tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-87498840800096642652024-03-05T05:05:26.219-05:0090º Degrees to the LeftLiberal Democratic Political Blog - So far to the left that I can touch the Right.
You may not always agree with my opinion, but I will remain loyal to my point of views and call things as I see them. No sugar coating things to please an audience, with me, honesty will always be the best policy.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03722460324757919409noreply@blogger.comBlogger207125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8749884080009664265.post-91242288380520964092015-06-07T20:05:00.001-04:002015-06-07T23:38:12.803-04:00It’s Time For a Woman President, Just Not Her<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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It’s been almost two months since Hillary Rodham Clinton announced her candidacy for President. If you visit her <a href="http://www.hillaryclinton.com/" target="_blank">website</a>, you will see very little of what she is bringing to the table. In fact, there is not even a tab for Issues. Zilch, nada, zero. There is a tab for her biography, where you will learn her life story (I can hear violins playing in the back of my mind). You will learn her father was a Republican and that her mother had a very difficult childhood. Nowhere on her website will you learn about the issues she will be fighting for during her campaign.
There are no tabs on her website to clarify some of the questions raised by the media ever since she announced her candidacy. You can’t even access it unless you “join” her. Why the secrecy?</div>
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The above video is from her campaign website. Even in her video, she briefly touches the subject “economics” but offers no glimpse at a solution. She makes sure there is a pair a gay couples to ensure that people know, without her saying it, that she is pro same sex marriage. Damn, even her iconic phrase “human rights are women's rights and women's rights are human rights” was changed to “human rights are gay’s rights and gay’s rights are human rights” well, that sure took a lot of thinking!
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Too many things have come up since her announcement. The compromising of security by practically giving to the highest bidder weapon deals in exchange for a donation to her family’s foundation has no precedent for a Secretary of State. Making deals with countries known for they tyranny and lack of human rights, which she was willing to overlook for a fee; if they were willing to pay, she was ready to play. One can only wonder what will be for sale if she becomes the president of this great nation of ours.
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Given the questionable legality or morality of the above, I had my doubts about its veracity. As any Hillary supporter would think – which I've never been – I thought it was a dirty attack by the Right Wing media in an attempt to taint her image because they feared her. Then, the same thing was published in Mother Jones, a magazine with a pretty solid reputation among progressives. Then, it was also mentioned by The Daily Kos, so it was not trash from the Right after all, it seemed to be real.
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What made me think without a doubt that there was something very dishonest about the “pay-to-play” deal, was the conveniently erased emails that could incriminate her without a doubt. Hillary not only used her personal email exclusively for governmental issues, but she went as far as using a personal server, conveniently located at her home in New York. The exclusive usage of a personal email is against the <a href="http://www.archives.gov/press/press-releases/2015/nr15-23.html" target="_blank">Federal Records Act Amendments of 2014</a> but she claims it was an option available to her… Cmon! She is not an inexperienced person. She was a Senator and before that she was a First Lady for eight years. She is also a lawyer, and we are to believe that she had the option of streaming her emails, the federal business she conducted to be private, 100% private and under her exclusive control? It bothers me that she says all this with a smirk on her face. She continues to say that her emails were all to personnel at the government offices and therefore immediately captured by the government’s servers. Really? Even those emails sent to other governments, to dignitaries from faraway lands? And then, she erased them, and we are to think that there was nothing to hide? How stupid does she thinks we are, how stupid does she thinks her base is?
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Still, I'll grant her the benefit of the doubt maybe she used her own server, her personal email, etc. for the convenience. Let’s assume that, as ridiculous as it may sound. But why didn’t she send copies to her official governmental email so there would be a record of what was transpiring? Even I do that when I send an email from home related to work and vice versa. The fact that she didn’t, makes me wonder what was she hiding. If you are hiding something, I bet anything it’s because it is not good. I am sure they can access those emails, and that probably will happen in due time but, by then, she might already be president. If we find out what those emails were, we are then in deep trouble because that could only mean a Republican is occupying the White House. No Democrat will ever throw her under the bus, or so I hope.
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Regardless, she is running on air. Nothing on her page tells us what she will do to change the course of this country. She doesn’t have a platform other than she is Hillary. Period.
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People are voting for her to continue a dynasty. They are voting for her because they want to relive Clinton’s era. That will never happen and in all honesty, Clinton’s era was great but, in the long run, we are where we are in part thanks to his policies. He opened the door for corporations to move their factories overseas, for corporations to take their money offshore and for China to invade us. We are parasites, and we produce barely anything, even our budget depends on what we can borrow from China, and we have Bill Clinton to thank for it.
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We need to stop romanticizing imperial masters, envying England and their royalty. No more Bushes or Clintons, there are far more intelligent and capable people than these two families. Enough is enough.
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Clinton, both of them, are corporatists that will never bite the hand that feeds them, they will always protect and work for Corporate America, not blue collar America.
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It’s time to close the Clintons and Bushes chapters. They are and forever shall be history.
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If she wins the primary, I will vote for her, but I will do it with a hefty heart.</div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/05/hillary-clinton-foundation-state-arms-deals">http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/05/hillary-clinton-foundation-state-arms-deals</a></span></div>
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<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/05/26/1387927/-Hillary-is-just-a-hawk-Admit-It">http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/05/26/1387927/-Hillary-is-just-a-hawk-Admit-It</a>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03722460324757919409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8749884080009664265.post-12329311514614616642015-05-22T16:42:00.005-04:002015-05-22T16:42:49.356-04:00Bernie Sanders for President<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span data-reactid=".3m.1:4:1:$comment764586746972056_764657963631601:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.0.$end:0:$text4:0"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Bernie Sanders is an Independent. He is also
a Socialist. <br />
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The problem with people in the US is that they do not know or recognize there
is a difference between socialism and communism. They are not the same even though
most communist countries claim to be socialists, in reality they are not. <br />
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It's like saying Imperialism and Capitalism are the same, they are not. <br />
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There is no harm in Sanders' socialism. That type of socialism works for the betterment
of society. It tries to help the helpless; to bring up those that have no voice,
no future and that have lost hope due to the greed and arrogance of the upper class.
Wanting to provide free education for everyone, is socialism. Wanting to offer
everyone with medical attention and healthcare for free, is socialism. Don't buy
into the bullshit that a socialist wants to steal from the rich to give to the poor,
that is a fear tactic used since Hoover to demonize socialism. All a socialist wants
is better wages for the working class, better working conditions, less taxes for
the poor and the rich to be taxed appropriately. If this is not good for you or
me, and I am talking to every Democrat and Independent out there, then you are
not a Democrat, and you are simply fooling yourself. <br />
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I will vote for Bernie Sanders, and I have said this since he came into the picture
as the only one in Congress watching my back. Long before he announced he was running.
I have said I would vote for him or Elizabeth Warren before most Democrats were
shouting they would and begging Bernie to run, just so now that he listened and
is running to run like scared rats... Now we hear more often than not that he
will lose because he is a socialist. That we want history to be made and elect the
first woman (without giving a damn that she supports Monsanto and that she is a
corporatist)... If you wish to make history and history is so damn important I
will give you history: <br />
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Bernie Sanders will be the very first openly Socialist President of the United States of
America. How about that for making history?<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03722460324757919409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8749884080009664265.post-29868171755722524662015-03-18T21:35:00.000-04:002015-03-18T21:35:52.566-04:00There Is No Hope For Israel Or Palestine<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I <span class="words"><span>lost</span></span>
<span class="words"><span>all</span></span> <span class="words"><span>faith</span></span>
in <span class="words"><span>the</span></span>
State of Israel <span class="words"><span>and</span></span>,
<span class="words"><span>sadly</span></span>,
in <span class="words"><span>the</span></span> <span class="words"><span>majority</span></span>
of <span class="words"><span>the</span></span>
Israelis <span class="words"><span>specifically</span></span>
<span class="words"><span>those</span></span>
that <span class="words"><span>voted</span></span>
to <span class="words"><span>perpetuate</span></span>
<span class="words"><span>the</span></span>
reign of Netanyahu.<br />
<br />
<span class="words"><span>The</span></span> <span class="words"><span>outcome</span></span>
of <span class="words"><span>yesterday</span></span>’s
<span class="words"><span>elections</span></span>
<span class="words"><span>proved</span></span>
to me <span class="words"><span>that</span></span>
<span class="words"><span>the</span></span> <span class="words"><span>government</span></span>
of Israel <span class="words"><span>and</span></span> <span class="words"><span>the</span></span> <span class="words"><span>majority</span></span>
of Israelis <span class="words"><span>only</span></span>
<span class="words"><span>remember</span></span>
<span class="words"><span>when</span></span>
<span class="words"><span>the</span></span>
genocide <span class="words"><span>was</span></span>
on their <span class="words"><span>people</span></span>.
<span class="words"><span>It</span></span> is
<span class="words"><span>unbelievable</span></span>
<span class="words"><span>that</span></span>
<span class="words"><span>today</span></span>
<span class="words"><span>they</span></span>
are <span class="words"><span>the</span></span> <span class="words"><span>ones</span></span>
<span class="words"><span>exerting</span></span>
<span class="words"><span>the</span></span> <span class="words"><span>same</span></span>
<span class="words"><span>violence</span></span>
<span class="words"><span>inflicted</span></span>
to them <span class="words"><span>less</span></span>
than 100 <span class="words"><span>years</span></span>
<span class="words"><span>ago</span></span>.<br />
<br />
<span class="words"><span>Back</span></span>
in <span class="words"><span>the</span></span>
1940s, Hitler with <span class="words"><span>the</span></span> <span class="words"><span>support</span></span>
of <span class="words"><span>most</span></span>
Germans <span class="words"><span>and</span></span> <span class="words"><span>many</span></span>
<span class="words"><span>other</span></span>
Europeans <span class="words"><span>were</span></span>
<span class="words"><span>set</span></span>
on <span class="words"><span>destroying</span></span>
<span class="words"><span>the</span></span>
Jewish <span class="words"><span>people</span></span>.
Like a <span class="words"><span>cancer</span></span>,
<span class="words"><span>the</span></span> <span class="words"><span>forces</span></span>
of <span class="words"><span>the</span></span>
Nazis <span class="words"><span>were</span></span>
<span class="words"><span>eating</span></span>
at <span class="words"><span>the</span></span>
Jewish <span class="words"><span>population</span></span>
from <span class="words"><span>every</span></span>
<span class="words"><span>country</span></span>
<span class="words"><span>they</span></span>
<span class="words"><span>conquered</span></span>
<span class="words"><span>and</span></span> <span class="words"><span>the</span></span> <span class="words"><span>world</span></span>
<span class="words"><span>looked</span></span>
in <span class="words"><span>the</span></span> <span class="words"><span>opposite</span></span>
<span class="words"><span>direction</span></span>.
