Neil Armstrong, first human to set foot on the moon, dies at age 82. I'd say he had full and productive life.
[(Reuters) - Former U.S. astronaut, Neil Armstrong, the first man to set foot on the moon, has died at the age of 82, his family said on Saturday.
Armstrong underwent a heart-bypass surgery earlier this month, just two days after his birthday on August 5, to relieve blocked coronary arteries.
As commander of the Apollo 11 mission, Armstrong became the first human to set foot on the moon on July 20, 1969. As he stepped on the dusty surface, Armstrong said: "That's one small step for (a) man, one giant leap for mankind."
Those words endure as one of the best known quotes in the English language.
Neil Alden Armstrong was 38 years old at the time and even though he had fulfilled one of mankind's quests that had loomed for centuries and placed him at the pinnacle of human achievement, he did not revel in his accomplishment. He even seemed frustrated by the acclaim it brought.
"I guess we all like to be recognized not for one piece of fireworks but for the ledger of our daily work," Armstrong said in an interview on CBS's "60 Minutes" program in 2005.
He once was asked how he felt knowing his footprints would likely stay on the moon's surface for thousands of years. "I kind of hope that somebody goes up there one of these days and cleans them up," he said.]
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/08/25/us-usa-neilarmstrong-idUSBRE87O0B020120825
Saturday, August 25, 2012
Romneyhood, Taking from the Poor to Give to the Rich!
Romney’s plan is to give record tax breaks to the rich, lowering their tax rate down to 28 percent. Ryan is a little different. His plan is to give the rich even bigger tax breaks, lowering their tax rate down to 25 percent. No wonder billionaires are bank rolling them.
Both of these men understand exactly how to advocate for their own class. If elected it'll be just like the George W. Bush years again, except this time, along with launching exciting new wars overseas, they’ll finally be able get rid of the remaining tax breaks that benefit low-income Americans.
Comforting the comfortable while punishing the American mainstream is now open Republican practice, so the far right have finally stepped out from behind the curtain to watch their candidate Ryan take on the mantel of power in full public view.
The timing is fortuitous because it's become apparent to most observers that the truth about Romney would probably end his presidential campaign.
He cannot sell himself on Romneycare, his signature achievement, because it would be too damaging. He cannot disclose his own income tax returns -- apparently they would be too damaging too.
Enter Ryan and his big toothy grin. But who is Paul Ryan, that’s the question?
Well, tremble now American seniors, because Ryan is the man who genuinely believes in turning Medicare into a voucher program.
Under his budget plan senior citizens would no longer be entitled to comprehensive medical benefits designed to protect them from financial ruin. No more guarantee of benefits, just take a voucher instead, and you know what a voucher's good for, don’t you?
Ryan also believes in ending Medicaid, turning it into a “block grant” instead. It’s estimated between 14 and 27 million low-income Americans would lose their health insurance over it.
Ryan also wants to privatize Social Security. In fact his plan to take a wrecking ball to the New Deal is so radical that even the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops and Bush rejected it out of hand.
So why do very rich people like Romney and Ryan hate government programs like Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid?
Well, the nation’s top earners don’t want the financial burden of the welfare state, since they don’t benefit from it, so their plan is to hand the entire cost of it over to the middle class, who do.
America’s rich no longer feel the need or the responsibility to contribute one thin dime to the upkeep of this nation. Instead they open Swiss bank accounts to hide their earnings from the IRS; they ship jobs overseas while closing companies here; they play Wall Street like a private casino and hand you the bill for their excesses.
I don't know how they can make this fact any plainer. They don’t actually care what happens to America.
Under Romney/Ryan it’ll be tax breaks for the rich and social Darwinism for the poor. These would be the deepest, most biting cuts ever attempted by a sitting government.
Have you noticed all of that crumbling infrastructure from sea to shining sea? Under Ryan’s budget the government would be so starved of resources that by 2050 it wouldn’t have enough money for basic functioning, never mind overdue road works or highway repairs.
Ryan’s massive and historic cuts to government funding would mean debilitating cuts to law enforcement, education, highway repair and even basic even food inspection.
Ryan does want to increase defense spending, however, so while you're watching all the bombs drop on new wars overseas you can try to console yourself that your money's being well spent.
But predictably, Ryan’s most characteristic ambition of all is Robin Hood in reverse. He wants to preside over the largest transfer of wealth from the poor and the middle class over to the rich in American history.
According to Robert Greenstein, president of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, the new Ryan budget “would likely produce the largest redistribution of income from the bottom to the top in modern U.S. history, and likely increase poverty and inequality more than any other budget in recent times (and possibly in the nation’s history).”
So that's who Paul Ryan is. Another partisan plutocrat with faraway eyes comes to squeeze the last few drops out of the American century.
A man who has never once in his life had to ask himself, which bill can I afford to pay this week? A man who once used Social Security checks to pay for his education, but who now wants to see Social Security scrapped.
