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Video: Jon Stewart on Israel kicking America in the balls

nospam@example.com (Rack Jite) — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 07:02:14 -0700

Please don't get me going on neocons! Our two most popular these days are "Little Billy" Kristol whose daddy bought him the Neocon Bible, The Weekly Standard and Obama hater extraordinaire "Lipless" Charlie Krauthammer. Every time I see either one of them I want to put them in a headlock and give them a knuckle rubbie until they shut up.

The influence of the neocons got us into both our present wars and are caused the death of more Americans than 911 and hundreds of thousands of Iraqis (who don't count). These too yo-yos have replaced the old school of neocons who were in the Bush Administration making the calls: Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle, Douglas Feith, Scooter Libby, John Bolton, Eliot Abrams and not to forget "Joey the Jowls" Liebermann. All now disgraced by one thing or another. The Youngsters of Zion, The Neocons
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10 Signs you may have fallen into a Tea Party Two Bagger Rally

nospam@example.com (Rack Jite) — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 06:14:00 -0700

10 Signs you may have fallen into a Tea Party Rally

1) Are there large posters of a black man portrayed as Adolph Hitler?

2) Is everyone older than you are?

3) Does everyone weigh more than you?

4) Are most people dressed in stupid patriotic flag clothes?

5) Is the only black person you can find carrying an assault rifle, a sword and dressed up as a Klingon?

6) Do you hear discussions on how smart Glenn Beck, Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann are?

7) Can you find no one you could possible date?

8) When questioned about their slogans do they sound even dumber than they look?

9) Is the best celebrity catch they can get Steven Baldwin?

10) Have you suddenly become the best looking person in view and feel your IQ has shot up 50 points?

If so, keep your mouth shut as these very kind of blog posts are garnering death threats from these Tea Party Two Baggers. VIDEO: Teabag Taliban threatens life of cartoonist Mark Fiores for video How to Speak Tea Bag

The Corporate Biased Main Street Media is no secret to anyone

nospam@example.com (Rack Jite) — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 08:24:22 -0700

Some of the biggest issues we face are kept under wraps. Some of these we are well aware of; like racism, reliance upon invisible sky creatures and being the least taxed nation in the civilized world the dishonest American acclimation that we over taxed.

But there is an even more sinister universal truth at work which we all accept without comment. That for economic reasons (share), the media has a corporate bias that keeps it from calling ignorant bigoted intolerant selfish Republicans - ignorant bigoted intolerant selfish Republicans. Which is why we have to do it here.

[Let me also remind everyone that people who drink too much Bud will buy anything from talking lizards, angry cavemen, failed pirate bands and whoever drops a ton of bricks in the bed of a pickup truck.]

I happened upon this letter to the editor today in the Houston Chronicle putting this into a calmer and more publishable (main stream media) context. Though Diane will receive just as many filthy threatening emails from Tea Baggers no matter...

No equivalent partisanship

In regard to “Plenty of blame in Clinton vs. Starr feud” (Zest, Page 11, Sunday), do we all need to be beat about the head to wake up to the fact that the primary agenda of the Republican Party for the past 20 years has been to bring down any Democratic president? The reasons for this don’t even have to do with ideology; there was no outrage from Republicans when George W. Bush ran up the deficit and expanded government. These people simply do not accept our constitutionally elected leader if he is not Republican. That’s not going to change soon.

Republicans are not interested in working for the good of the country; their interest is in the good of the party.

Bill Clinton was certainly flawed in his personal life. Many politicians are, and the Republican Party was as relentless in its quest to bring him down as they are now with President Barack Obama. The media like to say that both parties are at fault for the hyperpartisanship paralyzing our country: both parties are power-hungry, both parties are hypocritical. But there was no equivalent effort to delegitimize a presidency by Democrats — even with Bush, whom history will surely show presided over the events that brought our country to its knees.

I’m not saying Democrats are blameless, but I’m sick of seeing the national media showing their supposed lack of bias by equating the actions of the two parties. It’s clear Republicans will say and do just about anything to gain power and keep it.

The scale of their actions to obstruct Congress and undermine the presidency is unprecedented in my lifetime and has absolutely no equivalent on the Democratic side.

DIANE GARCIA, Houston

10 Signs your loved ones may be a member of the Cult of Ron Paul

nospam@example.com (Rack Jite) — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 06:37:00 -0700

10 Signs your loved ones may be a member of the Cult of Ron Paul

1) Have they no concern for others, society or even the planet itself?

