Lar Says...

America, How Dumb Can You Be?

2011-05-10T14:45:00.005-04:00

Last week Barack Hussein Obama released his supposed "birth certificate", and the mainstream media bought it hook line and sinker. They didn't ask for more proof, they just took his word for it. Obama pulled the biggest scam in the history of our country and got away with it!

OK, enough joking around.

Did you know that 14 percent of Republicans STILL think Obama was not born in the USA? I kid you not, they actually do.

How is that possible? Were 14 percent of Republicans dropped on their heads as infants? Did they take too much acid? Are 14 percent of Republicans escaped mental patients?

It actually makes my brain hurt trying to figure out how that many people are that dumb.

Lar

Osama & Obama: A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words

2011-05-06T19:40:00.003-04:00

Cost for copy of birth certificate: Not much

Killing Osama Bin Laden: PRICELESS

Lar

Who Is Keeping America Safe?

2011-05-03T12:06:00.012-04:00

2009:

Dick Cheney: "Obama is making us less safe"

Liz Cheney: Obama has not taken "the opportunity to stand up and defend America"

2010:

Tim Pawlenty: Obama "is projecting potential weakness, and enemies may see that and their respect may be reduced as a result of that, or worse."

2011:

Rick Santorum: Obama "is making America less safe" - April 29, 2011

President Barack Obama: "Tonight, I can report to the American people and to the world that the United States has conducted an operation that killed Osama bin Laden, the leader of al Qaeda, and a terrorist who’s responsible for the murder of thousands of innocent men, women, and children." - May 1, 2011

Gee guys...maybe it's about time for a reevaluation.

UPDATED:

Looks like the reevaluation has begun:

Rudy Giuliani: “I feel a great deal of satisfaction that justice has been done, and I admire the courage of the president to make a decision like this because if something had gone wrong everyone would be blaming him” - May 2, 2011

Peter King: "It really was a tremendously skilled operation…I give Obama full credit for this…if he would have gotten the blame if it didn’t work, then to me, I give him all the credit because it did work. So I have no problem giving him total credit for this." – May 2, 2011

Dick Cheney: "The administration clearly deserves credit for the success of the operation…we all owe him (Obama) the same sense of satisfaction that I'm sure they feel." – May 2, 2011

Allen West: "Congratulations to President Obama and his National Security Team for the capture and killing of the world's most dangerous and evil criminal mastermind, Osama bin Laden”. – May 2, 2011

Lar

MISSION ACCOMPLISHED

2011-05-02T11:09:00.006-04:00

We got him!

Congratulations President Obama, thank you. And thank you to our service men and women and our intelligence community and law enforcement officials.

Job well done.

Lar

Birthers, Are You Satisfied Yet? (You Fucking Morons)

2011-04-27T11:34:00.006-04:00

The breaking news of the day - Obama was born in America. What a shocker.

How much you want to bet that in short time there will be some crazy Republican birthers back on TV saying this is a lie and he isn't a citizen?

Because one thing we have seen for years now, facts are lost on the radical Right.

Those people are fucking nuts.

Lar

Come On Republicans, Enough With The Hypocrisy

2011-03-15T13:06:00.002-04:00

You can't be for the Citizen's United case that allows unlimited corporate donations to Republicans yet rail against Union's donations to Democrats.

You just can't.

Without shameful hypocrisy that is.

Lar

We MUST Stop The Attack Of The Evil Teachers

2011-03-10T13:35:00.001-05:00

The Forbes richest list came out and said the number of billionaires in the world increased by 199 last year. Good job guys, I’m sure all of you worked hard for your money and contributed to society.

But those evil Democrats better not think about raising their tax rates by a whopping THREE PERCENT. If they do that, the billionaires will be left in financial ruin and might not want to make any jobs for the other 99.99999999% of the peasants in the country. After all, keeping their tax rates low has done wonders for the employment in America. Thank you billionaires, our economy wouldn’t be the same without you.

We all need to focus on the real enemy – teachers. Especially those fat cat ones in Wisconsin, whose typical average salary including benefits is worth a staggering $75,000 before taxes. With that lavish lifestyle they are bankrupting our country. After all, if only THIRTEEN THOUSAND of those teachers put together every penny of their gross salaries this year, they would have the same pile of cash as ONE billionaire. Then they might actually have some political clout and be able to buy the politicians. And then our country would be fucked.