And some of you will even vote for him. Just don’t ever get sick or lose your job, all right?] my emphasis throughout
http://www.irishcentral.com/story/ent/manhattan_diary/vote-for-paul-ryan-thats-rich-romney-vp-pick-most-extreme-candidate-ever-to-run--166390186.html
The Spirit Works in Mysterious Ways
But I do not believe in a biker boot to the face as an instrument of the Lord's Work in faith healing.
[A Canadian US-based preacher, who claims to have cured cancer by kicking his followers in the face and stomach, has been banned from Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK.
Todd Bentley (36), who founded the revivalist organization Fresh Fire USA, had planned to hold a series of meetings in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland. However the British Home Office said Bentley was subject to an exclusion order and would not be permitted entry into the UK....
In videos he is heard telling audiences, “And the Holy Spirit spoke to me, the gift of faith came on me. He said, 'kick her in the face with your biker boot'. I inched closer and I went like this – bam! And just as my boot made contact with her nose, she fell under the power of God.”]
Read more: http://www.irishcentral.com/news/US-based-preacher-who-heals-by-punching-and-kicking-banned-from-Northern-Ireland--VIDEO-167304455.html#ixzz24ZHBshZ3
[A Canadian US-based preacher, who claims to have cured cancer by kicking his followers in the face and stomach, has been banned from Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK.
Todd Bentley (36), who founded the revivalist organization Fresh Fire USA, had planned to hold a series of meetings in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland. However the British Home Office said Bentley was subject to an exclusion order and would not be permitted entry into the UK....
In videos he is heard telling audiences, “And the Holy Spirit spoke to me, the gift of faith came on me. He said, 'kick her in the face with your biker boot'. I inched closer and I went like this – bam! And just as my boot made contact with her nose, she fell under the power of God.”]
Read more: http://www.irishcentral.com/news/US-based-preacher-who-heals-by-punching-and-kicking-banned-from-Northern-Ireland--VIDEO-167304455.html#ixzz24ZHBshZ3
Release the President's Beer Recipe!
White House Beer Recipe released if we get enough petition requests.
Actually as devout German Lutheran, do however consider beer recipes with honey an abomination before the Lord. Will drink 'em as do not hew to strict dietary laws. Heck, if following Old Test, would have to give up BBQ pork and oysters and that ain't happening.
Go here to sign: https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/release-recipe-honey-ale-home-brewed-white-house/XkpkYwc0
Actually as devout German Lutheran, do however consider beer recipes with honey an abomination before the Lord. Will drink 'em as do not hew to strict dietary laws. Heck, if following Old Test, would have to give up BBQ pork and oysters and that ain't happening.
Go here to sign: https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/release-recipe-honey-ale-home-brewed-white-house/XkpkYwc0
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Friday, August 24, 2012
Florida Cutting Benefits By Cutting Access
Governor 48.9% continues the fine JEB! legacy: tax cuts for the poor and cuts in basic human services for people in need. Unemployment compensation makes one of the main strands of the tattered social safety net. If one loses a job through no fault of their own. say through layoffs or Bain Capital buying a company and sending jobs to China, then in FL with enough work history over the previous year, a beneficiary can get up to $275 biweekly.
If you've worked and paid unemployment taxes for decades, you still only get benefits based on previous 4 quarters. FL payment amounts rank among the lowest in the nation. By making it nearly impossible or at least as frustrating as conceivable, FL also reduces the money it has to pay out, monies which people legitimately earned by working, which help people survive, and which help keep the economy moving by getting put back into buying goods and services rather than getting stashed in Cayman Islands tax shelter.
Starting with dauphin JEB! Bush, the state of FL made it mandatory to apply on line for unemployment benefits, which kind of can discourage potential applicants without computers from applying.
Same thig happened with food stamps, another form of assistance which helps keep people in need alive. Jeb! closed local service centers and moved to web based applications. Then, one had to have a phone interview to confirm eligibility. If you ain't got enough dough to eat, do you think you can keep phone service?
Can't have any of those pesky poor people actually benefiting from government services.
And forget about talking to a human being customer service representative. Tax cuts and budget cuts which follow means you can call for days--DAYS--and never get through.
JEB! came into office pledging to cut taxes, received warnings that coming yeas wuld bing exponential growth of Medicaid expenses, and then cut $14 billion in taxes, leaving FL broke and needing to impoverish most broken citizens even more, "Because you can't raise taxes in the middle of a recession."
Bullshit.
Return taxes to near pre-Bush rates, at both federal and state levels.
JEB! left the cupboard empty, ate the seed corn, and salted the fields so poor could not even glean for subsistence.
Bastard!
[BY TOLUSE OLORUNNIPA
HERALD/TIMES TALLAHASSEE BUREAU
TALLAHASSEE -- When 65-year-old Raymond Togyer isn’t polishing his resume or cold calling potential employers, he’s spending hours trying, unsuccessfully, to navigate Florida’s labyrinthine unemployment compensation system.
Togyer — who was laid off for the first time in his adult life from a high-paying civil engineering job in June — has spent the last seven weeks sending and resending letters, staying on hold for hours and checking state websites, all to no avail.
