God help us all,  because if we keep this shit up we are all gonna go to hell.  I am so ashamed to be an American after seeing this.  What the fuck is wrong with these people?  Have they totally lost their minds?  I grew up with too many people around me that carried both the physical and mental scars of the Holocaust.  How dare these people use this as an example.   I would bet my last dollar on the fact that the asshole that made this sign has probably never even been within ten feet of a Jew.  I am so beside myself with anger and contempt right now, that if I were anywhere near that person I would have spit on them.

I blame this on all those narrow minded misanthropic pinheads out there that plant the seeds inside the heads of these crazy hate filled people.  Being against Healthcare is one thing and having the right to protest it is your right as an American, but for God’s sake, why make your point into one so vile as this.

I LOVE NEW YORK !!!

SING IT FRANKIE !!!!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN !!!

How cool is this !

I can just imagine what the likes of Glenn, I am out of my f**cing mind, Beck and Rush, where’s my oxycodin, Limbaugh and Sean, the Manatee, Hannity are going to pull out of their asses about this.

I am so happy that the adults have finally taken back the White House.

Set your DVR’s!

By The People: The Election of Barack Obama

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I have decided to stop watching network and cable news.  I have had my fill of important stories being reported in 5 minute sound bites after some editor has conveniently edited the life out of any particular piece of news on any given day.  So I have taken up a romance with cspan.org.  Yes, cspan.  The roving vacant ever present eye of the cspan camera that just sits there quietly recording history, never giving it’s opinion and never editing out anything.  Just there, taking it all in, in its natural glory.

I have just finished watching the following video of John Kerry, speaking today about his take on Afghanistan in a speech at the Council on Foreign Relations.  The video is long, and yes at times boring, but the beauty lies in the fact that I could sit here casually listening to it, in the background, while playing online solitaire.  I could sit here and take it all in by myself, forming my own educated opinion,  without any bloviating, assinine, over paid and under qualified pundit adding their less than 2 cents worth of opinion.

Kerry’s speech is brilliant and it is well worth the time it takes to watch it, if you are so inclined to do so.  If you are not so inclined at the moment, then do yourself a favor and start checking out cspan everyday just to see what is really happening in the world.

Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) on U.S. Policy in Afghanistan

(The embedding seems to be a bit messed up so if you wish to watch the video just click on the ‘more info’ on the top)

A letter from Michael Moore on what every American can do right now to make a difference.

“Michael Moore’s Action Plan: 15 Things Every American Can Do Right Now”

This post is just a follow up of a discussion that I was having with my dear friend Starshine in the comment section of one of my other posts.  I went looking for more information on this video of  Rep. Alan Grayson, of Florida, ripping  Georgia’s Paul Broun another crack in his butt.

The point of Grayson’s questioning revolves around a legislative act called “Bill of Attainder”.

In the following clip, Rep. Alan Grayson prosecutorially dismantles Georgia’s Paul Broun on an amendment banning ACORN employees from participating in certain government oversight function.  The reason is that it is unconstitutional to single out a certain group or class for special treatment, what the constitution refers to as bills of attainder. The bill is political nonsense, and clearly unconstitutional.  Rep. Broun obviously has no understanding of the constitution, and cannot even come close to competing with Grayson’s deep and abiding knowledge of the constitution and its history.  It’s pretty brutal, and we need to see a lot more of this.

Source: The Daily Banter

As usual, Grayson just goes at this guy with his calm and cunning demeanor, never allowing anyone to make him stray from the point he was trying to make.  This guy is going places.

LET IT RING LOUD AND CLEAR ACROSS THIS GREAT LAND OF OURS !!!

Republicans, you want to help this country? Then STFU and…GRAB A MOP!

Source: Crooks and Liars

Another way of putting it is when, you know, I’m busy and Nancy’s busy with our mop cleaning up somebody else’s mess –- we don’t want somebody sitting back saying, you’re not holding the mop the right way. Why don’t you grab a mop, why don’t you help clean up. You’re not mopping fast enough. That’s a socialist mop. Grab a mop –- let’s get to work.

President Barack Obama at a San Francisco Fund Raiser

…second thoughts from Michael Moore..

I don’t normally like to post a complete post from someone else’s blog, but this piece written by Michale Moore is just so great in it’s purity that I felt I must.  Please read this and pass it on.  Anyone wishing to come here and debate this issue is welcome.  I am in the mood today to fuck with some narrow minded assholes.

Friends,

Last night my wife asked me if I thought I was a little too hard on Obama in my letter yesterday congratulating him on his Nobel Prize. “No, I don’t think so,” I replied. I thought it was important to remind him he’s now conducting the two wars he’s inherited. “Yeah,” she said, “but to tell him, ‘Now earn it!’? Give the guy a break — this is a great day for him and for all of us.”

