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July 25, 2013
The 217-205 roll call Wednesday by which the House rejected a challenge to the National Security Agency's secret collection of hundreds of millions of Americans' phone records.
A "yes" vote was a vote to halt the NSA program; a "no" vote was a vote to allow the program to continue.
Voting yes were 111 Democrats and 94 Republicans.
Voting no were 83 Democrats and 134 Republicans.
X denotes those not voting.
There is one vacancy in the 435-member House.
ALABAMA
Democrats – Sewell, N.
Republicans – Aderholt, N; Bachus, Y; Bonner, N; Brooks, N; Roby, N; Rogers, N.
ALASKA
Republicans – Young, Y.
ARIZONA
Democrats – Barber, N; Grijalva, Y; Kirkpatrick, N; Pastor, Y; Sinema, N.
Republicans – Franks, N; Gosar, Y; Salmon, Y; Schweikert, Y.
ARKANSAS
Republicans – Cotton, N; Crawford, N; Griffin, Y; Womack, N.
CALIFORNIA
Democrats – Bass, Y; Becerra, Y; Bera, N; Brownley, N; Capps, Y; Cardenas, Y; Chu, Y; Costa, N; Davis, N; Eshoo, Y; Farr, Y; Garamendi, Y; Hahn, Y; Honda, Y; Huffman, Y; Lee, Y; Lofgren, Y; Lowenthal, Y; Matsui, Y; McNerney, N; Miller, George, Y; Napolitano, Y; Negrete McLeod, X; Pelosi, N; Peters, N; Roybal-Allard, Y; Ruiz, N; Sanchez, Linda T., Y; Sanchez, Loretta, Y; Schiff, Y; Sherman, Y; Speier, Y; Swalwell, Y; Takano, Y; Thompson, N; Vargas, N; Waters, Y; Waxman, Y.
Republicans – Calvert, N; Campbell, X; Cook, N; Denham, N; Hunter, N; Issa, N; LaMalfa, Y; McCarthy, N; McClintock, Y; McKeon, N; Miller, Gary, Y; Nunes, N; Rohrabacher, Y; Royce, N; Valadao, N.
COLORADO
Democrats – DeGette, Y; Perlmutter, Y; Polis, Y.
Republicans – Coffman, Y; Gardner, Y; Lamborn, Y; Tipton, Y.
CONNECTICUT
Democrats – Courtney, Y; DeLauro, Y; Esty, N; Himes, N; Larson, Y.
DELAWARE
Democrats – Carney, N.
FLORIDA
Democrats – Brown, N; Castor, N; Deutch, Y; Frankel, N; Garcia, N; Grayson, Y; Hastings, Y; Murphy, N; Wasserman Schultz, N; Wilson, N.
Republicans – Bilirakis, N; Buchanan, Y; Crenshaw, N; DeSantis, Y; Diaz-Balart, N; Mica, Y; Miller, N; Nugent, Y; Posey, Y; Radel, Y; Rooney, N; Ros-Lehtinen, N; Ross, Y; Southerland, Y; Webster, N; Yoho, Y; Young, N.
GEORGIA
Democrats – Barrow, N; Bishop, N; Johnson, N; Lewis, Y; Scott, David, N.
Republicans – Broun, Y; Collins, N; Gingrey, N; Graves, Y; Kingston, Y; Price, Y; Scott, Austin, N; Westmoreland, N; Woodall, N.
HAWAII
Democrats – Gabbard, Y; Hanabusa, N.
IDAHO
Republicans – Labrador, Y; Simpson, N.
ILLINOIS
Democrats – Bustos, X; Davis, Danny, Y; Duckworth, N; Enyart, N; Foster, N; Gutierrez, N; Kelly, N; Lipinski, N; Quigley, N; Rush, Y; Schakowsky, N; Schneider, N.
Republicans – Davis, Rodney, Y; Hultgren, Y; Kinzinger, N; Roskam, N; Schock, X; Shimkus, N.
INDIANA
Democrats – Carson, Y; Visclosky, N.
Republicans – Brooks, N; Bucshon, N; Messer, N; Rokita, X; Stutzman, N; Walorski, N; Young, N.
IOWA
Democrats – Braley, Y; Loebsack, Y.
Republicans – King, N; Latham, N.
KANSAS
Republicans – Huelskamp, Y; Jenkins, Y; Pompeo, N; Yoder, Y.
KENTUCKY
Democrats – Yarmuth, Y.
Republicans – Barr, N; Guthrie, N; Massie, Y; Rogers, N; Whitfield, N.
LOUISIANA
Democrats – Richmond, Y.
Republicans – Alexander, N; Boustany, N; Cassidy, Y; Fleming, Y; Scalise, Y.
MAINE
Democrats – Michaud, Y; Pingree, Y.
MARYLAND
Democrats – Cummings, Y; Delaney, N; Edwards, Y; Hoyer, N; Ruppersberger, N; Sarbanes, Y; Van Hollen, N.
Republicans – Harris, Y.
MASSACHUSETTS
Democrats – Capuano, Y; Keating, Y; Kennedy, N; Lynch, Y; McGovern, Y; Neal, Y; Tierney, Y; Tsongas, Y.
MICHIGAN
Democrats – Conyers, Y; Dingell, Y; Kildee, Y; Levin, N; Peters, N.
Republicans – Amash, Y; Benishek, N; Bentivolio, Y; Camp, N; Huizenga, Y; Miller, N; Rogers, N; Upton, N; Walberg, N.