Lar

Another Example Of A Real Newsman

2011-03-04T11:22:00.002-05:00

If everybody in the country would watch Jon Stewart, they would actually learn something. And then maybe we could discuss how to solve our problems like rational adults.

Everyone should see this:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/04/jon-stewart-teachers-walls-street-fox_n_831243.html

Lar

Wall Street And The Robbery Of The American People

2011-03-03T11:12:00.006-05:00

Too often we Americans - all of us, myself included - get distracted with ideological battles. But if we would stop and just focus for a moment, we would see that we - Democrats and Republicans alike - have a common enemy. One that has succeeded in doing an amazing job of more or less going under the radar. And that enemy is the relationship between the financial /corporate world and our public officials - from both parties. The amount of corruption and crime that is allowed and overlooked is shocking and disgusting. And it has hurt all of us. Immensely.

Matt Taibbi has an amazing, eye-opening article in Rolling Stone that everyone should read. It makes you wonder, with all the protests about health care reform, teachers unions...where are the protests about the greatest robbery in the history of the country? Literally a robbery - there were crimes committed, but since bankers are above the law in this country, they don't even get a slap on the wrist.

Health care and education reform are important, and we can debate the best way to accomplish that, but to act as if those are the reasons our country is in an economic shitter is naive.

And this is by no means an indictment of capitalism. Capitalism has proven to be the greatest economic system for in history. But capitalism is based on a free market and competition. It ceases to be a free market when the rules and laws are written to stifle competition, to protect those with and to suppress those without from getting ahead.

Humans are not perfect, and greed and corruption will always be a part of the human condition. And when that greed is allowed to run rampant, unsupervised, the consequences can be disastrous, as history has also proven.

Instead of blaming health-care reform, the Tea Party, teachers unions and each other we should all focus on the real cause of our economic problems. How can we just overlook the fact that financial criminals stole an ENORMOUS amount of wealth from the American people, leaving many unemployed, homeless and uninsured, causing states to lose massive amounts of revenue while at the same time having to pay skyrocketing unemployment insurance and other assistance? The fact that they stole from all of us, decimating our 401ks and retirement funds. And then we, the taxpayers, BAIL THEM OUT. Bail out people who made off like bandits. We make it possible for them to keep their companies going, so that they can continue to reward themselves with massive bonuses. Of our money. People who do not need it, who did nothing to deserve it, people who in a true capitalistic economy should have lost it all, personally walking away with billions of our hard-earned tax dollars?

How do we Americans just let that slide?

If we don't fix that problem, we are all royally fucked.

Lar

It's Nice To See Some Sane Republicans For A Change

2011-03-01T18:30:00.005-05:00

I find it sad - quite possibly the ultimate statement about how bad the political polarization in our country has become - that a very large segment of the so-called "Conservative" Republicans attack Michelle Obama over every single thing she does, no matter how benign. The hatred that they have towards her marks a new low in respect for human beings. Wait, I take that back, the Republican right hated Hillary with a passion. However, a lot of that had to do with her active efforts in crafting policy, particularly health care reform.

But this is differnt. Traditionally the First Lady always has a charity that they get actively involved with, something nobody would argue with. For example, Laura Bush was active in promoting literacy. And even with all the intense anger and hatred of GW from the left, you didn't hear them attacking Laura Bush.

Yet so many on the radical right, both politicians and commentators alike, have such hatred towards the current First Lady. I guess it's not surprising as so many of them are full of hate towards anybody not like them - other races, other sexualities, other religions, other political parties, intellectuals, war-protestors, unions, teachers...the list is endless. But still, even the most outspoken liberals never attacked Laura Bush.

I know what some would say "oh, Michelle said she wasn't proud of her country until 2008, blah blah". Fine, that is a fair criticism. But when she tries to promote a healthier country and is trying to fight childhood obesity, they go CRAZY. Fucking bonkers.

Seriously people - who on earth would say that our children should be fatter? Who would say that it is better if we as a country were less healthy? Nobody who is even remotely sane.

