The Shame Is On Romney

It seems to fail Mitt Romney entirely to what extent We the American People were affected by 9/11.  When asked how he felt about President Barack Obama’s show of strength in taking out Osama Ben Laden his reply was,”I would have done the same thing.  Even Jimmy Carter would have made the same decision.” As Americans we were suppose to ignore or forget his original statement, “That getting Osama Ben Laden was not worth moving Heaven and earth to go after him.”

While the political right fed media and the Romney/Ryan team yell about the weaknesses in the Obama Administration foreign policy, it has been the Obama Administration who  has eliminated Ben Laden along with 20 to 30 of his closest leaders that was making this reminder of 9/11 more palatable to the American public.

Certainly, this has been a show of force and resolve on the part of the Obama Administration to bring some justice to the families who both lost their loved ones, along with many  who were heroes, in the eyes of the American people.

The fact that the right-wing accuses the main stream media of giving President Obama a free ride on foreign affairs is as insane and as ludicrous as their comments are. We can all rest assured that if the Obama Administration had a record of failure, the main stream media would be reporting the same, just as the Conservative media along with the Romney campaign belittles and denies President Obama’s successes.

After ten years of looking for justice for the destruction done to our American families we were able to feel some relief from the sadness that permeated America for ten years because we have been a Country without justice until the Obama team brought us that longed for justice. The Romney team along with Mitt Romney just do not seem to understand that tarnishing that record only shows their own desperation.

Mitt Romney shooting from the lip at a time that we are again reminded of our mourning on 9/11 with the attack of our Embassy and the death of Christopher Stevens and three other Americans, before their families are even notified, only convinces those of us who do follow World events, just how incompetent and insensitive Mitt Romney truly is. The apology from the Embassy for a dreadful movie film trailer produced by a right-wing American citizen, was simply issued to stave off attacks six hours before the attacks even occurred on the American Embassy, and had nothing to do with an apology from President Obama.

When we realize that, Mitt Romney, made the same shameful remarks against the Obama Administration, while Hillary Clinton was involved in sensitive meetings working for the freedom of a Chinese dissident; he then followed that shooting from the lip by quickly insulting the Olympic committee in London; and followed that up with the insults to the Arabs in Israel; and the list of lies and misspoken statements goes on, we do need to question if Mitt Romney is even capable of leading America.

After the attacks on the World Trade Buildings, then President George W. Bush, apologized to the Muslim Nations for the blame being placed on them as a result of the radical behavior of the right-wing extremists in their land.  By Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan campaigning on the weakness of the Obama Administration on foreign affairs, they themselves, are feeding into the right-wing extremists who are part of our own Society.

Obviously to those of us who deal in reality and common sense, the poorly produced  film made under false pretenses in L.A. by an American citizen, unrelated to the Obama Administration, plays a major role in the upset feeding into the extremists on the right in the Middle East. President Obama could not have prevented the U-Tube production and has no blame to play in the role of this misguided American’s attempt to ridicule Mohammed.  At the same time it does not give extremists the right to kill and maim the people who have helped them gain their freedom, if Democracy is truly the goal of their people.We as a government under an Obama Administration would never condone such hatred against another’s religion or our own people, and this view has been stressed by the Obama Administration and was voiced by then President George W. Bush, as well.

To use a time when America is just recovering from a time of grieving to being able to feel that ever slight sense of celebration, knowing that justice has been served, and then to be placed back into that mourning by the loss of more Americans by these extremist groups, who spew hate and violence in the Middle East, is a merry-go-round of emotions for All Americans.  The fact that the Romney/Ryan team would use that to stir up hatred for the Obama Administration and to try to get political gain for themselves, only shows to what a degree of desperation they will stoop in order to win.

If we do not question the competency as well as the human decency of this behavior by both the Romney and Ryan ticket along with the media who continues to feed us the notion that the Obama Administration has gotten a free ride on foreign affairs, then we have not paid attention to the weakening of the moral fiber by the right-wing in our own Country.

We need to send a message of our own to the Republican Party who seems to ignore the moderate and the liberal amongst us, but instead prefer to feed the coffers of the right-wing extremists in our own Country, just what we think of their efforts to  destroy our moral fiber, as a Nation, at the election polls in November.

We need to go to the polls with family or friends, for a two-fold reason:  in order to both entertain ourselves in the long lines, due to the Republican voter suppression laws in our States, and to make this an election of notable history in which “We the People” take back our rights from those who do pander to the right-wing, in our Country. We will not sit back while they continue to produce so-called leaders who do not hear us or feel our pain.  It is way past time that We the American Voters place the shame on those who continuously show us their own callous disregard to our needs, in an effort to gain their own political power.  Vote

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The Mean-Spirited In America

I’m not sure if the mean-spirited in America have always existed or if it hasn’t simply been made more public and been made worse as a result of the social networks, Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, Fox news,Right wing extremists, the Tea Party, and NRA involvement that incites violence and hate.

When children are committing suicide because of the mean-spirited texts being sent over their cell phones by their class mates,When we have little girls who set up a Facebook page to spread lies under the false pretense of being one of their classmates, when we have the same being done to an innocent couple who are forced to defend themselves in a court of law, and right-wing idiot’s who attempt to blow up a bridge in Cleveland, Ohio, for no other purpose but to destroy the lives of the innocent in their efforts to create anarchy then we have a mean streak that is evident across our Nation.

Yesterday, in order to give credit due where credit is deserved in that all people involved honestly, in the debate and are aware of the courage it took to make the decision that President OBama made to take out Ben Laden, Mitt Romney tried to cheapen the act of courage by saying, “Of course I would have made the same decision even Jimmy Carter would have made that decision.” Mitt Romney is the same man who campaigned in 2008 by “saying to go after Ben Laden is a waste of time and money.”

Whether we agree with the politics of Jimmy Carter or not, no one who has any awareness beyond Fox News in America, cannot be callous enough to not understand the great contributions that Jimmy Carter has made to the poor and the American people since leaving office. To deliberately attack a man who has done so much good for the poor in America is just another attempt by the out of touch and mean-spiritedness of the Romney campaign. If it would win him the votes Mitt would attack anyone who would stand in his way of winning and he proved it yesterday in his inability to say anything nice about his opponent. President OBama, who showed courage in an effort to gain for the American people the terrorist who was promised them by the previous Administration.

There is certainly more grounds to show the retired Presidents amongst us more respect than there is to show it to the likes of the right-wing Conservatives that currently hold the offices of Minority whip in the Senate and Majority whip in the Congress or for those who run the Mitt Romney campaign and I suspect Mitt Romney, himself. When the silent majority says nothing about the hate campaigns then we indicate to those who are mean-spirited that we approve.

What feeds all of this is the right-wing extremists and the Conservative broadcasts that claim to be in the no spin zone or those who call themselves Christians. Apparently it is better to speak out in favor of a fertilized egg than it is to speak up for our fellow-man.

I just heard a person actually respond to a question asked on the relevancy of the Occupy movement by saying, “they are just a bunch of whiners who do not even have a job and no particular message”. Duh! that is the message of the Occupy movement in that we are being raped by the
1% and out of work, and yet we hear that same response by the brain washed Americans in our midst, time and time again, because that is the message that the Tea Party and Conservatives want us to take away from it. The Dear Lord help us if truth in America could ever help heal the wounds of those so-called righteous amongst us.

Instead when the truth is being told by the very words that come out of their own mouths then they yell,”Divisive! Divisive!Divisive!. We will hear that word a great deal this campaign season because the film footage that tells the story on the hypocrites who yell divisive, when truth is being told about them, is massive. It is a favorite of both Boehner’s and Mitch McConnell both to use as their excuse against President OBama and to explain their own hate tactics in Congress and the Senate.