2) Do they include one of the words "I, me, my, mine" at least twice in every sentence?

3) Do you hear the words "statist" and "statism" when they speak?

4) Have they reduced the Bill of Rights - the first 10 amendments to the Constitution - from ten to two: The Second and the Tenth?

5) Do you ever hear them say "States' Rights yesterday! States' Rights today! States' Rights forever!?"

6) Did they spend most of their youth shut in their bedrooms sitting on empty boxes of Clearasil in front of a computer?

7) Are they loners with few friends to speak of?

8) Do they fair poorly with the opposite sex?

9) Are they overweight, single and sport a full beard?

10) Are they over 30 and still living at home?

If so, dial 911 and ask for help. For a loser is a terrible thing to mind.

GRAPHIC: Reducing the deficit for Dummies

nospam@example.com (Rack Jite) — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 06:22:08 -0700

The Mammoth in the room of American politics is of course taxes. They have to be lowered every day. Jesus has removed the specter of death which leaves us with only the one real problem, having to pay taxes which may benefit the KINDS of people we don't like.

A recent TIME MAGAZINE did a long spread on how to deal with the deficit. Though very long, very complicated and very boring there is something in it, unintended or not, that makes this all seem less complicated than it really is. How to Tame the Budget Deficit. Especially when one studies the graphic which accompanied the article below.

First off we must remove the flat out lies the Republicans tell about taxes. Sure it is expected that they lie on Fox News and AM radio, but far too many of these lies come from the Well of Congress claiming our tax rate is over 50% or that we work until September for Uncle Sam and that we are the most taxed nation on Earth.

Well those are all LIES told by Republicans who are LIARS. Our tax rate, whether it's crunched from GDP or what you and I actually pay, averages out to about 30%. All kinds of taxes. all added together. This even includes Social Security and Medicare. We can all easily do the math each April and see this is the case. We all know it, even those who lie about it.

We are also the LEAST taxed nation on Earth not the MOST taxes.

In Europe - which Republicans not only discount but despise - the average tax rates are bout 40% of GDP. This includes Japan, Australia, New Zealand... So it's not just Europe, it could be said the 40% tax rate is what civilized societies pay.

What do these civilized nations get for that extra 10%? They have better education systems, affordable health care for all and no wars draining their coffers. But most importantly, UNLIKE AMERICA, they have a contract with each other that draws a line to keep tens of millions of their people from falling into abject hopelessness that causes family failure, violence, overflowing punishment prisons and the need to have a couple guns just to go out at night. From free market barbarianism to free market civilization with just an extra 10% paid in taxes.

So we could easily solve all our problems, deficit, health care, social security, education and crime by just finding a way to raise taxes 10% with the least pain.

Okay? Got myself rolling on the floor here in the United States of DON'T TREAD ON MY MONEY/PROPERTY. Though it is all fine and well to tread on due process, search and seizure, reading our email, looking up our butts, listening to our phone calls, denying Miranda [Republicans especially hate that Miranda crap hey?] Wow!

LIVE FREE OF TAXATION OR DIE!

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Seattle 911, Teabagging Tossers take violent turn lobbing wet teabags

nospam@example.com (Newscat) — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 05:50:00 -0700

Police Blog, Seattle: A particularly violent and unique strain of teabagger has emerged. It is impossible to discern whether a connection to the pseudo political Tea Party, Teabagging group led by such luminaries as Sarah Palin, Rush Limbaugh, and Glenn Beck exists, or these 'baggers are simply hooligans, acting independently, possibly under the influence of Teabag Crack. Both the former and latter are known to cause hostile dementia, unthinking actions, and bullying.

Just the facts ma'am. Victim waiting for bus, a hellish experience in and of itself, when the perpetrators began lobbing a barrage of teabags at him from across the street. The victim foolishly threatened to call police on his cell. We all know police should be on speed dial, and never to threaten a bully. Enraged 21-yr-old, teabag slinger, Liam Raymond O'Bryan (who should have more respect for teabags), then charged across the street to administer a beating, before strolling off with the purloined cell phone.

