidays off.
We’ll see you next week unless the rapture groups only missed it by a week. Ha
Jimmy Fallon : "One of Sarah Palin's supporters is about to release a documentary about her called 'The Undefeated.' That's like a documentary about Arnold Schwarzenegger called 'The Faithful.'"
"Someone made a two-hour documentary about Sarah Palin's political life. In case you're interested in watching a movie that's longer than Palin's actual political life.'""Rudy Giuliani says he may run for President. So now we're up to 7 candidates and 35 ex-wives."
"Herman Cain, the former CEO of Godfather's Pizza, announced that he's running for president. And this is cool — if his campaign isn't over in 30 minutes or less, you get your pizza for free."
Jay Leno: "The Rapture-predicting preacher, Harold Camping, is really scaling back his predictions. He now predicts the end of the month will be May 31."
"President Obama is on a visit to England. He told the Queen yesterday, 'I like your tea parties much better than the ones we have in America.'"
"They drive on other side of the road there, so Obama had to switch sides — kind of like Mitt Romney is doing over here."
"I don't want to say Tim Pawlenty is boring, but Joe Biden is accusing him of identity theft."
Conan O'Brien : "New video has surfaced of Arnold Schwarzenegger in 1991 saying the housekeeper does a 'great job.' One clue might have been that he then added, 'And she's also a great housekeeper.'"
"Kirstie Alley did a cartwheel on 'Dancing With the Stars.' But President Obama is refusing to release the pictures."
"Last night at a Texas Ranger game ex-President Bush almost got hit with a foul ball. He vowed revenge on the player, but we all know Obama will be the one to actually get him."
Anthony Weiner Razzes GOP…
….on the House floor on Thursday and he most surely did not hold back on his attack on the Republican’s support for the dismantling of Medicare. Make no mistake people. Republicans do wish to get rid of Medicare and any other programs that would help citizens who aren’t wealthy/ well off. This has been a long time in the making.
Listen to Weiner slap them up beside their feeble heads with the truth.
Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY)
Technorati Tags: Anthony Weiner,Republicans.Taxes,Medicare,Paul Ryan,Budget Cuts,Current Events,Politics
Thursday, May 26, 2011
GOP Is Toast In 2012
There is nothing quite so pleasing as sitting back and watching the GOP bleed to death from the cutting of their own throats with their pretty much unanimous endorsement of Paul Ryan’s budget. Their plan to issue Medicare “ coupons “ to the future elderly is a slap in the face to those who will need the program, while at the same time his budget does not do a whole hell of a lot towards cutting the deficit. It does however, help the budget of the rich by giving them another tax cut, which even they know isn’t necessary.
Political-right supporter David Frum is one of the few on that side of the fence who has actually come out of the bullshit lounge and has taken a look at things in reality world.
I used to worry that Sarah Palin would be the Barry Goldwater of 2012. My bad. Paul Ryan is the Barry Goldwater of 2012.
The Goldwater effect continues on this morning after the NY-26 debacle. Henry Olsen of AEI, as smart a political numbers guy as can be found on the political right, crunches the numbers to compare the performance of the 2011 special election candidates with the district-wide performance of all other GOP and Democratic candidates in 2010. He finds:
Republican congressional candidate Jane Corwin is running 18 points behind the worst-performing Republican of 2010
Democrat Kathy Hochul is running even with Barack Obama’s performance in the district in 2008 – the best Democratic showing in NY-26 in three decades.
The Republicans suffered their worst losses in the least-educated portions of the District, where former GOP voters seem to have deserted the party for an independent candidate, Jack Davis.
What should make this race all the more alarming for Republicans is that NY-26 turned into a referendum on the Ryan plan for Medicare. As Henry Olsen says:
blue-collar voters react differently to issues than the GOP base does. They are more supportive of safety-net programs at the same time as they are strongly opposed to large government programs in general. These voters crave stability and are uncertain of their ability to compete in a globalized economy that values higher education more each year. They are also susceptible to the age-old Democratic argument that the secret Republican agenda is to eviscerate middle-class entitlements to fund tax cuts for the wealthy.
Frum will be ignored by the GOP because he has critized one of his own party members. we all know that “ the Borg “ does not allow such things to happen because it goes against the collective.
Technorati Tags: GOP,Republican Party,Paul Ryan,Medicare,Tax Cuts,Budget Cuts,Current Events,Politics,David Frum
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
Ryan's Budget Shot Down In The Senate...
... as if there ever was even a slight chance that this piece of crap bill would pass in the adult chamber of our government. The nice thing is that 5 Republicans grew a spine and then voted " no " on the Ryan budget plan. The Democrats wised up and they all voted " No." The vote was 40 in favor, 57 opposed. Republican voting No: Scott Brown Susan Collins Lisa Murkowski Rand Paul Olympia Snowe
Republicans Resort To Censorship..
… as they continue to get clobbered by their own constituents at town hall meetings where the Medicare coupon system created by Paul Ryan has been the major discussion.
After hearing from senior citizens and from the citizen journalist about what a lousy idea their Medicare plan is, the GOP has grown tired from hearing it, so they have resorted to another Republican trick. that would be Censorship. No more video or audio recordings of these events unless you happen to be a credentialed press person.
As DailyKos reports, Michigan has done even more to stop the spread of the meetings on the Internet.