He is one of hundreds of thousands of out-of-work Floridians flummoxed by what has become the most tightfisted unemployment compensation system in the nation.
“They told me that I was eligible and that I was going to be getting $275 a week,” said the Togyer, of FortLauderdale . “That was seven weeks ago. To this day I have not received anything. I’m draining my savings to pay my bills.”
Critics say Gov. Rick Scott and Florida’s Legislature are behind a multipronged effort to restrict payments to eligible Floridians. A required 45-question “skills review” and an online-only application system have combined to restrict thousands of applicants from receiving aid. The U.S. Labor Department is investigating the complaints. A spokesman told the Herald/Times that Florida is cooperating with their inquiry, but they would not comment further.
Scott’s office did not respond to a request for comment, but in the past he has touted the required 45-question “skills review” as a commonsense reform intended to create a more skilled workforce.
Whatever the intention, the impact is clear: Hundreds of thousands of unemployed Floridians have been cut off from a safety net system for those who find themselves suddenly without income.] emphasis added for shame
http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/08/21/2962090/getting-an-unemployment-check.html#storylink=misearch
[More than six years later, as Bush prepares for his final year in office, it would be hard to deny that he's cut taxes. Since 1999, lawmakers have approved tax cuts totaling more than $14 billion.
But most Floridians haven't seen a direct impact.
A review of tax cuts enacted during Bush's terms show the bulk of the cuts have aided businesses or investors, with cuts on estate taxes and investments accounting for nearly half of the tax cuts and cuts for businesses also well into the billions of dollars.
"The vast majority of tax cuts (under Bush) went to special interests, select corporations and our most privileged and wealthy citizens," said Rep. Dan Gelber, D-Miami Beach. "They gave the wealthy and most powerful the vast majority of your tax breaks and gave everyone else a few crumbs and told them they've been to the party."] Bolded for those with eyes who will not see.
http://www.gainesville.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051204/LOCAL/212040319/1078&template=printart
If you've worked and paid unemployment taxes for decades, you still only get benefits based on previous 4 quarters. FL payment amounts rank among the lowest in the nation. By making it nearly impossible or at least as frustrating as conceivable, FL also reduces the money it has to pay out, monies which people legitimately earned by working, which help people survive, and which help keep the economy moving by getting put back into buying goods and services rather than getting stashed in Cayman Islands tax shelter.
Starting with dauphin JEB! Bush, the state of FL made it mandatory to apply on line for unemployment benefits, which kind of can discourage potential applicants without computers from applying.
Same thig happened with food stamps, another form of assistance which helps keep people in need alive. Jeb! closed local service centers and moved to web based applications. Then, one had to have a phone interview to confirm eligibility. If you ain't got enough dough to eat, do you think you can keep phone service?
Can't have any of those pesky poor people actually benefiting from government services.
And forget about talking to a human being customer service representative. Tax cuts and budget cuts which follow means you can call for days--DAYS--and never get through.
JEB! came into office pledging to cut taxes, received warnings that coming yeas wuld bing exponential growth of Medicaid expenses, and then cut $14 billion in taxes, leaving FL broke and needing to impoverish most broken citizens even more, "Because you can't raise taxes in the middle of a recession."
Bullshit.
Return taxes to near pre-Bush rates, at both federal and state levels.
JEB! left the cupboard empty, ate the seed corn, and salted the fields so poor could not even glean for subsistence.
Bastard!
[BY TOLUSE OLORUNNIPA
HERALD/TIMES TALLAHASSEE BUREAU
TALLAHASSEE -- When 65-year-old Raymond Togyer isn’t polishing his resume or cold calling potential employers, he’s spending hours trying, unsuccessfully, to navigate Florida’s labyrinthine unemployment compensation system.
Togyer — who was laid off for the first time in his adult life from a high-paying civil engineering job in June — has spent the last seven weeks sending and resending letters, staying on hold for hours and checking state websites, all to no avail.
He is one of hundreds of thousands of out-of-work Floridians flummoxed by what has become the most tightfisted unemployment compensation system in the nation.
“They told me that I was eligible and that I was going to be getting $275 a week,” said the Togyer, of FortLauderdale . “That was seven weeks ago. To this day I have not received anything. I’m draining my savings to pay my bills.”
Critics say Gov. Rick Scott and Florida’s Legislature are behind a multipronged effort to restrict payments to eligible Floridians. A required 45-question “skills review” and an online-only application system have combined to restrict thousands of applicants from receiving aid. The U.S. Labor Department is investigating the complaints. A spokesman told the Herald/Times that Florida is cooperating with their inquiry, but they would not comment further.
Scott’s office did not respond to a request for comment, but in the past he has touted the required 45-question “skills review” as a commonsense reform intended to create a more skilled workforce.
