DON'T BE FOOLED - PART II

Right or wrong, voters feel the economy is not good.

The Biden 'anti-inflation bill' that now has every Democrat on board, will help all of us greatly and lower inflation.

It will even help the dumbest of the dumb in the country. (In fact, it will probably help them more than us humans!)

THEREFORE, NOT ONE REPUGNANT REPUB WILL VOTE FOR IT!

mcconnell is pissed that he got played by Biden & Manchin and will pay them back by demanding his GOP not support ANYTHING we the people want or need, so as to NOT give the Dems a "win"!

Don't think he'll do it? He already used this un-American tactic against President Obama, and even stole seats on the (formerly) Supreme Court!

But fixed or not, the economy is the GOP's one issue for November, and they will all run on it!

Gas prices will probably be lower than when Bush was in the White House, but will Fox mention it on air?

Seriously?

And they will hide the fact that their party aided and abetted seditious actions by their president!

They will deflect from their nationwide push to turn America into Gilead and blame any perceived problem on Biden.

They would rather lay waste to the country than help Americans!

They showed that by trying to block the veteran's health bill.

They show it by taking away women's rights.

They showed it by having Viktor Orban, Dictator of Hungary, speak prominently at their CPAC meeting.

(For the fun of it, and your own edification, 'Google' a list of speakers at this year's CPAC meeting in, where else, Texas. It's nauseating!)

They show it by embracing the "Big Lie" and the evil liar who started it!

They show it in every action they take.

But we can show them that we are mad as hell, and we are not going to take it anymore by waking up to reality.

We must vote them out of existence, or they will legislate us out!

VOTE DEM

AMERICA IS DEPENDING ON YOU!

INFESTATION!

Newton's Third Law states that, 'for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.'

The gravity of this observation cannot be overstated because it can be used in so many ways and in so many fields.

It is the fundamental law used in aeronautics and space travel, as well as boxing matches and schoolyard fights.

Another, not so famous law, albeit not taught in school, comes from George Orwell's classic novella, "Animal Farm."

I hope everyone has read it. If not, hurry and do so before it is banned.

"Animal Farm" teaches us that while all men (creatures) are created equal, some are more equal than others!

Perhaps Mr. Orwell was alluding to America's valuation of the African slave population of the late 1700's and 1800's who were ruled to be worth only three fifths of a person.

This ended, although it still exists in practice today, to a degree, when the North defeated their brethren in the South and the 14th amendment to the Constitution was ratified. It explicitly repealed the 'non-equal' status of the former slave.

However, the action of repealing the 3/5 compromise caused a reaction that led to the Jim Crow Laws.

Separate but still not equal status of the African American started to crumble when Harry Truman directed the military to accept and treat all members of the armed forces as equal in 1948.

And the crack really widened with the Supreme Court's 1954 ruling in Brown v Board of Education.

The Civil Rights Act, Voting Rights Act and Fair Housing Act, all passing while Lyndon Johnson sat in the White House, supposedly put an end to all legal discrimination based on race back in the late 1960's.

Each of those acts caused reactions felt to this day.

The next war front emerged for all to see and hear, when women decided they needed to be treated as equal to men and started stating this out loud, very loud in the early 1900's.

Starting just after the Civil War when African American men were given the right to vote by the 15th amendment, the women's suffrage movement began.

Once again, the action of ONLY ensuring men a new right caused women to react in a wave that extended into the 20th century.

The 19th amendment, written up in 1919 but not ratified until 1920, finally allowed women the right to vote.

While all the above rights were won after long dangerous and deadly fights, their continuation has been under attack since inception.

They require diligence and vigilance to ensure their lasting effect on the lives of all Americans.

But just as George Orwell warned of dangers and potholes in the road to a free and fair Democracy, so too does Margaret Atwood in her cautionary "The Handmaid's Tale".

In America we control our bodies.

Our laws protect others from harm we might inflict, or attempt to inflict, on others.

But for some reason this seemingly simple principle does not extend to our elected officials!

It was not until 1973, 49 years ago, that women were finally granted the legal right to control their own bodies with regards to that uniquely feminine act of childbirth.

That was the year the Supreme Court of the United States of America ratified into law the legalization across the land of the procedure known as abortion.

Commonly called Roe v Wade this law finally freed females from back-alley abortions and the use of hangers in a grotesque and dangerous way.

This right and the action of granting it to women caused the immediate reaction from a large group of hypocritical men, and sadly some self-disrespecting women, who call themselves Evangelicals.

Together with their allies of the radical right, they have been plotting, fighting, complaining, and chipping away at this settled law, ever since day one of its existence.

Little by little they found footholds in the Repub Party, which basically had nothing with regards to moving America forward since the 1980's.

They kept proposing bills in State legislatures across the country with a dual desire to please their so-called righteous base and keep or gain local power.

Finally, through a conglomeration of strange and dangerous liaisons, foreign and domestic, they were able to find and ensure the promotion to the Presidency of a puppet with absolutely no moral compass and no desire to help anyone but himself, his friends and his family gather and hide wealth.

While this minority elected, twice impeached president presided over the land, the final three nails in the coffin of justice were appointed as Justices to sit for life on The Supreme Court of America. (Note: Repub Presidents Bush and Bush appointed the other 2 nails.) 

Finally, the radical right had all the pieces in place to end the first right in their sights, that of women to control their bodies.

Soon Gilead will not just be a village in Nebraska but a metaphor for America!

Ms. Atwood never intended her tale to be a primer, but unless the women of America wake up it will become the textbook of choice for the country.

Will this finally be the act that causes the reaction necessary to save our Democracy?