In Michigan, they've taken it up a notch, courtesy of Tea Party control freaks who not only banned a group of senior citizens and reporters, but called security on them at an event with Rep. Justin Amash (R-MI).
Rep. Justin Amash held a townhall meeting sponsored by a Tea Party group on Saturday sponsored by a Tea Party group, but a group of senior citizens and two reporters — including this one — were denied entry to the event.The traditional purpose of a townhall meeting is for an elected official to meet with his constituents in public, giving the people a chance to ask questions and engage in dialogue with their representatives. But neither the organizers nor Amash apparently wanted to hear from or speak to a group of concerned senior citizens — even at a time when the fate of Medicare is being debated in Congress.
About eight senior citizens arrived at the Prince Conference Center on the Calvin College campus for a chance to question Amash concerning his voting record in regards to eliminating Medicare.
Once barred from attending the event, the seniors stood out in the parking lot where they were taking questions from this reporter and Tanya Somanader of Think Progress, the two members of the media who were denied access. Eventually, six security guards arrived on the scene and said that both the seniors and the reporters had to leave.
ThinkProgress's Tanya Somanader has more:
According to security, the people who called them said the seniors had thrown things at the Tea Party organizers....According to multiple members inside, no objects were ever thrown. When asked, the conference center staff said they did not call security — indicating that the Tea Party asked security to move the constituents away from the building....
Attendees at the event, however, told ThinkProgress they were surprised reporters were not allowed in. One attendee went back inside to inform Amash that reporters were waiting in the lobby. However, according to Tea Party member Paul Meyer, the organization appointed him to keep reporters out, even after the event was over as we were considered a “security issue.”
After further questioning, security was summoned for a second time. According to the guards, the call again came from Tea Party organizers.
When leaving the event, one attendee stopped to tell ThinkProgress how Amash was a politician of principle. In singing his praises, she told ThinkProgress that “he is a big proponent of transparency.”
With transparency like this, who needs a back room to deal in?
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
The Budget: Republican Logic
As is par for the course, the Republican Party American Taliban have no logic, especially when it comes to ANY kind of budget. So their plan now is to force the Democrats in to choosing between the GOP budget or the one from the Obama administration. That would be the budget proposal idea’s that the Dems haven’t come up with in the last 2 years. Read more.
by kos for Daily Kos Tue May 24, 2011
Mitch is very confused. (Reuters / Jonathan Ernst)
The GOP's new favorite talking point:
Republicans in both chambers are accusing Democrats of playing politics with the House budget vote, and they have tried to counterattack by pointing out that Democrats haven’t bothered in the past two years to come up with their own budget proposal.
But...
[Senate Minority Leader Mitch] McConnell will counter Reid’s floor tactics by forcing Senate Democrats — who have to defend 23 seats in 2012 versus 10 for Republicans — to vote on the budget plan offered by President Barack Obama.
So which is it? Have Democrats offered up a budget plan or not? Because simple logic dictates that both cannot be true.
Not that logic has ever been an impediment for this Republican Party.
Medicare: The GOP Can’t Agree
POLITICO: GOP divisions run deep over Medicare, budget plan Mon May 23 By Joan McCarter for Daily Kos
There's a lot to unpack in this POLITICO story about the infighting within House Republicans over the radical "Path to Prosperity" plan authored by Rep. Paul Ryan, and leadership's embrace of it. While the focus of the story is on the Medicare debacle, the story really reflects the struggle the party is having over whether to follow the Tea Party down the political rabbit hole.
No matter how favorably pollsters with the Tarrance Group or other firms spun the bill in their pitch—casting it as the only path to saving the beloved health entitlement for seniors—the Ryan budget's approval rating barely budged above the high 30s or its disapproval below 50 percent, according to a Republican operative familiar with the presentation.The poll numbers on the plan were so toxic—nearly as bad as those of President Barack Obama's health reform bill at the nadir of its unpopularity—that staffers with the National Republican Congressional Committee warned leadership, "You might not want to go there" in a series of tense pre-vote meetings....
The outward unity projected by House Republicans masked weeks of fierce debate, even infighting, and doubt over a measure that stands virtually no chance of becoming law. In a series of heated closed-door exchanges, dissenters, led by Ryan's main internal rival—House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-Mich.)—argued for a less radical, more bipartisan approach, GOP staffers say.
At a fundraiser shortly after the vote, a frustrated Camp groused, "We shouldn't have done it" and that he was "overridden," according to a person in attendance.
A few days earlier, as most Republicans remained mute during a GOP conference meeting on the Ryan plan, Camp rose and drily asserted, "People in my district like Medicare," one lawmaker, who is now having his own doubts about voting yes, told POLITICO....
"The tea party itch has definitely not been scratched, so the voices who were saying, ‘Let's do this in a way that's politically survivable,' got drowned out by a kind of panic," a top GOP consultant involved in the debate said, on condition of anonymity....
On several occasions, Boehner has seemed squishy on the Ryan budget. In talking to ABC News, Boehner said he was "not wedded" to the plan and that it was "worthy of consideration."
Still, even if Boehner had opposed the plan—and his top aide, Barry Jackson, expressed concerns about the political fallout to other staffers—he probably couldn't have stopped the Ryan Express anyway, so great was the push from freshmen and conservatives.