<span class="words"><span>Sadly</span></span>,
<span class="words"><span>only</span></span>
a <span class="words"><span>handful</span></span>
of <span class="words"><span>people</span></span>
<span class="words"><span>cared</span></span>
<span class="words"><span>what</span></span>
<span class="words"><span>was</span></span> <span class="words"><span>happening</span></span>
on <span class="words"><span>another</span></span>
<span class="words"><span>land</span></span>
that <span class="words"><span>was</span></span>n’t
theirs. <span class="words"><span>That</span></span>
is <span class="words"><span>how</span></span>
Hitler <span class="words"><span>was</span></span> <span class="words"><span>capable</span></span>
of <span class="words"><span>conquering</span></span>
a <span class="words"><span>country</span></span>
after <span class="words"><span>country</span></span>
<span class="words"><span>because</span></span>
<span class="words"><span>no</span></span> <span class="words"><span>one</span></span> <span class="words"><span>cared</span></span>
until <span class="words"><span>it</span></span> <span class="words"><span>was</span></span>
their <span class="words"><span>turn</span></span>.
<span class="words"><span>Even</span></span>
<span class="words"><span>the</span></span>
US, <span class="words"><span>who</span></span>
at one <span class="words"><span>point</span></span>
<span class="words"><span>was</span></span> <span class="words"><span>contemplating</span></span>
<span class="words"><span>siding</span></span>
with Hitler… until <span class="words"><span>they</span></span>
<span class="words"><span>found</span></span>
out <span class="words"><span>that</span></span>
Hitler <span class="words"><span>had</span></span>
his <span class="words"><span>eyes</span></span>
on <span class="words"><span>these</span></span>
<span class="words"><span>shores</span></span>
as <span class="words"><span>well</span></span>.
<span class="words"><span>Then</span></span>
<span class="words"><span>and</span></span> <span class="words"><span>only</span></span>
<span class="words"><span>then</span></span>
<span class="words"><span>was</span></span> <span class="words"><span>the</span></span>
US <span class="words"><span>willing</span></span>
to be <span class="words"><span>the</span></span> <span class="words"><span>knight</span></span>
in <span class="words"><span>shining</span></span>
<span class="words"><span>armor</span></span>.<br />
<br />
<span class="words"><span>Today</span></span>,
<span class="words"><span>we</span></span>
can’t <span class="words"><span>understand</span></span>
<span class="words"><span>how</span></span> <span class="words"><span>the</span></span> <span class="words"><span>world</span></span>
<span class="words"><span>was</span></span> <span class="words"><span>capable</span></span>
of <span class="words"><span>ignoring</span></span>
<span class="words"><span>and</span></span> <span class="words"><span>allowing</span></span>
<span class="words"><span>the</span></span> <span class="words"><span>atrocities</span></span>
<span class="words"><span>committed</span></span>
against <span class="words"><span>the</span></span>
Jews. <span class="words"><span>Why</span></span> <span class="words"><span>did</span></span> <span class="words"><span>the</span></span> <span class="words"><span>majority</span></span>
of <span class="words"><span>people</span></span>
<span class="words"><span>ignore</span></span>
<span class="words"><span>such</span></span>
<span class="words"><span>horrors</span></span>?
<span class="words"><span>We</span></span> might <span class="words"><span>never</span></span> <span class="words"><span>know</span></span>.
<span class="words"><span>Some</span></span>
<span class="words"><span>say</span></span>
Hitler <span class="words"><span>was</span></span>
a <span class="words"><span>great</span></span>
<span class="words"><span>orator</span></span>,
others <span class="words"><span>say</span></span> <span class="words"><span>people</span></span>
<span class="words"><span>responded</span></span>
out of <span class="words"><span>fear</span></span>.
<span class="words"><span>The</span></span> <span class="words"><span>only</span></span>
<span class="modif"><span><span>sure</span></span></span>
<span class="words"><span>thing</span></span>
is <span class="words"><span>that</span></span>
<span class="words"><span>it</span></span> <span class="words"><span>was</span></span> <span class="words"><span>allowed</span></span>
<span class="words"><span>and</span></span> <span class="words"><span>whoever</span></span>
<span class="words"><span>did</span></span>n’t
<span class="words"><span>protect</span></span>
<span class="words"><span>the</span></span>
Jewish <span class="words"><span>people</span></span>
by <span class="words"><span>denouncing</span></span>
<span class="words"><span>those</span></span>
<span class="words"><span>horrors</span></span>
<span class="words"><span>were</span></span>
<span class="words"><span>and</span></span>
are <span class="words"><span>guilty</span></span>
of <span class="words"><span>that</span></span>
genocide.<br />
<br />
<span class="words"><span>It</span></span> is
<span class="words"><span>sad</span></span> <span class="words"><span>that</span></span>
<span class="words"><span>it</span></span> is
<span class="words"><span>those</span></span>
<span class="words"><span>same</span></span>
<span class="wordchoice"><span><span>people</span></span></span>
that <span class="words"><span>suffered</span></span>
in their <span class="words"><span>flesh</span></span>
<span class="words"><span>those</span></span>
monstrosities, are <span class="words"><span>the</span></span> <span class="words"><span>ones</span></span>
<span class="words"><span>doing</span></span>
<span class="words"><span>it</span></span> to
<span class="words"><span>other</span></span>
<span class="wordchoice"><span><span>people</span></span></span>.
<span class="words"><span>It</span><span>’s</span></span> <span class="words"><span>the</span></span> narcissist <span class="words"><span>or</span></span> <span class="words"><span>bully</span></span>
<span class="words"><span>syndrome</span></span>
I <span class="words"><span>suppose</span></span>.
<span class="words"><span>We</span></span> <span class="words"><span>have</span></span>
<span class="words"><span>heard</span></span>
<span class="words"><span>that</span></span>
<span class="words"><span>those</span></span>
<span class="words"><span>abused</span></span>
as <span class="words"><span>children</span></span>
<span class="words"><span>most</span></span>
<span class="words"><span>likely</span></span>
will <span class="words"><span>become</span></span>
abusers <span class="words"><span>when</span></span>
<span class="words"><span>they</span></span>
<span class="words"><span>grow</span></span>
up. I <span class="words"><span>think</span></span>
<span class="words"><span>that</span></span>
is <span class="words"><span>what</span><span>’s</span></span> <span class="words"><span>happening</span></span> to Israel <span class="words"><span>and</span></span>
its <span class="words"><span>people</span></span>…
<span class="words"><span>The</span></span> <span class="words"><span>difference</span></span>
is <span class="words"><span>that</span></span>
Israel is <span class="words"><span>keeping</span></span>
their <span class="words"><span>horrors</span></span>
centralized <span class="words"><span>and</span></span> <span class="words"><span>practically</span></span>
out of <span class="words"><span>view</span></span>
from <span class="words"><span>the</span></span> <span class="words"><span>rest</span></span>
of <span class="words"><span>the</span></span> <span class="words"><span>world</span></span>.
Israel hasn’t <span class="words"><span>crossed</span></span>
<span class="words"><span>any</span></span> <span class="words"><span>boundaries</span></span>
(<span class="words"><span>other</span></span>
than to <span class="words"><span>steal</span></span>
<span class="words"><span>the</span></span> <span class="words"><span>land</span></span>
from <span class="words"><span>the</span></span>
Palestinians) <span class="words"><span>or</span></span> <span class="words"><span>invaded</span></span>
<span class="words"><span>any</span></span> <span class="words"><span>neighboring</span></span>
<span class="words"><span>country</span></span>.
<span class="words"><span>And</span></span>
as <span class="words"><span>long</span></span>
as <span class="words"><span>they</span></span>
<span class="words"><span>keep</span></span>
<span class="words"><span>it</span></span>
within their <span class="words"><span>borders</span></span>
<span class="words"><span>the</span></span> <span class="words"><span>world</span></span>
will <span class="words"><span>look</span></span>
<span class="words"><span>the</span></span> <span class="words"><span>other</span></span>
<span class="words"><span>way</span></span> <span class="words"><span><span>while</span></span></span> <span class="words"><span>the</span></span> <span class="words"><span>monster</span></span>
<span class="words"><span>this</span></span>
<span class="words"><span>time</span></span>
is not <span class="words"><span>bearing</span></span>
a <span class="words"><span>swastika</span></span>
<span class="words"><span>but</span></span>
is <span class="words"><span>committing</span></span>
<span class="words"><span>these</span></span>
<span class="words"><span>crimes</span></span>
<span class="words"><span>sheltered</span></span>
by <span class="words"><span>the</span></span> <span class="words"><span>star</span></span>
of David.<br />
<br />
I <span class="words"><span>have</span></span>
<span class="words"><span>heard</span></span>
from Jewish <span class="words"><span>friends</span></span>
that Palestinians are <span class="words"><span>so</span></span> <span class="words"><span>bad</span></span>,
<span class="words"><span>so</span></span> <span class="words"><span>unwanted</span></span>
<span class="words"><span>that</span></span>
not <span class="words"><span>even</span></span>
their “Muslim <span class="words"><span>brothers</span></span>”
<span class="words"><span>care</span></span>
about them. <span class="words"><span>They</span></span>
<span class="words"><span>have</span></span>
<span class="words"><span>tried</span></span>
to dehumanize Palestinians, <span class="words"><span>practically</span></span>
<span class="words"><span>portraying</span></span>
them <span class="ignoredpatterns"><span>as</span></span> <span class="words"><span>the</span></span>
cockroaches of <span class="words"><span>the</span></span> <span class="words"><span>world</span></span>
deserving to be <span class="words"><span>annihilated</span></span>.
Israelis <span class="words"><span>forget</span></span>
<span class="words"><span>the</span></span> <span class="words"><span>land</span></span>
<span class="words"><span>they</span></span>
<span class="words"><span>claim</span></span>
as theirs <span class="words"><span>was</span></span>,
<span class="words"><span>less</span></span>
than 100 <span class="words"><span>years</span></span>
<span class="words"><span>ago</span></span>,
Palestine <span class="words"><span>where</span></span>
<span class="words"><span>the</span></span> <span class="words"><span>majority</span></span>
of Muslims <span class="words"><span>coexisted</span></span>
with a <span class="words"><span><span>very</span></span><span class="wordchoice"> <span></span><span class="words">small</span></span></span> <span class="words"><span>number</span></span>
of Jews. During <span class="words"><span>that</span></span>
<span class="words"><span>time</span></span>,
<span class="words"><span>where</span></span>
Muslims <span class="words"><span>were</span></span>
<span class="words"><span>the</span></span> <span class="words"><span>majority</span></span>,
<span class="words"><span>they</span></span>
<span class="words"><span>coexisted</span></span>
without <span class="words"><span>any</span></span> <span class="words"><span>problem</span></span>.
<span class="words"><span>The</span></span> <span class="words"><span>problem</span></span>
<span class="words"><span>began</span></span>
with <span class="words"><span>the</span></span> <span class="words"><span>dissolution</span></span>
of <span class="words"><span>the</span></span>
Mandate <span class="words"><span>and</span></span>,
<span class="words"><span>more</span></span>
importantly, with <span class="words"><span>the</span></span>
Zionist <span class="words"><span>arrival</span></span>
in Palestine. <span class="words"><span>They</span></span> <span class="words"><span>forget</span></span> <span class="words"><span>this</span></span>.<br />
<br />
Zionists <span class="words"><span>do</span></span>
not <span class="words"><span>want</span></span>
to <span class="words"><span>coexist</span></span>;
<span class="words"><span>they</span></span>
<span class="words"><span>never</span></span>
<span class="words"><span>did</span></span>.
