GOP presidential hopefuls push moral code at Iowa forum
desmoinesregister.comFive Republican presidential prospects Monday professed before an influential audience of Iowa evangelical conservatives how religious faith ought to blend with public life.
But some of the five potential candidates who spoke to the Iowa Faith & Freedom Coalition’s spring kickoff event in Waukee balanced their calls for a more conservative moral code with appeals for unity across the conservative spectrum in trying to solve the nation’s vexing economic problems.
fuck. really? already?
everyone prepare themselves for 20 months of wealthy politicians giving jesus-fueled hand-jobs to “values voters” whilst raping their pocketbooks and stepping on the necks of their future children.
BUT I VOTE SOLELY ON ABORTION AND GAY MARRIAGE CAUSE I READ THE BIBLE! yeah? FUCK YOU.
Myths And Facts About Coal
mediamatters.orgMore on coal from MediaMatters.
Conservative media have claimed that the Obama administration is waging a “war” on “cheap,” “clean” coal that will cause blackouts and massive layoffs. In fact, the Obama administration has simply implemented long overdue and legally required clean air regulations to protect public health without hurting electric reliability or employment, and much of the transition away from coal is due to the rise of cheaper, cleaner natural gas.
It kind of annoys me that Willard Mitt Romney is running for the highest political office and people are talking about his job in business as if he wasn’t in political office. The man was a governor. If you want the voters to know how he’ll govern, there’s a record we can look at. Can we have that discussion? Smh.
The past is full of lessons we'll never learn, the future is bleak, and the present is rotten.
Politics have gotten so out of control in this country. The more I pay attention, the more I’m likely to have a heart attack. Getting angry about things I cannot control is beyond stressful, so I’m respectfully resigning my interest in politics. Although I cannot avoid the news, I’m no longer actively seeking it out and am doing my best to ignore even article headlines.
This country has become a mockery of itself, an unprecedented American charade that willingly digs the hole deeper for insanely disgusting reasons. Getting intensely upset on a daily basis changes nothing except ensuring an increased negative impact on my well-being. And let’s be honest, there isn’t much to NOT get upset about anymore. The past is full of lessons we’ll never learn, the future is bleak, and the present is rotten.
I’ve spent eight years of my life under the spell of a nonstop obsession with national politics, and all I got was this lousy personality complex.
Oh, and PS: I take no sides. I hate the GOP and Democratic politicians equally. They’re all selfish corporate tools with no concept of national self-preservation. Picking one over the other is like choosing a homeopathic cure for cancer — dangerously pointless.
Petition to Stop Obama from Taking Away Farmers' Rights to Not Grow GMO
action.fooddemocracynow.orgSection 735, currently included in HR 933… this provision is simply an industry ploy to continue to sell genetically engineered (GMO) seeds even when a court of law has found they were approved by USDA illegally. It is unnecessary and an unprecedented attack on U.S. judicial review. Congress should not be meddling with the judicial review process based solely on the special interest of a handful of companies.
Barack Obama's Had a Pretty Damn Good Presidency
motherjones.com1. Passed Health Care Reform
2. Passed the Stimulus
3. Passed Wall Street Reform
4. Ended the War in Iraq
6. Eliminated Osama bin Laden
7. Turned Around US Auto Industry
9. Repealed “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”
12. Reversed Bush Torture Policies
14. Kicked Banks Out of Federal Student Loan Program
16. Boosted Fuel Efficiency Standards
18. Passed Mini Stimuli (July 22, 2010; December 17, 2010; December 23, 2011)
22. Created Conditions to Begin Closing Dirtiest Power Plants
27. Achieved New START Treaty
Overstepping the Boundaries Protest
Originally posted on 8-16-2009
A famous Bollywood star gets held up at an airport in the US and some Indians are burning American flags but not yet Barack Obama in effigy……. film, at 11!
My dearest people of India,
Protest, but please allow for some wiggle room.
Sometimes I wish Americans would go of like some of the people of India did when Shah Ruhk Khan, one of the most popular Bollywood actors ever was held up for a short spell in an airport because his last name was Khan. In fact he was in the US promoting his new film that addresses the very issue of racial profiling Muslims.
It is not American paranoia. It will continue to be a genuine fear until someone can get a handle on how we can keep all passengers on American flights safe after 9/11.
*For those of you who are conspiracy theorists out there, I feel your pain. perhaps 9/11 was constructed by the American government, but I digress… *
There will never be a win in the war on terror until we all learn to accept that our own nations are not at the center of the universe. Until we do that, we cannot even begin to think that we can allow everyone to ride willy nilly on our friendly skies.
American superstars have fans and critics, but you serve your fans because that is what you do when you are a mega superstar and they fill your bags with gold. Madonna sang on a holy day in Poland. Hell, it was her birthday. I haven’t seen any news clippings or stories with Polish people burning cone bras and American flags yet.
What was said about Mr. Khan’s detainment was “Khan later downplayed the incident. “I think it’s a procedure that needs to be followed, but an unfortunate procedure,” he told reporters Saturday in suburban Chicago.
It is unfortunate but for the time, a safer one than allowing airliners to be flown into the Twin Towers. Two empty planes at that. WTF??????? If Mr. Khan was killed in a terrorist attack - domestic or foreign - they would have been outraged by our lack of security and lax security measures.
Can’t win for losing…
*Ahem, sorry conspiracy theorists, I will have to soon write a 9/11 conspiracy blog but we are talking about Shah Ruhk Khan one of the greatest actors in the WORLD if you are in India or Pakistan*. Two countries who can’t even share a toilet, let alone governmental policies.*
Riiiiiiiight! not everyone knows about Bollywood, but for those of us who do here in America, we were not outraged because we do not look up to him as near god.
Here in America, many of us tear down our super stars and dig into their private lives like pigs at a trough. We want to see them fail. Is that so that we can say we don’t idolize our stars like India does?
We will not be able to empathize with the Indian public and their outrage a the 30 minute detainment until we learn to hate America.
* yes conspiracy theorists, we might be getting there, but it is going to take some time.*
So pop in your newest Bollywood film or go dig up “Veer Zaara” and enjoy what irritating national security allows us to have.
Goddess
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Need to speak up!
I’ve never been one to be loud and overtly political, but given what I see around me, it’s time to find a way to express my thoughts on what I see going on at both the local, state and national levels.
I am truly concerned about the state of our country and its discourse.
When people are being turned against each other for the sake of narrow interests, when members of our school and community boards cannot trust one another, when our social and cultural institutions are gutted in the name of fiscal responsibility, something is going wrong.
Maybe this is a way to contribute to the discussion.
As California Collapses, Obama Follows Its Lead - The Daily Beast
thedailybeast.comThe increasingly delusional nature of the state’s politics is best captured by the urgent political push to build a fantastically expensive—potentially costing as much as $100 billion—high-speed rail line that would eventually connect the Bay Area, Los Angeles and the largely rural places in between. Obama has aggressively promoted high-speed rail nationally, but has been pushed back by mounting Republican opposition. Yet in one-party California, Jerry Brown mindlessly pushes the project despite the state’s huge structural deficits, soaring pension obligations, and decaying general infrastructure. He’s continued doing so even as the plan loses support among the beleaguered California electorate.
It’s hard to see how these policies, coupled with a massive income tax increase on the so-called rich (families, as well as many small businesses, making over $250,000), can do anything other than widen the state’s already gaping class divide. Yet given the power of Californian ideas over Obama, one can expect more such policies from him in an electorally unencumbered second term. California’s slow-motion tragedy could end up as a national one.