We have always seen and known of the hate in America against minorities,gay people and the disabled but the fact that Americans are spreading so much hate against even their own, only brings home just how badly the extremists in America are inciting the brain washed and ignorant amongst us to create harm to any and all who disagree with them, who they are jealous of, or who they hate for the principle of just hating.

All this in the name of Christianity is what should sadden all of us. Not only as Americans are we better than this but we are also better than this as Christians and certainly much wiser than this. The message of Christ is love and clearly this group must feel that only they are loved as obviously they would not be spreading hate to the point that it has reached the level of their children,neighbors and mankind in general.

If they were truly Christian they would know about,”Love thy neighbor as thyself.” Children do not learn hate from their friends,at school or at the mall. They learn it in one place only and that is from the home. It may come more from neglect of their needs so that they are that more vulnerable to others or from mouths of those whose job it is to teach them that “Christ so loved the little children.” Either way the right-wing extremists are defiling the very Bible that they claim to be protecting with all their hate in America.

The best way to stop this mean-spiritedness is through the election polls,by not stooping to their level so that they can only fight amongst themselves until they exhaust each other with their own hate, and by teaching our own children respect for all of humanity. I think the Occupy movement is bringing all those messages home, if we bothered to get past the negative media reports against them. All we have to do is click the remote, delete their messages from the social networks, or turn the off button on those who would deny us our right to Democracy for all and to vote in November. We have tolerated this movement of hate for too long and now it is time to stop it. Democracy only fails,”When good people do nothing.”

UPDATE: Just to prove my point,”Mitt Romney will say anything that gains him votes,” he just stood in front of the New York crowd and praised President OBama for getting Ben Laden while saying he would have done the same thing. He also claimed to have the same views in 2008. It would not gain votes from New Yorkers if he had of repeated his message of yesterday and 2008. The film footage is already out there for the rest of us to view, while he claims that the OBama campaign is dividing Americans. Give us a break Mitt for knowing the difference in the Etch-A-Sketch man who would be the leader of the Free World. The insult to our intelligence is over-whelming not only in Mitt Romney says but by those who refuse to understand the lies that he tells when it suits his needs over that of the American people!

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Intelligence vs. Ignorance

Living in a Society that is both civilized and advanced requires educating ourselves to levels equal to or greater than those who do threaten both our fiscal as well as our personal safety.

We do not always need to sit in a class room to educate ourselves when all things relevant is just a keyboard away. Not all people have the luxury of formal education but to own a computer and to not check out the facts but instead to say,”politics bores me because they are all alike,” is no excuse to not educate ourselves on the differences before we vote. If we only check those sites that agree with our own views then we operate from ignorance rather than intelligence as to consider the view of the opposition is what education really entails. All candidates who have held previous office will have a voting record that can be easilly checked out at any.GOV website as well as elsewhere on the net.

It is not the responsibility of people who write blogs to refer us to their chosen sites and lets face it,it is quite lazy of us to depend on that as a source of our information as many of those websites are slanted to project the view of the person responsible for either writng it or presenting it. If the Democracy that brave men and women have fought and died for in order to preserve freedom for all of us is not worth our time to check out credible websites on our own, that are free from political views, then we should question our own value system.

The Conservatives are in such control of the Republican Party today, they will not allow either Science or global warming to be part of their platform at their National Convention, that will be held to select their candidate for President later this year.

When we as a Society need to change our text books, as they have in Kansas and elsewhere, to eliminate and get rid of the the theory of evolution and to replace it with only Creationism;when a Republican majority passes laws that state life begins two weeks before conception or before the sperm meets the egg;When men meet to determine that women are not entitled to equal pay for the same job or to protest their firing as men are allowed to do, or to decide on the use of birth control;when laws are backed up in our States in regard to the rights of Americans in the bedroom and to marry; when people of a different colored skin than the white male are being stopped in automobiles to check if they have a green card;when children born in America are denied citizenship; when workers’ Unions are being eliminated and the list that is being made longer each year by the Tea Party and right-wing Conservatives, individually or together, to eliminate both public schools and our freedoms; it does not take a high level of intelligence to realize that someone or something is drastically denying reality by setting up a smoke screen to divert our attention elsewhere through the use of lies in the Republican Party.

When children are bullied and both are punished equally then do any of us have to question why children return with a gun to their classrooms?
Children are no different from adults in that what they really want is respect from adults for doing what is right and respect for what belongs to them.Why can’t an adult act like an adult and make the children sit down and disguss why the bully feels entitled to pick on someone who refuses to stoop to their level of ignorance and use fists to solve anything?

Perhaps respecting each other and our differences needs to be taught in class rooms since parents obviously are not teaching it at home. Sometimes it requires nothing more than keeping the bullies a few minutes longer by allowing the child or children who are being abused to leave a few minutes earlier with or without parents support, and yet adults that are suppose to keep our children safe will not take those few minutes to assure the safety of our children.

School boards can make rules and ask that they be enforced when common courtesy is missing in the home, if they themselves do not fear the child or parents position in the community. Most people who have an iota of common sense will and would question what is taking place in America that makes us not want to seek justice in an intelligent way over that of showing children how to be a better bully by punishing the already abused with the same punishment that the bully receives. Too many schools will expell the innocent along with the guilty when they do try to defend themselves. Years of research shows that children who are taught to respect others do not become criminals where as those who have no respect for others,do.

Instead some Americans voted in the “Stand your ground law” that was inacted by the Republican majority in 17 States that will give the bullies of America even more power to bully those who refuse to let ignorance rule their lives by the use of fists or force. These same Republicans are eliminating Unions who set the standards of safety and establishes the level of wages for all middle class workers by voting in favor of “the right to work laws” that require workers to work longer hours and to receive less pay.

To the rest of the World whose economy is at a minus rate and the best that the economy is expected to grow in the Nations who use the euro is .03% our growth rate at 2.3% is a booming economy. We always have looked like a bunch of whiners to a world economy that has faltered and stopped many times while we continue growth at a larger or much greater rate than they do. We also are much more under taxed than these Nations are, while the Republicans talk about lowering taxes even further and driving our deficit even higher. Common sense should tell all of us if we just keep borrowing on our accounts and never put anything back in that we will go broke and farther in debt. That is exactly what has happened and is happening in America because our federal tax rates are the same as they were in the 1950′s and we are not putting money back into the United States Treasury to pay for our bills and yet Mitt Romney and the Republicans want to lower the taxes paid by the wealthy another 4.6 trillion dollars.

When we have politicians and voters both of the attitude that the only thing that is important in a free Country is to make sure President OBama loses and instead their candidate wins, even when he is a well documented liar,was unpopular in his own constituency and State and quit rather than run again because he knew he would lose if the people of Massachusetts voted; when he did win the election he took his own State to being 47 in the Nation for job gain and amongst the largest for job lost, while the economy was still healthy on the very same things he is running on in order to increase job growth today and denies his intent to return to the Bush era politics; we know he supports the Ryan Plan that literally robs money from our own pockets, after we have already paid in, to give to the 1%;he embraces the likes of a man such as Ted Nugent instead of standing up against hate;and we can expand that list further, then America and Americans are being offered far less than what we deserve as a free and rightfully Proud Nation. Intelligence as well as common sense should be the reason for our votes in November if we are to defeat ignorance in America. Vote in November.

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A RE-Write : Attention All Women

Since Google was kind enough to bring this post to my attention by promoting it to the top of the line under Catnjammer64′s Blog I feel it merits my re-writing it. 