Yet they attack her with these absurd accusations that by her speaking out about nutrition that means the government is going to tell you what you can and can't eat. And that is such a ridiculous lie that only the most guillible and moronic among us would believe it. Yet many do.

Thankfully, I see that we have at least 2 sane Republicans who are not afraid to speak out. Chris Christie (who is doing an overall pretty good job) and Mike Huckabee have both said that they support Michelle Obama's efforts to battle childhood obesity.

Christie, Huckabee - hats off to you.

Lar

SHOCKER: FOX News Chief Encourages Lies...

2011-02-24T13:10:00.002-05:00

I just can't believe it, Roger Ailes actually encouraged somebody to lie in order to make Republicans look good.

Shocker.

Lar

Wow, Fox News Actually Has ONE Journalist

2011-02-24T11:20:00.003-05:00

As everyone with a working brain knows, FOX News is not actually a news channel. Propaganda yes, 24-hour infomerical for the Republican Party yes, but not news.

But I saw this and realized, maybe the way they can claim to be a "news" channel is because of one man - Shepard Smith. He actually speaks objective truth.

Check out his comments on this nonsense going on in Wisconsin:

"There is no budget crisis in Wisconsin," he said, adding that the unions "[have] given concessions."

The real point of the fight, Smith said, could be found in the list of the top ten donors to political campaigns. Seven out of the ten donated to Republicans; the other three were unions donating to Democrats.

"Bust the unions, and it's over," Smith said. He then brought up the Koch brothers, the billionaires who have bankrolled much of the anti-union pushback in Wisconsin. The fight, Smith said, "started" with the Kochs, who he said were trying to get a return on the money they donated to Walker's campaign.

"I'm not taking a side on this, I'm just telling you what's going on...to pretend this is about a fiscal crisis in the state of Wisconsin is malarkey," Smith said.

Like I said, he looks at facts and speaks the truth. How does he still have a job at FOX?

Lar

And THIS Is Why Jon Stewart Is THE BEST

2010-12-17T20:38:00.004-05:00

I could write about it, but you are best off just seeing for yourself.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/17/stewart-911-responders-bill_n_798114.html

Lar

Republicans To The Heroes of 9/11 - You Are On Your Own, We Have Rich People To Help Out

2010-12-09T13:36:00.006-05:00

The Republicans in the Senate just blocked a vote on the bill that would provide medical care to the heroes who responded like true patriots when America needed them to help their fellow citizens in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks.

Really guys...really? Are you fucking serious?

I thought the GOP was all about patriots, all about our troops, our police. I thought they were all about the heroes of this greatest country in the world. I thought that their party felt the impact from the horrible attacks on 9/11 just as much as the rest of the country.

Well, obviously I thought wrong.

This is such an outrage. Just plain morally disgusting.

There is no - and I mean NO - reason to not only allow this to go to a vote, but also no reason to not have a 100% yes vote on this.

Don't even try to justify it by saying it will cost $7 billion. Keeping the lower tax rates on the richest 2% of the country will cost $700 billion, and they have no problem with that.

Now you can debate that tax policy, that is fine. I think it's ridiculous to not raise taxes by 3% on the richest 2% of the country when our country is going bankrupt. However, maybe you naively think that "trickle down" works (it doesn't, fact, proven by history). That is your right. But don't try to tell me that the reason you are voting against medical care for America's heroes is because of cost - clearly the Republicans have no problem adding to the national debt if it is to help out the richest 2% of the country. Not a single person of which, by the way, was one of the responders. Police and firemen don't quite fall into that $250k + tax bracket.

The Republicans have stated that they will not vote for anything until the tax cuts for the richest 2% are passed. They actually find that to be a more important act then providing medical care to the heroes of 9/11. They care more about helping rich people than helping American heroes who need help most. How much more un-patriotic can you get?

"Go wait in the corner over there heroes, you may die in the meantime, we are going to let the rich people cut in line so we can give them a little more money that they don't need, I mean, after all, they are rich, and are so much more important than you".

So says the GOP.

This is the most blatant case of political opposition I have seen from them yet. Heroes be damned, we won't let the Democrats pass anything, we need to fight them on anything they suggest.

Fucking disgusting.