Whatever the intention, the impact is clear: Hundreds of thousands of unemployed Floridians have been cut off from a safety net system for those who find themselves suddenly without income.] emphasis added for shame
http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/08/21/2962090/getting-an-unemployment-check.html#storylink=misearch
[More than six years later, as Bush prepares for his final year in office, it would be hard to deny that he's cut taxes. Since 1999, lawmakers have approved tax cuts totaling more than $14 billion.
But most Floridians haven't seen a direct impact.
A review of tax cuts enacted during Bush's terms show the bulk of the cuts have aided businesses or investors, with cuts on estate taxes and investments accounting for nearly half of the tax cuts and cuts for businesses also well into the billions of dollars.
"The vast majority of tax cuts (under Bush) went to special interests, select corporations and our most privileged and wealthy citizens," said Rep. Dan Gelber, D-Miami Beach. "They gave the wealthy and most powerful the vast majority of your tax breaks and gave everyone else a few crumbs and told them they've been to the party."] Bolded for those with eyes who will not see.
http://www.gainesville.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051204/LOCAL/212040319/1078&template=printart
Things Your Bartender Won't Tell You
22.
Everyone should bartend a few nights in his life.
You learn so much about people.
http://www.rd.com/slideshows/13-things-your-bartender-wont-tell-you-slideshow/?trkid=outbrain-all#slideshow=slide22
http://www.rd.com/slideshows/13-things-your-bartender-wont-tell-you-slideshow/?trkid=outbrain-all#slideshow=slide1
http://www.rd.com/slideshows/13-things-your-bartender-wont-tell-you-slideshow/?trkid=outbrain-all#slideshow=slide22
http://www.rd.com/slideshows/13-things-your-bartender-wont-tell-you-slideshow/?trkid=outbrain-all#slideshow=slide1
Pete Townsend and Jack White: "The Seeker"
(Notes say Pino Palladino on bass.)
(With John "the Ox" Entwhistle on bass. Not too shabby.)
Thursday, August 23, 2012
Don't You Dare Ask and Romney Won't Tell
[Denver TV reporter Shaun Boyd wanted to ask Mitt Romney about Todd Akin and the abortion controversy roiling the GOP Thursday. But the Romney campaign refused.
In a broadcast on Thursday, Boyd revealed the Romney campaign’s demand that she not ask about Akin. The Obama campaign quickly posted the video online and sent it to reporters:
Boyd told TPM that the Romney campaign offered her station an interview with Romney, one of several local news hits in swing states that Romney conducted via satellite Thursday. A campaign staffer whose name she didn’t divulge told her what questions she wasn’t allowed to ask.
“They said, you know, ‘the only stipulation is we don’t want you talking about the Akin issue,’” Boyd recalled. She also said the Romney staffer told her the campaign didn’t want questions for Romney about ‘the whole abortion controversy.’”]
In a broadcast on Thursday, Boyd revealed the Romney campaign’s demand that she not ask about Akin. The Obama campaign quickly posted the video online and sent it to reporters:
Boyd told TPM that the Romney campaign offered her station an interview with Romney, one of several local news hits in swing states that Romney conducted via satellite Thursday. A campaign staffer whose name she didn’t divulge told her what questions she wasn’t allowed to ask.
“They said, you know, ‘the only stipulation is we don’t want you talking about the Akin issue,’” Boyd recalled. She also said the Romney staffer told her the campaign didn’t want questions for Romney about ‘the whole abortion controversy.’”]
"The whole abortion controversy," like forcing women to carry their rapists' babies to term?
Home Brewing Hurricane Supplies
From Booth's Brewing, Tampa:
√ Homebrew Recipe
√ Recipe Ingredients
√ Plenty of gas
√ Jugs of water for brewing (be sure to account for sparging, sanitizing and cleaning)
√ Lots of sanitizer
√ The required brewing equipment
√Flashlights or candles
√ A lighter
√ Lots of ice for chilling the wort
√ Plenty of homebrew for morale lifting
√ Board games or cards to pass the time by
Good list but leaves out Tequila--always buy more Tequila and limes than you think you need 'cause you might lose power for days--spare lighters, 2 ice chests with ice (1for beer and one for vittles, although true cajun survivors like remy and Beauregard might say with enough PBR you don't need food.), and more Tequila.
√ Homebrew Recipe
√ Recipe Ingredients
√ Plenty of gas
√ Jugs of water for brewing (be sure to account for sparging, sanitizing and cleaning)
√ Lots of sanitizer
√ The required brewing equipment
√Flashlights or candles
√ A lighter
√ Lots of ice for chilling the wort
√ Plenty of homebrew for morale lifting
√ Board games or cards to pass the time by
Good list but leaves out Tequila--always buy more Tequila and limes than you think you need 'cause you might lose power for days--spare lighters, 2 ice chests with ice (1for beer and one for vittles, although true cajun survivors like remy and Beauregard might say with enough PBR you don't need food.), and more Tequila.
Did I mention Tequila?
God Hates Jedi: Star Wars convention VI kicks off in Orlando
Star Wars mania still goes on, like a bad 70's mullet hair cut? Geez, 2 OK movies and 4 crappy ones--each getting worse and worse, so bad that "Jar Jar Binks" has become a synonym for writers and directors who equate making tons of Money with making a quality product.