It is entitled “I’m Dead Set Against Abortion—But I am Pro-Choice”.  I present it again, with a few changes made where it is necessary to update it, but for the most part in it’s entirety. I apoligize in advance for it’s length but the importance of it has never been more relavent than what it is currently.

I believe that I speak for millions of pro-choice people when I say the above title of this re-write.  If you are confused how I can be both against abortion for myself and daughters but be pro-choice then consider this scenario:

Parents, not I, have a 16 year old daughter who becomes pregnant and has one of these disorders that can only be stabilized by guardianship or medication: pneumonia,severe asthma,cancer,Chrone’s Disease,Rheumatoid Arthritis, Arthritis of the Spine,diabetes,Cerebral Palsy,Multiple Sclerosis,retardation,severe physcosis etc.  Teenagers can have the exact same disorders that afflict all adults of all ages.

None of this is about rape or incest by Serial rapists, or killers,but about young women and girls who somehow  survive or are pregnant because they thought they were in love or a man or boy or cousin, takes advantage of their diminished capacity and convinces them they are loved in return; Because of their preexisting disease, without staying on their treatment, they are certain as is the fetus, of dying or becoming disabled for life if they do give birth. 

However, if they do get an abortion they can remain under guidance or medication and live a fairly normal and happy life.  In some cases they can even reach a ripe old age. Would any of us deny a Doctor and their parents the right to make this decision for their child?  If the child was 12, 13, 14, 15, would it make any difference?

Now lets talk about rape and incest.  We know most incest begins at the age of 8 while some begins in infancy. As much as 90% of these cases go unreported so we have no accurate information on just how prevalent incest is or how many fetuses are aborted due to incest, because these young girls are told to lie, by their own parents, about it in many cases. 

With maturity age and menstral cycles sometimes beginning in 8 to 10 year old girls, would any of us insist that these children be raped again and go through the heartbreak of adoption on top of it, if it was our child or grandchild?  Haven’t they already been through enough pain?  

A great number of these children are the same drug addicts who are prostituting themselves on the streets of all of our towns and cities.  What I may consider wrong in my safe and protected environment does not register in the lives of many of these girls because they only know protection from the pimp who beats them if they do get pregnant or do not bring home enough money.  Most are addicted to drugs deliberately by these same men.  Do you or I have any right to tell these girls or women that they cannot use birth control or get an abortion knowing that will jeopardize their life?

What may be wrong in our circumstances or religious beliefs, takes on new meaning for people less fortunate than ourselves or those who believe differently both morally and religiously than we do. None of us, not me, not you, not our Priests,Ministers, or Rabiies have a right to deny any woman her God given right of Free will or her Constitutional right of Equal rights because of the Constitution or the Equal Rights Amendment.To do so is to destroy the Democracy every American, who has been born into society, is entitled to.

We are not to judge them but to help them. Sadly too many who call ourselves Christians instead chase them out of our neighborhoods and feel entitled to, while we try to defeat Roe vs. Wade, which many times is the only law that is keeping them alive.

I do not doubt that they’re women who use abortion as birth control because they want to look good in their bikini but these statistics are so low that they do not even register in the statistics. The great majority of abortions happen as a result of a mother who is unable to feed her child, if it is born.What women are being told primarilly by men, are quite frankly, falsehoods

My faith and belief tells me that the problems other girls and women face, who are all deserving of my understanding,empathy and compassion,is the only conscionable thing for me to understand, when it comes to protecting the choices for all women and children and turns me to be an advocate for pro-choice. Pro-choice is much more about understanding the needs of humanity and less about the cruel division of all women who are entitled to make the same choices towards the care of their own bodies, just as every white male enjoys the same.

If Roe vs. Wade needs reworking then this needs to go through proper channels by presenting a case before the Supreme Court of the United States of America, who was given the final say over all mankind; Churches and Religious Institutions included.

We have always had children in America starving, being killed,abused and raped while the offender did 90 days or no time at all;that parents could treat their own children in such a manner was so foreign to Doctors that this was denied by the medical profession as happening, until the case was taken before the Courts in 1969,children get and got used as pawns in miserable marriages, no differently from what they do in some divorces;children were and are put into prostitution and addicted to alcohol or to drugs by their own parents, and if we acknowledge it at all we all act as if this is new behavior on the part of adults, etc. This is nothing new but goes back to the days of the Bible. Many of us had grandmothers and great grandmothers mistreated this same way, as we had grandfathers and great grandfathers being raped, but it was a secret kept in the family because of ignorance or shame. It is a credit to our Society today,that we do now acknowledge it all and do prosecute it as the crime it is.

Mitt Romney whose own religion still denies that any of this happens and retains hundreds of lawyers to fight against the person who tries to bring these cases forward, certainly is not the person we need to lead us, when he says,”I want to bring back the soul to America.” We should all be aware by now of what Rick Santorum’s views on birth control use is as he says,”It is just plain wrong,” even though his wife has tried to cover for him since. Both candidates have said their goal is to do away with Planned Parenthood even though they provide some 700,000 mamograms a year for College students and women who would not otherwise have medical care.

Are we so arrogant and self righteous as to think that we have the right to take what little rights or laws that abused women and children have, away from them, by thinking that if we ban birth control or abortion, we do not create more hardship for women and children?  Do we just wear blinders and pretend that these problems do not exist like our grandparents did? Do we really think that all orphanages will treat children well when many are ran to gain government subsidies or entitlements? Do we think all wealthy people, who can not have children of their own because they are afraid their husbands will have affairs if they get fat, would give them a better life?

Get real Americans, many of them will go to boarding schools and become a statistic no differently from children of all walks of life.  Money does not guarantee good or better parents. Many will get lucky and find love that they would never find otherwise, but too often we forget those who are neglected or abused as well. No one has the right to deny another American their rights as protected by our Constitution nor do any of us have a right to play God in anyone else’s life.

Just because a few women are narcissitic enough to misuse the law and the intent of the law in order to look good in their clothing, none of us have a right to deny others’their rights of the law that protects all of us from abusers.This excuse for getting abortions has been so exaggerated to the point it has become a focal point with too many who would do away with all healthcare for women. Just as Conservatives John Kyle, Bill O’Reilly and others have exaggerated the real purpose of Planned Parenthood being nothing more than an abortion clinic.

To blame Planned Parenthood or women who require medical health care as being frivolous or all about abortion is no different from saying because a few Doctors file fraundalent claims on Medicaid or Medicare then we need to either eliminate Doctors or Medicaid or Medicare. It is a total insult to both the intelligence and integrity of women as well as the almost gut wrenching decisions that women are placed under having to sometimes make both for their own survival as well as for their daughters.

Taking The embalance of consideration for women even further and putting the onus on the accusers we could even say, “Why not ban Social Security because others file fraudently;or guns because others use them to kill. or cars because people die when their gas pedals fail or stick; or planes because their engines fail and fall from the skies or sometimes they are hi-jacked by terrorists and people die; or ban alcohol because people drink and drive and people die in far greater numbers than women get abortions.”

Husbands and boyfriends both batter and kill so should we put all husbands and boyfriends in jail for life? It would make as much sense as making birthcontrol and healthcare both unavailable to women.