That's not to say some of the speaker's allies from the Midwest didn't try. Camp and Ryan hashed out their differences in a series of private meetings that, on occasion, turned testy, according to several GOP aides. Camp argued that the Ryan plan, which he backed in principle—and eventually voted for—was a nonstarter that would only make it harder to reach a bipartisan framework on real entitlement reform.
Apparently still believing that their problem isn't a draconian and hugely unpopular plan to end Medicare, but all in how they are presenting the plan, the GOP is gamely sticking to it: "The GOP message team is already scrambling to redefine the issue as a Republican attempt to 'save' Medicare, not kill it."
"We have a message challenge, a big one, and that's what the polling is showing," conceded Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-N.C.), a former Karl Rove protégé who enthusiastically backed the Ryan plan. "There's no way you attack the deficit in my lifetime without dealing with the growth of Medicare. Do we get a political benefit from proposing a legitimate solution to a major policy problem? That's an open question."
That's where the messaging is going to attempt to focus, and where Dems have to fight back. The GOP will try to frame the entire debacle as a reflection of their seriousness about the deficit. Never mind that, as Digby points out, "they sure put out a crappy plan. That's one of the problems that Politico fails to address—the plan itself was debunked over the course of the first week and Ryan's reputation for seriousness and 'brio' took a major hit."
Steve Benen echoes that:
It's worth noting that the Politico article reports, simply as a matter of fact, that that the House Republican leaders intended to "boldly position their party as a beacon of fiscal responsibility." What the article doesn't note is that this is absurd—there's nothing fiscally responsible about the House GOP plan. The numbers don't add up; the finances are fraudulent; and even the Medicare "savings" would be applied to tax cuts, not deficit reduction. The media really needs to start understanding this.
The media needs to start understanding that, but Dems also need to hammer that point, over and over. We already know that there are going to be plenty of squeamish Dems who will feel the only response to the GOP's cries of "fiscally responsibility" will be to demand more and dumber cuts (case in point, Sens. Claire McCaskill and Joe Manchin). Following the GOP into political oblivion on slashing Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security wouldn't prove "fiscal responsibility," just political weakness.
This is a huge political problem for the Republicans. It's time for Dems to throw them another anchor or two.
Monday, May 23, 2011
Corporations Against Us: The War Against Workers
Let’s make one thing clear. Corporations and their political dogs are not just attempting to stick it to union workers. They are after all of us just to keep more profit in their own coffers, hence the union busting and the Bush/Obama tax cuts.
AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka:
America's economic fate depends on us coming together to educate our children, to invest in our infrastructure, to face the threat of climate change and to reverse the yawning economic inequality that threatens our future.
Let me be specific. Unemployment stands at 9%. Underemployment is at 16%. Housing prices are falling, and foreclosures remain at historic highs. Economic growth is hovering at around 2% annually—not enough to put a dent in unemployment, especially as tax cuts expire, as the Recovery Act winds down—and state and local governments gear up for more deep cuts.
Yet instead of having a national conversation about putting America back to work to build our future, the debate here in Washington is about how fast we can destroy the fabric of our country, about breaking the promises we made to our parents and grandparents....
Why is our national conversation in such a destructive place? Not because we are impoverished. We have never been richer. The American economy has never produced as much wealth as it does today. But we feel poor because the wealth in our society has flowed to a handful among us, and they and the politicians who pander to the worst instincts of the wealthy would rather break promises to our parents and grandparents and deny our children a future than pay their fair share of taxes.
Of course the Republican do not wish any oversight of illegal corporate practices, so they tried to gut the NLRB but only could manage a $50 million cut in operating budget.
One hundred and seventy-six House Republicans (75 percent of the caucus) voted to eliminate all funding for the NLRB, which would have prevented the enforcement of labor law for a year. The measure failed to pass the House, but H.R. 1, the continuing resolution passed by the House, included a $50 million reduction in the National Labor Relations Board’s budget, which if it had also passed the Senate would have forced NLRB staff members to be furloughed for 55 days, causing a backlog of cases to pile up.
Many congressional Republicans have also been trying to prevent union elections from being decided by a majority vote. Last year, the National Mediation Board did away with an absurd rule that, for union elections under the Railway Labor Act, counted workers who didn’t vote as having voted against unionization. House Republican leaders are now using legislation that reauthorizes the Federal Aviation Administration to try and reverse the board’s ruling, once again counting absent workers as votes against the union. Senate Republican leaders, during the debate over the Senate’s version of the FAA bill, attempted to attach an amendment that would have blocked workers at the Transportation Security Administration from unionizing.
And conservative members of Congress are apoplectic about the NLRB’s decision this week to sue the states of Arizona and South Dakota seeking to invalidate those states’ constitutional amendments that prohibit private-sector employees from choosing to unionize through a procedure known as card check. The lawsuit is unsurprising and it continues a long precedent of striking down state laws preempted by the National Labor Relations Act, which these same conservatives support when it is used to strike down laws increasing workers’ union rights.
The sad thing is that many wage earners will continue to vote for a Republican, cutting their own throats. Truly amazing.
Sunday, May 22, 2011
Alan Grayson: Those Tax Cuts For The Rich
Alan Grayson is one of the few Democrats who has some balls. The man is not afraid to speak the truth as he did on Friday.