There is no defense for this un-patriotic action that the Republicans took today.

Lar

The Smartest Broadcasters On TV...And The Smartest Viewers Too

2010-10-27T17:03:00.008-04:00

So today I was reading an article about Jon Stewart's Rally to Restore Sanity and in the article it mentioned a study done in 2007 (not immediately current, granted, but I would easily bet that the findings still hold up).

Turns out that the people in the country who are the MOST knowledgeable about politics and current events are…viewers of The Daily Show and The Colbert Report. Seriously. Check out the numbers:

Maybe this is because smart people (we the viewers) are drawn to other smart people (Stewart and Colbert) who make them use their brain and actually think (and conversely, not drawn to babbling talking heads and idiotic pundits).

Funny that FOX news viewers are almost at the bottom. Not surprising though. They are one stupid bunch. Seriously.

Lar

Is America Stupid? Or is it just the Tea Party?

2010-09-29T19:17:00.003-04:00

Tea Partiers, don’t get all offended, I’m not trying to insult you, but just posing a question. Because there is no other way to explain your support of Republicans and their agenda. It goes against everything you say you are for (much of which I agree with).

As I showed in a previous post, recent history has proven, unarguably, that the Republicans could care less about helping average Americans. That includes you Tea Party. As a matter of fact, The Republican’s actively fight AGAINST helping Americans. The Republican’s only agenda is helping the top 1% of the country. Which means they are only going to help 1% of Tea Partiers at most.

Why doesn’t the Tea Party doesn't pick up on this? Why do they support Republicans when it goes against their own best interests?

Before you say that the Tea Party doesn't support Republicans, I am fully aware that they have been throwing out many Republican bums in their primaries. However, the candidates they nominate all have the exact same agenda when it comes to the economy, health insurance, etc. - if not a more extreme one. And besides, even if a Tea Party candidate lost the nomination to the establishment Republican, do you actually believe that the Tea Party folks would stay home on election day, or vote for a Democrat? Not a chance. They are fired up and will fall right in line and pull the lever for the Republican come voting day. So the bottom line is that the Tea Party supports Republicans.

So then how do you explain the Tea Party's support of people who will go to Washington and vote against their own interests?

Sure, a lot of them are angry, intolerant and racist, and are paralyzed by fear of anyone/anything not just like them; anything that they don't understand. So a black man with a funny name gets elected and they go crazy.

But that is not all of them. The Tea Party is much more diverse than that. And I completely understand their anger - I am just as angry as them. Our government is a disgrace. Virtually all politicians from both parties are bought and paid for, and they get nothing done. Or when they do get something done, it almost always hurts the country.

So why then would the not-crazy, not-prejudiced faction of the Tea Party support the Republican agenda? If the Tea Party is representative of the American public, then only 1% of the Tea Party is rich enough to benefit from the Republicans' economic policy. Just about everybody aspires to be rich, but even if these hopefuls think that one day they will be in that 1%, why don't they wait until they get that rich to start voting Republican? One thing that rich successful people are good at is doing what benefits them at the time. So why handicap yourself right now with the hope that maybe one day you too will have a yacht?

Rational thought and logic cannot explain this phenomenon. So what then? Are we, as Bill Maher always says, a stupid country?

I hate to think that we are, but I can't find another explanation.

Lar

9/11 Heroes Finally Get Help - DESPITE The GOP (Do The Republicans Hate Americans?)

2010-09-29T16:32:00.008-04:00

Breaking news - on their second attempt, the House just passed a bill to provide health care to the rescue workers from 9/11 who suffered illnesses from the toxic fumes. That is great news. Well done Congress.

But when you look at the vote, it begs a bigger question - why is it that (almost) all Republicans time after time vote AGAINST bills that actually help people? Only 17 Republicans voted for this bill. There are what, 178 Republicans in the house right now?

And voting against this bill boggles the mind - aren't the Republicans all about being patriotic and always talking about the heroes of 9/11? So tell me then, why would almost all of them vote against providing health care to the heroes of 9/11? Well, they claim they are concerned with the $7.4 billion cost.

Funny, they say the same thing about health insurance reform, protecting the environment, unemployment benefits, improving education...the list is endless. Anything that benefits the American public is too expensive it seems.