What about getting rid of government sanctioned killings on death row instead because innocent people are put to death?What about protesting the fact that euthnasia has been made a part of womens’ rights when both genders have to make these tough decisions for the sake of loved ones? What about forcing the medical profession into putting our loved ones on life support, knowing they have no hope, because some prosecutor or conservative judge will prosecute them if they don’t? What about individual studies done on immigration before we vote against the dream act? What about children starving in America while we scream about welfare or entitlements never once mentioning the welfare and entitlements granted oil Companies or Corporations? Where is the moral outrage by these Conservatives on so many other issues instead of hearing Sarah Palin talk about the “liberal death camps” as applied to euthanasia and abortion?

Why is it always women’s issues that are made paramount by these Conservatives when they speak about Social Issues and especially by white male men and conservative feminists? Why isn’t their lack of truth and sincerity ever placed under the microscope? The list goes on as to why it is considered immoral when women make choices in their lives, but when did we ever hear the same about white male men or these women who would prevent us from doing what is morally right for all Americans? Sadly, only when an innocent child gets shot and killed, or civil rights workers are killed do these same people speak out against injustice not related to abortion or the dying. Women and alive children should never be treated any differently from the way white males are treated in our Society. To treat any American otherwise, regardless of race creed or color, is immoral.

For those who advocate pro-life, I do not doubt that some of your intentions are good, but if you truly cared about the sanctity of life beyond abortion and euthansia(which is almost always the expressed wish of the dying in order to save prolonged suffering), you would be equally committed to the causes of women,children,the less fortunate,children who commit suicide because your child has learned to hate gays from you,bullying and sometimes death done to people of other faiths, because the bigotted and misguided feel justified to do so in your environment, the immigration issue where many are sentenced to a death sentence of poverty or political persecution when sent back home,innocent people who are convicted unfairly and a very long list of improvements that still remain undone in the treatment of women,children, and minorities as well as Americans of different faiths. When we are pro-life we do not get to choose which life matters, period!

Pro-life,for those who yell,”fry them” while ignoring the truth and instead appointing conservative Judges who agree with their narrow interpretations, are only pro-life when it comes to abortion or the dying, and that is what is truly wrong in America today. When the majority of Conservative principles spreads to appointments to our Supreme Court, as it has today, All Americans really need to make certain that we protect the rights of both ourselves and future generations by making certain that we do not elect a Conservative or Tea Party sponsored President who will appoint the next two Supreme Court Judges, since two of those seats will become empty in the next few years. To do so will only lead to another 30 to 40 years of the law that protects us, changing to their narrow interpretation of the same, and our further loss of freedom.

Pro-choice is about giving women control over their own lives as well as their own health issues.  It is about a woman being given the respect to know and understand her own emotional and physical limitations and abilities.  Its about a woman choosing if she wants an education, a career,to be a homemaker; if she wants to marry or remain single; if she wants to dedicate her life to the improvement of the lives of other women or children even when they do not live in her neighborhood or attend her Church.  In short it is about showing women the respect they have a right to both own and choose.

It’s about educating abusers and con artists in the fine art of understanding that we women, will no longer fall for your abuse and mistreatment regardless of your gender.  It’s about women standing for women and refusing to let the “Good Old Boys” divide us any longer, as we are the real power in America. White male men who are comfortable with their own conscious,morality, careers,and choices,want to share power with us. They respect both women and minorities as well as people of other faiths and backgrounds. Once we recognize our own value as women, they will gladly work with us to right the injustices in America. Unless we work with these men of Character, we will not find the justice we seek for all Americans.

We will no longer excuse anyone who will continue with the hate,lies or bigotry, or those who placate or dismiss us,nor those who verbally belittle us or batter us to think they have the power to divide us as women and Americans, from doing the right thing for all of our brothers and sisters. We will tell them what is acceptable behavior instead of them demanding that we perform according to what they deem to be acceptable.

We will no longer allow other men or women to make it more important to act on stopping women from making their own God given and State given decisions by denying us the right to make decisions for ourselves. We will speak out in order to gain the health care that we either earn through benefits from the job we work or from the premiums we pay their insurance companies.

We will ask, “if a fertilized egg is life, then what price do these men who would defeat us, pay for fertilizing that egg with their sperm when they force sex on wives,women, and children,” since that is their interpretation of when life begins. Will they be denied the use of Viagra under their insurance program? Would it be appropiate for them to be castrated for making an egg a life, by their own terminology? Why is there never questions asked or laws made against the men who force abortions on women through intimidations and bullying?

We in unison will start asking the questions that they demand we follow, “by what do they base their deductions on?” We will ask them, “if it follows in our best interests both morally and medically”, because our brains are capable of study. Then we will check out the basis for which they claim to be in control, since we will show them the respect they deny us. We will no longer allow Bills effecting women to be initiated and passed on only by “The Good Old Boys”.

When they try to dismiss us, they will need to gain respect from us along with our opinion or we will walk out on them.  It is no different from my own daughters telling me when I allowed family members to abuse me,”Mom we are losing respect for you for letting them treat you that way, because you would never tolerate
anyone treating us that way.”

Until we as women do understand, just as the blue collar workers must, that the Conservatives and Tea Party members are doing a number on us, we will continue being lied to by them.Maybe there
isn’t so much difference after all, from what separates some Christian women from the prostitute, since both are performing according to these men’s desires who promote both anti-Science and anti-education. Some women are being trained to serve husbands and sons over their own needs while their daughters’ learn the same without any hope towards future ideas of success gained by their own strengths. At the same time, the blue collar worker is becoming more of a servant,since they are the most under-employed while their wages are dropping the most, due to the “right to work law”. If we do not vote them out of office, then the discrepancies between equality will continue.

Vote against Republican Conservatives and Tea Party sponsored candidates in November, to show them, they were dumber than they thought, we were. It is difficult for all of us who fought this battle, both men of character and women, for you in the 1950′s and 60′s, to believe that these groups have again raised their ugly heads to deny equality once more for American citizens. Don’t let these Conservatives make you have to fight it again for your children.

We enjoyed the freedom that you have been fortunate enough to be able to take for granted and our grandmothers envied us for. They are a miserable bunch to have to get rid of because of their fear of women,minorities, and gays along with their fear of defeat of power;in order for all Americans to enjoy Democracy and our own God given right of free will, as it was intended to be enjoyed, they need to be replaced. Christ never asked women to be subserviant to the male gender much less to deny their own abilities or to sell their intelligence and values short. Household duties are meant to be shared without elevating the male gender to boss while women lower their own standard of needs. Equality begins in the home and follows into the voting booth. We need to make up for the difference for those who either feel they cannot or are not strong enough in their own faith of self to make the right decisions for all Americans.

We begin by getting involved in what is taking place with the erosion of our rights and becoming more politically involved with the damage being done by the right wing conservatives combined with the dollars and lies being spread by both the Conservative movement as well as the Tea Party. The 70% foothold that these groups already have in the Republican Party needs to be taken seriously by all Americans, if we are to maintain the greatest Democracy in the world. Elect a man of character, re-elect Barack OBama in November.

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Conservative Feminists

The movement known as, ‘Conservative Feminists’, is nothing more than the same smoke screen thrown up by all Conservatives.  The women are trained and brain washed,  in the same ideology of the Conservative movement, to up hold the same by laws as their male counterparts and to eliminate birth control and to bring women back to the wedding altar, as virgins, through marriage. By keeping women uneducated and pregnant at home, they believe women will not compete with the white maLe for the jobs they feel white males are entitled to. 

The Conservative feminists are trained to eliminate government and in doing so to eliminate the Equal Rights Amendment that makes women equal to men in all specters of Society from financial,job,family planning, and when using their own voice to choose their own health issues. They are as committed to elimininate Unions and minimum wage as the male Conservative.