Don't just wring your hands, maidens, YELL, SCREAM, REACT.

AND WHILE YOU ARE STILL ALLOWED TO VOTE, VOTE!

AND USE THAT VOTE AS YOU WOULD A POWERFUL INSECT REPELLENT TO RID AMERICA OF THE REPUBLICAN & CONSERVATIVE INFESTATION.

REMEMBER EVERY TIME YOU GO TO THE POLLS, AND IN EVERY STATE AND LOCAL PRIMARY.

AND OF COURSE

REMEMBER IN NOVEMBER!

The Scorpion Effect Vis-a-Vie the 2012 Election

I’m sure you all know the story of the scorpion and the frog but just in case:

The scorpion must get across a river but it does not swim.

The frog is at the edge of the river and the scorpion asks for a ride.

The worried frog says, “But if I give you a ride you will sting me and I will die.”

And the scorpion points out that, “If I were to sting you then we would both die and therefore it would be silly for me to do so.”

Hearing this logic the frog relents.

But halfway across the river the scorpion indeed stings the frog and as they drown the frog asks incredulously “Why?”

“Because I’m a scorpion,” said the stinger “and that’s what scorpions do!”

The above story explains this year’s Presidential election.

How so you might ask.

How is the stinging of the poor unsuspecting naïve frog the same thing as an entire electorate voting to choose the next President?

I’m so pleased you asked.

Hop into the blogosphere time machine and I will explain.

In the year 2000 there was a close vote between former Vice President Al Gore and his Republican opponent G W Bush.

After the voting was complete there was no clear winner. And although it appeared that some irregularities were involved that could have far reaching implications the process of recounting votes was halted and the decision of who would be the President of the United States was taken out of the hands of the voters and given to the courts.

But not just any court.

It was handed over to a conservative think tank organization also known as the Supreme Court of the United States.

This particular political action group of robed ‘deciders’ was stocked with supporters hand picked for just this type of situation. But they could not do a thing unless they were called into action. And that was as unprecedented as, well as blatantly stopping a recount to appoint a winner.

Luckily they were handed the task by a woman, ONE WOMAN who was not-so-secretly in love with her boss who just so happened to be Jeb Bush, brother of Georgie and the eventual recipient of the crown.

The president in 2000 was decided not by the majority of the 105 million plus voters but by a 5 to 4 predetermined vote of conservative supporters nullifying and circumventing the wishes of nearly an entire nation.

Granted the vote was close but Mr. Gore with 48.4% did in fact beat his opponent who garnered only 47.8% but in America as in our Congress it is not always the majority that rules.

Now let’s travel ahead four years and two wars later and review what transpired in the next major election.

In 2004 the conservatives were somewhat afraid to do the same thing as they did in 2000 so they started using voting models more seriously and found what are now quite commonly known as ‘swing states.’

These are electoral gold mines that above all can ‘swing’ a national election in favor of one guy, or gal over another.

And they found Ohio.

History and a keen eye will show how they once again circumvented rules and fair political action (now there’s an oxymoron for you) and stole yet another election for the inept war mongering criminal team of Dubya & Darth Cheney.

So now we are back home in good old 2012 and are heading into another Presidential election that could very well decide the make up of that formerly fair and balanced Supreme Court for many years to come.

But the scorpion has now become so secure in its tactic of stinging America and stealing elections that it is brazenly and openly doing so with every slimy step.

It seems to have figured out how to kill off the middle class while not drowning itself.

And to prove how secure they are in their winning ways if they can pull it off this time they will have placed a President in the White House who is, by their own words the worst candidate ever to run for the Oval Office.

So how can they do this?

Will they bring back Katherine Harris?

Could they possibly hypnotize an entire nation into believing that suddenly Willard is not a rat?

No this time it’s in your face and personal!

The stinger is out and they have no intention of hiding it at all!

If you are or have shown yourself to be a Democrat or are merely leaning in the direction of voting for a Democrat you will have obstacles thrown in front of you every step of the way to the voting booth.

Voter suppression is such an anathema to our country and its tenet of freedom as to be considered a terrorist act and yet the Republican Party, their Governors and their fringe groups are all conspiring to do just that!

And doing it while admitting what their plan is!

Veterans of foreign wars who volunteered and risked their lives to secure freedom for America are being thrown off the voter roles after voting continuously for 60 years merely because they are registered; admitted; or in a demographic that assumes they are Democrats.
In some Republican controlled states such as Texas, Bush's former 'clearing brush stomping grounds,' the unabashed BS of the RW goes as far as to disallow valid student ID cards from colleges and universities but accept gun permits as legitimate identification for voting!
Obviously the right wing has figured out that intelligent students are more likely to vote Democratic than their gun toting beer drinking low life neighbors with tattoos touting second amendment rights.
Of course none of the fears these champions of concealed weapons have been shown to be true under President Obama but since when did truth and logic enter into a right winger's brain.

If Willard Mitt Romney were a better candidate; or even just a man of the people with a sense of what the country needs; or if he even gave a damn about the plight of the majority of Americans then he would have a chance in a fair election of taking the brass ring that is the Presidency.

But he is not!

And as much a puppet as W was Mitt is not even worthy of that insulting label. He is merely a front; an empty shirt; a figurehead to place in the office to do the bidding of his owners of the corporate world.

But the fact that he is undeserving of being on the same ballot as President Obama is not the point of this post.

The point of THIS post is the scorpions that are Karl Rove and the Koch brothers and Sheldon Adelson and all the rest of the individuals who for their own personal reasons need to have their hand picked stooge as the leader of the free world are fixing to fix yet another American election.

This must not be allowed!

Please Remember in November and do not give the scorpion another ride!