Politics for Dummies

I am sure the NAACP and every other African American organization knows they are next on this Republican hit list.

With this video showing Fox News, Chris Wallace and the Republican Party so gleefully - and wet your pants joyously - making superheros of these two nastyass wingnuts, I have to wonder if indeed that so profound are our differences that it is genetic.

The Nature of the Beast.

Even taking the obvious low road of racism out of this, what is left is a political ideology claiming the moral high ground because it not only could care less about the least of us, but actively blames them, tries to take away what little they have and goes this far out of their way to give them that extra kick in the mouth. Brings back the very words I founded this website on 15 years ago:

I suppose I can understand Republicans' selfish callous disregard for others, it's their pride in it that passes me by. 

The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now was formed in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1970. Its charter was to push for free school lunches for poor grade school children, help Vietnam Veterans home from the war, and getting more emergency rooms available in the inner city. It is now funded primarily by half a million dues paying members and supports 1000 employees. Well it seems it is now 995 as a few of the dumbest were recently let go. Who could not smell that scam is beyond me. I guess the reasoning was be nice to eveyone, which has been the failure of Liberals for... For... about a million years...

ACORN is now the largest community organization in America. It is based in the inner cities of 40 states to help the poor deal with issues of housing, predatory credit, minimum wage, unemployment - and of course the reason behind all this - getting African Americans out to vote. It is responsible for getting 1.3 million new voters out in 2008. The words "community organizer" are Republican code for unsavory black people who cause white people trouble.

Barack Obama was a community organizer in Chicago and a law firm he worked for defended ACORN in a few cases.

Though voting fraud accusations against ACORN abound, they are for the most part propaganda games played by talk radio hosts. What few there have been do not matter a wit or a nit, were dealt with by ACORN itself and there have been no indictments or convictions.

Remember Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and Turdblossom Karl Rove in trouble for politicizing the Dept of Justice? Well this was the issue, they were trying to depress the minority vote which ACORN was the leader in.

Enter the Pimp James O'Keefe. A mostly unemployed conservative activist who presently distributes Right-wing literature to college campuses. He made a name for himself at Rutgers University with a silly Lucky Charms lawsuit pretending that what the Irish suffer is no different that what African Americans suffer. A reach so far into such insane crap it absolutely is racism. It is what the guy is mostly about, kicking Negroes down... 

Enter the Whore Hannah Giles a right-wing Florida preacher's daughter who spent the Summer training at the National Journalism Center which was also the training ground for Ann Coulter.

Enter conservative columnist Andrew Breitbart an especially angry Right-winger who writes for the conservative newspaper the Washington Times. Breitbart was about to kick off his new website blasting Hollywood Liberals - Big Hollywood - and O'Keefe appeared at his doorstep with these tapes, and here we are.     

Other bit players in this the beyond the pale looneybin The Cato Institute, the almost as crazy Leadership Institute, Fox News, Fox News Sunday, Clash Church, Washington Times, Townhall.com and of course the standard gang of talk radio players Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Michael Savage and Glenn Beck. 

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Republican wingnuts - who this year became just plain Republicans - have gone to such extremes of late they conjure visions of the classic Monty Python skit, The Silly Party.

The center of their silliness is that our First Black President is a communist Hitlarian Marxist fascist socialist totalitarian dictator and illegal immigrant from Africa. Oh, and a liar...

One of the now central issues this gang of silly people play comes from the silly Glenn Beck Show on the silly Fox News Network. It is one of their many word games, this one using the word "CZAR" which proves that our President is indeed a fascist totalitarian dictator.

The real words for such appointees are "White House Advisers". They have been part of the system from Teddy Roosevelt on up. In fact, let me put this in red...

George W. Bush had 37 White House "Czars", 5 less than Barack Obama's 42. And 6 of those so called Obama Czars were appointed to deal with the unique economic failure of George W. Bush and the GOP.  

Of all the White House Advisers one stands out as the Czar of Czars! Our first national celebrity Drug Czar Billy "Jackboot" Bennett!

After gaining weight being Ronald Reagan's Secretary of Education - a Department he believed should not even exist - Bennett went on to gain even more weight to become our much popularized DRUG CZAR under George Herbert Bush.

At the time Republicans loved the use of the word which denoted their core outlook of kickass authority driven no nonsense law and order! It was a beloved moniker which fit the wearer and the Party well.

True to being a Czar Bennett gained weight and often belched out some real heavy duty Czarist Czingers. They need some red too.