After generations of the Conservatives fighting against the so called liberal Feminists, who fought for and won the Equal Rights Amendment for all genders and minorities, the Conservatives are simply adopting the name feminist to establish women in politics. They think by acquiescing to the name feminists, they will be able to gain the vote of minorities, the middle class, working poor and women. 

These women are trained to eliminate taxes, government that protects the rights and hires the rest of us and to promote free Interprise at the expense of the 99%.  Make no mistake about it, these new Conservative feminists will not be able to stray from the concepts established by their male counterparts.

 

By using the name feminists they are attempting to fool women voters into believing that they too are fighting for the equality of women. 

Sadly, it is just an attempt to endoctrinate women who will help the white male race establish an image of being something more than the”Good Old Boy” system when they run for election. Any woman who calls herself a Conservative Feminist and gains election, will not find support by the Conservative majority, in any party, if she fights for the equal rights of minorities, gays, women,the working poor or the middle class. 

The appointment of Supreme Court Justices either in our States or on the Supreme Court of America, who will protect the rights of women to choose their own destiny, will be equally challenged by these Conservative feminists as they are by their male counterparts. Under no cicumstance will the voice of the Conservative Feminists be heard over that of the”Good Old Boys.” They are simply a smoke screen to gain the vote of women who are the majority voters in America.

When we reach the point in America that a Federal judge from Billings Montana by the name of Cebull can send out an e-mail on the Federal level, suggesting that President OBama’s mother had sex with a dog and Rick Santorum says the same about the gay population while The Conservative spokesman Rush Limbaugh, can accuse a student from Georgetown University, who stood up for the rights of all women a slut, then it is way past time that we as a Nation do understand the corrosion being done to our Society by these Conservatives.

Anyone group or business who would support either should be boycotted by all of us. We the tax payers who pay for the radio station to the military that carries Rush Limbaugh should protest to our Elected officials for our tax dollars going towards providing the military with Rush Limbaugh’s bigotted lies and views often reported as such. If we do not speak up then this hate will continue spreading across this beautiful land that we call America.

Mitt Romney certainly is not the candidate to bring God back to America, as he suggests,when his own Religious beliefs refuses to accept abuse of children and women as being a reality, any more than those bigots who would represent justice in America are the people we need to retain as judges. It is time that we eliminate all the bigots before they eliminate our rights to the freedom we are entitled to, while they accuse government of their own destruction to Society.

If we don’t think it can happen we only need to look at the destruction done to our fellow citizens, livelyhood,property, and reputations not to mention Liberty during the McCarthy era when these Conservative ran groups were equally damaging to both the truth and Freedom of our fellow citizens.

Sure they blame a comedian from the left of being no different, and I agree that the name calling does need to stop but does anyone take a comedian as seriously as those amongst us take those who have the power or influence over our lives that Rush Limbaugh has over his dedicated listeners or that of a Federal judge who does and will hand out his corrupt idea of Justice?

Don’t be fooled in your State or National elections by thinking that just because the candidates are women that they will represent the views of women.  These Conservative Feminists are finding support from both the Tea Party and Conservatives, once they are trained in the image of a true Tea Party and Conservative candidate. They are as politically dangerous to  Democracy and the freedom of all Americans as their male counter parts. 

We all need to check them out before voting in both our State and the National election, this election year.

 

 I think you will find that they will not be as obviously naive and ignorant as Sarah Palin was when it comes to how the game of lies works within the Conservative movement. It was when Sarah Palin spoke without being guided sufficiently by them that they found they had an embarrassment on their hands. 

These new Conservative feminists will be much better trained to fool the majority of voters who do not typically vote for a Conservative candidate. The “Good Old Boys” learned their lesson with Sarah Palin and will not repeat that mistake again. Many feel that when Sarah Palin was chosen as McCaine’s Vice President, it cost the Republicans a loss of 15% of the womens’ vote and tied up the election for Barack OBama in 2008. Others say, “that is nonsense, as Barack OBama would have won irregardless of the loss of women voting for McCain after he chose Sarah Palin and is typically Republican bull.”

The real guarantee for the continuation of Democracy is to re-elect Barack OBama in November with a strong moderate constituency.  Don’t think for a moment that there will be any separation in the elimination of the Equal rights Amendment between Rick Santorum or Mitt Romney.  Mitt Romney has as big of a debt to pay back to both the Tea Party and Conservatives, at this point, as does Rick Santorum.

The Conservative view has always represented the Mormon view of women being second class citizens, as well.  There is no separation in the views of the two Republican candidates for President, when it comes to the denial of rights to women,gays, and minorities.  The Mormon Church banned African Americans well into the second half of the 20th century. They also spent billions to stop the Equal Rights Amendment from passing between 1921 to 1971. Mitt, as Bishop in his Church, has an obligation to revoke it just as Rick Santorum believes he does, although that is not an universal view in the Catholic Church.

It has never been more important than what it is this election year to educate ourselves, on what is the truth, about the candidates who will serve our States and Washington D.C. We need to educate ourselves,trust our own judgement when we do, and pay attention to the contradictions that will come out of the mouths of all of the Conservative candidates, as well as, the Republican candidates in our States, who are running on the same old, same old, Bush idea of the 1% getting richer.

The 99%, who the 1% hire until they no longer need them while refusing the majority benefits, can no longer afford to care for the needs of their families when they elect these politicians, regardless of gender, who masquerade as wolves in sheep’s clothing;nor will theDemocracy that I have enjoyed last. Vote wisely in November.  

 

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Who Are The Pro-Choice?

We are the majority, we are the pro-choice. We are both men and women who will never have an abortion nor will our daughters or grand daughters ever have an abortion. We understand that the decision, if it occurs, will be a difficult decision for all involved, if they feel forced into making that decision. We are older men and women, students and non-students,young and middle-age, rich and poor, Christians and non-Christians.

We are Americans, who understand and appreciate that the choices that women make needs to be protected by law, as history proves there are those who will deny us our legal rights, when we do not have freedom of choice or equality.

We are old enough to know and remember the horrors that women suffered before Roe vs. Wade. We understand and know to take the legal decision away from women will only condemn them to an uncertain probability that they will go elsewhere or try to abort on their own, without the care of professionals.

We understand that when the law is changed, if it is, we condemn our fellow sisters to an uncertain probability that they will not survive an illegal abortion. We remember the days, when as women, we did not have choices and as such live babies were killed and buried or left on door steps of vacant buildings or in garbage cans. Dr.s knew that abuse of some kind was going on but for years they refused to believe that parents, much less mothers could injure or kill their babies.

Because poverty was so common it was simply easier to list babies as failure to thrive or crib deaths and it is only modern medicine that recognizes that the probability of live births who were smothered or died, existed before abortion became legal. It was a well-kept secret amongst women or family members who assisted in the births, especially when incest was present,or the baby was a mixed race,or a mother thought the child would starve due to extreme poverty, and when Dr.s were rarely called. We remember that making abortions legal lead to a drop in abortions and death of live births.

We all know regardless of age, we cannot speak for other women who have the very difficult decision that we pray none of us will ever have to make.

We understand there are mothers of 12 to 16 year olds who have been raped by family members,friends, or strangers. We know that incest involves mostly girls, from the age of 8 to 12 but boys as well, and is the most under-reported crime in America, followed by rape of boys and then girls. We understand that women who are drug addicts and victims of incest will often go into prostitution and are bullied by pimps who will kill them or desert them in alley ways as beaten pulps, if they do not get an abortion.

We understand even when it appears to be a loving relationship as well as marriage, when a woman who is pregnant or recently pregnant dies the number one cause of death is homicide. Unless men are examined or penalized for life for the role that they play in the death of women who get pregnant and they either demand they get an abortion or pretend to go along with the pregnancy, when they clearly do not want the child, women are placed at an even greater jeopardy when abortion is not legal.