<span class="words"><span>They</span></span>
<span class="words"><span>have</span></span>
<span class="words"><span>the</span></span> <span class="words"><span>same</span></span>
<span class="words"><span>ideals</span></span>
<span class="words"><span>and</span></span> <span class="words"><span>concept</span></span>
as <span class="words"><span>the</span></span>
Nazis. <span class="words"><span>They</span></span>
<span class="wordchoice"><span><span>want</span></span></span>
to <span class="words"><span>eliminate</span></span>
everything <span class="words"><span>and</span></span>
anything that is not Jewish, in <span class="words"><span>other</span></span>
<span class="words"><span>words</span></span>,
<span class="words"><span>they</span></span>
<span class="wordchoice"><span><span>want</span></span></span>
to <span class="words"><span>purify</span></span>
<span class="words"><span>the</span></span> <span class="words"><span>land</span></span>,
<span class="words"><span>just</span></span>
like Nazis <span class="words"><span>did</span></span>.
I <span class="words"><span>know</span></span>
<span class="words"><span>many</span></span>
of my Jewish <span class="words"><span>friends</span></span>
will not <span class="words"><span>accept</span></span>
<span class="words"><span>this</span></span>,
<span class="words"><span>the</span></span> <span class="words"><span>few</span></span>
I <span class="words"><span>have</span></span>
<span class="words"><span>left</span></span>
will <span class="words"><span>most</span></span>
<span class="words"><span>likely</span></span>
<span class="words"><span>end</span></span>
our <span class="words"><span>friendship</span></span>
<span class="words"><span>but</span></span> <span class="words"><span>the</span></span> <span class="words"><span>truth</span></span>
<span class="words"><span>always</span></span>
<span class="words"><span>hurts</span></span>.
<span class="words"><span>It</span></span> is
their <span class="words"><span>attitude</span></span>
of <span class="words"><span>rejection</span></span>
to others <span class="words"><span>opinions</span></span>,
of <span class="words"><span>accusing</span></span>
<span class="words"><span>those</span></span>
that <span class="words"><span>want</span></span>
<span class="words"><span>peace</span></span>
<span class="words"><span>and</span></span>
are against <span class="words"><span>the</span></span> <span class="words"><span>actions</span></span>
of <span class="words"><span>the</span></span>
Israeli <span class="words"><span>government</span></span>
against <span class="words"><span>the</span></span>
Palestinians of <span class="words"><span>being</span></span>
“anti-Semite," that <span class="words"><span>keeps</span></span>
<span class="words"><span>critics</span></span>
abate. I <span class="words"><span>refuse</span></span>
to be like <span class="words"><span>those</span></span>
Europeans that <span class="words"><span>looked</span></span>
<span class="words"><span>the</span></span> <span class="words"><span>other</span></span>
<span class="words"><span>way</span></span> <span class="words"><span>when</span></span>
Jews <span class="words"><span>were</span></span>
<span class="words"><span>being</span></span>
<span class="words"><span>slaughtered</span></span>.
I <span class="words"><span>refuse</span></span>
to <span class="words"><span>look</span></span>
<span class="words"><span>the</span></span> <span class="words"><span>other</span></span>
<span class="words"><span>way</span></span> <span class="words"><span>when</span></span>
<span class="words"><span>now</span></span> <span class="words"><span>the</span></span>
Jews are <span class="words"><span>ones</span></span>
<span class="words"><span>doing</span></span>
<span class="words"><span>the</span></span>
slaughtering<span class="modif"><span>;</span></span> I could not <span class="words"><span>live</span></span>
with <span class="words"><span>myself</span></span>.<br />
<br />
<span class="words"><span>Now</span></span>,
Netanyahu <span class="words"><span>won</span></span> <span class="words"><span>again</span></span>
<span class="words"><span>and</span></span> <span class="words"><span>got</span></span> <span class="words"><span>the</span></span> <span class="words"><span>vote</span></span>
of <span class="words"><span>the</span></span> <span class="words"><span>people</span></span>
by <span class="words"><span>stating</span></span>
<span class="words"><span>that</span></span>
there will <span class="words"><span>never</span></span>
be a Palestine State under his <span class="words"><span>watch</span></span>.
<span class="words"><span>That</span></span>
<span class="words"><span>statement</span></span>
<span class="words"><span>brought</span></span>
<span class="words"><span>the</span></span>
Israelis out in <span class="words"><span>numbers</span></span>
which <span class="words"><span>for</span></span>
me <span class="words"><span>it</span></span> <span class="words"><span>means</span></span>
<span class="words"><span>that</span></span>
<span class="words"><span>those</span></span>
<span class="words"><span>who</span></span> <span class="words"><span>voted</span></span>
<span class="words"><span>for</span></span>
Netanyahu are <span class="words"><span>bloodthirsty</span></span>,
<span class="words"><span>murderers</span></span>
<span class="words"><span>who</span></span>
are <span class="words"><span>no</span></span> <span class="words"><span>different</span></span>
from <span class="words"><span>the</span></span>
Nazis.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03722460324757919409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8749884080009664265.post-14046513454771901992014-07-28T16:17:00.001-04:002014-07-31T09:52:03.986-04:00The Palestinian Holocaust<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<a href="https://90degrees2theleft.files.wordpress.com/2014/07/gaza.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="gaza" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-2242" src="http://90degrees2theleft.files.wordpress.com/2014/07/gaza.jpg" height="150" width="150" /></a>Here we go again…. Another confrontation between Israel and Palestine. What else is new?</div>
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What’s new is that finally the world is fed up with the abuses of the government of Israel. Netanyahu has pushed the envelope quite too many times, and the world sees through his lies.</div>
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On April 23, 2014 Hamas, controlling the area of Gaza and Fatah, controlling the West Bank, agreed to unite their government and create the Palestinian Authority. Needless to say, the government of Israel did not like this union and openly expressed their disagreement. Ignoring the opposition of Israel, the new Palestinian government continued their negotiations and on May 28th a new government began to take form, announcing that in less than a month they will have a new cabinet. That is exactly what happened and on June 9th the new cabinet of the Palestinian Authority was created.</div>
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The new government of the Palestinian Authority begins taking bids for the exploration and exploitation of oil and natural gas within the Palestinian land (Gaza and West Bank), bids were to end on June 30, 2014.</div>
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On May 15th, two Palestinian teenagers were shot dead by IDF, but no one has heard about it, the media is not interested in showing Israel as anything but an innocent victim… These two teenagers were Nadeem Siam Nawara, 17, and Mohammad Mahmoud Odeh, 16 and perhaps their deaths were what prompted the kidnapping and murdering of the three Israeli kids, most likely done by a family member of the deceased Palestinian kids seeking revenge.<br /></div>
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It was not Hamas, but this provided the government of Israel the excuse they were looking for and, if there had been none, they would have created it… damn it, they may have even been the ones that kidnapped and murdered those kids. You know how the saying goes: In love and war, all is accepted.<br /></div>
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Due to the leaked video of the shooting of these two Palestinian teenagers, the US government questioned Moshe Ya’alon, Israel Defense Minister, about the deaths of Nadeem and Mohammad. Mr. Ya’alon claimed “Molotov cocktails and stones were thrown at border police officers who felt that their life was threatened, and acted accordingly.” Further, Mr. Ya’alon without seeing the video alleged that the images of the video were manipulated through editing… without seeing the video, he was already sure the images were manipulated, of course… IDF and the Israel Police Department are never at fault, just like our Defense and policemen, they are always fair, just and within the law, ha!</div>
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On June 12, 2014 three Israeli teenagers went missing: Eyal Yifrach, 19; Gilad Shaar, 16 and Naftali Frenkel, 16. One of the kids abducted, called the Israeli police department on that same day and with a low and trembling voice, reported they had been kidnapped… the police answering the phone heard voices and what it was, unmistakably, gun shots and then silence. Today, all cellular phones are equipped with GPS so we can be almost sure that the police knew exactly where these boys were. According to Israeli police spokesman, Micky Rosenfeld, the Israeli police knew that Hamas didn't commit this horrible act but a lone cell; I can almost be sure that it was in retaliation for the deaths of Nadeem and Mohammad…</div>
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By June 15th, Hamas learns that Netanyahu is blaming them of kidnapping the three Israeli teenagers and denies their involvement in the kidnapping.</div>
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Coincidentally, on the day the Palestinian Authority is to end accepting bids, the bodies of the three teenage boys are found in a shallow grave in the West Bank, not Gaza, on June 30, 2014.</div>
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Besides a few ruffled feathers, Israel does nothing major against Palestine; the Palestinian Authority hasn’t announced who the winners of the oil and gas bids are; Israel and United States made bids and are hopeful to be the winners… The Palestinian Authority rejected their bid, and rumor has it – I can’t confirm it – that the bid was given to Russia.</div>
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Now, knowing full well that they will not get their hands, legally, on the Palestinian oil and gas Netanyahu attacks Gaza on July 8th, 2014 with all the might of a power country… attacking with everything Israel has except a nuclear bomb; perhaps if they can’t get the oil and gas legally, they can by force.</div>
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<a href="https://90degrees2theleft.files.wordpress.com/2014/07/israel-plane.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="israel plane" class="alignleft wp-image-2244" src="http://90degrees2theleft.files.wordpress.com/2014/07/israel-plane.jpg" height="119" width="159" /></a>On July 17th, the Malaysian flight MH 17 was shot down, and the US accuses Russia of indirectly being responsible of this sinister, after all, the weapons used by the Ukrainian rebels was provided to them by Russia… as if the US doesn’t do the same. Making this accusation is just a way to put Russia (Vladimir Putin) into defense mode and neglect Russia’s interest in the oil and gas of Palestine.</div>
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It has been 20 days of Israel slaughter on Gaza and counting. We keep hearing that one Israeli soldier died yesterday or that 3 soldiers died a week ago… or that one rocket was fired by Hamas to Israel, and as usual, either missing the target or getting intercepted by IDF. No one seems to know how many bombs and rockets have been thrown by Israel, I guess it is way too difficult to keep count. But we rarely hear what is happening inside Gaza; the media is silent.</div>
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I used to support Israel, but I can’t anymore. What is happening cannot be called a war, no matter how much the Israeli government insists it is. It can’t be a war because only one side holds all the weapons. Only one side has a military force to reckon with while the other is just a bunch of militants, a handful of renegades that after more than 50 years of occupations, usurpation and abuse are fed up and are fighting back. </div>
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When a country with the advantage attacks civilians, when it attacks schools and shelters, that nation is not worth defending, that nation should not be considered a victim.</div>
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Hamas is no angel, but neither is Israel. The youth on both sides is growing up with their hearts and souls filled by the hatred towards one another. There has to be two independent countries, not as Israel foresees it – with the Israeli government controlling all access to water, food, medication, roads, transportation, etc. – but by Palestine becoming a true independent nation, without the interference of Israel.</div>
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I no longer stand by Israel… Doing so is supporting the ethnic cleansing being done by Zionist Jews, a genocide, a holocaust. I've lost many Jewish friends over this; they can't understand that I love the people of Israel but it is their government I despise.</div>
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وداعا والسلام</div>
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الحرية لفلسطين!</div>
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להתראות ושלום</div>
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חופש לפלסטין!</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03722460324757919409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8749884080009664265.post-81714737641883082282014-03-24T19:48:00.001-04:002014-03-24T19:48:27.792-04:00Shocking Truth<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<a href="http://90degrees2theleft.files.wordpress.com/2014/03/14-year-old-joseph-williams3.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="14-year-old Joseph Williams" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-2205" src="http://90degrees2theleft.files.wordpress.com/2014/03/14-year-old-joseph-williams3.jpg" height="270" width="320" /></a>A taser is a Conducted Electrical Weapon (CEW) that works by delivering a wave of electricity into the body of the victim with two wires that attach to the skin or clothes by hooks. That wave of electricity is about 50,000 volts. Even though Taser doesn’t provide a set number, it does have many warnings instructing the user not to discharge these waves for longer than 15 seconds and not repeatedly. We have seen in the news that this is not what cops do… Instead, they point that weapon at the person and even when the person is incapacitated by the discharge, they continue torturing the person while on the ground. There are also warnings that the person pulling the trigger should not touch the wires that discharge that electric wave… I wonder why the warning if 50,000 volts are not dangerous?