Transcript provided by mediaite.com via HuffingtonPost.com
Madam Speaker, we've heard endless braying from the Republicans, time after time, demanding an extension of tax cuts for the rich in this country. They tell us that somehow extending tax cuts for the rich will somehow create jobs. When we've had tax cuts for the rich for nine years and I haven't noticed a lot of jobs being created in nine years.
They tell us it will boost the economy well I haven't noticed that happening for nine years either. So you have to wonder why they persist in this mania, this obsession of theirs that we need to have tax cuts for the rich when the economy is flat on its back and unemployment is almost 10%. I think I have the answer. The answer turns out to be very simple.
They want tax cuts for the rich because they want a tax cut for themselves. What do I mean by that? Let's take a look at the people who are really in charge, the ones who actually run the Republican party.
Let's start with this gentleman here, the man with the cigar, Rush Limbaugh. Doesn't he look happy? According according to Newsweek, he makes $58.7 million a year, and extending the tax cuts means he'll have another $2.7 million. Mega dittos, Rush, and mega money. Let's look at the next one.
Here's Glenn Beck, according to Newsweek Glenn Beck makes $33 million a year as a pundit and extending the Bush Tax Cuts means a cool $1.5 million for Glenn bBeck's ongoing imitation of Howard Beale from Network. Now let's look at the next one.
Sean Hannity. Newsweek says that Sean Hannity, this man of the people makes $22 million a year from his act on Fox. And that means the Bush Tax cuts mean an extra $1 million. $1 million for Sean Hannity. Maybe he can afford some anger management classes. Let's take a look at the next one.
Bill O'Reilly. He makes a modest $20 million a year from his gig on Fox. That means that the Bush tax cuts give him not quite seven figures, nearly $914,000 of extra cash. It's easy to see why Bill O'Reilly wants to see the Bush tax cuts extended. And I have to say, he's no pinhead when it comes to that.
And Now, Sarah Palin. Sarah Palin has made $14 million this year from cashing in on her fame. In fact, she's done a better job of turning fame into cash than anyone in American history. $14 million. So she wants the Bush tax cuts extended so she can make an extra cool $638,000. As she was -- as she would gesture (shoulder shrug.)
And now on to Newt Gingrich, the man who did such a great job of running America in the 1990's, he wants a second chance in this decade. Newt if you do to us now what you did to us then, we'll be in trouble. But Newt Gingrich makes $5 million a year from his punditry, he'll get an extra quarter million dollars a year. An extra quarter million dollars a year from the Bush tax cuts being extended.
Now let's go on to the big cheese. George W. Bush himself. The man who got us into two endless war. The man who brought us to the brink of national bankruptcy. The man who gave us $4 a gallon gasoline. George W. Bush makes a cull $4.2 million a year, according to Newsweek. That means that extending the bush tax cuts for George Bush means an extra $187,000 in his pockets every single year.
I have a better idea. Instead of placating these people and letting them spew out onto the airwaves their lies about the Bush tax cut ever revealing the fact that they stand to gain millions, millions of dollars each year from their selfish desire to take advantage of the rest of America, let's do this. Let's take that money and create jobs.
All that money that the Bush tax cuts are charging us that can create jobs for three million Americans a year. $30,000 job a fair wage for fair work, a dignified wage for dignified work and a way to -- a dignified wage for dignified work and a way to help our economy, a better idea than putting money in the pocks of the rich. The problem is not that the poor have too much money, that's not the problem at all, it's that they need jobs. Thank you.
Technorati Tags: Alan Grayson,George Bush,Tax Cuts,Rush Limbaugh,Glenn Beck,Sarah Palin,Sean Hannity,Current Events,Politics
Saturday, May 21, 2011
Anyone get Raptured?
If you are reading this, then you are still here among the living. I am typing this, so I guess that I am also still living.
If we had the rapture, then I have to give it a 2 on a scale of 0-10, because it wasn’t close to as exciting as it had been advertised. I want my money back. Also, I purchased a pair of angel wings, just in case, which I now have no use for. Of course, they came with a no-return policy. I was also hoping that I would not have to pay the power bill and the cable bill this coming week. No such luck there!
Damned! No I’m depressed. Guess I’ll have a few beers and sulk a bit while making plans to do battle once again against the evil Republicans and their satanic ways.
The Rapture Begins
I was just wondering. How long do I have to wait before it is official that I am not one of the chosen ones? How will I/you know anyway? What if the boss is gone on Monday when you get to work? Do you still get paid to do nothing, and who will be paying you if payroll is no longer around?
Keith Olbermann On Late Show…
…with David Letterman discussed why he left MSNBC and talks about his new show premiering June 20 on Current TV. The show will be called Countdown, as was his past show on MSNBC.
Breaking News: Rapture Report
Rapture Report: Christians Replaced with RepliChristians
By Seneca Doane Sat May 21, 2011 Original Post
I didn't believe it would happen -- and it's too late to repent now -- but the reports from the Western Pacific are pouring in: at least some Christians are being Raptured. Their bodies are shooting right into the sky so they can enjoy everlasting life with their Creator. (And no, it won't get boring. He knows infinite tricks!) The earthquakes and floods are happening as well, but unfortunately for us they're happening on the same astral plane as that of the ascending bodies -- so we can't see or feel them (or touch, smell, or taste them either.) But I have been assured that they are there. You can trust me because my wife is on vacation with her family in the Philippines, where 6 p.m. recently passed, so I've seen it through Skype. (We already knew that she, like me, was headed for the Tribulations because, as an artist, she has been known to make graven images.) Several family members are not there!