We understand that young girls who feel discriminated against by their fellow students and unloved will often seek out men or predators on the inter-net, sometimes as early as the age of 12 to 14, and their parents will need to make a difficult decision when it comes to a child having a child, and will need the law on their side when they do.

We understand that children and young women who suffer from a number of diseases that pregnancy will either kill them or disable them further, sometimes do get pregnant. We know that both they and sometimes their parents as well as their Doctors will need to make a decision that will need the law on their side.

We know there are older women with lung and heart problems, also with multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s’ disease,obesity,Arthritis, and diabetes who will not survive the birth of a child or be disabled further. We know tests show mothers they are carrying a serious mentally damaged fetus without a brain. We know that in cases of artificial insemination too many embryos complicate a live birth and in all these cases both the women and the Doctor need to be protected by law.

And finally we understand, any decision a woman will feel they need to make, is their right to make, and between them and their Doctor and we are not appointed as judges and jury nor as emperors or dictators, over their lives, when they are adults and given the God-given right as well as the State-given right to make those decisions, themselves.

We know that history shows that with or without laws, women will have abortions or simply leave babies to die, in the case of unwanted pregnancy, and the only way we can lessen that from happening is to have a place like Planned Parenthood who is able to reach the women who have little to no money and the most likely to get abortions.

We need these trained professionals, in place, who can reach women and distribute birth control to prevent pregnancy and death or starvation. We need doctors who can attend to the needs of women and girls who are not sexually active but do not have healthcare so cannot afford the services of regular Doctors. We need them to offer council to our own daughters who.” would rather die,”(not actually just an expression in most cases) than talk to their parents about birth control or let them know they are sexually active.

We know that Planned Parenthood was able to council 241,000 women out of having an abortion last year. We know they save lives, as well when it comes to treating sexually transmitted diseases. We cannot allow the Conservative vote of America to play God in the lives of those who depend on this service for their own survival,knowledge or health, as they are.

We need to know and understand that the Republican conservatives and Tea Party sponsored Republicans as well as the moderate, that claims to be conservative (this includes the entire field including, Ron Paul, of all the candidates running on the Republican ticket), who if elected, will take away all government funding to Planned Parenthood and close it down. All the Planned Parenthoods, are currently under serious attack by the Republican Party.

Vote for women in November. Vote for Obama, as the proven candidate, who signed into law a woman’s right to be paid the same as a man for the same job, after years of it being held up by the House and Senate.

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The Hypocrisy Of It All

The Republicans are upset because according to them, OBama has taken away fiscal support, which I would imagine is government subsidies to Catholic Charities, over the Gay Issue. Even if it is true,and OBama had a damn thing to do with it, shouldn’t the Churches in America be clothing and feeding the poor, any way, without government support?

Don’t they take in millions to billions for the poor,around the World, in their Church collections and tithing? Isn’t giving alms to the poor a part of their Church History going back to the start of their Religion? According to them,OBama,is interfering with the Catholic Churches right to practice Religion, by withdrawing money to Catholic Charities because of their stand on the gay issue and in doing so is interfering with the Catholic Churches’ right to practice Religion. Wouldn’t that be called an attempt to balance the budget if the Republicans did the same?.

Let’s back up here folks and understand that it was Catholic Charities that denied health insurance to all their workers because there might be a person working for the organization that would be gay. What in the name of Heaven, does offering Insurance or denying it to anyone, who are employed by Catholic Charities, have to do with the right to practice Religion? The other argument that could be made, since there are millions of gay people who pay taxes, why do they take their taxes,donations, and their free time, that they donate, to the Church to work for Catholic Charities, if accepting gays,is against their practice of Religion?

When the cost went up on insurance coverage,instead of being honest enough to say Catholic Charities could no longer afford insurance cost for their employees, they hid behind the gay issue. The Catholic Church announced, “They would no longer be giving insurance coverage to anyone for fear there might be a gay person or people in the organization.” Isn’t that what they discovered was in their Priesthood that they simply transferred instead of eliminated and sadly gave a bad name to the rest of the gay population? Let’s at least be honest about it. This is just more of the puffing up and hypocrisy that goes on in the Conservative movement that loses all of us who are not indoctrinated in the movement and have the ability to reason and use common sense.

To say that Catholic Charities could no longer afford it would be something that we would all understand, because the majority of us can’t either, but to instead hide behind the gay issue in the name of God is an insult to the intelligence of us all.

The latest census shows that there are 308,745,538 Americans and estimates are 1 in 5 while others say as high as 25% of Americans are gay. I ask you to do the math yourself and ask yourself, how much donated time, taxes and donations do you think all the Churches who preach against gay Americans, would lose out on, if they refused the Gay Americans’ contributions, and do you think they do, because to do so would be against their Religious beliefs?

I am always amazed by how the Conservative Republicans complain that the media asks them questions on social issues instead of the economy and job growth but from everything that I have seen it is they, who always swing the subject back to social issues because they are all desperate for the Conservative vote, especially with South Carolina coming up next.

The other thing, I am aware of, is while they try to trash OBama’s record, what exactly kind of record has the Republicans had the last 12 years other than piling debt onto debt? 12 years in politics is a life time and is long enough to make them all a member of the 1% or the 40% population.

Have they done anything constructive other than say “No” to everything that would bring legitimate jobs to the middle class or healthcare to the American people? They can’t talk on their own accomplishments since they have none and their idea of job growth only hurts the middle class so they attack.(see “The Right To Work Laws” written in another post by me”)

There is a great deal of trash talk about OBama, “being the food stamp or welfare king”, as well. I hope you know and understand that is just a very cold Republican response towards the middle class people in America, who are going hungry along with the poor.

When Roosevelt initiated programs to keep workers from starving, the Republicans yelled then as well. They claimed we would never be able to afford Social Security, labor costs blah,blah,blah. I am always amazed that these same people who claim family values, want the American middle class who they lay off, to go hungry while blaming it all on the increase of the African-American population on welfare. I know their bull s**t,that we are all too stupid to see through the bigotry, wears on you, my readers, as well.

It isn’t that I have anything against companies making money and capitalism, it is just that they should never do it at the jeopardy to the middle class. When the middle class has disposable income, it has been proven,time and time again, that we have a healthy economy. These bums are out instead to deplete every nickel that the middle class has and to destroy the United States Treasury,while blaming OBama for his lack of ability to unite them.

At the same time the Conservatives rant about the cost of Labor and the cost of the Teachers Unions, these hypocrites wages have constantly gone up while they voted themselves raises at the same time the middle class wages continues to fall or fails to grow. Their wages, without the lobbyists’ gifts, now average in the $850,000.00 range and for the last 12 years they have been paid that by “We the People,” in exchange for the mess they helped create, along with saying “NO” to every effort made by OBama to turn it around. They have voted not once but twice for gifts from lobbyists and then larger gifts from lobbyist, being acceptable, and it has won by a large margin in the Republican Party.

When their cronies and they load up their jets and call it a fact-finding trip,wink wink, do they think about how much it is costing the tax payers then? What about the costs that they charge the tax payers to entertain or be entertained in return? Are they then concerned that the best teachers will be laid off or simply disappear while they load up the fat on the next trillion dollars that they add to the deficit?