The problem I see with tasers being used on teenagers and young people is that a wave of electricity of that magnitude, inflicted on numerous occasions, interferes with the electric waves of our nervous system and muscles, the heart is a muscle and is also part of our nervous system.
I’ve always heard that when a person has a heart attack, the younger the person the least chances he has to survive it because their organs are still developing… I don’t know if this is true or not because I couldn’t find any data to support this, but it makes perfect sense to me. We keep hearing that children should not drink high energy drinks because it is dangerous to their heart, but a cop can tase that child and the government see no problem with it; cops are tasering kids as young as 11!
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Since 2001, over <a href="http://electronicvillage.blogspot.com/2009/05/taser-related-deaths-in-united-states.html">500 people</a> have <a href="http://rt.com/usa/500-taser-law-enforcement-503/">perished</a> from the so-called non-lethal taser, but the government is still calling these weapons non-lethal, and cops are free to use it against people, even when the people are handcuffed and present no danger to them; cops that would usually be labeled as "trigger happy" with a gun are now as trigger happy with a taser, if not more. </div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEggWvLWnw7Yt1wfbwGB_e2_20fiJN_pA5gyAm2jccpsrNgrHN1HEThSSjpuRxb7OwA5qDUB2k_v-zaiA06Bv0JycsFDnF3eBCypXl-OHO9LSEBFWHGByzH36ujSP5DeUXgt5crVzqEi0a5Is6m0OB3U652MvQZwr2UB_pxx-KI=" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="taser" border="0" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-2207" src="http://90degrees2theleft.files.wordpress.com/2014/03/taser.jpg" height="234" width="320" /></a>The vast majority of those that have died were people under 50 years of age. </div>
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Even though I know the President has his heart in the right place, leaving it to Congress, in particular the Republicans, to extend the unemployment insurance will accomplish very little, if anything at all. Perhaps Republicans from a decade ago would have felt a little compassion for those constituents in dire need but that is not the new breed of Republicans - who no longer feel any shame in showing their disdain towards the poor and those falling through the large cracks of the middle-class, caused precisely by those Republicans. A Party that seems to aim at shocking the people by not only openly expressing their hate towards the poor, women, gay and anyone that doesn't have a six figure bank account, an impeccable image and a dark soul.<br />
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Expecting a group of people that would rather see this country on its knees than collaborate and help this president move the economy out of the slump it is in, that preferred to shut down the government - knowing that they will not get the ransom they demanded - just "because" without giving a damn about the consequences is not logical. Thinking that they will "grow a heart" is as inconceivable as thinking that Democrats, just because we changed calendar year, will grow a spine.<br />
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Mr. President... if Congress doesn't extend the unemployment insurance, then please sign an executive order... You know you can do it, you've done it before. Don't allow Congress to throw under the bus 9% of the adult population that is desperately looking for a job, but can't find one.<br />
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If you don't, soon America will not be the prosperous land we all believe it to be. Those that live in America, will not be living the "<i>American Dream</i>" but will find themselves in a perpetual "<i>American Nightmare</i>."<br />
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<b>Weekly Address</b></div>
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Hi, everybody, and Happy New Year.<br />
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This is a time when we look ahead to all the possibilities and opportunities of the year to come – when we resolve to better ourselves, and to better our relationships with one another. And today, I want to talk about one place that Washington should start – a place where we can make a real and powerful difference in the lives of many of our fellow Americans right now.<br />
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Just a few days after Christmas, more than one million of our fellow Americans lost a vital economic lifeline – the temporary insurance that helps folks make ends meet while they look for a job.<br />
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Republicans in Congress went home for the holidays and let that lifeline expire. And for many of their constituents who are unemployed through no fault of their own, that decision will leave them with no income at all.<br />
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We make this promise to one another because it makes a difference to a mother who needs help feeding her kids while she’s looking for work; to a father who needs help paying the rent while learning the skills to get a new and better job. And denying families that security is just plain cruel. We’re a better country than that. We don’t abandon our fellow Americans when times get tough – we keep the faith with them until they start that new job.<br />
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What’s more, it actually slows down the economy for all of us. If folks can’t pay their bills or buy the basics, like food and clothes, local businesses take a hit and hire fewer workers. That’s why the independent Congressional Budget Office says that unless Congress restores this insurance, we’ll feel a drag on our economic growth this year. And after our businesses created more than two million new jobs last year, that’s a self-inflicted wound we don’t need.<br />
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So when Congress comes back to work this week, their first order of business should be making this right. Right now, a bipartisan group in Congress is working on a three-month extension of unemployment insurance – and if they pass it, I will sign it. For decades, Republicans and Democrats put partisanship and ideology aside to offer some security for job-seekers, even when the unemployment rate was lower than it is today. Instead of punishing families who can least afford it, Republicans should make it their New Year’s resolution to do the right thing, and restore this vital economic security for their constituents right now.<br />
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After all, our focus as a country this year shouldn’t be shrinking our economy, but growing it; not narrowing opportunity, but expanding it; not fewer jobs, but doing everything we can to help our businesses create more of the good jobs that a growing middle class requires.<br />
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That’s my New Year’s resolution – to do everything I can, every single day, to help make 2014 a year in which more of our citizens can earn their own piece of the American Dream.<br />
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After five years of working and sacrificing to recover and rebuild from crisis, we have it within our power, right now, to move this country forward. It’s entirely up to us. And I’m optimistic for the year that lies ahead.</div>
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Thank you, and have a great weekend.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03722460324757919409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8749884080009664265.post-72858760809695468422014-01-03T12:54:00.000-05:002014-01-03T12:54:34.098-05:00Walk a Mile in Someone Else's Shoes<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Where I live, there were not that many fireworks or idiots firing their guns, which is always a good thing, at least for my pets that are terrified by those menacing noises and even when I hate to admit it, I am too… there is always that little voice in the back of my head warning me that a bullet might come clashing through the walls or windows and hit someone in my household, for some strange reason, that someone, in my mind, is always me.</div>
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As most of us do, I waited for the stroke of midnight to eat the customary grapes and drink cheap champagne… I busted in cheers, kissed my loved ones, called those I could and sent a text to those far away. I was so happy to see that 2013 was finally a memory, I was filled with the beautiful idea that the nightmare might be over.</div>
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But today, a friend posted an article by the Huffington Post “<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/31/florida-welfare-drug-tests_n_4525534.html" target="_blank">Florida Law Mandating Drug Tests For Welfare Struck Down By Federal Judge</a>” and immediately the venom began to flow freely… the vile comments were, for the most part, done by democrats!</div>
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It surprised me to know that there are democrats that have joined the crazies in assuming that the majority of people on welfare are drug users, thieves, opportunists or lazy people that prefer to live in poverty as long as they don’t have to work. It cannot be denied that there is a small number that might fit that description (less than 2%) but it is not the majority. Most are families that by no fault of their own find themselves struggling to survive, to keep a roof over their heads, to feed their kids and are desperately looking for a job or, as it happens with most, they already have a job but even when working can’t make ends meet.</div>
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Some people went as far as to suggest that if they are poor, they should not have children. I do not agree but for the sake of argument, let’s say OK… However, what should people that were working, with a decent paying job and had a child before they lost everything… what should they do? Give their child up for adoption? Kill them? We have always heard that Americans love the underdog… that might be true in many instances (sports, politics, competitions, etc.) but it is not true for a regular Joe, for the poor. When it comes to people in need, in our own backyard, they are open game to be kicked, denigrated, ignored, abused and neglected. If the needy is in a faraway land, then we must show the world there is no other people more caring, compassionate and giving than Americans! The hypocrisy is sickening. The poor in our own country is the pushing bag for most – not all – of the American populace. The poor is the tool for those that have accomplished nothing to feel better about themselves, about their mediocrity… and as bullies usually do, at the first opportunity they will happily talk about the poor with disdain and in a nauseating tone, while claiming to be Christians!</div>
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There is a collective madness going on in this country and most of the world. The Conservative Right and the Religious Right is outraged at Pope Francis, because this Pope has the audacity to say that being selfish, self-centered and greedy is a sin. How dare he? Thus, they have labeled the Pope, as a Socialist, as if being a socialist was such a bad thing! I have news for them… their beloved “Jesus” was a socialist.</div>
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To grasp the concept of compassion, of loving “thy neighbor as thyself,” you don’t need to walk on water… you just have to walk a mile in someone else’s shoes.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03722460324757919409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8749884080009664265.post-51918993192243720412014-01-02T15:34:00.000-05:002014-01-03T12:52:42.054-05:00Milking the System<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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In 2013 a handful of big oil companies received <a href="http://priceofoil.org/fossil-fuel-subsidies/" target="_blank">subsidies</a> from the United States ranging anywhere between $14 to $52 billion a year, while these oil companies raised the cost of gasoline for the rest of us; but no one is outraged by this. Of course, the big oil companies do not call these moneys subsidies, they are “investments” because, according to them, they are providing a service, producing jobs, etc. as if they were the only companies doing this and completely forgetting about the disastrous damages they have inflicted in the environment and that we, collectively through our taxes, have helped cleaning up.</div>
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According to EWG and Forbes, the <a href="http://www.ewg.org/research/forbes-fat-cats-collect-taxpayer-funded-farm-subsidies" target="_blank">major recipients</a> of these “farms,” with their corresponding net worth in parenthesis, are: Paul Allen, Co-founder of Microsoft (Net worth: $15.8 billion); Charles Ergen, Co-founder of DISH Network (Net worth: $12.5 billion); Philip Anschutz, Owner of Anschutz Entertainment Group and co-founder of Major League Soccer (Net worth: $10.3 billion); Leonard Lauder, Son of Estee Lauder and former CEO of the Estee Lauder Companies Inc. (Net worth: $7.6 billion); Jim Kennedy, Chairman of Cox Enterprises (Net worth: $6.7 billion); S. Truett Cathy, Founder of Chick-fil-A (Net worth: $6 billion); Leslie Wexner, CEO of L Brands Inc., which owns Victoria's Secret (Net worth: $5.7 billion); Charles Schwab, Founder of brokerage firm Charles Schwab Corporation (Net worth: $5.1 billion); Stewart & Lynda Resnick, Owners of POM Wonderful, Fiji Water and Teleflora (Net worth: $3.5 billion); David Rockefeller, Sr., Former chairman and chief executive of Chase Manhattan Bank (Net worth: $2.8 billion); and Penny Pritzker, U.S. Secretary of Commerce (Net worth: $2.2 billion).</div>
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It is important to keep in mind that veterans and the families of the actively serving troops are included in these figures; there are about 900,000 veterans and about 5,000 military families that rely on food stamps. In 2013 there were a total of <a href="http://www.fns.usda.gov/pd/16SNAPpartHH.htm" target="_blank">23,052,389</a> families receiving food stamps (including veterans and military families). The average monthly amount provided by <a href="http://www.fns.usda.gov/snap/how-much-could-i-receive" target="_blank">SNAP</a> for one person is $189.00, and this is not necessarily true… my mother, who is a SNAP recipient gets only $140.00 a month and even though I am unemployed, I do not qualify, so I receive none. The amounts received per person varies, but it is never over $189.00 a month, which is the maximum allowed for a single individual; the larger the family the less each person will receive. A family of 5 (a father, a mother and three children) will receive as a maximum $750.00 a month, which is $150.00 per person or $4.83 per person, per day for all three meals.</div>
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2013 has proven to be quite a disastrous year, where the poor get poorer and middle class is quickly disappearing, if it hasn’t disappeared already.</div>
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Not satisfied with creating Citizen's United, turning Corporations into people as far as contributions is concerned, various bills have been introduced by the GOP and Teabaggers in Congress giving corporations the right to vote! Fortunately, these bills have died on the floor... but we know they'll keep trying and pretty soon, "We, the People" will be referring only to corporations as we will become "We, the Parasites."</div>