MINNESOTA
Democrats – Ellison, Y; McCollum, Y; Nolan, Y; Peterson, N; Walz, Y.
Republicans – Bachmann, N; Kline, N; Paulsen, N.
MISSISSIPPI
Democrats – Thompson, Y.
Republicans – Harper, N; Nunnelee, N; Palazzo, N.
MISSOURI
Democrats – Clay, Y; Cleaver, Y.
Republicans – Graves, N; Hartzler, N; Long, N; Luetkemeyer, N; Smith, Y; Wagner, N.
MONTANA
Republicans – Daines, Y.
NEBRASKA
Republicans – Fortenberry, N; Smith, N; Terry, N.
NEVADA
Democrats – Horsford, X; Titus, N.
Republicans – Amodei, Y; Heck, N.
NEW HAMPSHIRE
Democrats – Kuster, N; Shea-Porter, Y.
NEW JERSEY
Democrats – Andrews, N; Holt, Y; Pallone, X; Pascrell, Y; Payne, N; Sires, N.
Republicans – Frelinghuysen, N; Garrett, Y; Lance, N; LoBiondo, N; Runyan, N; Smith, Y.
NEW MEXICO
Democrats – Lujan Grisham, Y; Lujan, Ben Ray, Y.
Republicans – Pearce, Y.
NEW YORK
Democrats – Bishop, N; Clarke, Y; Crowley, Y; Engel, N; Higgins, N; Israel, N; Jeffries, Y; Lowey, N; Maffei, Y; Maloney, Carolyn, Y; Maloney, Sean, N; McCarthy, X; Meeks, N; Meng, N; Nadler, Y; Owens, Y; Rangel, Y; Serrano, Y; Slaughter, N; Tonko, Y; Velazquez, Y.
Republicans – Collins, N; Gibson, Y; Grimm, N; Hanna, N; King, N; Reed, N.
NORTH CAROLINA
Democrats – Butterfield, N; McIntyre, N; Price, N; Watt, Y.
Republicans – Coble, X; Ellmers, N; Foxx, N; Holding, N; Hudson, N; Jones, Y; McHenry, Y; Meadows, Y; Pittenger, N.
NORTH DAKOTA
Republicans – Cramer, Y.
OHIO
Democrats – Beatty, X; Fudge, Y; Kaptur, N; Ryan, N.
Republicans – Boehner, N; Chabot, Y; Gibbs, N; Johnson, Y; Jordan, Y; Joyce, N; Latta, N; Renacci, N; Stivers, N; Tiberi, N; Turner, N; Wenstrup, N.
OKLAHOMA
Republicans – Bridenstine, Y; Cole, N; Lankford, N; Lucas, N; Mullin, Y.
OREGON
Democrats – Blumenauer, Y; Bonamici, Y; DeFazio, Y; Schrader, Y.
Republicans – Walden, N.
PENNSYLVANIA
Democrats – Brady, Y; Cartwright, Y; Doyle, Y; Fattah, Y; Schwartz, N.
Republicans – Barletta, X; Dent, N; Fitzpatrick, Y; Gerlach, N; Kelly, N; Marino, N; Meehan, N; Murphy, N; Perry, Y; Pitts, N; Rothfus, Y; Shuster, N; Thompson, Y.
RHODE ISLAND
Democrats – Cicilline, Y; Langevin, N.
SOUTH CAROLINA
Democrats – Clyburn, Y.
Republicans – Duncan, Y; Gowdy, Y; Mulvaney, Y; Rice, Y; Sanford, Y; Wilson, Y.
SOUTH DAKOTA
Republicans – Noem, N.
TENNESSEE
Democrats – Cohen, Y; Cooper, N.
Republicans – Black, Y; Blackburn, Y; DesJarlais, Y; Duncan, Y; Fincher, Y; Fleischmann, Y; Roe, Y.
TEXAS
Democrats – Castro, N; Cuellar, N; Doggett, Y; Gallego, N; Green, Al, N; Green, Gene, Y; Hinojosa, N; Jackson Lee, N; Johnson, E. B., N; O'Rourke, Y; Veasey, N; Vela, Y.
Republicans – Barton, Y; Brady, N; Burgess, Y; Carter, N; Conaway, N; Culberson, N; Farenthold, Y; Flores, N; Gohmert, Y; Granger, N; Hall, Y; Hensarling, N; Johnson, Sam, N; Marchant, Y; McCaul, N; Neugebauer, N; Olson, N; Poe, Y; Sessions, N; Smith, N; Stockman, Y; Thornberry, N; Weber, Y; Williams, Y.
UTAH
Democrats – Matheson, N.
Republicans – Bishop, Y; Chaffetz, Y; Stewart, Y.
VERMONT
Democrats – Welch, Y.
VIRGINIA
Democrats – Connolly, Y; Moran, Y; Scott, Y.
Republicans – Cantor, N; Forbes, N; Goodlatte, N; Griffith, Y; Hurt, N; Rigell, N; Wittman, N; Wolf, N.
WASHINGTON
Democrats – DelBene, Y; Heck, N; Kilmer, N; Larsen, N; McDermott, Y; Smith, N.
Republicans – Hastings, N; Herrera Beutler, X; McMorris Rodgers, Y; Reichert, N.
WEST VIRGINIA
Democrats – Rahall, Y.
Republicans – Capito, N; McKinley, N.
WISCONSIN
Democrats – Kind, N; Moore, Y; Pocan, Y.
Republicans – Duffy, Y; Petri, Y; Ribble, Y; Ryan, N; Sensenbrenner, Y.