My ever ironic goddess, has this "franchise" gone on longer than the centuries of the Olympics or the seeming recent NBC eternity of coverage of synchronized swimming and rhythmic dance? Quit kidding me, Lucas finds another 13 seconds of cutting room footage and issues a new director's cut every 10 years,soon to hit theatres in 3D and still banks major ducats?
With edits in bold { }:
[Orlando becomes the center of the science fiction universe when Star Wars Celebration VI occupies the Orange County Convention Center, August 23rd through 26th, 2012.
The ultimate fan experience — focused on a galaxy far, far away...
{Focused on you coughing up cash}
The biggest party this side of the galaxy, Star Wars Celebration brings fans of all ages together, from all points of the globe, to celebrate the pop-culture phenomenon that is Star Wars. Whether it's young fans of Star Wars: The Clone Wars or die-hards fueled by the nostalgia for the original Star Wars trilogy; curious, casual followers; gamers, readers, costumers or collectors — there's something for everyone at Celebration.
The biggest party this side of the galaxy, Star Wars Celebration brings fans of all ages together, from all points of the globe, to celebrate the pop-culture phenomenon that is Star Wars. Whether it's young fans of Star Wars: The Clone Wars or die-hards fueled by the nostalgia for the original Star Wars trilogy; curious, casual followers; gamers, readers, costumers or collectors — there's something for everyone at Celebration.
{Losers}
Both hardcore and casual fans will gather to have fun while celebrating their passion for all things Star Wars, discovering what's new, and being the first to see what's next. It's four fun-filled days of exhibits, a vibrant, interactive show floor, screenings, exclusive merchandise, celebrity guests, panels, autograph sessions, fan-inspired activities, and other surprises.
Both hardcore and casual fans will gather to have fun while celebrating their passion for all things Star Wars, discovering what's new, and being the first to see what's next. It's four fun-filled days of exhibits, a vibrant, interactive show floor, screenings, exclusive merchandise, celebrity guests, panels, autograph sessions, fan-inspired activities, and other surprises.
{"Four fun-filled" days in HELL. Celebity guests, how much does Mark Hamil charge for his autograph?}
Star Wars Celebration delivers a landmark experience where memories are made, families brought together, old friends reunited, and new friendships formed — all in the setting of the ever-evolving Star Wars universe.
Star Wars Celebration delivers a landmark experience where memories are made, families brought together, old friends reunited, and new friendships formed — all in the setting of the ever-evolving Star Wars universe.
{Cynical synapses overload: "families brought together" and "ever evolving," we'll have another Lucas cartoon piece of crap called "Clone Contrtemps."
Get a freakin' life, people}
Lissen up, Sudsy sez start happy hour!
Romney Lies Limerick
Damn, I could have written this!
[Limerick Ode To Smear-Meister Mitt Romney
By Madeleine Begun Kane
For Romney, the truth holds no sway,
As his lies mount up day after day.
Welfare, health care and tax—
With the facts he is lax,
Treating voters like ignorant prey.]
[Limerick Ode To Smear-Meister Mitt Romney
By Madeleine Begun Kane
For Romney, the truth holds no sway,
As his lies mount up day after day.
Welfare, health care and tax—
With the facts he is lax,
Treating voters like ignorant prey.]
Rapists' Parental Rights
You read that right. In 31 states, rapists whose sperm swim well can claim parental visitation rights.
Holy Purple Jesus punch in a dirty bathtub, patriarch Man! Visitation rights for criminal vermin who ought to have all trace of their existence wiped from the earth. What freakin' patriarchal Mormon prick came up with that idea?
[It would not be long before I would learn firsthand that in the vast majority of states -- 31 -- men who father through rape are able to assert the same custody and visitation rights to their children that other fathers enjoy. When no law prohibits a rapist from exercising these rights, a woman may feel forced to bargain away her legal rights to a criminal trial in exchange for the rapist dropping the bid to have access to her child.
Opinion: Wake up, it's not just Akin
When faced with the choice between a lifetime tethered to her rapist or meaningful legal redress, the answer may be easy, but it is not painless. For the sake of her child, the woman will sacrifice her need to see her once immensely powerful perpetrator humbled by the court.
I know it because I lived it. I went to law school to learn how to stop it.]
http://www.cnn.com/2012/08/22/opinion/prewitt-rapist-visitation-rights/index.html
People without a uterus should shut up and stop making laws about women's bodies!
I'm looking at you, Paul Ryan, defender of every fertilized egg who would ban most forms of birth control.
Dipwad.
Holy Purple Jesus punch in a dirty bathtub, patriarch Man! Visitation rights for criminal vermin who ought to have all trace of their existence wiped from the earth. What freakin' patriarchal Mormon prick came up with that idea?