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The above wasn’t sufficient, so Congress closed the year with a bang. They ended unemployment benefits for over a million people and went on, to what in their opinion was a well-earned vacation, to enjoy Christmas and New Year’s with their families, at their mansions and with their stomach filled with the best the country has to offer. Theirs is a life of luxury: a good job with great salaries and benefits, a good future even if they are voted out… if they are, they’ll tour the country giving speeches for a few hundred thousand dollars and life will keep going, as grand as ever.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03722460324757919409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8749884080009664265.post-78971293084466163742013-12-28T20:04:00.002-05:002013-12-28T20:04:45.704-05:002013<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #ffd966; font-family: Pristina; font-size: 18pt;">For the wealthy, the lobbyist and the rich puppeteers </span></div>
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<span style="color: #ffd966; font-family: Pristina; font-size: 18pt;">$4.50 a day was too much for a meal</span></div>
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<span style="color: #ffd966; font-family: Pristina; font-size: 18pt;">So they slashed food stamps and destroyed meal on wheels.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #ffd966; font-family: Pristina; font-size: 18pt;">Healthcare for everyone? What a terrible idea!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #ffd966; font-family: Pristina; font-size: 18pt;">They fought and they fought</span></div>
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<span style="color: #ffd966; font-family: Pristina; font-size: 18pt;">To block it, to change it and to have it repealed.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #ffd966; font-family: Pristina; font-size: 18pt;">They cried about jobs, because there was none</span></div>
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<span style="color: #ffd966; font-family: Pristina; font-size: 18pt;">But not once they came up with a thought or a plan</span></div>
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<span style="color: #ffd966; font-family: Pristina; font-size: 18pt;">To create more jobs or to help the unemployed.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #ffd966; font-family: Pristina; font-size: 18pt;">With so many without work</span></div>
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<span style="color: #ffd966; font-family: Pristina; font-size: 18pt;">They decided it was best</span></div>
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<span style="color: #ffd966; font-family: Pristina; font-size: 18pt;">Not to help </span><span style="color: #ffd966; font-family: Pristina; font-size: 18pt;">the unemployed.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #ffd966; font-family: Pristina; font-size: 18pt;">Off goes the unemployment assistance!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #ffd966; font-family: Pristina; font-size: 18pt;">Off goes food for the needy! After all, they are claiming</span></div>
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<span style="color: #ffd966; font-family: Pristina; font-size: 18pt;">The poor, the elderly, the unemployed and the vets</span></div>
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<span style="color: #ffd966; font-family: Pristina; font-size: 18pt;">It’s what’s causing our country to have such great debts.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #ffd966; font-family: Pristina; font-size: 18pt;">So have a Merry Christmas</span></div>
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<span style="color: #ffd966; font-family: Pristina; font-size: 18pt;">And a Happy New Year</span></div>
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<span style="color: #ffd966; font-family: Pristina; font-size: 18pt;">Remember who screwed us</span></div>
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<span style="color: #ffd966; font-family: Pristina; font-size: 18pt;">And vote them out next year.</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03722460324757919409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8749884080009664265.post-18848111673938961972013-12-20T23:30:00.000-05:002013-12-21T12:49:27.166-05:00Faith in Humanity<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Many of you know that I’ve been having computer issues and that I’ve tried to raise funds through ads that no one ever clicked, through actually begging for donations, etc. I was never able to raise not even $100. I understood because not only I am unknown to most of you but also because most of us are struggling – I know that I am not alone.</div>
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But, I am grateful for the trying times I’m going through. If it wasn’t because of this time in my life where I have nothing, none of the magical and wonderful experiences that I am receiving from friends I’ve never met in person and who are at faraway places, would have taken place.</div>
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I love nature and animals… I love people and life. Those that know me know that along with politics, I am very passionate about animals.</div>
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A dear friend of mine, who lives in England, surprised me with a very kind gesture: A <a href="http://www.saveelephant.org/shop/index.php?route=product/category&path=61_75">2014 Calendar</a> from the Save the Elephant Foundation (SEF), he knew I couldn’t afford to purchase one and ordered it for me. It is now sitting on my desk; I get to enjoy daily the pictures of these wonderful creatures, greeting me every day… I encourage everyone to get one, you will be helping a wonderful cause.</div>
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That gesture moved me, I wasn’t expecting it and fills me with joy ever since.</div>
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Then, I had the most wonderful proof that there is still kind people out there.</div>
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Another friend, who I haven’t met in person, made an offer to me that I couldn’t refuse. I was offered to buy any computer I wanted as long as it had everything I needed to continue my blog and school. The offer was made in such a way that I couldn’t refuse. My friend offered to buy it for me and I could pay it back once I got back on my feet… or not, it was up to me. I was astonished! I have never seen such generosity from those close to me, imagine from a virtual friend! I began to cry, couldn’t contain myself… it wasn’t as much the computer but the act of generosity, the unexpected act and unselfishness from a friend that really moved me, that restored my faith in humanity, which was almost completely gone.</div>
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Today, I received another confirmation of how wonderfully unselfish people can be. A friend from Canada sent me a package that contained beautiful ornaments, two of which had the picture of a very loving child that I adore: Hannah. Hannah is a very special little girl that sings like an angel! I’ve never seen her in person, but I can tell you all I love her very much and try to follow all her advances and sometimes, her tribulations. This little girl is an example to follow, she has gone through hell and back… she is a true champion and fighter. The package also included two Christmas ornaments of two angels, which were done by my friend’s mother who makes them, sells them and the money collected she donates to help cancer patients. What a wonderful gesture, what a wonderful woman! Inside the box was an envelope that clearly had a card in it; the envelope read: OPEN LAST, so I obeyed. When I opened it I began to weep… it contained $60! Thanks to my friend, my mother and I will have a Christmas dinner since I didn’t have any money for that this year.</div>
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I am so happy that I have had the honor of knowing wonderful people such as my friends, friends that I have been mocked for calling them friends when we haven’t met. I have always said that I didn’t need to meet someone in person to feel close to them, to feel their happiness and joys, their pain and frustrations and to be “there” for them even when we are thousands of miles away. I know some people in person that have no idea of what I am going through, however, my cyber-friends do. Perhaps it is because I feel free to express myself since I will not see their faces if they disapprove of what I am saying. Maybe it is because it is so easy to unfriend someone in Facebook… who knows! All I know is that I’ve spilled my soul with them and they have been there, every time, every step of the way and I am grateful to have them in my life... Every single one of them.</div>
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I might be going through very rough times, rougher than anything I’ve gone through before but… I am thankful and very fortunate for it. It is in times such as this that you learn who your friends are and in my case, the best gift I have had in all of my life was given to me this holiday season where I learned, first hand, that there are good people out there, that humanity hasn’t been lost.</div>
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To my wonderful friends: I will never have enough words to thank you for your kindness and for the love you’ve shown me, but know that you have a friend in me, unconditionally, until the day I die.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03722460324757919409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8749884080009664265.post-24203396799896924042013-12-14T10:40:00.005-05:002013-12-14T10:44:30.092-05:00Takes Two To Tango<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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A Rider is an extra expense weighing on women and women only. But even though a woman pays an additional premium for this coverage, if she is not ready to have a family or if the fetus has no chance of surviving outside the womb, she still is not allowed to have an abortion unless the State gives her the thumbs up.</div>
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These laws are being forced on women by the religious right who cares not for the rights of anyone, who doesn’t believe in the democratic system of voting – mostly because they know that if these bills are placed on the ballot, they will be rejected by the minority - so they sneak their opinion and believes into other bills, sometimes not even related to health or reproduction.</div>
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In most red states, only if the mother’s life is at risk can a woman have an abortion. This means, that even when she pays more for her insurance plan than her partner and more than a woman from another, she still doesn’t have the right to end a pregnancy… it is not her choice, it is the choice of the State, the religious right and the doctor, but never the woman.</div>
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In Idaho [R] women must get a Rider to cover the possibility of an elective abortion. The only acceptable reasons to have an abortion in Idaho is if the woman’s life is at risk and if the pregnancy is the result of rape or incest. No other reason is accepted, even with a Rider.</div>
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In Kansas [R], Kentucky [D], Michigan [R], Missouri [D], Nebraska [R], North Dakota [R] and Oklahoma [R] a woman can have an abortion only to “preserve the life of the female.” Rape, incest, a deformed fetus or intrauterine death (fetus dead in the womb) any of these possibilities are not good enough reasons to have an abortion, not even with a Rider.</div>
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According to <a href="http://www.guttmacher.org/statecenter/sfaa.html" target="_blank">The Guttmacher Institute</a>, the percentage of abortions in each of these states (latest data collected is from 2008) is very low and the study doesn’t specify the reason for these abortions, only the number of abortions that occurred that year. Given the figures, I truly cannot understand the obsession by the Right to interfere with a woman’s right to choose.</div>
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Most of the Red States, if not all, have been very busy passing legislature to prohibit women control over their own genitalia and reproductive system. These are the same governors and legislators that claim they want smaller government, but they do not mind to expand that government as much as they can if by doing so they can keep women under their control.</div>
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I am yet to see any legislation regulating men’s genitalia... the only one was to have Viagra deemed a necessary drug covered by all insurance plans… You see, most legislators at State and Federal levels are old enough for their penises not to work properly; it is in <u><b>their</b></u> interest to have that blue pill covered by insurance.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03722460324757919409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8749884080009664265.post-80695743785309789222013-12-11T11:36:00.000-05:002013-12-11T11:36:52.200-05:00A Handshake<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Yesterday all the media was overwhelmed with the sensationalist news that President Obama had the audacity of handshaking the hand of Cuban President Raul Castro. This simple act of civility created a wave of insults from the Right, as if behaving civilly during the farewell ceremony honoring Mr. Nelson Mandela is sufficient proof that the United States President is a communist.</div>
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The Cuban-American relationship has been broken since 1959; the United States useless embargo has been in place since 1962 and has done nothing to break the grip the Castros have on the island, quite the contrary, it has promulgated the sympathy of the world for the Castro’s regime… after all, it is one tiny island that has survived the powerful attacks from the most powerful nation on this planet. The embargo has created a martyr of the dictators of the island.</div>
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In Miami, you see many businesses offering services to Cuba, from sending medicine to relatives in Cuba to sending money at outrageous prices. There are also travel agencies that promote trips to Cuba, at a price equal to traveling to the most expensive country in Europe, if not more. Offering these services is a very lucrative business that will crumble if the embargo is ever lifted.</div>
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Because of this, the Cuban-American community has the most to lose if the embargo is lifted and if they suspect any negotiation or civil approach with the Cuban regime they don’t waste a millisecond to scream at the top of their lungs their disapproval and if anyone thinks differently than them, they quickly use the old and abused label of “Communist!” So far, their tactics have worked and the useless and counterproductive embargo it’s still in place after 51 years.</div>
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And now, they’re up in arms again because of a single handshake. It is a well-known fact that the Right Wing has selective memory and some even suffer from a severe case of amnesia. They forget how many times their political representatives have done the same in the past, and even when they remember it they come up with a thousand and one excuses to justify their actions.</div>