WYOMING
Republicans – Lummis, Y.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/24/amash-amendment-roll-call-vote_n_3648737.html
Majority Of Dems REJECTS NSA, Majority Of GOP SIDES With Obama!
The 217-205 roll call Wednesday by which the House rejected a challenge to the National Security Agency's secret collection of hundreds of millions of Americans' phone records.
A "yes" vote was a vote to halt the NSA program; a "no" vote was a vote to allow the program to continue.
Voting yes were 111 Democrats and 94 Republicans.
Voting no were 83 Democrats and 134 Republicans.
X denotes those not voting.
There is one vacancy in the 435-member House.
ALABAMA
Democrats – Sewell, N.
Republicans – Aderholt, N; Bachus, Y; Bonner, N; Brooks, N; Roby, N; Rogers, N.
ALASKA
Republicans – Young, Y.
ARIZONA
Democrats – Barber, N; Grijalva, Y; Kirkpatrick, N; Pastor, Y; Sinema, N.
Republicans – Franks, N; Gosar, Y; Salmon, Y; Schweikert, Y.
ARKANSAS
Republicans – Cotton, N; Crawford, N; Griffin, Y; Womack, N.
CALIFORNIA
Democrats – Bass, Y; Becerra, Y; Bera, N; Brownley, N; Capps, Y; Cardenas, Y; Chu, Y; Costa, N; Davis, N; Eshoo, Y; Farr, Y; Garamendi, Y; Hahn, Y; Honda, Y; Huffman, Y; Lee, Y; Lofgren, Y; Lowenthal, Y; Matsui, Y; McNerney, N; Miller, George, Y; Napolitano, Y; Negrete McLeod, X; Pelosi, N; Peters, N; Roybal-Allard, Y; Ruiz, N; Sanchez, Linda T., Y; Sanchez, Loretta, Y; Schiff, Y; Sherman, Y; Speier, Y; Swalwell, Y; Takano, Y; Thompson, N; Vargas, N; Waters, Y; Waxman, Y.
Republicans – Calvert, N; Campbell, X; Cook, N; Denham, N; Hunter, N; Issa, N; LaMalfa, Y; McCarthy, N; McClintock, Y; McKeon, N; Miller, Gary, Y; Nunes, N; Rohrabacher, Y; Royce, N; Valadao, N.
COLORADO
Democrats – DeGette, Y; Perlmutter, Y; Polis, Y.
Republicans – Coffman, Y; Gardner, Y; Lamborn, Y; Tipton, Y.
CONNECTICUT
Democrats – Courtney, Y; DeLauro, Y; Esty, N; Himes, N; Larson, Y.
DELAWARE
Democrats – Carney, N.
FLORIDA
Democrats – Brown, N; Castor, N; Deutch, Y; Frankel, N; Garcia, N; Grayson, Y; Hastings, Y; Murphy, N; Wasserman Schultz, N; Wilson, N.
Republicans – Bilirakis, N; Buchanan, Y; Crenshaw, N; DeSantis, Y; Diaz-Balart, N; Mica, Y; Miller, N; Nugent, Y; Posey, Y; Radel, Y; Rooney, N; Ros-Lehtinen, N; Ross, Y; Southerland, Y; Webster, N; Yoho, Y; Young, N.
GEORGIA
Democrats – Barrow, N; Bishop, N; Johnson, N; Lewis, Y; Scott, David, N.
Republicans – Broun, Y; Collins, N; Gingrey, N; Graves, Y; Kingston, Y; Price, Y; Scott, Austin, N; Westmoreland, N; Woodall, N.
HAWAII
Democrats – Gabbard, Y; Hanabusa, N.
IDAHO
Republicans – Labrador, Y; Simpson, N.
ILLINOIS
Democrats – Bustos, X; Davis, Danny, Y; Duckworth, N; Enyart, N; Foster, N; Gutierrez, N; Kelly, N; Lipinski, N; Quigley, N; Rush, Y; Schakowsky, N; Schneider, N.
Republicans – Davis, Rodney, Y; Hultgren, Y; Kinzinger, N; Roskam, N; Schock, X; Shimkus, N.
INDIANA
Democrats – Carson, Y; Visclosky, N.
Republicans – Brooks, N; Bucshon, N; Messer, N; Rokita, X; Stutzman, N; Walorski, N; Young, N.
IOWA
Democrats – Braley, Y; Loebsack, Y.
Republicans – King, N; Latham, N.
KANSAS
Republicans – Huelskamp, Y; Jenkins, Y; Pompeo, N; Yoder, Y.
KENTUCKY
Democrats – Yarmuth, Y.
Republicans – Barr, N; Guthrie, N; Massie, Y; Rogers, N; Whitfield, N.
LOUISIANA
Democrats – Richmond, Y.
Republicans – Alexander, N; Boustany, N; Cassidy, Y; Fleming, Y; Scalise, Y.
MAINE
Democrats – Michaud, Y; Pingree, Y.
MARYLAND
Democrats – Cummings, Y; Delaney, N; Edwards, Y; Hoyer, N; Ruppersberger, N; Sarbanes, Y; Van Hollen, N.
Republicans – Harris, Y.
MASSACHUSETTS
Democrats – Capuano, Y; Keating, Y; Kennedy, N; Lynch, Y; McGovern, Y; Neal, Y; Tierney, Y; Tsongas, Y.
MICHIGAN
Democrats – Conyers, Y; Dingell, Y; Kildee, Y; Levin, N; Peters, N.