[It would not be long before I would learn firsthand that in the vast majority of states -- 31 -- men who father through rape are able to assert the same custody and visitation rights to their children that other fathers enjoy. When no law prohibits a rapist from exercising these rights, a woman may feel forced to bargain away her legal rights to a criminal trial in exchange for the rapist dropping the bid to have access to her child.
Opinion: Wake up, it's not just Akin
When faced with the choice between a lifetime tethered to her rapist or meaningful legal redress, the answer may be easy, but it is not painless. For the sake of her child, the woman will sacrifice her need to see her once immensely powerful perpetrator humbled by the court.
I know it because I lived it. I went to law school to learn how to stop it.]
http://www.cnn.com/2012/08/22/opinion/prewitt-rapist-visitation-rights/index.html
People without a uterus should shut up and stop making laws about women's bodies!
I'm looking at you, Paul Ryan, defender of every fertilized egg who would ban most forms of birth control.
Dipwad.
Wednesday, August 22, 2012
These RepubliKKKans Scare Me
Update: First found this fool at Juanita Jean's--the most dangerous beauty salon on earth--and thought her description of West TX apt: [Judge Tom, first off, nobody is coming to Lubbock. It’s a hellhole. It’s hot as a frying pan in the summer, colder than a witch’s boob in a brass bra in the winter, and one damn crappy place in between. You can’t pay people to come to Lubbock. Hell, son, you could offer starving people in China a fancy condo in Lubbock and they wouldn’t take it.
Tom Head: Raising Taxes Because He Wants To
Second off, I do not care how seasoned your police are, they cannot take out a predator drone or the United States Marines. And there would be thousands of them — all whining about being in damn Lubbock.]
How in the name of blind justice did this fool become a judge? Lord, I know it only TX, but this strains the bounds of credulity.
How did crackpot borderline psychopaths get so comfortable stating publicly what they secretly believe, in this case a duly elected President of the United States, Barack Hussein Obama, who would disband the United States and turn it into a fiefdom of the United Nations.
What do these people smoke, ingest, imbibe, inject, or consume?
Timothy Leary's ghost, give me some of them drugs.
Seriously cannot make this shite up, justifying raising local taxes to fight off black federal government helicopters.
[Texas Judge Tom Head is worried about what might happen if President Obama wins reelection in November. There could be riots, unrest or a “civil war, maybe,” he told a local television station this week.
Because of that, the Lubbock County judge has decided the only way to prepare is to increase taxes to help beef up local law enforcement.
“I’m thinking worst case scenario now,” Head said during an appearance on FOX 34 in Lubbock. “Civil unrest, civil disobedience, civil war, maybe. And we’re not talking just a few riots here and demonstrations, we’re talking Lexington, Concord, take up arms and get rid of the guy.”
The judge spun the elaborate conspiracy theory while calling for a 1.7 cent hike per $100 on property taxes in Lubbock County, a measure being considered by the commission there. He said he feared Obama would hand over sovereignty of the United States to the United Nations and the unrest would naturally follow.
Head’s role as judge is an elected position akin to executive of the county commission, which is known as a court. He presides over commission meetings, prepares the budget and is in charge of the county’s emergency management.
Under Head’s theory, the United Nations would then send in peacekeeping troops to try to quell the violence and that’s where he would draw the line. He vowed to stand in front of the county’s armored vehicle and stare down the U.N. troops if that happens.
“And the sheriff, I’ve already asked him, I said, ‘You gonna back me?’” the judge said. “He said, ‘Yeah, I’ll back you.’ Well, I don’t want a bunch of rookies back there. I want trained, equipped, seasoned veteran officers to back me.”] Sure, like a bunch of beer bellied red neck sheriffs will stand off a fleet of predator drones. Emphasis added to ridicule.
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/08/tom_head_civil_war.php?ref=fpb
Tom Head: Raising Taxes Because He Wants To
Second off, I do not care how seasoned your police are, they cannot take out a predator drone or the United States Marines. And there would be thousands of them — all whining about being in damn Lubbock.]
How in the name of blind justice did this fool become a judge? Lord, I know it only TX, but this strains the bounds of credulity.
How did crackpot borderline psychopaths get so comfortable stating publicly what they secretly believe, in this case a duly elected President of the United States, Barack Hussein Obama, who would disband the United States and turn it into a fiefdom of the United Nations.
What do these people smoke, ingest, imbibe, inject, or consume?
Timothy Leary's ghost, give me some of them drugs.
Seriously cannot make this shite up, justifying raising local taxes to fight off black federal government helicopters.
[Texas Judge Tom Head is worried about what might happen if President Obama wins reelection in November. There could be riots, unrest or a “civil war, maybe,” he told a local television station this week.
Because of that, the Lubbock County judge has decided the only way to prepare is to increase taxes to help beef up local law enforcement.
“I’m thinking worst case scenario now,” Head said during an appearance on FOX 34 in Lubbock. “Civil unrest, civil disobedience, civil war, maybe. And we’re not talking just a few riots here and demonstrations, we’re talking Lexington, Concord, take up arms and get rid of the guy.”