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The handshake between President Obama and President Castro might be nothing else but a simple courteous handshake between the leaders of two countries forced by the circumstances… But it might be the first step to change what hasn’t worked for more than half a century. When things don’t work, one must look for another way to reach a goal, otherwise nothing will change. I truly hope this handshake, criticized only by the Right Wing nuts and the retroactive Cuban-American community, lead to negotiations and finally the end of the embargo… The last thing a person should lose is hope.</div>
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Mobutu Sese Seko: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobutu_Sese_Seko" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobutu_Sese_Seko</a></h6>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03722460324757919409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8749884080009664265.post-65314241646893036852013-12-08T14:13:00.001-05:002013-12-08T14:13:22.854-05:00Rolihlahla Mandela (July 18, 1918 – December 5, 2013)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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His birth name was Rolihiahia Mandela, later while attending school he was forced to have a Christian name and his teacher named him Nelson. Mr. Mandela is also known as Madiba, The <a href="http://www.nelsonmandela.org/?origin=p90" target="_blank">Nelson Mandela Foundation</a> explains the name as follows: Madiba – This is the name of the clan of which Mr Mandela is a member. A clan name is much more important than a surname as it refers to the ancestor from which a person is descended. Madiba was the name of a Thembu chief who ruled in the Transkei in the 18th century. It is considered very polite to use someone’s clan name.</div>
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There is nothing I can add to everything that has been written about Mr. Rolihlahia “Nelson” Mandela. He led an exemplary life and the fortitude of his spirit that most of us wished we could possess.</div>
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In 1989 Mr. F.W. de Klerk was elected president of South Africa. Mr. de Klerk ended the ban on the African National Congress (ANC) and campaigned to end the apartheid regime. The following year, on February 11, 1990 Mr. de Klerk ordered Mr. Mandela to be released from Victor Verster Prison.</div>
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While president Mr. Mandela concentrated his efforts in human rights and investigating political violations by those opposing and supporting the apartheid ideology to help achieve these goals, he created the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Mr. Mandela presided in the creation of the new South African constitution that implemented a central government prohibiting discrimination against any race, particularly whites.</div>
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“<i>I was not born with a hunger to be free. I was born free-free in every way that I could know. Free to run in the fields near my mother's hut, free to swim in the clear stream that ran through my village, free to roast mealies under the stars and ride the broad backs of slow-moving bulls. As long as I obeyed my father and abided by the customs of my tribe, I was not troubled by the laws of man or God.</i></div>
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<i>It was only when I began to learn that my boyhood freedom was an illusion, when I discovered as a young man that my freedom had already been taken from me, that I began to hunger for it. At first, as a student, I wanted freedom only for myself, the transitory freedoms of being able to stay out at night, read what I pleased, and go where I chose. Later, as a young man in Johannesburg, I yearned for the basic and honorable freedoms of achieving my potential, or earning my keep, of marrying and having a family-the freedom not to be obstructed in a lawful life.</i></div>
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<i>It was during those long and lonely years that my hunger for the freedom of my own people became a hunger for the freedom of all people, white and black. I knew as well as I knew anything that the oppressor must be liberated just as surely as the oppressed. A man who takes away another man's freedom is a prisoner of hatred, he is locked behind the bars of prejudice and narrow-mindedness. I am not truly free if I am taking away someone else's freedom, just as surely as I am not free when my freedom is taken from me. The oppressed and the oppressor alike are robbed of their humanity.</i></div>
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<i>When I walked out of prison, that was my mission, to liberate the oppressed and the oppressor both. Some say that has now been achieved. But I know that that is not the case. The truth is that we are not yet free; we have merely achieved the freedom to be free, the right not to be oppressed. We have not taken the final step of our journey, but the first step on a longer and even more difficult road. For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others. The true test of our devotion to freedom is just beginning.</i></div>
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<i>I have walked that long road to freedom. I have tried not to falter; I have made missteps along the way. But I have discovered the secret that after climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb. I have taken a moment here to rest, to steal a view of the glorious vista that surrounds me, to look back on the distance I have come. But I can rest only for a moment, for with freedom comes responsibilities, and I dare not linger, for my long walk is not yet ended</i>.”</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03722460324757919409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8749884080009664265.post-72243639029636038822013-12-01T15:10:00.000-05:002013-12-01T15:10:04.886-05:00The More I Learn About God, The More I Love My Dog<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I’ve always loved animals. When I was about 7 or 8 years old, I used to rescue every critter that crossed my path, trying to save them from the cruel world. I was successful at bringing back to health some of them; but more often than not they died while in my care… I cried for every single one of the animals I was not able to “save” but that didn’t deterred me in my efforts to help them. I was born that way.</div>
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I was raised a Catholic, but my family didn’t go to church too often. My grandfather was a socialist atheist who offered me a different perspective from what was being hammered into my brain while I was attending catechism. My grandfather was very wise and didn’t push me into believing what he believed in; he subtlety gave me a different point of view.</div>
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My mother also played an important role in my upbringing; she allowed me to be myself even when she didn’t understand half of the things I was doing. Not once did she tried to deter me from my quest of saving every creature I thought need saving, including humans.</div>
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When I was about 10 years old or less, I found a mother and three little kids that were begging on the steps of the church I used to attend. I used to go alone, as my family didn’t enjoy attending church as I previously mentioned. Seeing this mother and her little kids, dirty, dressed in rags broke my heart. I couldn’t understand how people were walking out of church pass them as if they were invisible. This mother was asking for money to feed her kids so I went up to her and brought the whole family home for lunch. I asked my mother to sit them at our table, share our food with them and using our china and silverware. My mother did as I asked her, without a frown and with a big smile on her face. She made them feel welcomed and this poor mother was so grateful that to this day I remember her gratitude. After they left, my mother did reprimanded me, not for offered them food but because I sat them at our table and they – according to my mother – could have germs and she said she was sure they had lice and I could get “infected.” But she didn’t mind my altruistic inclinations; actually she was proud of them.</div>
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My stepfather loved to enrich my brain with books. He bought me every book he could find and loved to see me devouring the books he so happily found for me. I read every single one, from Sci-Fi to history books. I’m very thankful that he not only helped developed my brain, but he encouraged my appetite for learning.</div>
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When my grandfather passed away I was heartbroken as he and I were very close. But the thought of him going to hell tormented me. I went to see my priest and shared those dark and fearful thoughts with him, I was hoping he could comfort me and tell me that my grandfather was a good man and therefore, regardless of his religious views, he was going to go to heaven. To my surprise, he told me that unless he had accepted Jesus in his heart before he died, he was condemned for eternity to hell. I rejected this; I couldn’t accept that a good man, a righteous man was going to burn in hell for eternity. What type of arrogant, narcissist God was this that a good man was sent to hell while a criminal or murderer that “accepted Jesus in his heart” before dying was welcomed in heaven? So my search to prove the priest wrong began at the tender age of 11.</div>
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I read every theology book I could get my hands on, which was a difficult task since I lived in a Communist country… but I found them, hidden in some libraries or in my stepfather’s book collection. I read them all. The more I read, the more convinced I became that God was just a figment of the imagination; a reason to justify terrible things and a way to manipulate the weak and a method to control the masses.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03722460324757919409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8749884080009664265.post-24544642343574846502013-11-23T19:52:00.000-05:002013-11-23T19:52:24.701-05:00Costco or Walmart, American or Chinese.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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You will find a Whirlpool (model 9451) washer (26x27x43) for $449 at Costco and a Golden (GLP26R) washer (23.7x24.1x39.4) for $493 at Walmart. Not only Costco sells a washer that is larger, but also the model at Costco has 11 wash cycles and a fabric softener dispenser that the model at Walmart does not.</div>
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Let’s compare grills, the all American outdoors cooking experience. While it is true that Walmart offers junk grills for very affordable prices, let’s compare a good one, because Costco doesn’t sell the ones you can find at any grocery store, like Walmart does. At Costco you can find a KitchenAid (Deluxe 304) gas grill for $749.99. This grill has 5 burners, 696.8 sq. inches of grilling surface and 10-year warranty. Walmart sells a comparable model made by Weber at $849.00 (Genesis S310). However, the model sold at Walmart for a higher price has only 3 burners and a cooking area of 637 sq. inches. Both grills are made in the USA, but once more, you get more for your dollar at Costco.</div>
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We can continue comparing prices between Costco and Walmart. I can assure you that you will find cheaper prices for not as good a quality at Walmart but you can also find comparable prices for better quality products at Costco.</div>
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With the current economical situation, it is understandable that families that are trying to stretch their budget will shop at Walmart, thinking they are doing what is best for their families, but they are not. They are perpetuating the economical crises in this country by purchasing their goods from a company that purchase most of their products in China, which benefits that country but not ours. On the financial end you’re not helping the economy move forward, you are perpetuating the current situation.</div>
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On the moral end, Walmart is a slave driver. a company that does not believe in paying their workers fair wages, who only offers part-time jobs, forcing their employees to work during the holidays with the real threat that they will be fired if they don't and a company that offers their "associates" no health insurance… Walmart does all this due to greed, to make as large a profit as possible... it's never enough for the Walton family. Most of Walmart's employees have to get help from the government or charities to make ends meet.</div>
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I am boycotting Walmart, they don’t care for the economy of our country and much less for the American people. I rather buy American, I rather support a company that cares for its employees – the treatment a company gives to its employees reflects on how those employees will treat you, and I think it is not too difficult to see who will treat you better.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03722460324757919409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8749884080009664265.post-53874893439422182912013-11-20T21:40:00.000-05:002013-11-20T21:40:32.763-05:00Wrongmart<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Walmart should be embarrassed that their employees don’t make enough money to have a decent Thanksgiving dinner! But of course, the only thing Walmart cares about is to make an obscene profit! Walmart employees, as well as those employees of most of the giant chains will be working during the holidays while most of us will be with our families.</div>
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Walmart is advertising the “breaking prices” they will be offering during Black Friday, urging people to buy more Chinese junk. It is extremely sad to see in the news the imbeciles that spend the night waiting in line for those doors to open. Have they ever stopped to think, for just a minute, that this “fantastic sale” could have been held on Saturday? No, people are insensitive and think only of themselves… They are much to blame for these workers having to work during the holidays for crap.</div>
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Walmart offers their employees part-time jobs at minimum wage; hence most of their employees need assistance from the government because they are at or below poverty level. It is sad that a person that works has to receive assistance to survive. Many receive not only food stamps but also Medicaid that we, as taxpayers, pay for. The country’s financial situation its not stable enough to be subsidizing workers because they happen to work for a corporation that refuses to offer them a full time job and decent wages.</div>
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<td style="text-align: center;" valign="top" width="77">1,500,000</td>