Yet they NEVER (and I mean never) care about the cost of tax cuts for billionaires, a needless war in Iraq, contracts for defense contractors, bailing out banks...the list is endless. Anything that benefits the richest 1 percent of the country or multi-national corporations is never too expensive.

Hmm...do you notice a trend here? Their record shows clearly that they could care less about average Americans.

Any American who takes even two minutes to pay attention and think about this will see definitively that the Republican agenda these days is to benefit the richest people who don't need help, and corporations who ship jobs overseas. And the end result of this agenda - as history has proven over the last 30 years - is in direct opposition to helping the American people, and it has destroyed the middle class.

One day I will post a list of all the bills from this session of Congress alone that the Republicans have voted against; bills that would benefit average Americans; bill that would benefit 99% of the country. It’s a LONG list.

But right now I don’t have the time. Unlike our civil servants in Congress, I actually have to work for a living.

Lar

Governor Bacala?

2010-08-31T14:47:00.006-04:00

Hmmm, maybe Bobby Bacala didn't get killed off, maybe he changed his name and became Governor of NJ...

You decide.

Lar

What An ASSHOLE: Did Newt Ever Read The Constitution?

2010-08-18T13:17:00.009-04:00

So that disgraced, discredited, self-promoting, walking piece of shit in human form Newt Gingrich thinks that building a mosque near the site of the Sept. 11 attacks “would be like putting a Nazi sign next to the Holocaust Museum" and that it would be a symbol of Muslim “triumphalism”.

What an asshole. What a political opportunist, trying to get attention by creating a controversy where one doesn't exist. And he is a stupid one at that; he has no sense of logic whatsoever.

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Putting a statue of Osama bin Laden at ground zero would be like putting a Nazi sign next to the Holocaust Museum.
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Putting a mosque 2 blocks from ground zero would be the same as putting a church 2 blocks from the Holocaust Museum. After all, it was the Nazis – who were Christians - who killed millions of Jews. But Newt would never oppose a church being built anywhere – it’s not good politics.
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I work in Manhattan. I saw the towers burning with my own eyes. I know somebody who died on that day. That day will be burned into my mind forever.
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But I am intelligent enough, not to mention tolerant enough, to know that there is NOTHING wrong or controversial about building a mosque, wherever that may be. It's NO different than building a church or synagogue. If you think there is, you are wrong. And that is a FACT.
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I am intelligent enough to see that anybody opposed to this is equates all Muslims with Al Qaeda. Well, Hitler was a Christian, so by that logic all Christians are Nazis. Both are absurd notions, not to mention patently false and illogical.
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I am also a patriot. I support the US Constitution and appreciate the fact that our country was founded on the ideals of liberty and freedom. Religious freedom is protected by our Constitution. Hence why this is a non-issue; religious freedom is a part of the fabric of our country
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Anybody that sees a problem with this is simply so fucking stupid they should not be allowed to vote.
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Lar

Fox News...Lies, Incompetence, or Both?

2010-04-07T21:14:00.003-04:00

I would like to ask my Conservative counterparts - you don't really think Fox News is actually a news channel do you?

http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/joe_conason/2010/04/07/acorn

So basically Fox News is either totally incompetent or lying. Either this "pimp" cut the tape and lied to them, which means that they don't check for facts, or they edited themselves, which means that they are purposely putting forth lies and half-truths.

Surely any resonable person, regardless of political ideology, would stop listening to a channel that spins and lies, right?

Now some will probably say that Fox leans right, MSNBC leans left, etc. Which is true. But there have been no documented instances that I have found that MSNBC is playing doctored tapes or "accidentally" edited photos of Tea Party rallies to make them look bigger, having producers rile up the Tea Party crowds to make them look angrier, etc, etc, etc.

I also find it interesting that this story is listed in the POLITICS sections of the Fox News website:

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/04/01/calif-ag-determines-acorn-broke-criminal-laws/

Hey, at least they put it on their website. But I find it telling that they consider a legal investigation "politics" and not "news" or "law".

By the way, the other night Rachel Maddow did a great job of disecting these lies for all to see.

And note - this is a post about Fox News and journalistic integrity, not Acorn. Please comment accordingly.