It turns out that Satan -- that busy planner -- has had a plan in mind, though. (Please remember, this is science!)
Satan's Infernal Plan is simple: as "devout" (which apparently God has defined to include only smug, heartless and intolerant) Christians have been bodily taken up to Heaven, their clothes have not fallen to the floor. Instead, Satan has replaced their bodies with imposters -- you might call them RepliChristians -- before the fabric could even wrinkle. This is, of course, part of Satan's plan to lull us into not believing that the Rapture took place at all! The same people are still going to be there in the same bodies saying the same old things -- they're just now going to be servants of The Fallen Angel. Cunning! One might even say: diabolical!
Now that the Rapture has taken place, we must all of course be on our guard to ward off the followers of The Evil One. We're in the period of Tribulations, after all, where Satan will promote his plan to destroy the Earth and the Universe. (The rest of the Multiverse will, so far as we know, be fine.) So, above all, we must resist what these Agents of Satan now have to say!
What will they have to say? Well, it will sound pretty familiar -- it's what they've always said. All of the Christian commentary that seems to go against the Word of Christ, the Golden Rule, etc. The hatred, the selfishness, the affected public piety, the hypocrisy -- nothing new. Nothing new except this: now we know that when we hear people saying it, it's not coming from the Christians we thought were in those bodies (who, if you're a little slow on the uptake this morning, have now, of course, been Raptured). Because they're gone, these intolerant and anti-charitable sentiments must be coming from RepliChristians! If you want to survive the Tribulations -- or even beat them back, you being part of the Left Behind Left -- you have to fight them! You have to call Satan's agents on their evil plans! If what these religious changelings preach sounds like the love of Mammon, slam 'em!
Rapture has occurred! Either Rick Santorum is in Heaven and the person frothing out those filthy ideas is a simulacrasantorum, or else Rick Santorum is not in Heaven and we know that those ideas are not Godly after all! After the Rapture, we know that whatever censorious Christians are still left are either fake or wrong. (Other good Christians who preach benevolence and mutual support have apparently been left here to guide us. Be nice to them. They're missing out on a swell party because they didn't want to go without you.)
So here we are in the time of Tribulations -- it feels like we've already been here a while -- but it's only for five months, right? We're never going to get to recall Scott Walker! (Actually, it's now "RepliScott RepliWalker.") No, don't worry: we're going to be here a while. Harold Camping (now either the Satanic RepliCamping or Harold Went-Into-Hiding) made a really elementary error. Remember how his theory of the "days" before the Rapture turned on the phrase "a day is as a thousand years." Well, DUDE! If they say that Tribulations goes on for 5 months -- let's call it 150 days, that's 150,000 years! So -- let's do something about global warming; we'll be here for a while.
There is one last small implication of the Rapture -- which, again, happened, but which Satan wants us to believe didn't happened -- that we'll have to address: immigration, voter registration and entitlement programs.
You see, those RepliChristians running around spouting that doctrine of hate and greed -- they aren't the same people who were here before. Those original people are gone! The "people" who pretend to be here in their stead are, in fact, not eligible to be present in the United States (technically, they should be deported back to Hell, but I'm not sure that we have an extradition treaty.) So, we have to deport them to where we can and, meanwhile, we can't let them vote! (They're not registered! The original ones were the ones that registered!) Similarly, we can't let them receive entitlements such as Social Security and Medicare -- because they are no more entitled than a Mongolian goatherder or Bolivian nurse who's never been to our shores.
We will have to work hard to figure out which of them are agents of Satan -- asking them such questions as "do you believe that God has chosen you to be rich?" and "do you think that others should have fewer rights than you do?" -- to identify those who are Agents of Satan. I think the arresting them would be unfair, but denying these infernal impostors the vote and any government services until they prove beyond a doubt that they're who they claim to be seems fair. Given that Satan could have replicated their bodies entirely down to the retinas, blood type and fingerprints, and could have given them false memories too, they may have a hard time in court.
So please spread the word: if someone was smugly claiming that they were RaptureReady yesterday, we have to assume that they were in fact raptured today. Now we must defeat the Devil at his own game and defeat the foreign RepliChristians! It's what the Christians who now sit and the feet of God would want us to do.
Technorati Tags: Fundamentalist Christianity Harold Camping,Rapture,RepliChristians,Satan,Humor,Current Events
Friday, May 20, 2011
Saturday Satire:”Rapture Participants “ Updated
Today is the day of the rapture. At 6 p.m. ( E.S.T ) all of those people who belong to the lord will be taken up into heaven while the remainder continue to go about their daily business. It is said that those making the trip upstairs will only be about 3% of the entire population, so how will we know if the rapture happened or not? You can bet your ass that many of the church leaders and their members are not going anywhere, so how will we know? the really funny part will be when the groups pushing this mess wake up on Sunday, still on earth, wondering why they were left behind. Counseling anyone?
Rapture Flow Chart to see if you will be left behind.