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<td style="text-align: center;" valign="top" width="77">1,500,000</td>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03722460324757919409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8749884080009664265.post-67327257624120350432013-11-18T12:42:00.003-05:002013-11-18T12:42:55.547-05:00Let Them Burn It!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<a href="http://90degrees2theleft.files.wordpress.com/2013/11/burning_money_lg.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="burning_money_lg" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-2005" height="300" src="http://90degrees2theleft.files.wordpress.com/2013/11/burning_money_lg.jpg?w=225" width="225" /></a>As many of you already know, I am a Liberal/Socialist. What you might not know is that a family that is mostly Republican/Tea Party surrounds me. This contrasting difference in political opinion leads to many heated discussions that at times has turned into a full blown ideological confrontations.</div>
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My brother came to visit me a couple of days ago and, from the minute I opened the door to welcome him he blurred out “How are you liking your president now?” I instinctively knew where he was coming from… the “news” circulating around the extreme right media claiming that President Obama “apologized for the Affordable Care Act. My reply to my brother’s hello was – and this I stole from my son – I love him even more! He apologized for people that want to keep a crappy insurance instead of a more economical and better plan to keep it… I am still waiting for your president [Bush] to apologize for starting a war based on lies. He laughed and said that we “liberals” (as if that was an insult) always bring into the conversation President Bush and blaming him for everything. I replied that as far as I knew, I was not blaming Bush for a single thing; I was just pointing out that the bastard sent thousands of our youth to their death for a war based on lies and to this day he still has not apologized to America for his “mistake.”</div>
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Let me make this very clear. President Obama <b>DID NOT</b> apologized for Obamacare, actually he was very smart and decided to fight fire with fire.</div>
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Insurance companies informed some people that their plans were being cancelled due to Obamacare, without further explanation. This caused that the recipients of these cancellations were outraged and raised hell, reminding President Obama of his promise that they could keep their old insurance if they were happy with it.</div>
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Our President is a brilliant man and instead of refusing to make any changes ACA he apologized for the cancelations and made some changes to the ACA. With these changes, insurance companies are now able to provide their old insurance plans but they must inform the insurers exactly what their plan offers and what its not covered; what is more important, they have to inform the insurer that in the Health Insurance Marketplace there are other plans that cover much more for far less. In essence, the insurance companies must inform insurers of what they are giving up in order to keep their sub-standard and over-priced insurance plans. If these people want to burn their money let them, after all Republicans and Tea Partiers are known for not being the sharpest knives in the block!</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03722460324757919409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8749884080009664265.post-18299859398911235382013-10-25T22:55:00.001-04:002013-10-27T11:35:00.682-04:00A Tale of Two Cities: Calgary and Honolulu<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b>Rafael Edward Cruz</b>, that’s the real name and spelling of Senator “Ted” Cruz. The correct spelling of his first name is Rafael, not Raphael as many have said.</div>
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Ted Cruz’s father is Rafael Bienvenido Cruz, Cuban born, and an opportunist that has claimed he helped Fidel Castro when he was only 14 years old and fled the island in 1957 when he realized Castro was a Communist that “<i>was seizing private property and suppressing dissent.</i>” There is one flaw with this story and which is that Castro didn’t claim he was a Communist until after the U.S. Embargo in 1962; Castro was not in power to seize any private or public property at that time Castro was not capable of suppressing anyone, much less any rebels when he was a rebel himself. Fidel Castro triumph was on January 1, 1959; two years <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><b>after</b></span> Mr. Cruz had fled Cuba.</div>
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According to his <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/article/356934/rise-rafael-cruz-robert-costa/page/0/1" target="_blank">own words</a>, when Cruz fled Cuba he went to Austin, Texas where according to his biography he attended the University of Texas without knowing any English and with only $100 that he had <i>sewn into his underwear</i>. How could he attend the University without knowing English is beyond me but more so with only $100, which regardless of the time when this happened, it was still not enough to cover rent and food much less to cover the expenses of studying at a University. Mr. Cruz claims he worked as a dishwasher earning .50 cents an hour, still not enough to pay for that education. Mr. Cruz graduated four years later and received a degree in mathematics and chemical engineering. Also, his story about having only $100 sewn into his underwear is a story that is not original and which I guess he stole the anecdote from the biography of <a href="http://www.immigrantentrepreneurship.org/entry.php?rec=27" target="_blank">Isidor Straus</a> (February 6, 1845 - April 15, 1912), whose mother sewed $1,200 in gold into his undershirt when he was traveling from Charleston to Liverpool in 1863. Using that story served Mr. Cruz Sr. by making his beginnings more humbled and his accomplishments greater.</div>
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Mr. Cruz moved to Alberta, Canada with his wife where they worked as geophysical consultants for the oil industry. While in Canada Mr. Cruz became a Canadian citizen. In 1970, Mr. Cruz and his second wife had their first and only child Rafael Edward Cruz, who was born in Alberta Canada. In 1974 the family returned to Houston, Texas.</div>
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Rafael Bienvenido Cruz today is, thanks to his son, very involved in politics and a loud voice as to how this country should be run. Today Mr. Cruz Sr. is, out of all things a pastor, I guess he figured that “career” was more lucrative than a geophysical consultant, more money with less work. He and his son claim to love this country, however, Rafael B. Cruz didn’t become a citizen of the United States until 2005. It took him 31 long years to love this country enough to renounce his Canadian citizenship and his Canadian son thought about renouncing his Canadian citizenship when he entertained the idea of becoming President of the United States… not until then was he interested in “fixing” that little problem. And we have to believe these individuals truly love this country!</div>
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For six long years I’ve heard birthers scream at the top of their lungs that President Obama was born in Kenya, that they need to see the birth certificate (no matter how many times it has been presented, they think it’s a fake) and that because President Obama was born in Kenya he can’t be President.</div>
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These same people want Sen. Ted Cruz to be the next President of the United States. They have no problem accepting that he was born in a foreign country, Canada, from a foreign father and an American mother. The fact that his mother is American makes him, automatically, a natural American and therefore, according to the Constitution, eligible to become President of this great nation. I am fine with that… but I need some clarification, some explanation to my questions.
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Given the above scenario… Why are the people who vehemently support Ted Cruz do not accept our President? Their paths are very similar: both their mothers were (or are) Americans; both their fathers were (or are) immigrants. One has shown that he was born in the United States, we even have the name of the Hospital where he was born, the other one was born in a foreign country and after a lengthy research I was not able to find out which hospital in Calgary was he born in.</div>
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You would ask yourself why one is accepted without hesitation and for the last 6 years the other one is not. The answer is quite simple: Ted Cruz’s skin is white; our President’s skin is black.</div>
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The Republicans and members of the Tea Party refuse to accept the reason of their rejection is racism because their own racism would be on display, but heir devotion to Ted Cruz speaks volumes that what matters to them is the color of the skin and nothing else.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03722460324757919409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8749884080009664265.post-1823992028211261422013-10-15T22:20:00.002-04:002013-10-17T15:28:16.875-04:00Everything Is A Macrabre Plan By The GOP<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03722460324757919409noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8749884080009664265.post-18305396882885984682013-10-14T23:41:00.001-04:002013-10-14T23:41:59.254-04:00And They Blame The President, As Usual<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The GOP is campaigning to blame President Obama for the Federal shutdown. They are outraged because Federal parks and monuments - along with other crucial services - have been closed. Apparently, they might work for the government, but either they have no idea what the Federal government controls or they are trying, as usual, to blame others for their own actions.</div>
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In case you doubt who's fault is it, here are a few links that hopefully will clarify it for you.</div>
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<b>Pat Toomy (R-PA) on "Morning Joe," January 2, 2013</b>
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And finally, a link to none other than Rush Limbaugh, interviewing Ted Cruz about the shutdown on August 28, 2013. Click <a href="http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2013/08/28/eib_interview_senator_ted_cruz" target="_blank">here</a> to read it.
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03722460324757919409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8749884080009664265.post-73265402324251068572013-10-12T13:00:00.000-04:002013-10-12T13:00:24.500-04:00Fixing the System<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I disagree profusely. Having different Parties is what has made this country great, it allows people with similar political point of views and vision to work together for the good of the country. People elect for office a person with a similar vision as theirs. This doesn't mean that each political Party should be in "war" with each other; as adults and "professionals" they should be able to jointly brainstorm issues, work for a common goal and be flexible enough to satisfy the majority of the people and always, always work together for the betterment of the nation, as a whole. </div>
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However, I told my friend that any given Party is just a name to identify a group of people with similar ideals and that is definitively not where the problem resides. The problem we are facing it is not that we have multiple Parties; it is that since the 80s changes have been made to the rules of how the "game" it's played. The Equal-Time rule is no longer in existence and Congress allowed the Fairness Doctrine to expire and ever since then the most important concern for those running for office, from a simple City Official to the President of the United States, is to get funds for their next campaign since now they must pay for the airtime to run their TV and newspaper ads. That's what they do from day one: Fundraising, not governing. </div>
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Then, about 3 years ago Citizens United - a Republican dream for at least 3 decades – became a reality, and now large corporations can "help" elect candidates that will benefit them and not the people. This must be overturned, a corporation will never be a person unless one day it can donate one of its vital organs, if it can be sentenced to death or give birth to a child. I doubt they will ever be able to do any of these things, therefore they are not and will never be people. </div>
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Money corrupts, this is known by everyone for centuries and money has to be taken out of the equation. An amount dedicated for elections, an equal amount of money for each and every candidate regardless of Party should be assigned. These monies should be provided by the Treasury and be part of the Federal budget. This will eliminate the sugar daddies and would free the elected official from "campaigning" and concentrate on what they were elected to do, govern. </div>
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Filibustering should change too. It is absurd that one candidate such as "Ted" Cruz can stand there and talk for hours about anything, even reading Green Eggs and Ham to filibuster a vote in Congress. I do believe in filibuster, but if you are - as a single individual – obstructing a vote, then you should do it by talking about the subject that you passionately object to and nothing more. I can talk for hours on end about a subject I am passionate about and this shouldn't be that difficult. A person shouldn't obstruct without providing a solid and clear reason for his or her objection. </div>
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Serving the people (what these official are supposed to be doing) shouldn't be a career; it must NOT be a career. The President is allowed to serve two terms, Congressmen should not hold their jobs forever, and neither should any of the Supreme Justices. Perhaps Congressmen should be allowed to serve 3 terms and Justices 4, but that's it... after that, new blood is needed since an apple in a barrel of rotten apples will eventually rotten too. </div>
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Any member(s) of Congress that maliciously obstruct legislation because they are answering to a political agenda should immediately be removed from office, regardless of party affiliation. A member of Congress can disagree and even obstruct, but if that obstruction is obviously malicious, and that Congressman is obstructing more than three times, the Congressman should immediately be removed from their position and new elections for that post should take place or the Governor of those States should appoint a temporary replacement. </div>
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Amendment 14, Section 4 of the Constitution clearly says that all public debt must be paid, without exception. Therefore, the President should be granted power to pay the public debt WITHOUT the approval of Congress... there is no need for Congress to approve payment of the expenses they previously approved. </div>
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Members of Congress should not have more than 20 working days of vacation. For Thanksgiving they should have 2 days off, and the same goes for Christmas - that's what an American worker gets. They are not a "special class," they are our SERVANTS. </div>
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If these changes could be done what's currently broken in the system would be fixed.
