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Week of November 8, 2009 - November 14, 2009

15 slimy, bulling things the republicans would do if they ever got into power again.


Dennis Rahkonen (a Finn) lays it out.
1) Greatly reduce or entirely eliminate taxes on the
rich, thereby forcing hard-pressed working families to
painfully make up resulting revenue shortfalls.
And business, the banks any other tax they did not agree with.


2) Bust labor unions, cruelly preventing the collective
bargaining that's the key reason why US workers ever
won decent wages and benefits.
This is wet dream of republicans for sure.

3) Stubbornly deny the existence of ominous climate
change while blithely pumping more pollutants into the
environment from lucrative, dirty industries and
practices. Although reputable scientists say 350 carbon
parts per atmospheric million is the safe limit for
sustained life on Earth, Republicans dismiss the
frightening fact that we're already at a carbon level
of roughly 390 ppm.

4) Remove "restrictive" regulations on everything from
investment banks and credit card companies to a broad
array of "profit-eroding" consumer protections, leaving
the American masses exposed to a host of resulting
abuses and dangers.
But maintain and add to regulations on those who are not
rich or well connected.

5) Continue to criticize and insufficiently fund public
education, advocating private schooling instead, thus
entirely ignoring that progressive public systems are
used in every country that has education outcomes
superior to our own.

Besides....only the rich and elite deserve an education.
Not the lower (slave) classes.

6) Outlaw abortion, under a fraudulently moral guise,
compelling the US to bloodily join those benighted,
backward nations where thousands of already-born,
living, breathing, socially functioning females perish
because of sexist denials of their basic reproductive
rights.
Because they firmly believe that women are only good
for having babies and domestic chores.

7) Continue to recite a Pledge of Allegiance whose last
six words are "with liberty and justice for all," while
remaining numbly oblivious to the harsh hypocrisy of
preventing our homosexual citizens from marrying.

8) Speak often and loftily of freedom, but engage in
secret wiretapping, repression of domestic dissent,
neo-McCarthyite witch hunts, Red-baiting name calling,
and a panoply of Patriot Act transgressions against the
Constitution of the United States...all under the
misused rubric of "national security."
Anything THEY do not agree with is of course treason.

9) Show the rest of humankind nothing but bullying
world-cop arrogance through endless US interventions
and aggressions on foreign soil, resulting not just in
countless lives extinguished in indefensible wars, and
billions of badly-needed dollars flushed down the
drain, but constant al Qaeda recruitment against hated
Yankee interlopers.
Or any other country whose resources they desire and whose
beliefs and life style the disagree with.

10) Generally drive down the income levels of America's
working-class majority, as a purported cost-saving
corporate measure, without appreciating that a populace
that's too poor to buy back what society produces is
doomed to economic ruin. A living wage is the ultimate
"stimulus," but try to find even one Republican who
favors it!
We would be forced to buy from these robber baron
corporations and go hopelessly into debt. Just like the
company store in the old mining towns.

11) Continue to lie about the alternative, affordable
health care for all that some fifty world nations'
people overwhelmingly support, thereby
propagandistically leading Americans to think that
having private insurance whose premiums are rising at
rates three times higher than our pay -- and which
routinely denies coverage when it's required most -- is
somehow preferable

Heath care, like education - is only for the deserving rich
elites and upper classes.

12) Unleash de facto ethnic cleansing against 12
million immigrant men, women, and children, making them
contemporary equivalents of the Jewish scapegoats that
Hitler blamed for hardships Germans experienced during
a prior period of capitalist economic distress.
No doubt using some of Hitlers own techniques.

13) Shamefully try to lend credence to their avarice
and social irresponsibility by revising the Bible to
obscure passages that place human need before abject
greed, attempting to turn it into a facilitating guide
for modern peers of the temple moneychangers whose
tables Jesus angrily knocked to the floor (and who
undoubtedly wouldn't be mentioned in the amended
version that one conservative group is actually,
amazingly trying to put into circulation).
They already want to rewrite the bible removing those
passages they find uncomfortable and inconvenient.

14) Give full vent to the intensely bigoted hatred that
has crazed extremists dreaming of literally tearing
Barack Obama to pieces and gassing all liberals...if
only they could.
And believe me they most assuredly would.

15) Place the livelihoods and lives of over 300 million
Americans in the hands of incompetent ideological
"purists" such as Sarah Palin.
Or some other religious wacko extremist.

C

Suspicion.........





We as a country...as a culture...have become more and more suspicious of
each other and each others motives. Oh we have always had our biases
and prejudices.

We formed various caricatures of each other and other groups.  I use the term
caricature because the images we hold go far beyond stereotype and often
bear little resemblance to reality. For a long time we saw African Americans
as a cross between Amos and Andy and Bill "Bojangles" Robinson with a bit
of Allen "Farina" Hoskins  thrown in.  All Native Americans were seen as
Tonto or something out of a Buffalo Bill Wild West Show.

Italian Americans as Mob Bosses who owned restaurants and Irish Americans
as either NYC Cops or Priests (and sometimes both). You get the picture.

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And the same for those who are poor or badly off. 


And we make judgments based on these "pictures" that we have. Like the Black
who appears well off has to be scamming the system or the family that is down
on their luck that dresses "too nice".

And since 9/11 anyone with dark skin who dresses "differently" or has an unusual
name...must be a terrorist or in league with them. 

Anyone who does not fit the caricature we have picked out - we have become
increasingly suspicious of. I know because it happens to me as well. I have seen
families sitting on the side of the road or parking lot - holding a cardboard sign
asking for help.

But they seemed dressed a little too nice. Not like the photo above. So I
immediately wonder...are they really that badly off or are they taking advantage
of the current situation.

Such is the times we live in. And so it goes.....



So the House Health Care bill passed...


Now what the hell to do about Jackass Joe Lieberman ?
I can think of a couple of things, unfortunately they are
all illegal and some are pretty sadistic as well.

C



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