Here's what's REALLY going to happen…
OK here’s my take on what the rapture REALLY is. (Inspired by e-mail with friends about the pooties and woozles left behind)
These self-righteous holier-than-thou pain-in-the-ass people get taken up into the sky to sit in some kind of hotel room or giant DMV waiting room and wait to get into Heaven. Also, “raptured” at the same time; The Pacific Ocean Garbage gyre, all of the leftover BP oil in the marshes, the Fukushima nuclear plant, Chernobyl, and any other crap polluting the earth. Woosh!, up into the sky and taken away.
Those of us “left behind” get to enjoy all of the pets of these people (animals don’t have souls you know and therefore can’t be raptured) and a very clean idyllic world to live in.
G_d then forgets about the raptured ones sitting in the hotel/waiting room somewhere. Guess they can entertain themselves watching Fox News. by MEL in PGH
I don't think the government … that actually runs the country will be gone - they are much more reality-based, surely! But, we won't have to have any elections because all the GOPers will be gone - er, well, maybe not.... We'll be left with the likes of John Ensign and Newt, dang! It was a good thought while it lasted. by Merry Light
To funny to pass up. Oh, and have a good weekend. I’ll see most of you on Sunday or Monday, depending on how many of us are returned to earth for bad behavior.
Will there be counseling provided……for those who return on Monday, crushed and disillusioned? by CJB
To All Employees,
The company recognizes that we cannot control your actions outside of the workplace, but we feel that we must address this issue this morning. In an emergency meeting last night, management has requested that we address the following items for those employees that are planning on participating in “the rapture” this weekend. We hope that you find the following information both informative and helpful as you work through your plans for today.
If you are planning on participating in “the rapture” on Saturday, May 21, 2011 we ask that you read the following notice carefully and comply with all provisions within.
Company policy states:
An employee may be considered to have abandoned the job if he or she has been absent from work for longer than three workdays without being on approved leave or without notifying the appropriate supervisor. Such abandonment will be considered as a voluntary resignation.
Company management has determined that participation in “the rapture” is not considered an approved leave and we are assuming that you will be leaving your position for longer than three days without proper notification to your supervisor of your absence. Therefore your termination will be considered a voluntary termination with less than two weeks notice.
At a meeting earlier today, we have coordinated the efforts of our human resource team and your work supervisor, to assure a smooth transition. Your management team is anticipating a smooth transition during this time, based on your cooperation with the human resources department and your work supervisor.
The human resource department is prepared to assist you with any change of beneficiaries on your insurance policies and retirement. Management has asked that you verify the beneficiaries on your account before you leave today to assure that the plans are correct and up-to-date. We had our insurance representative courier additional change forms to the office this morning. We request that you complete this task first thing this morning, so we can confirm that the forms are completed fully and accurately before you leave today.
We are currently in contact with our insurance representative that provides employee life insurance policies. There appears to be a clause in the policy that may nullify the payment of any benefits from the life insurance, as we will not be able to verify “death”, which is necessary for life insurance disbursements. We are hoping we will have clarification on this issue before the end of the day. Please watch for additional information later today from your human resources department.
Please notify human resources where you would like your final check sent. Since the company has not received the required two week notice for voluntary termination, you will not receive payment for any unused vacation time. As a reminder, company policy does not allow you to use vacation time as part of your required two week notice.
Upon termination, our human resource department will send you a COBRA notification for continuation of your insurance plans - to the address that we currently have on file. If you plan to continue insurance coverage under any of the COBRA eligible company plans, you will need to return this form within 60 days. The total cost of premiums plus a 2% administration fee will be included in the COBRA notification. The check for continuation of your coverage must be received within 60 days. Please note that your original signature must be on the COBRA documentation when it is returned to our office.
As a reminder, per company policy, you will be considered voluntarily terminated due to abandonment. Therefore your coverage under all health and life insurance plans will be cancelled after you have missed the third working day without appropriate notice to your supervisor.
Management has requested that those employees who fly on company business, work with our human resource department to assure that all business related frequent flyer miles are transferred to the company, no later than 2pm this afternoon
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Your manager and workflow supervisor are here to help you throughout today. If you have any questions - please contact them to assist you.
To help the company during this time of transition we ask that you take care of the following items before you leave the office today.
Please sync any personal data devices containing company information, such as business contacts, to your computer and download that information for the company’s future needs.
Before you leave, please put your work assignments in a pile in the middle of your desk with the most urgent / important assignment on the top of the pile. Please include a short description of each project / assignment, what has been completed on the project and what needs to be completed. Please include a complete list of contacts for the project including full name, email address and telephone numbers.
Please leave your laptop on your desk when you leave today. The laptop is company property. Due to the circumstances do not take your company issued laptop home with you this weekend.
Please leave your company phone on your desk when you leave today. This is company property. Due to the circumstances do not take your company issued phone home with you this weekend.
In addition, please compile a list of passwords that we will need to be able to access each account that you use for business purposes including the unique user name of each account and any secret recovery words, such as pet, teacher, etc... You are requested to leave this type-written list on the upper right hand corner of your desk before you leave today.
As you exit the building today, please give the receptionist
your security card for the building
your company ID
your telephone calling card and
your company credit cards.
Also, please give the receptionist the following written list.
Your voicemail password
Your computer password
The receptionist will have a form for you to sign to verify that you have turned in these items and information.