When the Republican Party can only agree on one thing, themselves, and their Minority leader Mitch McConnell says he has no intentions to agree with or co-operate with Barack OBama on anything, that he asks for,and his only intention is to see Barack OBama defeated and a one term President, 6 months after he takes office and the entire Party agrees with him on that, as well as, not raising taxes on the 1% to replenish the treasury,is it OBama who can’t bring people together or lead or the Republicans who are breaking their promise to uphold the oath of their office, “So help them God?”

All I ask those who will vote this election year, is to listen to these hypocrites pontificate, because all that is running are right-wing or Tea Party candidates on the Republican ticket, until it suits Mitt Romney better, to claim he is a moderate. When politicians have nothing of positive results in their own record to say, they then find fault or lie about their own dedication while parading around their families and discussing family values.

Mitt will claim to be a man who created jobs when the truth is he laid off people while closing down companies in order to make money for the already wealthy. The reason this campaign year will feel like the Barnum and Bailey Circus has arrived, is because it is the circus that it feels like. Don’t be fooled by them as there is nothing wrong with the instincts of Americans, and I urge you to vote accordingly. You will not regret it.
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Rather than stray from the thought above I will simply continue this here as it completes the above thought.

My father did not pay into Social Security, until his later years, because everyone was so convinced in the 1950′s that Social Security would not be around for their retirement either. Those were the same brand of conservatives, and also the longest running no taxes Republicans, unless the current ones are allowed to continue. They were no different from the conservatives we have today, who refused to pay taxes then as well.

If we lift the Bush tax cuts across the board, once our economy recovers, and it is coming back, we can pay down the deficit to reasonable ranges again. It has been proven time and again, that with tax hikes, or in this case, just lifting the Bush tax cuts, and a growing middle class with disposal income any economy can rebound as the Gross National Product rises, when the middle class has discretionary spending. It is all about making sure the middle class is well and healthy.

Taking restrictions off of the wealthy who are not hiring, while squeezing the middle class, as is currently the mentality of the Republicans, hurts our economy. It is what helped create the mess we are in. Corporations who stock pile money into the trillions, as is currently happening, are not interested in hiring people back because the middle class cannot afford to buy and therefore they do not need to hire.

They will instead use the trillion of dollars as investment and as take overs of other companies. Every single Republican is lying to the middle class, about how OBama is restricting the Corporations ability to hire. It is their mentality that is destroying the middle class right along with our economy.

The only way, “We the People,” achieve our goals is by getting rid of all of the “never pay taxes”, conservatives and tea party members so we can rebuild the middle class and allow the middle class to grow again. With a healthy middle class we also have a healthy tax base to encourage fairness in the system with the 1% who make up 40% of our populatin, paying their fair share as well.

It is and has always been the Bush tax cuts that are draining the Treasury, to such an extent that unless we get out of this 1950′s mentality, of where our tax rates currently are, we will continue running the same huge deficits that we currently have. Trickle down economics has never worked when the Corporations do not hire, nor when they do. The money simply goes back into the pockets of the wealthy to be regenerated on Wall Street. I repeat: no one can pay off trillions of dollars while the middle class continues to struggle, with out bankrupting our treasury and there by bankrupting, America.

Finally then, Mitt Romney, gets my nod for the biggest hypocrite of all. With all of his attacks on OBama for what the Republicans so hatefully call OBama care, Mitt Romney in his attack on it and the mandates, is talking about the exact same healthcare that he initiated in Massachusetts. The economist was the exact same for his health care as was for OBama care. We cannot afford someone who is a liberal then a moderate and then a conservative when it suits his bid for election and we know his greatest claim to fame is handing out pink slips to the middle class.

Mitt Romney is claiming that OBama care will cost us 95 billion and again it is another one of his lies, as it has built-in mechanisms to make money, as well as factors that will help Americans in their costs, and will actually save the American voters. The real truth is it will cost us 210 billion if we allow the Republicans to repeal it. It’s time to stop the lies and take back our Country from them, on election day.

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To All Who Believe In Democracy

I would like all of you to refer back to the comments made by both myself, as well as the People representing the Tea Party, on my post entitled “Rick Santorum’s Voting Record.” Much has been added since you last read it.

It will tell you more about the truth of what is happening in America with the Republican Party, and especially the Tea Party, than any other media or inter-net source will. Other than perhaps those others who have exposed their mentality and ideology as well. I simply do not want to repeat it since I am still trying to recover from 11 herniated discs at the moment.

If it doesn’t frighten you about the Republican Party,today, and the candidates who are running,or those who run your States, who were elected as a result of the Tea Party or Conservative support,then I have misjudged the American people who do embrace Democracy and Freedom for all. Remember this comes directly to you from the Tea Party spokes people themselves, and I have not influenced it in any way beyond standing up for Democracy and my right to defend it. Happy New Year and Thank you!

Warning: If you do go to the post; Rick Santorum’s Voting Record use the calendar on the side panel for De. 31. 2011, or type in the title on search at the side of this post. If you use a search engine make sure the site is wordpress as there is another sight that has been down loaded with porn as well as viruses by the same name as Rick Santorum’s Voting Record. Apparently they are trying to block out the truth. Thanks)

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Rick Santorum’s Voting Record

For those of you who do not already know so, all anyone needs to do is type in the above title of this post, into Google and any or all candidates, who have ever served in the Senate or Congress voting record will come up. Just change the name if you are interested in another candidate.( Please accept my apologies if you searched according to the title. It no longer exists on the Rick Santorum web site but instead you can go to: http://www.issues2000.org/senate/Rick_Santorum.htm and find it there)

The reason Rick Santorum was not elected again in Pennsylvania is that he voted with the Republican majority to make it acceptable to accept gifts and then larger gifts from the lobbyists and when he proved to act on the same, the scandals followed him.He likes to talk about his humble roots but after 4 years in Congress and 6 in the Senate he came out quite wealthy, as are all of the serious Republican candidates. When he loses he can become quite obsessive and bitter. He fell out of favor with the conservatives of Pennsylvania, when he supported Arlen Specter, when Arlen switched to the Democratic Party to make a run for the Senate and is pro-choice.

Santorum is first and foremost, a Tea Party candidate who advocates firing missiles into Iran, which makes him as dangerous as Ron Paul in the reverse. He flip-flops, although he calls it compromise in double speak, as he is also a dyed in the wool Bush Republican who supported his party 94% of the time, and still promotes deregulation to bring back factory jobs when that has proven to be the cause that lead to lay offs, and was at the crux of the greed that led to the firing of 8 million workers in America by 2008, before Bush left office.

Because of those deregulations being lifted, we have yet to be able to hire back more than just over 2 million of those laid off workers, thanks to the fearce fight by the Say “NO” Republicans, who refuse to vote on the OBama jobs bill. When deregulations were lifted even more aggressively, during the Bush years, more jobs went over-seas and more greed followed in the manufacturing districts.

Rick Santorum is making progress in Iowa because he is courting the Evangelical and Fundamentalist in Iowa by staying on course of the anti-abortion movement and courting those Reagan democrats and republicans who are still insisting that trickle down economics works instead of accepting the truth that trickle down economics only trickle up into the pockets of the wealthy.

I don’t personally think anyone is left that believes it does trickle down, but it has worked so well for the establishment in the Republican Party for so long, that Rick Santorum like Mitt Romney is still using the same old lies, that were told us when the Republicans were in control of both the House and Senate.

I believe, that both the hate driven right-wing conservatives as well as the hate driven far right extremists in the Tea Party, were so convinced that their lies against Barack OBama were so effective that it did not matter who ran for election, as long as they could be controlled by the 1%. The GOP clearly allowed just anyone to run on the Republican ticket, because they were convinced anyone could beat out OBama.