"Casual drug users should be shot." William Bennett

"Drug dealers should be be headed! I have no moral problem with be headings." William Bennett

Mr Bennett - who these days gains weight as a right-wing radio talk show host - took no offense for his first quote but has angrily responded to the second explaining that he was speaking of those who sell drugs to children.

With about 90% of children getting their drugs from other children, it can be honestly said that William Bennett has no moral problem be heading children.
The Billy Jackboot Bennett page on Kick

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So, we are going to move our war from Iraq to Afghanistan. Where live the poorest, least educated, stone age religious fundamentalist drug dealers in the world. Sounds like a plan!

So, do we acknowledge that relativity thing?  Let's go over what the Soviet Union did there.

Like we did in Vietnam - though on their border rather than halfway across the world - the Russians tried to bring Afghanistan into the 20th Century. They went to war with what was then called the mujahideen. The mujahideen were the Taliban of the day. They were led by Osama Bin Laden who we befriended, funded and armed. The Russians fought for 10 years but finally give up after we gave Osama bin Laden and the mujahideen surface to air missiles. We did so because it was fair and good. Those missiles caused so much loss of Russian personal and helicopters that the Russians had to quit and go home. That resulted in internal war for years, the ascendency of the Taliban, al Queda, and our friend Osama bin Laden killing 3000 Americans on 911. The Russians failed like all invaders in the past have failed.

So, does this mean that if Iran befriends, funds and arms the Taliban, and gives them surface to air missiles to shoot down our aircraft that... It is fair and good? 

Or when it comes to foreign policy are our double standards so absurd that we really are The United Buffoons of America? Taking the high moral ground of preemptive war, torture, denial of habeas corpus, due process and double standards going beyond the pale.

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The Libertarian Party rose to prominence on the heels of Ronald Reagan and his most infamous silly quote. "Government is not the solution, government is the problem." With Ron Paul as their candidate the LP gained 1.2% of the vote in the 1988 presidential election. And with the rise of the Right, the libertarian think tank Cato Institute became a central player in the GOP.

The Libertarian Party is peopled by what are often called Looneytarians, has only had two celebrity politicians to call their own.



Racist and anti-environmentalist Congressman Helen Chenowith from Idaho (she refused to be addressed as congresswoman). Chenowith retired from Congress in 2000 realizing she was too far right for even Idaho!  While following her libertarian ideals in 2006 - she was holding a baby and not wearing a seatbelt and was ejected from a jeep, broke her neck, and is no longer intent upon chopping down every tree and eating the last Salmon in Idaho.  More on Helen Chenowith

Texas Congressman and abortion foe, Ron Paul left the Republican Party to run as the LP candidate for President in 1988. He soon came back into the GOP pushing his States Rights positions that only lightly hide his Christian Fundamentalist intolerance. Paul is a racist though he has spoken out against slavery (the 13th amendment he says puts that out of reach for Texas), but individual states re instituting Jim Crow or executing doctors and women regards abortions is all fun stuff for Ron.

The Libertarian Party is made up of very white relatively young males who are most exclusively single, never married, childless, unattractive to women and driven by only two things, love of guns and themselves. 

The Libertarian Party is the official offshoot of Ayn Rand and all she stands for, though they take the deregulation far beyond her economics. The elimination of taxes and the IRS. Elimination of financial, environmental, civil rights and health regulations. The total destruction of Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, Workman's Comp, Unemployment Insurance, Disaster Relief and above all gun controls! You want a full field of fire swivel .50 caliber machine gun mounted on the top of your Hummer? The LP is the party for you! Oh and legally do all the meth you want while shooting whatever it is that needs shooting.

There are many spokesman for the Libertarian Party, most importantly is the Cato Institute, a far right think tank whose main purpose is to destroy Social Security and anything else they consider FDR New Dealism.

Though there are too many spokesman for the libertarians [small "l" means not in the party] to name here, the most well known is conservative columnist George Will who does not like seatbelts and believes everyone should carry an assault rifle - like in Somalia. He is a good example of the unloved nerd area of libertarianism while the Hell's Angels typify the more hardcore side of it.

All this looneytarian unregulated free market, no taxes, hate the government stuff we have suffered since 28 years ago when a silly old man with better hair than brains became President to made it palatable with his homespun charisma is now mostly over. For the time being anyway. For as we have learned over those past 28 years: God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that the powerful and wealthy shall not perish from this Earth and have everlasting life.