Republicans – Amash, Y; Benishek, N; Bentivolio, Y; Camp, N; Huizenga, Y; Miller, N; Rogers, N; Upton, N; Walberg, N.
MINNESOTA
Democrats – Ellison, Y; McCollum, Y; Nolan, Y; Peterson, N; Walz, Y.
Republicans – Bachmann, N; Kline, N; Paulsen, N.
MISSISSIPPI
Democrats – Thompson, Y.
Republicans – Harper, N; Nunnelee, N; Palazzo, N.
MISSOURI
Democrats – Clay, Y; Cleaver, Y.
Republicans – Graves, N; Hartzler, N; Long, N; Luetkemeyer, N; Smith, Y; Wagner, N.
MONTANA
Republicans – Daines, Y.
NEBRASKA
Republicans – Fortenberry, N; Smith, N; Terry, N.
NEVADA
Democrats – Horsford, X; Titus, N.
Republicans – Amodei, Y; Heck, N.
NEW HAMPSHIRE
Democrats – Kuster, N; Shea-Porter, Y.
NEW JERSEY
Democrats – Andrews, N; Holt, Y; Pallone, X; Pascrell, Y; Payne, N; Sires, N.
Republicans – Frelinghuysen, N; Garrett, Y; Lance, N; LoBiondo, N; Runyan, N; Smith, Y.
NEW MEXICO
Democrats – Lujan Grisham, Y; Lujan, Ben Ray, Y.
Republicans – Pearce, Y.
NEW YORK
Democrats – Bishop, N; Clarke, Y; Crowley, Y; Engel, N; Higgins, N; Israel, N; Jeffries, Y; Lowey, N; Maffei, Y; Maloney, Carolyn, Y; Maloney, Sean, N; McCarthy, X; Meeks, N; Meng, N; Nadler, Y; Owens, Y; Rangel, Y; Serrano, Y; Slaughter, N; Tonko, Y; Velazquez, Y.
Republicans – Collins, N; Gibson, Y; Grimm, N; Hanna, N; King, N; Reed, N.
NORTH CAROLINA
Democrats – Butterfield, N; McIntyre, N; Price, N; Watt, Y.
Republicans – Coble, X; Ellmers, N; Foxx, N; Holding, N; Hudson, N; Jones, Y; McHenry, Y; Meadows, Y; Pittenger, N.
NORTH DAKOTA
Republicans – Cramer, Y.
OHIO
Democrats – Beatty, X; Fudge, Y; Kaptur, N; Ryan, N.
Republicans – Boehner, N; Chabot, Y; Gibbs, N; Johnson, Y; Jordan, Y; Joyce, N; Latta, N; Renacci, N; Stivers, N; Tiberi, N; Turner, N; Wenstrup, N.
OKLAHOMA
Republicans – Bridenstine, Y; Cole, N; Lankford, N; Lucas, N; Mullin, Y.
OREGON
Democrats – Blumenauer, Y; Bonamici, Y; DeFazio, Y; Schrader, Y.
Republicans – Walden, N.
PENNSYLVANIA
Democrats – Brady, Y; Cartwright, Y; Doyle, Y; Fattah, Y; Schwartz, N.
Republicans – Barletta, X; Dent, N; Fitzpatrick, Y; Gerlach, N; Kelly, N; Marino, N; Meehan, N; Murphy, N; Perry, Y; Pitts, N; Rothfus, Y; Shuster, N; Thompson, Y.
RHODE ISLAND
Democrats – Cicilline, Y; Langevin, N.
SOUTH CAROLINA
Democrats – Clyburn, Y.
Republicans – Duncan, Y; Gowdy, Y; Mulvaney, Y; Rice, Y; Sanford, Y; Wilson, Y.
SOUTH DAKOTA
Republicans – Noem, N.
TENNESSEE
Democrats – Cohen, Y; Cooper, N.
Republicans – Black, Y; Blackburn, Y; DesJarlais, Y; Duncan, Y; Fincher, Y; Fleischmann, Y; Roe, Y.
TEXAS
Democrats – Castro, N; Cuellar, N; Doggett, Y; Gallego, N; Green, Al, N; Green, Gene, Y; Hinojosa, N; Jackson Lee, N; Johnson, E. B., N; O'Rourke, Y; Veasey, N; Vela, Y.
Republicans – Barton, Y; Brady, N; Burgess, Y; Carter, N; Conaway, N; Culberson, N; Farenthold, Y; Flores, N; Gohmert, Y; Granger, N; Hall, Y; Hensarling, N; Johnson, Sam, N; Marchant, Y; McCaul, N; Neugebauer, N; Olson, N; Poe, Y; Sessions, N; Smith, N; Stockman, Y; Thornberry, N; Weber, Y; Williams, Y.
UTAH
Democrats – Matheson, N.
Republicans – Bishop, Y; Chaffetz, Y; Stewart, Y.
VERMONT
Democrats – Welch, Y.
VIRGINIA
Democrats – Connolly, Y; Moran, Y; Scott, Y.
Republicans – Cantor, N; Forbes, N; Goodlatte, N; Griffith, Y; Hurt, N; Rigell, N; Wittman, N; Wolf, N.
WASHINGTON
Democrats – DelBene, Y; Heck, N; Kilmer, N; Larsen, N; McDermott, Y; Smith, N.
Republicans – Hastings, N; Herrera Beutler, X; McMorris Rodgers, Y; Reichert, N.
WEST VIRGINIA
Democrats – Rahall, Y.
Republicans – Capito, N; McKinley, N.
WISCONSIN
Democrats – Kind, N; Moore, Y; Pocan, Y.