The judge spun the elaborate conspiracy theory while calling for a 1.7 cent hike per $100 on property taxes in Lubbock County, a measure being considered by the commission there. He said he feared Obama would hand over sovereignty of the United States to the United Nations and the unrest would naturally follow.
Head’s role as judge is an elected position akin to executive of the county commission, which is known as a court. He presides over commission meetings, prepares the budget and is in charge of the county’s emergency management.
Under Head’s theory, the United Nations would then send in peacekeeping troops to try to quell the violence and that’s where he would draw the line. He vowed to stand in front of the county’s armored vehicle and stare down the U.N. troops if that happens.
“And the sheriff, I’ve already asked him, I said, ‘You gonna back me?’” the judge said. “He said, ‘Yeah, I’ll back you.’ Well, I don’t want a bunch of rookies back there. I want trained, equipped, seasoned veteran officers to back me.”] Sure, like a bunch of beer bellied red neck sheriffs will stand off a fleet of predator drones. Emphasis added to ridicule.
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/08/tom_head_civil_war.php?ref=fpb
Never Trust a Man Who Doesn't Drink Beer
That means Mormons, right? Guys like Willard Mitt Romney who never had the moments of introspection praying to the porcelain god brings, who grew up with a silver spoon in his mouth and upgraded it to platinum
[Son, never trust a man who doesn’t drink because he’s probably a self-righteous sort, a man who thinks he knows right from wrong all the time. Some of them are good men, but in the name of goodness, they cause most of the suffering in the world. They’re the judges, the meddlers. And, son, never trust a man who drinks but refuses to get drunk. They’re usually afraid of something deep down inside, either that they’re a coward or a fool or mean and violent. You can’t trust a man who’s afraid of himself. But sometimes, son, you can trust a man who occasionally kneels before a toilet. The chances are that he is learning something about humility and his natural human foolishness, about how to survive himself. It’s damned hard for a man to take himself too seriously when he’s heaving his guts into a dirty toilet bowl.
~James Arthur Crumley (October 12, 1939 – September 17, 2008)]http://www.sexcigarsbooze.com/2011/09/never-trust-a-man-who-doesn%E2%80%99t-drink/
Better to trust a man who brews his own beer and will have to share the recipe after a Freedom of Information Act Request: Barack H. Obama.
[Obama is a big enough fan of his White House beer (and beer in general) that he's now carrying it on the campaign bus andoccasionally handing out bottles of it. While it may in fact be a great brew, we don't really know for sure since most of us have never tried it. That's why a Reddit user decided to submit a Freedom Of Information Act request for the White House Honey Ale recipe, or any other White House brews, which include White House Honey Porter and White House Honey Blonde Ale. All three use honey from Michelle Obama's White House garden.
The Fedblog points out that this is not the first formal request for the recipe. A petition was recently filed at the White House website, but it needs 25,000 signatures by September 17 before it gets reviewed. As of this writing, it has 295. Only 24,705 to go! The petition pleads, "In keeping with the brewing traditions of the founding fathers, homebrewers across America call on the Obama administration to release the recipe for the White House home brew so that it may be enjoyed by all."]
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/21/white-house-beer-recipe-obama_n_1818531.html?ir=Food
[Son, never trust a man who doesn’t drink because he’s probably a self-righteous sort, a man who thinks he knows right from wrong all the time. Some of them are good men, but in the name of goodness, they cause most of the suffering in the world. They’re the judges, the meddlers. And, son, never trust a man who drinks but refuses to get drunk. They’re usually afraid of something deep down inside, either that they’re a coward or a fool or mean and violent. You can’t trust a man who’s afraid of himself. But sometimes, son, you can trust a man who occasionally kneels before a toilet. The chances are that he is learning something about humility and his natural human foolishness, about how to survive himself. It’s damned hard for a man to take himself too seriously when he’s heaving his guts into a dirty toilet bowl.
~James Arthur Crumley (October 12, 1939 – September 17, 2008)]http://www.sexcigarsbooze.com/2011/09/never-trust-a-man-who-doesn%E2%80%99t-drink/
Better to trust a man who brews his own beer and will have to share the recipe after a Freedom of Information Act Request: Barack H. Obama.
[Obama is a big enough fan of his White House beer (and beer in general) that he's now carrying it on the campaign bus andoccasionally handing out bottles of it. While it may in fact be a great brew, we don't really know for sure since most of us have never tried it. That's why a Reddit user decided to submit a Freedom Of Information Act request for the White House Honey Ale recipe, or any other White House brews, which include White House Honey Porter and White House Honey Blonde Ale. All three use honey from Michelle Obama's White House garden.
The Fedblog points out that this is not the first formal request for the recipe. A petition was recently filed at the White House website, but it needs 25,000 signatures by September 17 before it gets reviewed. As of this writing, it has 295. Only 24,705 to go! The petition pleads, "In keeping with the brewing traditions of the founding fathers, homebrewers across America call on the Obama administration to release the recipe for the White House home brew so that it may be enjoyed by all."]