Lar

Why So Violent, Conservatives?

2010-04-06T17:15:00.001-04:00

You know, there are some really crazy liberals, but why is it that they never do anything like threatening to kill a Senator?

Why is it that the fringe on the right is so violent, and the fringe on the left isn't?

40 years ago the fringe left was violent, but all the violence is coming from the right these days.

Conservatives, please don't tell me that this isn't true, because it is. And please don't bring up Normal Leboon - he was not ideological, he was crazy, and made videos threatening movie studios, YouTube employees, federal judges, as well as Obama, Biden, Reed and Pelosi.

Rather, please explain to me to the best of your ability this phenomenon. Since not all conservatives are violent, maybe you can shed some light on this.

Lar

Stupid Killed America...Thanks Teabaggers

2010-04-06T13:17:00.001-04:00

Yesterday I received an amusing email that was forwarded to me by one of my conservative friends. You may have seen it already. If not, you can read the text at the end of this post. It is one of those great internet pieces of truth that all citizens need to see so that we can save our country…just kidding, it’s a piece of garbage full of lies.

This is the perfect example of the kind of nonsense rhetoric that the Fox News types spew, and the type that their even dumber viewers (pretty much all of them) believe. Of course it’s about the death of America. After all, we elected a black man President, so now we are all doomed!

But check out just a few of the “stats” it cites. Supposedly from a professor, to make it look legitimate:
• Supposed murder rate in counties won by Obama. Secret translation – where the blacks live.
• The “conclusion” that McCain won all the areas full of “taxpaying citizens”, and Obama won all the areas full of “citizens living in low income tenements living off various forms of government welfare”. Secret translation – blacks.

While race may never be mentioned specifically, it is clearly implied. Race is the driving force of the rage of the teabagger movement. Race is what fuels their fire - their irrational fear of people who are different from them. The people who write this shit up know that their audience is full of many racists, so they try to send them subliminal messages without specifically saying blacks or Mexicans or whatnot. This way it looks “objective”.

The writers of this garbage also know that the overwhelming majority of their audience is so dumb they would never even think to question the statistics. Which anyone with half a brain would immediately know were bullshit because Obama won 28 states. Who is so dumb that they think Obama only won 19 states when he won the election in a landslide?

They know their audience doesn’t know how to use the Googles, because if they typed in this professor’s name, in 5 seconds flat you would find the Snopes page that shows that this professor never did such research, and that the numbers are flat out wrong. You would also discover that this exact same email, with the same “statistics”, was sent around after the 2000 election, after the 2004 election, and again after the 2008 election. And you would also see that on the professor’s page on the University’s website, he has a disclaimer saying he never wrote this and has been trying to kill this fallacy for the last 10 years. It took me more time to type these last three sentences than it did for me to find that out.

The most dangerous thing in the world is stupidity. It is what ultimately causes pretty much all of our problems. And as long as there are people who manipulate the stupidity of the teabagger types for their own personal gain, then it are they who are the greatest threat to America. Not that Socialist Communist Marxist Black Muslim Non-Citizen with the funny name.

Lar

Here is the gem of the email. Have a good laugh:

USA Obituary - Born 1776, Died 2008

It does not hurt to read this several times.

Professor Joseph Olson of Hamline University School of Law, St. Paul , Minnesota , points out some interesting facts concerning last November's Presidential election:

• Number of States won by: Obama: 19 McCain: 29
• Square miles of land won by: Obama: 580,000 McCain: 2,427,000
Population of counties won by: Obama: 127 million
McCain: 143 million
Murder rate per 100,000 residents in counties won by:
Obama: 13.2 McCain: 2.1

Professor Olson adds: "In aggregate, the map of the territory McCain won was mostly the land owned by the taxpaying citizens of the country.

Obama territory mostly encompassed those citizens living in low income tenements and living off various forms of government welfare..."

Olson believes the United States is now somewhere between the "complacency and apathy" phase of Professor Tyler's definition of democracy, with some forty percent of the nation's population already having reached the "governmental dependency" phase.

If Congress grants amnesty and citizenship to twenty million criminal invaders called illegals and they vote, then we can say goodbye to the USA in fewer than five years.