I went back and re-read what I had written. And I listened for far too long yesterday to the right wing hate machine who did what they could to crap all over Barack’s big day. Did I — and others on the left — do the same?

We are weary, weary of war. The trillions that will have gone to these two wars have helped to bankrupt us as a nation — financially and morally. To think of all the good we could have done with all that money! Two months of the War in Iraq would pay for all the wells that need to be dug in the Third World for drinking water! Obama is moving too slow for most of us — but he needs to know we are with him and we stand beside him as he attempts to turn eight years of sheer madness around. Who could do that in nine months? Superman? Thor? Mitch McConnell?

Instead of waiting to see what the president is going to do, we all need to be pro-active and push the agenda that we want to see enacted. What keeps us from forming the same local groups we put together to get out the vote last November? C’mon! We’re the majority now — the majority by a significant margin! We call the shots — and we need to tell this wimpy Congress to get busy and do what we say — or else.

All I ask of those who voted for Obama is to not pile on him too quickly. Yes, make your voice heard (his phone number is 202-456-1414). But don’t abandon the best hope we’ve had in our lifetime for change. And for God’s sake, don’t head to bummerville if he says or does something we don’t like. Do you ever see Republicans behave that way? I mean, the Right had 20 years of Republican presidents and they still couldn’t get prayer in the public schools, or outlaw abortion, or initiate a flat tax or put our Social Security into the stock market. They did a lot of damage, no doubt about that, but on the key issues that the Christian Right fought for, they came up nearly empty handed. No wonder they’ve been driven crazy lately. They’ll never have it as good again as they’ve had it since Reagan took office.

But — do you ever see them looking all gloomy and defeated? No! They keep on fighting! Every day. Our side? At the first sign of wavering, we just pack up our toys and go home.

So, at least for this weekend, let us celebrate what people elsewhere are celebrating — that America now has a sane and smart man in the White House, a man who truly wants a world at peace for his two daughters.

Many, for the past couple days (yes, myself included), have grumbled, “What has he done to earn this prize?” How ’bout this:

The simple fact that he was elected was reason enough for him to be the recipient of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize.

Because on that day the murderous actions of the Bush/Cheney years were totally and thoroughly rebuked. One man — a man who opposed the War in Iraq from the beginning — offered to end the insanity. The world has stood by in utter horror for the past eight years as they watched the descendants of Washington, Lincoln and Jefferson light the fuse of our own self-destruction. We flipped off the nations on this planet by abandoning Kyoto and then proceeded to melt eight more years worth of the polar ice caps. We invaded two nations that didn’t attack us, failed to find the real terrorists and, in effect, ignited our own wave of terror. People all over the world wondered if we had gone mad.

And if all that wasn’t enough, the outgoing Joker presided over the worst global financial collapse since the Great Depression.

So, yeah, at precisely 11:00pm ET on November 4, 2008, Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize. And the 66 million people who voted for him won it, too. By the time he took the stage at midnight ET in the Grant Park Historic Hippie Battlefield in downtown Chicago, billions of people around the globe were already breathing a huge sigh of relief. It was as if, in that instant, one man did bring the promise of peace to the world — and most were ready to go wherever he wanted to go to achieve that end. Never before had the election of one man made every other nation feel like they had won, too. When you’ve got billions of people ready, willing and able to join a cause like this, well, a prize in Oslo is the least that you deserve.

One other thought. The Peace Prize historically has been given to those who have worked to throw off the yoke of racial discrimination and segregation (Martin Luther King, Jr., Desmond Tutu). I think the Nobel committee, in awarding Obama the prize, was also rewarding the fact that something profound had happened in a nation that was founded on racial genocide, built on racist slavery, and held back for a hundred-plus years by vestiges of hateful bigotry (which can still be found on display at teabagger rallies and daily talk radio). The fact that this one man could cause this seismic historical event to occur — and to do so with such grace and humility, never succumbing to the bait, but still not backing down (yes, he asked to be sworn in as “Barack Hussein Obama”!) — is more than reason enough he should be in Oslo to meet the King on December 10. Maybe he could take us along with him. ‘Cause I also suspect the Nobel committee was tipping its hat to all of us — we, the American people, had conquered some of our racism and did the truly unexpected. After seeing searing images of our black fellow citizens left to drown in New Orleans — and poor whites seeing their own treated no better than the black man they had been raised to hate — we had all seen enough. It was time for change.

Thank you, Barack Obama, for giving us the opportunity to redeem ourselves. Now for the tasks ahead. We need you to do all that you promised to do. We need it. The world needs it.

My prediction for the future? You become the first *two-time* winner of the Nobel Peace Prize! Yeah!

Fred (that’s Norwegian for “Peace”),
Michael Moore