Countdown of Political Losers of 2008, Rand, Friedman, Greenspan and Reagan, 10th

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The Gang of Four who helped lead us into the worst Recession in History with an ideology that government must be weak and step aside for unregulated free market capitalism, and  generate wealth by eliminating taxes on the unearned income of the wealthy. You know, unearned as in not going to work like you do. Spotting the hardcore ideological descendents of these people is mostly a matter of counting the amount of times they use the terms statism or classical liberal in a sentence. 

Ayn Rand - Author or Atlas Shrugged - the story of the perpetual motion machine (free energy) and how it was suppressed by the greatest evil in human history, The Government.

Rand is also the author of The Virtue of Selfishness which presents the fundamental principles which permeate her entire body of work - that self interest is the be-all and end-all of human existence, while any form of altruism (helping people) is evil and immoral. Really!  No kidding! Funny hat and cigarette holder aside...

Her followers today are right-wing extremists. Mostly members of the Libertarian Party who have found Nirvana in trying to make Mad Max movies our future. Her political philosophy has taken root in conservative circles and the Republican Party, but her true followers - under the auspices of Reason and Objectivity - are often insanely intense.

An example of this can be found at Modern Library top 100 list where the people vote for the greatest books. In the top ten books ever written, Ayn Rand beats L. Ron Hubbard four to three. 7 of the top 10 books in the world are by Ayn Rand and L. Ron Hubbard! It doesn't get much sillier than that! Beware the Freeper

Milton Friedman - Author of the 1962 best seller, Capitalism and Freedom that catapulted him far above his head. Following Ayn Rand he put her philosophy into studies and formulas at the University of Chicago. Again it is the same theme as Ayn Rand, greed is the ideal, the individual wallet always trumps the common good.

Pluralism, a system where the best economic and political ideals are mixed together is out of the question for these laissez faire dogs.

Since the economy tanked - by following Milt's studies and formulas - the University of Chicago has deferred naming a new building after him. After all, Rand, Friedman and the next character listed has lost us (the world), just this year, $40 trillion dollars. And it will get a lot worse. 


Alan Greenspan -  Appointed as the Federal Reserve Chairman by President Ronald Reagan, Greenspan - another follower of Ayn Rand - lorded over the agency for 20 years. Columnist and Nobel Prize winning economist Paul Krugman claims that Alan Greenspan - under his central belief in a self regulating market - is most to blame for our current Recession. Even Greenspan himself had to take some responsibility when he said on Oct 22, 2008:

"I made a mistake in presuming that the self-interest of organizations, specifically banks and others, was such that they were best capable of protecting their own shareholders." 

Ronald Reagan - Special mention to our 40th President Ronald Reagan who with his nice hair, well written q-cards and homespun dialog managed to put the ideologies of all three of these losers into one small sentence.

"Government is not the solution, government is the problem."

That nice sounding lie reverberated throughout the world and the construction of the house of cards began.

The world of financial tricks and treats. Built upon massive credit and cascading fees as incentive to push out more loans, the bigger the better.

In their hearts all four of these people knew the house of cards they built would one day fall, but not until they and theirs had snorted it up and took their limos to their shiney city on the hill.

A moment of silence please to all the multi Billionaires who have been reduced to Billionaires... You have to be there to understand the pain.

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With the Right once again doing their semantic drivel concerning homophobe and bigot Reverend Rick Warren being the recipient of the intolerance while the gay community who actually suffer it are the intolerant bigots, I had go dig this one out of the archives.

Those Intolerant of Intolerance are More Intolerant Than Those They Accuse of Being Intolerant!

The above convoluted semantic argument is often used to berate liberals for accusing conservatives of various forms of prejudice, bigotry, sexism, homophobia and racism. Though so absurd it seems unworthy of comment, it is still a debate they are winning through every area of the media, for this is the central theme regarding the issue of political correctness. 

Years before political correctness had a name, Kurt Vonnegut Jr. arrived at a way of expressing the absurdity of all this. I paraphrase...

Intolerance was an important issue of debate between my parents. Father was of course, a good fascist, and was intolerant of just about everything, except of course, Nazi's. Mother would ask that he not bring any of the uniformed, swastika laden soldiers into her home. My father would then accuse her of gross intolerance. My mother, rather than play the semantic game, would get out pencil and paper and begin her list.

Things Mother is intolerant of:

• Nazis

Things Father is Intolerant of:

• Jews
• Communists
• Queers
• Buddhists
• Lesbians
• Chinamen
• Negroes
• Hindus
• Japs
• Muslims
• Unionists
• Pollocks
• Environmentalists
• Arabs
• Catholics
• Mexicans
• Moslems
• Liberals
• Socialists
• Feminists
• Albanians
• Russians

Then Mother would search around for more paper. Mother always made a big thing out of searching around for more paper.