Republicans – Duffy, Y; Petri, Y; Ribble, Y; Ryan, N; Sensenbrenner, Y.
WYOMING
Republicans – Lummis, Y.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/24/amash-amendment-roll-call-vote_n_3648737.html
July 24, 2013
Nate Silver, the polling analysis genius who predicted the 2012 presidential race outcome in every one of the 50 states is saying there's a good chance the Republicans will take control of the senate in the 2014 elections. Even if he's wrong the other wing of the corporatist party, the Democrats, will win, by retaining right wing faux democrats like Mary Landrieu. But she's really the tip of the iceberg. MOST of the Democrats are more right wing, more supporting of plutocrats and banksters, than Republicans from 40 or 50 years ago. It's not surprising that a new poll is showing congress's reputation is the lowest ever, and that a full 57% of voters would like to see all members of congress replaced. Analysis shows that the exception is members of the Tea Party.
Bottom line, we're going to hell next year. Bottom line, that's not quite true. We're already there. For far too long, I've been writing a novel about a crew that finds a back door into heaven. In my version of heaven, heaven and hell are intermingled. The people who deserve to be in heaven can see the doors, the entrances that take them to the parts that are hell. The people who deserve hell can't tell the difference. I guess, if you take that idea and apply it to politics, there are a lot of liberals out there who can't tell the difference, who still see Obama as the lesser of two evils. Well, that's the road to hell. So is support of any politician who's indebted to big corporations, be they banks, military suppliers, Monsanto, prison, police or big Pharma, Agra or Healthcare.
It may surprise you that I am not too upset about the possibility that the Republicans may win the senate. For one thing, if they do, they will, within a year, because they will be controlled by the neandtardthals in the tea party, piss off even more Americans and help insure that a right winger does not win the White House. That would include right winger Hillary Clinton. Another reason, but along the same lines, is that we will see the entire congress stop taking care of America. With alcoholics, they sometimes have to hit rock bottom-- visualize a drooling, vomit covered man lying in the gutter. Now visualize a drooling America, kicked, beaten and lying in the gutter-- by the sleazy prostitute politicians who put her there. Try the image with Lady liberty-- might as well throw in imagery of her raped and pregnant too.
I've written a series of articles about sociopaths, which expanded to include cluster B personality disorders-- basically also including narcissists and border line personality disorders. That series has advocated for a massive surge in funding to identify these people and identify strategies that prevent them from hurting others and hurting our world. Critics have raised concerns that this could turn into a witch hunt or could look like the world described in the movie, Majority Report. I believe that things are, in many ways, worse that Majority Report, almost as bad as Orwell's 1984. We're seeing new levels of horror as Detroit reels into bankruptcy, after already being taken over by the state-- a government take-over-- in a state run by a Republican. We need to wake up. The psychopaths, sociopaths, narcissists and border-lines that make up 3-8% of the population are a plague upon humanity. Our election system has made it possible for them, or people who allow themselves to be totally manipulated by them to control congress. Let's be clear. Psychopaths are extremely charismatic and likeable. They attract vulnerable people to them like sh*t attracts flies. When I interviewed the first sociopath to write a memoir, she suggested that Obama may be a sociopath. Remember, the smartest sociopaths don't go to jail. They don't get caught. They run companies. They get elected. Then they break laws with impunity, as Glenn Greenwald describes in his book, With Liberty and Justice for Some: How the Law Is Used to Destroy Equality and Protect the Powerful.
Greenwald doesn't talk about Sociopaths. He talks about how there are two sets of laws.
cont'
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Hell-Has-Arrived-With-the-by-Rob-Kall-130724-372.html
HELL HAS ARRIVED, With the Help of Sociopaths and the Eleven Percent
Nate Silver, the polling analysis genius who predicted the 2012 presidential race outcome in every one of the 50 states is saying there's a good chance the Republicans will take control of the senate in the 2014 elections. Even if he's wrong the other wing of the corporatist party, the Democrats, will win, by retaining right wing faux democrats like Mary Landrieu. But she's really the tip of the iceberg. MOST of the Democrats are more right wing, more supporting of plutocrats and banksters, than Republicans from 40 or 50 years ago. It's not surprising that a new poll is showing congress's reputation is the lowest ever, and that a full 57% of voters would like to see all members of congress replaced. Analysis shows that the exception is members of the Tea Party.
Bottom line, we're going to hell next year. Bottom line, that's not quite true. We're already there. For far too long, I've been writing a novel about a crew that finds a back door into heaven. In my version of heaven, heaven and hell are intermingled. The people who deserve to be in heaven can see the doors, the entrances that take them to the parts that are hell. The people who deserve hell can't tell the difference. I guess, if you take that idea and apply it to politics, there are a lot of liberals out there who can't tell the difference, who still see Obama as the lesser of two evils. Well, that's the road to hell. So is support of any politician who's indebted to big corporations, be they banks, military suppliers, Monsanto, prison, police or big Pharma, Agra or Healthcare.
It may surprise you that I am not too upset about the possibility that the Republicans may win the senate. For one thing, if they do, they will, within a year, because they will be controlled by the neandtardthals in the tea party, piss off even more Americans and help insure that a right winger does not win the White House. That would include right winger Hillary Clinton. Another reason, but along the same lines, is that we will see the entire congress stop taking care of America. With alcoholics, they sometimes have to hit rock bottom-- visualize a drooling, vomit covered man lying in the gutter. Now visualize a drooling America, kicked, beaten and lying in the gutter-- by the sleazy prostitute politicians who put her there. Try the image with Lady liberty-- might as well throw in imagery of her raped and pregnant too.