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/21/white-house-beer-recipe-obama_n_1818531.html?ir=Food
Pregnant After Rape: Why people without a uterus should shut the frack up!
God help anyone who hurts my teenage nieces. I will kill the perpetrators. Painfully. Repeatedly after reviving them to kill them again.
(Preferably, first we will imply great mayhem will fall on any suitors who fail to act as gentlemen.}
This explains why I try to become a follower of Jesus but trying in my heart does not include forgiving, a sin for sure and one which will have to abashedly confess when my time comes but ain't changing after 54 years.
So personal stories of victims of violent crimes shake me as cannot believe a human feels the need to assert power and dominance over and ability to diminish another by rape.
Then, getting on my last unperturbed brain cell, Todd, idiot asscclown Akin, MO, trots out his ignorance of theology, biology, and uses it to construct a fascist ideology to control the bodies of women
Ideologue "Christian" conservatives usually rely on their "special" knowledge of what God wants by selecting certain passages of the Bible and ignoring others. Leaving aside their hypocritical crusade to become the new Pharisees and create a theocracy in the United States according to their own prejudices, let's go ahead and look at 2 passages disproving their bullshit.
Exodus 21:22 concerns injury of a woman resulting in miscarriage and thus no murder had occurred.
Genesis has God breathing life into clay, meaning life can't begin until a human stats breathing.
Nevertheless, these ideologues in their messianic, misplaced zeal cannot admit of possibility of their own error because fanatics need a cause to make them judgmental little tin plated gods of their own, more eager to condemn than forgive, a very human impulse of my own.
So these idiots will, if elected, dictate to victims of rape what the women ought do with their own bodies.
IF ELECTED!
[At 19 years old, I became an unwilling expert on the topic of rape. I learned about rape’s savagery and its psychological trauma.
Lately, we’ve been hearing from men who don’t know much about the subject at all. On Monday, Senate candidate Rep. Todd Akin, R-Mo., created a stir when he said, “If it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down.” But his casual, off-the-cuff ignorance is just the latest in a long line of insults. In March, Kansas Rep. Pete DeGraf said, “Women should plan ahead for rape the way he keeps a spare tire.” A few weeks after that Indiana state Rep. Eric Turner said, “Some women might fake being raped in order to get free abortions.” I can’t stand by and watch these men who have no personal experience with sexual assault pretend to know so much about it.
I do know about rape. I received an education of the highest degree, and now it’s my turn to teach....
But just when I thought the horror couldn’t escalate any further, things got worse: My period never came. At first, I assumed it was due to the stress and anxiety, so I waited. I waited and waited, and fear swarmed in my mind....]
(Preferably, first we will imply great mayhem will fall on any suitors who fail to act as gentlemen.}
This explains why I try to become a follower of Jesus but trying in my heart does not include forgiving, a sin for sure and one which will have to abashedly confess when my time comes but ain't changing after 54 years.
So personal stories of victims of violent crimes shake me as cannot believe a human feels the need to assert power and dominance over and ability to diminish another by rape.
Then, getting on my last unperturbed brain cell, Todd, idiot asscclown Akin, MO, trots out his ignorance of theology, biology, and uses it to construct a fascist ideology to control the bodies of women
Ideologue "Christian" conservatives usually rely on their "special" knowledge of what God wants by selecting certain passages of the Bible and ignoring others. Leaving aside their hypocritical crusade to become the new Pharisees and create a theocracy in the United States according to their own prejudices, let's go ahead and look at 2 passages disproving their bullshit.
Exodus 21:22 concerns injury of a woman resulting in miscarriage and thus no murder had occurred.
Genesis has God breathing life into clay, meaning life can't begin until a human stats breathing.
Nevertheless, these ideologues in their messianic, misplaced zeal cannot admit of possibility of their own error because fanatics need a cause to make them judgmental little tin plated gods of their own, more eager to condemn than forgive, a very human impulse of my own.
So these idiots will, if elected, dictate to victims of rape what the women ought do with their own bodies.
IF ELECTED!
[At 19 years old, I became an unwilling expert on the topic of rape. I learned about rape’s savagery and its psychological trauma.
Lately, we’ve been hearing from men who don’t know much about the subject at all. On Monday, Senate candidate Rep. Todd Akin, R-Mo., created a stir when he said, “If it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down.” But his casual, off-the-cuff ignorance is just the latest in a long line of insults. In March, Kansas Rep. Pete DeGraf said, “Women should plan ahead for rape the way he keeps a spare tire.” A few weeks after that Indiana state Rep. Eric Turner said, “Some women might fake being raped in order to get free abortions.” I can’t stand by and watch these men who have no personal experience with sexual assault pretend to know so much about it.
I do know about rape. I received an education of the highest degree, and now it’s my turn to teach....
But just when I thought the horror couldn’t escalate any further, things got worse: My period never came. At first, I assumed it was due to the stress and anxiety, so I waited. I waited and waited, and fear swarmed in my mind....]
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