If you are in favor of this, then by all means, delete this message.

If you are not, then pass this along to help everyone realize just how much is at stake, knowing that apathy is the greatest danger to our freedom.

Who are the true Patriots? Hint: They aren't obsessed with Tea

2010-03-31T17:21:00.006-04:00

I am sick and tired of seeing teabaggers with signs to impeach Obama. Do they even understand how insanely stupid they look?

To impeach the President, they must be guilty of "treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors". Obama has done none of that. But these nut jobs think impeachment is a tool to overturn an election of somebody you didn’t vote for. You don’t like the President, simply impeach him, overturn the will of the people (a very loyal adherence to the Constitution these “patriots” have, isn’t it?).

Hell, as bad a President as he was, Bush never did anything to justify impeachment. If he was ever found guilty of committing treason, war crimes, etc., then of course he could be impeached. But just doing a bad job, absent crimes, is not an impeachable offense. Clinton they got because of perjury. Even though it was a bullshit politically funded witch hunt of a lawsuit, he did break the law, so there were legitimate grounds to bring those charges.

The Republicans/conservatives/teabaggers/whatever you want to call them, they obviously don't want to live in a democracy because they don't respect elections or the constitutional legislative process. If they don't get their way they call for impeachment because they didn't vote for the guy. Do you teabaggers even know how the founders wanted to change Presidents? A little process called VOTING.

They call for repeal if the other side passes a bill, regardless of the substance of the bill. That is secondary; they are just mad when their side loses.

They get crazy when they lose. Actually, they go literally insane. They call for secession, they spit on congressmen, call them niggers and faggots, throw bricks through windows, make death threats to Congressmen' children, they take up arms and form militia groups. Even the elected Republicans go nuts and won't even try to cooperate for the good of the country. They behave in such an unpatriotic manner that it is sad.

I do not agree with everything from the hard left, but the left rarely does that. Yes, you have lots of angry hippies who march about lots of shit – much of it silly. But they aren’t throwing bricks through Congressmen’s windows. And the elected democrats don't shut down congress like Newt tried in the nineties. They don’t refuse to do their jobs that they are elected to do (legislate) like the current Republicans are doing. You didn’t see every Democrat vote in 100% unison against everything the Republicans and Bush did. Maybe they should have more often, but they didn’t.

And what drives me nuts in the “news” media, etc, is when I hear people say that the divisiveness and hatred and violence and extremism comes from both sides. BULLSHIT. These days, it comes from the right. The lefties don’t take up arms and form militia groups. They don’t patrol the borders of Mexico like some fucking Death Wish-era Charles Bronson. They don’t call for revolution and secession. They don’t plan to kill police officers, they don’t blow up federal buildings, they don’t kill abortion doctors. They simply don’t do that.

These talking heads are so brainwashed into thinking that being “objective” means accepting both sides of an argument, even when one side is wrong or false, that they mislead the less enlightened viewers into thinking that both sides are equally right, that FACTS are equal to OPINIONS. By doing this, you are in essence sweeping this problem under the rug, and not doing anything to expose it or fix it. (I will say that there are exceptions to this – I saw Chris Matthews talk about how the violence and hatred is coming from the right – but only a few exceptions).

And I don’t want to hear about (this means you Pat Buchanan, whose memory seemed to have stopped in 1968) how there used to be violence from the left. Yes, you had a lot of that – in the 60s and 70s. You haven’t seen that happen in 30 years.

These pundits on TV try to downplay what is going on with the insane right wing nuts - the fear that many will soon transform into domestic terrorists (and sadly, that WILL happen) – by mentioning how angry the left wingers were with Bush, all the things they said about him. But that’s a bogus argument. Nobody was marching in the streets protesting Bush until he started the war in Iraq, which is now universally acknowledged as a giant mistake. And this even AFTER the fact that you could argue he did not win the election the first time, since the Supreme Court decided it was not necessary to count the votes of the American people. But even with that, lefties weren’t going out of their mind just because they lost the election. Nobody was calling for his impeachment until all the facts started to come out about the abuse of power his administration was engaged in.