I've written a series of articles about sociopaths, which expanded to include cluster B personality disorders-- basically also including narcissists and border line personality disorders. That series has advocated for a massive surge in funding to identify these people and identify strategies that prevent them from hurting others and hurting our world. Critics have raised concerns that this could turn into a witch hunt or could look like the world described in the movie, Majority Report. I believe that things are, in many ways, worse that Majority Report, almost as bad as Orwell's 1984. We're seeing new levels of horror as Detroit reels into bankruptcy, after already being taken over by the state-- a government take-over-- in a state run by a Republican. We need to wake up. The psychopaths, sociopaths, narcissists and border-lines that make up 3-8% of the population are a plague upon humanity. Our election system has made it possible for them, or people who allow themselves to be totally manipulated by them to control congress. Let's be clear. Psychopaths are extremely charismatic and likeable. They attract vulnerable people to them like sh*t attracts flies. When I interviewed the first sociopath to write a memoir, she suggested that Obama may be a sociopath. Remember, the smartest sociopaths don't go to jail. They don't get caught. They run companies. They get elected. Then they break laws with impunity, as Glenn Greenwald describes in his book, With Liberty and Justice for Some: How the Law Is Used to Destroy Equality and Protect the Powerful.
Greenwald doesn't talk about Sociopaths. He talks about how there are two sets of laws.
cont'
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Hell-Has-Arrived-With-the-by-Rob-Kall-130724-372.html
July 24, 2013
DailyKos:
The victory represented by the election of Barack Obama was also a tragedy, as it turns out. The sellout was predictable, perhaps inevitable but was surprising in its swiftness and completeness. From day one it was clear that we'd been had. The 1% neocon/neoliberal cabal wasted no time asserting itself through their new spokesperson. President Obama, as presidents do, made his loyalty to the empire evident. Overnight, it seems, proud revolutionaries, dissidents and radicals (not all of them of course) became simpering sycophants who suddenly couldn't find anything wrong with the system they once claimed to oppose.
As an anti-racist for all of my adult life and then some, I know about white privilege. I've written about it myself. I've observed it, experienced it and benefited unfairly from it. It's existence is beyond question and it is certainly an important matter that deserves our full attention as a society. Racism is wrong. All forms of racism are wrong. But for white privilege to be used as an argument against criticizing government surveillance is absurd. Not only is it absurd, it's underhanded. Black people have been historically abused by government so now for white people to complain about government abuses is white privilege. As if historical abuses get grandfathered in. They are to be endured without complaint. Not resisted, overturned or changed. Just STFU and take your medicine. It's illogical, inaccurate, harmful and self-destructive. It's a new way of tainting critics of the Obama administration with the charge of racism.
People fight dirty when they can't win a fair fight. Don't like what I write but can't refute a word of it? Accuse me of calling people Nazis and hope some ignorant fools believe it. Can't defend the shameful misconduct of our government but can't bear for it to be criticized? Call critics racists, accuse them of wallowing in white privilege, and hope some ignorant fools believe it. Some critics of Obama are racists, especially on the right, and racist criticism of Obama bothers me as much as it does anyone. We've all seen it and it's been shameful. As a nation, we should be ashamed. Racism is for idiots and assholes. I live for the day when racism no longer plagues us. But labeling non-racist critics as racist is as wrong as racism itself.
There is a larger problem with privilege in this society. It's what Barack Obama sold us out to. Privilege is privilege and real privilege, the kind that permeates our government and the halls of power in Washington DC, is not based on color, it's based on class/wealth/power. The privilege of the big checkbook crowd, the privilege of the 1%. That's the privilege we should all be united in railing against – not protecting. Dividing us like this is how they win. If a black man in the oval office is all it took to take the revolution out of your soul, you were never much of a revolutionary to begin with. It's almost a certainty that I will be called racist for writing this by people who oppose my criticism and dissent and who don't mind being wildly inaccurate and utterly dishonest. Don't you believe it.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/07/20/1225166/-No-place-for-principled-lefties
NO PLACE For Principled Lefties
DailyKos:
The victory represented by the election of Barack Obama was also a tragedy, as it turns out. The sellout was predictable, perhaps inevitable but was surprising in its swiftness and completeness. From day one it was clear that we'd been had. The 1% neocon/neoliberal cabal wasted no time asserting itself through their new spokesperson. President Obama, as presidents do, made his loyalty to the empire evident. Overnight, it seems, proud revolutionaries, dissidents and radicals (not all of them of course) became simpering sycophants who suddenly couldn't find anything wrong with the system they once claimed to oppose.
As an anti-racist for all of my adult life and then some, I know about white privilege. I've written about it myself. I've observed it, experienced it and benefited unfairly from it. It's existence is beyond question and it is certainly an important matter that deserves our full attention as a society. Racism is wrong. All forms of racism are wrong. But for white privilege to be used as an argument against criticizing government surveillance is absurd. Not only is it absurd, it's underhanded. Black people have been historically abused by government so now for white people to complain about government abuses is white privilege. As if historical abuses get grandfathered in. They are to be endured without complaint. Not resisted, overturned or changed. Just STFU and take your medicine. It's illogical, inaccurate, harmful and self-destructive. It's a new way of tainting critics of the Obama administration with the charge of racism.