Police picked up O'Bryan, and the two others, one of whom claimed he had taken O'Bryan's jacket "in order to change O'Bryan's appearance." The teabag strings hanging from the pockets might have been a dead give away....I'm just guessing. Held on $35,000 and $50,000 bail, if they don't use the grey matter to formulate a better story in response to the question "What are ya in for kid" than "I threw teabags", and "I held his jacket" they'll be more popular than the prettiest girls in a Russian Bride catalog. Seattle 911, Teabagging Tossers take violent turn,lobbing wet teabags

Idaho Baptist Child Trafficker Laura Silsby declares GOD IS GOOD

nospam@example.com (Rack Jite) — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 07:42:00 -0700

"I am trusting God to reveal all truth and that we will be released and exonerated of charges... God is good." Laura Silsby.

As you may have noticed, Laura Silsby's trouble can only get worse as she has called on God with a substandard "good" rather than "Great". Not even a capital letter "good"! Let's face it, a "good" God doesn't do Great things, while a Great God wins Super Bowls and helps blow the crap of thousands of people. What was she thinking? Gosh... Duh... Laura Silsby Child Trafficking

Initially this story was presented as a matter of good Christian intentions foiled by Voodoo red tape. Big Government is very bad you know.

To recap, Laura Silsby along with 8 other members for the Central Valley Baptist Church in Meridian, Idaho are being held in jail by Haitian officials for trafficking in children.

Up front we find two elephants in the room. Not only are we dealing with Baptists but Idaho as well. Neither of which bodes well for rationality or any resulting common good.

As we learned more over time we found that Ms Silsby is a rather loose cannon within the Central Valley Baptist Church who took this mission upon herself. She is also a small time crook with 14 lawsuits pending against her from unpaid employees and businesses, also half a dozen low end criminal charges usually reserved for Blacks and Mexicans [no car insurance and registration]. In Idaho there are more retired cops who were thrown off police forces around the nation for racism than there are either Blacks or Mexicans.

We also learned that the 33 children were picked up by sight and loaded into vans without any paperwork or if indeed they were indeed orphans. Some are known to have parents.

The kicker here is not only that every international help organization says the people were wrong and stupid for this, but that recently divorced Silsby is in deep financial trouble, deep legal trouble and just had her $350,000 home foreclosed on by the bank just a little over a month ago. While... While Haitian authorities are well aware that this very kind of child trafficking goes on all the time and brings in about $10,000 profit per child. Idaho Statesman on Laura Silsby

$10k times 33 equals $330,000.

ACORN, James O'Keefe and Hannah Giles for Dummies

nospam@example.com (Rack Jite) — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 07:34:15 -0700

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

Fox News Sunday Power Player of the Week James O'Keefe - 3 minutes

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.

Czar of Czars, Drug Czar William Bennett

nospam@example.com (Rack Jite) — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 07:27:48 -0700

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.
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Afghanistan Deja Vu, Russia's Vietnam, Signe

nospam@example.com (Rack Jite) — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 08:41:54 -0700

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.

Countdown of Political Losers of 2008, Libertarian Party and Cato Institute, 9th

nospam@example.com (Rack Jite) — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 07:46:43 -0700

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

Countdown of Political Losers of 2008, 10th

nospam@example.com (Rack Jite) — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 08:30:04 -0700

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.

Reverend Rick Warren, How Republicans use Semantics to Become the victims of Intolerance

nospam@example.com (Rack Jite) — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 09:13:03 -0700

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.

Words Mean Things Means Test

nospam@example.com (Rack Jite) — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 10:26:37 -0700

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.

Abortion - Individual Choice

Abortion - State Control

Altruism

Art

Bigotry

The Blues

Callousness

Canning

Classical Music

Help the poor

Help the rich

Civil Rights

Collective bargaining

Compassion

Conservation

Country Western

Corporal Punishment

Creationism

Dogma

Environment

Equal Rights

Evolution

Exclusion

Execution

Freedom from Religion

Guns

Hate Radio

Hillbillies

Hitting

Homophobia

Human Rights

Humor

Inclusion

Intolerance

Jazz

Jingoism

Journalism

Law and Order

Literature

Mercy

Militarism

Movies

Nationalism

Pacifism

Peace

Possum Stew

Pre emptive War

Reason

Rock & Roll

Racism

Science

Sculpture

Selfishness

Sexual Freedom

Sexual prohibition

Slapping

Shooting

State Religion

Teaching

Theater

Tolerance

Universities

Violence

War mongering

War

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.

777 Bailout for Dummies

nospam@example.com (Rack Jite) — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 06:36:37 -0700

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.