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Every one of the previous shutdowns were due to differences of opinions about spending, about funding bills that were to be passed… none of them were about bills that were already law. President Carter experienced 5 shutdowns mostly because the Senate and the House couldn’t agree if Medicaid should pay for abortions or not. There were 8 Federal shutdowns during President Reagan’s presidency; most of them were because the Senate and the House couldn’t agree regarding increasing or decreasing the defense budget and funding the Nicaraguan Contras. This is the first time in history that there’s a Federal shutdown because the House wants to defund a law, not a bill but a constitutional law. This is the first time that Republicans in office have said repeatedly, since 2010, of their desire for a Federal shutdown and this is what makes it not only different but dangerous.</div>
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These same Republicans have been threatening about allowing the United States economy to crash to get their wish. They have tried to obstruct raising the debt ceiling before, they even accomplished our credit rating to drop for the first time. Raising the debt ceiling is less than two weeks away and we all know they will use it once more as an extortion tool to defund the Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare. These new Republicans, aka the Tea Party, are constantly manipulating the more seasoned Republicans in Congress who have become their puppets to fulfill their wishes. These new breed of Republicans do not care about the country, they couldn’t care less about our good standing or credit rating and have no understanding of what governing is all about. They claim they want a smaller government and I would think they wished there was no government at all if it wasn’t because they are part of the government they say they hate so much, if it wasn’t because they keep thinking of more government intrusion to regulate and control women, minorities and the poor. They want to create more government but not for corporations or the wealthy – they protect those. That is the part of government they want to shrink, the one that regulate businesses, the one that prevent these corporations from abusing us even more than they already do.</div>
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If they use extortion again, we will once more default on our obligations and lose our credit rating. This will negatively affect not only the United States but also the world, which is already suffering from the austerity imposed by their government. The Tea Party can’t grasp that raising the debt ceiling in order to pay our debt is a must, non-negotiable and their constitutional obligation and definitively it’s not a choice.</div>
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What many people don’t realize is that the “glory days” they’re talking about has absolutely nothing to do with the economical prosperity of its citizens. They couldn’t care less if people are sinking more and more into poverty, which is not their concern and some of them have openly said it is not their problem. The “glorious” days they want to return to are the days where blacks were segregated, where women had no voice and where white men, especially the wealthy, ruled.</div>
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It is up to us, the American citizen to stop it and to prick their delusional bubble and clean house in 2014. No matter how difficult they have made it in Red States we should vote in masses. We have a little over a year to plan and organize. We must make sure that every single voter votes, if they don’t have transportation, we must rent buses and get them there. If they don’t have all the documents needed, we should help them get those papers. If it is the last thing we do, we must unite and save our country and ourselves from these traitors that wrap themselves on the flag while holding the bible instead of the Constitution.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03722460324757919409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8749884080009664265.post-26598742526563633132013-09-27T19:10:00.000-04:002013-09-27T19:10:44.756-04:00An Act of Treason<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The Fourteenth amendment, section 4 of the United States Constitution clearly states that it is the duty of Congress to pay the public debt, no questions asked.</div>
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But for five long years this debt has been held hostage by members of the Tea Party elected to Congress. These people claim to defend the Constitution but use it as toilet paper and do not care that our country would default on their debts. They couldn’t care less if their irresponsible actions will sink this country in an economic chaos from which it may never recover – that is not their problem. Their only concern is Obamacare and if in order to repeal it the country goes to hell, so be it.</div>
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I’m sorry, but this is not love of country; this is not patriotism… this is actually treason. Their irresponsible act is an act purposely perpetrated to inflict damage to the country, to destroy its economy, to destroy our image and leaving us vulnerable against the attacks of our enemies. Nowhere in the constitution it says that we can forfeit paying our debts to satisfy the tantrum of members of Congress, nowhere. It is the duty and obligation of Congress to pay the country’s debt, period.</div>
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<i><b>Article I Section. 6</b></i>
<i> The Senators and Representatives shall receive a Compensation for their Services, to be ascertained by Law, and paid out of the Treasury of the United States. They shall in all Cases, except Treason, Felony and Breach of the Peace, be privileged from Arrest during their Attendance at the Session of their respective Houses, and in going to and returning from the same; and for any Speech or Debate in either House, they shall not be questioned in any other Place.</i></div>
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<i> Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court.</i></div>
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Ted Cruz and his gang are waging war against the country for personal gain. Do not be fooled by thinking this is being done for the good of the country because it is not. The only thing Ted Cruz is interested in is in getting enough funding from his supporters to run for president in 2016. He doesn’t care about the country, perhaps because he is not a true American after all he is half Cuban and born in Canada, not the United States.</div>
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Obamacare has been the tool the Republicans and Teabaggers have used to agitate their base and the reason why they are holding the debt ceiling hostage in order to get what they want: repeal Obamacare. It matters little that they can do this any time they want, actually they’ve tried over 40 times to repeal it. It matters none that Obamacare can start and if it is as bad as they claim to be, people will back them up and the law could be reversed. None of this matters because Obamacare is not what matters to them, for Ted Cruz and his gang all it matters is to bring this country to its knees and in their sick mind, they will come out victorious. They are so stupid that they don’t seem to realize that if we destroy this country economically, what they will inherit is a country that will be a shadow of it’s glory and it may never be the world power again.</div>
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Perhaps the Koch brothers have promised them to bail the economy out once Obamacare has been repealed and of course, once a member of the Tea Party wins the White House. The problem is, that will not happen. The Koch brothers will not be able to restore the credit score of the country, will not have enough money to sustain the country’s expenses and what’s more absurd is that the American people will not forget who destroyed us, who was irresponsible enough that designed and executed this destruction. We will never elect a Teabagger for president!</div>
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<i>“Now, after careful deliberation, I have decided that the United States should take military action against Syrian regime targets. This would not be an open-ended intervention. We would not put boots on the ground. Instead, our action would be designed to be limited in duration and scope. But I’m confident we can hold the Assad regime accountable for their use of chemical weapons, deter this kind of behavior, and degrade their capacity to carry it out.”</i></div>
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The attack of the government of Syria against it’s own people it’s, without a doubt, a crime against humanity, I don’t think there is a single American that doesn’t find this act a cowardly, repulsive and despicable act. However, unlike the attack on Saddam Hussein – where there were no WOMD – this time we have very few allies. Perhaps it’s precisely because of the Iraq fiasco that our allies do not want to back us up on this, but regardless of the reasons of their refusal, the truth is we have almost no one on our side but we are going to take matters into our own hands… We are once more getting involved in someone else’s business and the outcome is almost predictable… I truly hope I’m wrong.</div>
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I love President Obama but I cannot approve this attack, at least not without knowing what comes next if things don’t go as planned. I want to know what’s “plan B”, or “C” or “D”? We have not been totally informed, we don’t know what will happen if our military strategy fails.</div>
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China and Russia can’t see eye to eye on almost anything, actually they’re enemies except when going against the US; then they are allies and both of them are forces that we don’t want to mess with and they are backing the Syrian government. Does the President think China and Russia are going to do nothing to help Syria against our attacks? What are the plans if China and Russia decide to defend the Syrian government? This attack could open the Pandora’s box or a can of worms and be the prelude for WWIII.</div>
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It is true that their own government indiscriminately slaughtered thousands of people, presumably innocent adults and for certain innocent children. I understand that the means in which these people were killed is illegal – the world has banned the use of chemical weapons – that these weapons could be used against anyone in the world and represents a clear and present danger to us all. But, where is diplomacy? Where have negotiations gone – with Syria and in case Syria doesn’t want to negotiate, with our allies and their allies? Why aren’t the neighboring countries intercede or join us? Aren’t they in more pressing urgency to disarm Assad or at minimum to negotiate with him than us?</div>
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What is happening in Syria is a civil war. No attacks or confrontations have occurred, yet, with neighboring countries, but by the US getting involved in what up to know has been a bloody and even unfair regional war – a civil war – it will turn into an international war that could easily evolve into WWIII.</div>
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It is not the first time a government has purposely mass murdered its own people and we have been idle. The government of Sudan has been doing it for a while; women, men and children are being blown to pieces in Darfur on a daily basis and while these massacres were taking place, we’ve condemned it, we spoke out against it but we did absolutely nothing. Where were we when the people of Rwanda were being slaughtered? We were infuriated, but we kept our distance from these killings. Why?</div>
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The difference between Rwanda, Sudan and Syria is not the color of the people’s skin; it’s not necessarily the danger to neighboring countries or the way these governments have chosen to kill their own people. No, it’s none of these. The truth is that our government feels irate and offended when atrocities such as these take place in equal proportion to the riches of the country perpetrating these massacres. If the country has no riches we don’t lift a finger, that’s the cruel reality. Syria is a rich country with access to our most desirable and precious commodity: oil and it is this commodity the trigger for our country to get involved in a war that is not ours, it is oil the lubricant that sets the wheels of war in motion, that turns us into the police of the world even when all we will accomplish is to amplify the hate the Middle East feels against us – this will only create more terrorists, more Al’ Qaeda’s militants that will perpetuate the never-ending “war on terror” achieving the same level of success as our “war on drugs.”</div>
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I know that my opinion will make no difference in what will take place and our involvement in Syria, but I have to let everyone know where I stand on this issue. I can’t support another war, any war for that matter, when our country is claiming to be broke, when we are taking food away from our own children, when we are closing schools and firing the teachers because we can’t afford them… but we are not broke to drone Pakistan or Iran, we’re not broke to spend trillions of dollars in an unsuccessful engagement in Afghanistan and now we are not broke to attack Syria. What about our own children? What about our seniors? When are we going to defend our children and seniors against poverty, our youth against a crowded classroom and a poor education? When can our seniors feel safe that the government is not going to cut their only source of income? When are we going to create more jobs? But of course, our poor, our children and our seniors don’t own an oil well so it’s perfectly fine to take away from them the dry bone we throw them to feed the monster of war.</div>
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