People fight dirty when they can't win a fair fight. Don't like what I write but can't refute a word of it? Accuse me of calling people Nazis and hope some ignorant fools believe it. Can't defend the shameful misconduct of our government but can't bear for it to be criticized? Call critics racists, accuse them of wallowing in white privilege, and hope some ignorant fools believe it. Some critics of Obama are racists, especially on the right, and racist criticism of Obama bothers me as much as it does anyone. We've all seen it and it's been shameful. As a nation, we should be ashamed. Racism is for idiots and assholes. I live for the day when racism no longer plagues us. But labeling non-racist critics as racist is as wrong as racism itself.
There is a larger problem with privilege in this society. It's what Barack Obama sold us out to. Privilege is privilege and real privilege, the kind that permeates our government and the halls of power in Washington DC, is not based on color, it's based on class/wealth/power. The privilege of the big checkbook crowd, the privilege of the 1%. That's the privilege we should all be united in railing against – not protecting. Dividing us like this is how they win. If a black man in the oval office is all it took to take the revolution out of your soul, you were never much of a revolutionary to begin with. It's almost a certainty that I will be called racist for writing this by people who oppose my criticism and dissent and who don't mind being wildly inaccurate and utterly dishonest. Don't you believe it.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/07/20/1225166/-No-place-for-principled-lefties
July 23, 2013
Anthony Weiner's mayoral campaign may possibly be toast after allegations came out Tuesday that he continued his sexting shenanigans after he resigned from Congress in disgrace.
Sex scandals are always easy to ridicule, but this one has a special area of mockery: His alleged online handle was Carlos Danger. Let that sink in. Carlos. Danger. We've seen AIM handles from 1998 less ridiculous.
Hey, it could have been worse. HuffPost Comedy got our hands on* the handles Weiner rejected before landing on that one. Here they are.
Antonio Mystery
Miguel de los Adventure-o
Juan Peril
Three-Alarm Lopez
Mr. Stormy Time
Definitely Not Anthony Weiner
Horny Rodriguez
Hector Terrifying
Ricardo Eerily Quiet
Horatio Sanserif
Benedict Cumberbatch
Inigo Montoya
Super Grover
Hefty Smurf
Fancy Feast
Jorge Gravitas
Gloria Estefan
George Zimmerman
Hispanic Tony
Santa Ana
Hazardous Gutierrez
NYCMayor69
Ron Mexico
Harvey Danger
Merv the Perv
Seymour Butts
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/23/carlos-danger-anthony-weiner-rejected-screen-names_n_3641012.html?ir=New+York&ref=topbar
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Also, here are some additional creative Weiner screen names courtesy of DU members:
Pancho Feelya
Seymour Hiney
Richie Cunningham & Oprah
Señor Stinkfist
Dirty Sanchez
Ron Mexico
Ricardo Cabeza
Sam Juan Capistrano
CARLOS DANGER Was Anthony Weiner's Screen Name, But Here's A LIST Of What He Rejected
Anthony Weiner's mayoral campaign may possibly be toast after allegations came out Tuesday that he continued his sexting shenanigans after he resigned from Congress in disgrace.
Sex scandals are always easy to ridicule, but this one has a special area of mockery: His alleged online handle was Carlos Danger. Let that sink in. Carlos. Danger. We've seen AIM handles from 1998 less ridiculous.
Hey, it could have been worse. HuffPost Comedy got our hands on* the handles Weiner rejected before landing on that one. Here they are.
Antonio Mystery
Miguel de los Adventure-o
Juan Peril
Three-Alarm Lopez
Mr. Stormy Time
Definitely Not Anthony Weiner
Horny Rodriguez
Hector Terrifying
Ricardo Eerily Quiet
Horatio Sanserif
Benedict Cumberbatch
Inigo Montoya
Super Grover
Hefty Smurf
Fancy Feast
Jorge Gravitas
Gloria Estefan
George Zimmerman
Hispanic Tony
Santa Ana
Hazardous Gutierrez
NYCMayor69
Ron Mexico
Harvey Danger
Merv the Perv
Seymour Butts
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/23/carlos-danger-anthony-weiner-rejected-screen-names_n_3641012.html?ir=New+York&ref=topbar
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Also, here are some additional creative Weiner screen names courtesy of DU members:
Pancho Feelya
Seymour Hiney
Richie Cunningham & Oprah
Señor Stinkfist
Dirty Sanchez
Ron Mexico
Ricardo Cabeza
Sam Juan Capistrano
July 23, 2013
A conspiracy is an agreement to perform together, an illegal, wrongful, or subversive act, and according to legal statutes is a crime in and of itself. Beginning on Inauguration night in 2009, Republicans conspired to deliberately obstruct any and all attempts by new President, Barack Obama, to reverse the devastation of their economic malfeasance that led to the worst recession since the Great Depression, and whether or not it was an illegal act, it was certainly wrongful and subversive. Over the past four-and-a-half years, Republicans have systematically conspired to abrogate their duty as legislators, and between swearing oaths to violate Article 1, Section 8, of the U.S. Constitution, to fabricating false scandals to take down President Obama, or serving corporate interests, it is high time to demand an investigation into Republicans in Congress and take appropriate action to remove them from office.
On a Sunday talk show, House Speaker John Boehner stated, without reservation and with pride that Republicans “ought to be judged on how many laws we repeal,” and it illustrates that throughout President Obama’s tenure as leader of the Executive branch of government, they have been guilty, at least, of dereliction of duty and at most, conspiring to inflict damage on the federal government. The list of attempts by Republicans to prevent the federal government from operating according to the Constitution is exhaustive, but there are instances that demand an accounting for the certain, and potential, damage they have caused this nation and its people. The Republicans most egregious offenses involve starving the government of resources, and it involves violating their oath of office as well as a well-planned conspiracy to defund the Treasury Department’s ability to collect revenue, and it appears the man charged with providing oversight of the government is at its center.