As a result the Republican Party ended up with, “washed out has beens” who all have skeletons in their closets and on file and who can only win with the nasty attack ads of the Super Pac ran by Mitt Romneys buddies. These “has beens” always run on their own personal agendas in interests of the 1%, as in Newt Gingrich, Mitt Romney, and Rick Santorum and then add ridiculous, to make themselves seem more legit, such as in Ron Paul, Rick Perry and Michelle Bachman, who run as Tea Party darlings but on conservative issues, without reality or factual information.

Mitt, Newt and Rick Santorum all admit that they have made mistakes, when they are confronted on their past records, because the conservatives would rather forgive Republicans than question their own hate against OBama. 21 months of positive growth under OBama, instead of having gone into a deep Depression, as was predicted, is not good enough for those who would destroy our government that pays their wages. We can not afford more Republicans’ screw ups as we, the middle class, have already paid too high of a price for the last decade, because of the “Republican mistakes.”

In any case, the arrogance and conceit of the GOP’s, “that anyone can beat Barack OBama and their true conviction that the lies were bought,” by the American voters, is the real reason no one will walk away from an Iowa caucus with a clear majority vote other than Barack OBama, in my opinion.

The Republicans simply have not run a real or convincing candidate in 2012, that can beat out anyone much less win on the lies that worked for them in 2010. Instead they have too unconvincingly tried to spread these same old worn out lies, against OBama, again in 2012.

We have much more at stake in 2012 when it comes to everyone working together to return our economy around together. The 2010 Tea Party candidates have proven to be the John Birch obstructionists, or the right-wing conservative 1950′s and 60′s no taxation movement,or cut from similar cloth,that the rest of us always knew they were. A liar always does defeat themselves, and Iowan’s have known more than their share of them, over their political history.

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Merry Christmas And Happy Holidays

I wish everyone Merry Christmas and the best of Holidays! Last year I wrote a great deal about giving and Christmas and/or Holiday Cheer but I spent this week on politics for two reasons:

The first being from the stories being reported, I recognized there are still in America, many wonderful and generous people, who do understand and get that this time of year is about the Good will that we show those less fortunate or who struggle and do need our help. It does not stop the giving, that many times goes on throughout the year, as well. I have always believed in anonymous giving, myself, but whether you do or not, the important thing is that we give. Too many times those who can justify anything, are quick to say Christ has been taken out of Christmas and we have commercialized Christmas instead, when at least 90% of all shopping, if not more than that, is given away to bring joy to others.

I have always believed if we are Christians or of another Faith or Belief, Christ would Bless the American people, because we do have a great and generous heart during this time of His celebrated birth, as we do during times of great tragedy, as well as throughout the year. Somehow those who would criticize the American giver,in my opinion, are simply bitter that some one other than themselves are receiving. How else can we explain it differently, when it is the spirit of generosity of a person’s heart that joins with their actions,in compassion and empathy, in order for us to give to others, that they are criticizing.

I know in my heart and mind, that many of us will give up our time when we cannot afford to give from our wallet. Those of us who appreciate that we still have a home, will show our appreciation by helping those who do not have a home. Many will remember the shut-ins who are sick and suffering while others have sacrificed all year to bring joy to the children in their own lives, as well as, those who would not receive, otherwise.

People eat, who would not be fed without those who give food or food stamps, because when the food comes to their homes or neighborhoods, they are able to keep their poverty better hidden and their pride and dignity intact. The food pantries as well as food stamps, give them the selections, that we all take for granted, because of those who donate or pay taxes,(they pay taxes in most cases,as well) and the paid and free volunteer staffs, who accommodate the hungry. The educational benefits given to others can and does turn around the lives of many.As many needs as there are,there are people trying to help others.

Anyone who would criticize the giving that is so predominate this time of year, and profess that we have taken Christ out of Christmas, have lost touch with their own humanity,as in compassion and empathy for someone other than ourselves, in my opinion. We are never more Christ-like ourselves,than when we give for reasons of love, without expectation of return. Giving back,for the kindness and generosity that we receive from others in our lives, is what both we Christians and Americans do. We Christians are not alone in our generosity, as those who celebrate Hanukkah as well as those who believe in the Muslim Holidays, share in our generosity, as well, even though it was more a part of the practice of early Christians to give alms to the poor, than it was other religions.

Just as this time of year is about bringing Joy to others, instead of what we get out of it, and it has nothing to do with trying to force our own beliefs on others, is alive and well with many of us; still other Americans, believe that if we do not spend this time on our knees and in worship, then we take Christ out of Christmas. Mankind judges way too harshly, the love and the way we express it in my opinion. I think that what we do in sincerity and with a pure heart is always smiled on, regardless of those who would complain otherwise. I swell up with pride every time I hear the media announce the generosity of my fellow Americans who gave anonymously so that others can enjoy this Season.

Entirely too much of what is wrong with a few, is what we almost always hear about by the naysayers and in the media, who would rather report shootings or pepper spray over sale items in stores, by the very few who do not or never will represent those who are generous of both heart and spirit. I commend CNN for taking their time out to recognize just a few of the gracious donors in America as well as the World. We may not all be able to give as much as those who can accomplish more with name recognition or great wealth, but so many of our small contributions do add up to make other lives better. I commend all of you who do give and share generously of your own time and good fortune.

The second reason, that I stayed on politics this week, is because after spending three years listening to the right-wing and far right-wing as in Tea Party, destroy our right to enjoy the accomplishments of President Barack OBama, we Independents, Republicans, and Democrats, who voted for him and have seen through the lies, have instead had to listen to 3 straight years of complaints and lies being told about him.

Even when OBama brought justice to Osama Ben Laden, instead of our being able to say thanks or feel vindicated just a little for the great harm Osama Ben Laden, did to us as Americans and the suffering he caused so many American families, OBama was having to show his birth certificate, to prove he was a citizen.

Just to be able to see the Republicans eat crow and stop their “pie holes” from more lies,even though spin it they are, we Democrats could smile, and smile we did. I could not miss the opportunity, to just once, not to take the smile off my face, knowing they in their hate lost. That they caved,and it wasn’t for the wealthy but instead for those who have had to suffer the most for the Republican arrogance and obstructionism, just makes it that much sweeter, especially when they announced just 2 weeks ago they had no intentions of giving in.

When Boehner professed; to quote him,”Sometimes it is difficult to do the right thing,” and then repeated it several times, it should have said a lot to all of us. What I would like to tell him and all of the Republicans,is, “Doing the right thing for the people is never difficult, if you keep in mind why you were sent to Washington.” When you recognize,as we do, it is “We the People” who elect you and we expect all of you to do the right thing, then it will become as natural as tying your shoes, combing your hair or eating when your hungry. The laws of the land and the Constitution as well as the oath of office you take,is or should be your guidelines, mixed with the compassion and desire to want to do the right thing, for all Americans, regardless of race,creed,color, or gender, should make it simple enough, since we pay your wages.

It may not be all in the Christmas Spirit, but somehow I do not think Christ would mind if those who have led by lies or the lack of leadership themselves, as the Republicans in Congress have, would be exposed for their own lack of leadership and lies.I just feel that maybe He too is smiling this Christmas and or Holiday Season, even though I do not speak for Him or pretend to.

Regardless of why you subscribe to my blog, press the like button, make a comment, or just stop by, I wish you all the very Best, this Holiday Season.I appreciate each and every time you visit. I wish all who are traveling a safe and uncomplicated trip. May all things that make you smile come your way during the Holiday Season and if you are gathering with your family or their family or spending a quiet Holiday at home alone, remember to Hug the cook!God Bless us all!

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