As a reminder, there is a $25 fee for employee building security cards that are not returned to the company at time of termination. There is a $50 fee for voicemail/ computer passwords that are not reported at time of termination. These amounts, if applicable, will be deducted from your final paycheck.
Please remove any personal food items from the company refrigerator and take them home with you before you leave for the weekend.
Since your absence will be considered an abandonment of your work position, future calls for references will be forwarded to the human resource department for handling. Management has requested that human resources handle all future references by releasing the following information only:
Your hire date and termination date
Your position title and your last rate of pay.
We will tell any future employers that you are not eligible for rehire with our company.
Please watch your email during the day for additional requests that may come from our human resource department.
If you have any additional questions, that have not been covered in this letter, please contact the human resource department.
Originally posted to MNDem999 on Fri May 20, 2011
Also republished by Community Spotlight.
Friday Funnies Part 1: Terminator Edition
Yes indeed! It has been a bad week the Arnold. So, to celebrate his coming-out party, I’ve searched the web for the best jokes and cartoons just for you.
Copyright © 2011 Creators Syndicate
Jay Leno: "You know what Arnold Schwarzenegger and Meg Whitman have in common? They both got in trouble for stiffing the maid. And today Arnold was offered the job as the new head of the International Monetary Fund."
"Arnold kept this secret for more than 10 years. You know how he did it? He moved the woman and child into an apartment right down the street from the Pakistani military academy."
Craig Ferguson: "Arnold Schwarzenegger fathered a lovechild back in 2003. To be fair, Arnold has been taking financial responsibility for the child: education, health care ... everything he's taken away from every other child in California."
Jimmy Kimmel : "There have been rumors going around for years now about a half Austrian, half Mexican baby – who could bench-press a Ford Expedition."
Florida Taliban Leader Rick Scott Signs Florida Voter Suppression Bill To Keep Voters From Polls. You, Mr. Scott, Are The Fraud
…and this comes as no surprise since voter disenfranchisement is the only way that the Republican Party American Taliban can win an election. This group of crooks knows that they will not win the 2012 presidential election and that many of the House members will also be gone if the minorities, collage students, and the lower income can make it to the voting polls. So, to gain even more power, they use the usual non-existent “ voter fraud “ excuse to make voting almost an impossibility for many citizens.
Rick Scott:
Not surprisingly, Gov. Rick Scott signed into law on Thursday pernicious election changes designed to benefit Republicans and suppress voting by minorities, college students and low-wage workers.
The League of Women Voters says it will suspend voter-registration activity in Florida because the bill requires such groups to register with the state and face fines of up to $1,000 for mistakes.
This law goes to the heart of the Democratic base. It will force women, minorities, and college students from getting actual ballots. They will be forced to use shady Provisional ballots....according to Politifact, the MAJORITY OF THESE BALLOTS ARE NOT COUNTED!!!
- Women can no longer update their names at the polls if they changed their marital status. They've been able to do this for almost half a century with NO issues. They will be forced to go provisional.
- College students will no longer be able to update their new address. Their votes will also be provisional... and unlikely to count
- Minorities should be worried as well:
There are many other new regulations, several depriving voters of their chance to work out problems at the polls. For instance, if voters are challenged for any reason, they would be required to cast a provisional ballot. And they could not receive legal help while in line, as before.
But wait! This bill goes as far as saying that the news media and bloggers can no longer take video/audio of voters at the polling places. WTF!
So what are they going do when I am at my polling place with a recorder, bar me from voting? Arrest me? That, I would like to see.
Gov. Scott said its all about preventing fraud. Except no one.. .not any of the elections supervisors, not the Secretary of State, can find any instance. The Tampa article mentioned only 31 cases even investigated in the past several years. So spare me.
In addition, if this was REALLY about fraud, why go after early voters? The biggest chance of fraud is ABSENTEE BALLOTS.. but these were left alone. WHY? Guess where the GOP gets a lot of votes from?
Yeah.
This is about voter suppression. One FL Teabag lawmaker even admitted it was about making voting as hard as possible.
Rick Scott has already passed an archaic rule requiring nonviolent felons to wait five years after completing their sentences before applying to have their voting rights restored. Even though HE KNOWS this will purge THOUSANDS of innocent (and disproportionately black) voters from the rolls misidentified as felons like we did in 2000.
I WILL NOT ALLOW THIS TO GO DOWN WITHOUT A FIGHT:
1. Contact the DOJ. Some of our election laws are subject to review because of the Voting Rights Act. This is a clear case of disenfranchisement. OBAMA! HOLDER! WAKE UP!UPDATE: Direct # for Dept. of Voting Rights at DOJ: (202) 307-2767
2. Contact the FLORIDA DEM PARTY. Tell them to start acting like an opposition party by leading a citizen-led initiative to our Constitution to overturn this mess. And another one that there can be NO more changes to our election laws that restrict voting unless its put before the people!
This is so outrageous that even I am certain we can get 600,000 signatures in the time allotted. The govenor's office admitted they fielded a record number of calls... all of them opposed to this law. Obviously, he cares not what the citizens want. (PS, fellow citizens, drop him [and your legislator] a line and let them know what you think about voter suppression.)
Thursday, May 19, 2011
Newt Gingrich: PAC Fundraising…
…is not doing to well as of late.
it has been reported that the Newts former American Solutions PAC only managed a meager $1,040 during the month of April, which breaks down to an average of only $34.66 per day.