This all shows the lack of patriotism by the right wing zealots, and their lack of respect for democracy or our Constitution. If you do not agree with them, you are not a real American, you are a commie, a socialist, a Muslim. If Democrats are elected then government is the problem. If Republicans are…well, they don’t have a problem with government then, do they?

They are hypocritical cry babies who throw tantrums when they don’t get their way.

That said, the good news is that this extremism will eventually ruin the Republican party. Maybe not this year, but it will splinter.

And then maybe the true Patriots in the Republican party will emerge.

Lar

Q: Are The Conservatives Out Of Their Minds? A: Yes, Of Course They Are

2010-02-19T17:13:00.006-05:00

Do the "conservatives" even realize how hypocritical and ridiculous they sound, or are they just too blinded by their obsessive hatred of Obama?

They are now criticizing President Obama for killing TOO MANY terrorists. They are not concerned about civilian casualties mind you, they are upset that too many terrorists are dying.

No, you did not just have an acid flashback. You heard that correctly. The same people who want to start wars in any country they don't like, the same ones who run around trying to convince people that Democrats will get them killed by the scary terrorists, the same ones who coined the phrase "war on terror"...those people don't think we should kill terrorists.

First one of GW's former speech writers said Obama is killing too many terrorists.

Now one of the authors of the Patriot Act is saying the same thing.

Now I know the "conservatives" have no capacity for logic, but if we kill all the terrorists, wouldn't we then be safe? Why would they not want to kill the terrorists? It doesn't make any sense. Oh wait, then the Republicans won't have ANYTHING to campaign on. Now I get it. That and I guess they get wood over the thought of torturing the enemy combatants. I wonders what gives them bigger tents in their pants - a poster of Sarah Palin or a picture of a terrorist being water-boarded?

This is so absurd that it is laughable.

Lar

Afghanistan - Give Obama The Benefit Of The Doubt

2009-12-02T20:52:00.003-05:00

I am guessing you saw Obama’s speech last night about Afghanistan. I am a progressive guy, and while I think it sucks that we are not out of there already and wish it was over (I could go on about how this clusterfuck is all Bush/Cheney’s fault, but we all know that by now), I will give him the benefit of the doubt.

Because, unlike liberal die-hards, I realize 3 things:

1. Sometimes fighting is necessary.
2. Obama knows a lot more about what’s going on over there than we know.
3. I know that even though he is not perfect and will make mistakes, Obama is a rational, intelligent, pragmatic, moral person with the best intentions for the country. He is the one, single person in the entire country who had to make this decision. Think about that pressure, that responsibility. I know Obama doesn’t take it lightly. And if any one person has to make this decision, I think he has as good a shot at getting it right as anyone. Nobody knows for sure what will happen, what to do. But also, nobody knows the facts and intelligence better than him. And he’s a fucking smart guy.

I am sure you have already seen and heard many uber-liberals ripping apart Obama. I understand people who don’t agree with him. Personally, I don’t know if I do. I understand people who don’t want to be there any longer. I sure as hell don’t. But I am giving him the benefit of the doubt because I am smart enough to know that I DON’T KNOW SHIT about the situation over there. And just about 100% of Americans don’t either. Just because people are liberals doesn’t make them smart. Smarter than Republicans, yes, but not necessarily smart. It doesn’t take much to be smarter than Republicans these days. (I will always qualify these statements by saying that “Republicans” doesn’t mean true classic conservatives; it means radical religious-fueled crazy racist scared nutjobs, which is what the Republican Party has become).

The thing that bothers me is that a lot of these liberals who are slamming his decision think that we should NEVER fight a war. Believe me, I wish we never had to, but sometimes it is sadly inevitable. And I know that I don’t know enough to know for sure if this is one of those times or not. So I’m going to put my faith in my President and hope that he does.

Bottom line – this situation is such a mess that there is NO good solution. So Obama has no good choices to make. Based on what he knows, I assume from his plan that he thinks trying to finish the mission that should have been but was abandoned by GW is a better choice than leaving right away. It’s not what he WANTS to do; it’s what he HAS to do based on having to choose between two supremely shitty choices.

I read this blog today and it is the most intelligent commentary/opinion I have yet read or heard about this so far. You should read it.

I have no idea if he is doing the right thing. I hope that he is.

But regardless, I still have faith in Obama.

Lar