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Words Mean Things 

Rather than me do this for you and be charged with bias, do it yourself. Get a sheet of paper and a pencil. Draw a vertical line down the center. Label one side Liberal and the other side Conservative. Add the following words to the column the words best represent.

 
Now sign your name to the bottom of one side or the other, tear off the other side, laminate it, and nail it to your forehead. 

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By voting down the bailout bill the conservative wing of the Republican Party today pushed the Dow Jones down 777 points, the biggest drop in American history. They did it they say, because Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi said mean things about what their unregulated free market ideology has wrought, the biggest financial melt down since 1929. Conservatives who exist on a plane of self admitted mean nastyness don't like it when people are mean and nasty to them. It is that very hypocrisy which drives the radio shows they listen to.

The argument has been corrupted by ideologues from both sides screeching either SOCIALISM or BAILING OUT WALL STREET. Both are in error.

It is neither about the much dreaded word "socialism" nor is it about bailing out bankers and brokers, but rather it is to bail us all out of a fix created by Republican economic ideology, and admitedly, what many Democrats have had to go along with to get elected over the past 30 years.

It is a $2500 investment from each of us, not to bail out those who sold us this sorryass Republican bill of goods, but those who bought the goods. That includes those of us with a mortgage, an IRA account, a 401K account, who have money in the market or are even holding money market accounts for Chrissake.

It is also meant to keep fear at bay so the stock market won't push us from the Recession Republicans refuse to admit we are in, to a full fledged Depression.

It too is meant to reduce the credit crunch, for as it stands credit is now so tight people cannot get loans to buy homes, fix their homes, buy cars, appliances or computers which is causing unemployment to rise.

The bailout may seem to be taking the risk from those REPUBLICANS who caused it, but it is necessary to keep the rest of us in our homes and jobs, and is especially important to the elderly on retirement plans.

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I just know he will continue to do us proud at the important G8 Summit in Japan. In a recent interview on Japan's Fuji Television, I wish I could say that he commented on what he proposed to accomplish on the world front.

While Japan and the world waited, he told Fuji Television that he:"Will try not to fall off of his mountain bike." Further commenting, that he was looking forward to it. "I think they've got some beautiful trails, I've just got to be careful not to fall off." Apparently there is reason for his concern, if not ours.

During the G8 Summit in 2005 in Gleneagles, Scotland, he crashed into a local police officer. Yes, a POLICE officer.

He also suffered cuts and bruises in 2004 when he crashed his bike at his Texas ranch.

In 2003, he had a one "vehicle" incident on a Segway stand-on scooter...think about that one, and be very frightened. It does make me yearn to see "Cowboy George" on an actual horse. Who knows what perils an enormous creature with a mind of it's own could cause the "Drugstore Cowboy."

Speechifyin' at the Summit seeming to be the last thing on his mind, has anyone considered presidential training wheels? Bush sets high goal at G8 Summit in Japan, not to fall off of bike. Facebook | Digg | Reddit | Stumble | Buzz it! | Email Article |

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The only ones debating Creationism or Intelligent Design would do better arguing if babies come from the cabbage patch or the stork.

Whether ones believes a "Mystical Garden" cabbage story or the never seen "Winged Creature" stork fable, is based where you live in the US.

SPOILER Alert: Our beginnings are not rooted in past mystical gardens or unseen flying winged creatures, but in other human beings.

Whichever version someone is taught for an entire childhood, by the highest authority in their lives, is only shaped by geographical location.

Of course the known facts about both (besides being fallacies) is storks smell like crap, and the effect of cabbage is even worse.

So next time you hear vigorous "intellectual academic discussion" of ID or Creation -- just remember 'Of Cabbages and Wings'.

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I just put down the Sunday morning Chicago Tribune. What a difference from the Houston Chronicle.  Gosh...  No one named Jaun was shot outside a club. No one named Jerome was shot inside a club.  No one named Biker Bob died over a quarter on a pool table. No old women were mauled by pitbulls. Nobody was running around with big signs saying WETBACKS GO HOME.  No immigration articles at all, no air pollution articles at all, no worst schools in America articles, no one was shot stepping onto someone elses property.  But one hell of a lot about Barack Obama and Resko and Barack Obama and the Jewish vote. It's also not 90.

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