"The $1,040 raised in April was money that trickled in late from one mail piece we sent out at the beginning of the year," Dan Kotman of American Solutions told TPM in an email.
"We haven't spent time fundraising for American Solutions PAC recently, but we fully expect our activity to increase later on as the new election year approaches and we will once again be supporting conservative candidates who support our values -- just like we did in 2010," he said.
The only problem that this PAC will have is that there are apparently no candidates who support to many of those Gingrich values.
Newt should save himself some face and just crawl back into the pit that he crawled out of in the first place.
The Republican political world has grown past his kind of rhetoric and they developed their own rhetoric which will not work to well with Newt. Plus, the GOP have those Tea Carpet Baggers to contend with and they do not like Newt nor do they trust him, which is a positive for them.
Then there is the fact that the biggest contributor to the PAC is in a world of crap themselves. That would be Sheldon Adelson, chairman of the Las Vegas Sands Corp.
Adelson and his gambling company have been plagued by legal troubles in recent months. The Sands recently disclosed that it is being investigated by the Justice Department and the Securities and Exchange Commission for possible violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
Adelson, who has an estimated net worth of over $23 billion, has personally pumped $7 million over the past five years into Gingrich’s main political advocacy organization, American Solutions for Winning the Future. His contributions account for more than 10 percent of all the organization's funds and have helped the former speaker promote his conservative causes and stay in the public eye. ...More
After him pissing off the Republican leadership with his “ Meet the Press “ interview on Sunday, it is a safe bet that Newt’s aspirations are D.O.A.!
Palin Will Not Be President…
…and former Florida Representative Alan Grayson has 10 reasons why she won’t. Some will say that Mr. Grayson is being mean spirited, but he is right when he disparages Palin’s low level of I.Q. Complete Article
(1) Palin doesn’t know who is buried in Grant’s Tomb.
(2) Palin couldn’t tell you when the War of 1812 was fought.
(3) Palin has no clue about the color of George Washington’s white horse.
(4) Palin wonders on what day Latinos celebrate the Cinco de Mayo.
(5) Palin isn’t sure what weighs more, a pound of bricks or a pound of feathers.
(6) Palin has no idea in what month the October Revolution took place.
(7) Palin is baffled by the question of who came up with the Monroe Doctrine.
(8) Palin would very much like to know who fought in the French and Indian War.
(9) Palin is puzzled as to who wrote “The Autobiography of Malcolm X.”
(10) Palin is at a loss regarding what were JFK’s initials.
Well, one thing is for sure. Sarah Palin will never figure out how to get to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
I’m not saying that Sarah Palin is dumb. But I’m not saying that she’s not.
American Taliban: Newt Gingrich
"Newt Gingrich is running and just came out with his new book: 'The Adultery of Hope.'" –Jay Leno
As the late-night talk shows have stated over the past few days, the Republican Party American Taliban have no clear person in mind for the Taliban nominee for presidential contender to compete against President Obama in 2012. As you can imagine, the current crop of fools have been supplying much material to comedians from all over the globe, including even the news shows on cable. With the Newt entering the race, talk shows everywhere have been having a field day with his off the cuff remarks about Medicare and his comment calling Rep. Ryan’s budget plan “ radical.” Mr. Gingrich has been catching hell from the GOP for his comments on Meet The Press. Even the American Taliban leadership have been on his ass for criticizing his own party. The GOP, like the Communist Party, does like dissent.
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Gingrich Spoke The Truth and got hammered by GOP for doing it
Newt will be providing comic material for the Internet and television shows for a long time. Stay tuned.
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Wednesday, May 18, 2011
The Gingrich Economic Plans…
…are nothing new from this Republican American Taliban member that have not already been tried and proven to have failed. You know the pitch: less taxes, permanent placement of the Bush/Obama tax cuts which will expire ( hopefully ) in 2012, and so forth.
Newt also has a plan that will make the United States the most desirable place in the world for new business investment. Guess what the ideas entail?
… a bold series of tax cuts, including: Eliminating the capital gains tax to make American entrepreneurs more competitive against those in other countries; Dramatically reducing the corporate income tax (the highest in the world) to 12.5%; Allowing for 100% expensing of new equipment to spur innovation and American manufacturing; Ending the death tax permanently.
A corporate income tax rate of 12.5%? Give me a break! The majority of businesses in America already pay little or no tax. What does another tax break do for a business that already pays zero?
But wait! There’s more!
Move toward an optional flat tax of 15% that would allow Americans the freedom to choose to file their taxes on a postcard, saving hundreds of billions in unnecessary costs each year.
Yes, and most of that lost revenue would be made up in a vast assortment of fees because the public hasn’t figured out that those fees are taxes in a different form. You are more than likely paying more in fees that you are in regular taxes.
The Newt has many more ideas to help big business while putting the major burdens on the average Joe.
Read some more of his ideas here, the Gingrich site.
Jon Stewart Fires Up On The O’Reilly Factor…
…over the FoxNews tirade over the White House having rapper Common appear at a poetry reading last week. Stewart stomped all over the racist O’Reilly on Monday. And as an added bonus, video number three on others with lyrics which could be questionable.
Check out the 2 part video.
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