Last week Republicans proposed defunding the Internal Revenue Service for doing its due diligence in scrutinizing bogus tax-exempt “social welfare” applications of conservative groups, and according to testimony from the Treasury Department’s inspector general for tax administration, the IRS was asked by House Oversight Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) “to narrowly focus on Tea Party organizations.” Besides wasting time on a Republican-fabricated scandal, Issa’s campaign profited by raising nearly $450,000 more than his previous quarter for the largest fundraising effort since he took office eleven years ago. There is a petition to demand a Congressional Ethics Committee investigation into Issa for his manufactured IRS scandal, if for no other reason than House Republicans are using the so-called scandal to slash the IRS budget and starve the government of much needed revenue that Republicans have made their primary goal throughout President Obama’s tenure.
Despite swearing an oath to “support and defend the Constitution of the United States…and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter,” nearly all Republicans in Congress have violated their oath by swearing to anti-tax, and un-American, Grover Norquist, to “oppose any and all efforts to increase the marginal income tax rates for individuals and/or businesses.” The oath violates every congressional representative’s oath under Article 1, Section 8, that mandates Congress “lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States.” Republicans have fulfilled their oath to Norquist and opposed any and all attempts “lay and collect taxes.” Besides slashing the IRS budget to restrict them from collecting $1 trillion in taxes from their wealthy supporters and corporate masters due to the phony IRS scandal, they used greater tax cuts for their wealthy supporters as a ransom to pay the debts they created during the Bush administration.
cont'
http://www.politicususa.com/2013/07/23/time-investigate-boehner-issa-republican-criminal-conspiracy.html
It’s Time to INVESTIGATE Boehner, Issa, and the REPUBLICAN CRIMINAL CONSPIRACY
A conspiracy is an agreement to perform together, an illegal, wrongful, or subversive act, and according to legal statutes is a crime in and of itself. Beginning on Inauguration night in 2009, Republicans conspired to deliberately obstruct any and all attempts by new President, Barack Obama, to reverse the devastation of their economic malfeasance that led to the worst recession since the Great Depression, and whether or not it was an illegal act, it was certainly wrongful and subversive. Over the past four-and-a-half years, Republicans have systematically conspired to abrogate their duty as legislators, and between swearing oaths to violate Article 1, Section 8, of the U.S. Constitution, to fabricating false scandals to take down President Obama, or serving corporate interests, it is high time to demand an investigation into Republicans in Congress and take appropriate action to remove them from office.
On a Sunday talk show, House Speaker John Boehner stated, without reservation and with pride that Republicans “ought to be judged on how many laws we repeal,” and it illustrates that throughout President Obama’s tenure as leader of the Executive branch of government, they have been guilty, at least, of dereliction of duty and at most, conspiring to inflict damage on the federal government. The list of attempts by Republicans to prevent the federal government from operating according to the Constitution is exhaustive, but there are instances that demand an accounting for the certain, and potential, damage they have caused this nation and its people. The Republicans most egregious offenses involve starving the government of resources, and it involves violating their oath of office as well as a well-planned conspiracy to defund the Treasury Department’s ability to collect revenue, and it appears the man charged with providing oversight of the government is at its center.
Last week Republicans proposed defunding the Internal Revenue Service for doing its due diligence in scrutinizing bogus tax-exempt “social welfare” applications of conservative groups, and according to testimony from the Treasury Department’s inspector general for tax administration, the IRS was asked by House Oversight Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) “to narrowly focus on Tea Party organizations.” Besides wasting time on a Republican-fabricated scandal, Issa’s campaign profited by raising nearly $450,000 more than his previous quarter for the largest fundraising effort since he took office eleven years ago. There is a petition to demand a Congressional Ethics Committee investigation into Issa for his manufactured IRS scandal, if for no other reason than House Republicans are using the so-called scandal to slash the IRS budget and starve the government of much needed revenue that Republicans have made their primary goal throughout President Obama’s tenure.
Despite swearing an oath to “support and defend the Constitution of the United States…and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter,” nearly all Republicans in Congress have violated their oath by swearing to anti-tax, and un-American, Grover Norquist, to “oppose any and all efforts to increase the marginal income tax rates for individuals and/or businesses.” The oath violates every congressional representative’s oath under Article 1, Section 8, that mandates Congress “lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States.” Republicans have fulfilled their oath to Norquist and opposed any and all attempts “lay and collect taxes.” Besides slashing the IRS budget to restrict them from collecting $1 trillion in taxes from their wealthy supporters and corporate masters due to the phony IRS scandal, they used greater tax cuts for their wealthy supporters as a ransom to pay the debts they created during the Bush administration.
cont'
http://www.politicususa.com/2013/07/23/time-investigate-boehner-issa-republican-criminal-conspiracy.html
July 23, 2013
A new Washington Post-ABC News poll finds that 52% of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents think the GOP leadership is talking the party in the wrong direction while just 37% think it's headed in the right direction.
Now EVEN REPUBLICANS Think Party Is Going The Wrong Way
A new Washington Post-ABC News poll finds that 52% of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents think the GOP leadership is talking the party in the wrong direction while just 37% think it's headed in the right direction.
"That disaffection is apparent in another measure: Just 21% of Americans in this survey identify themselves as Republicans, matching the fewest since November 2009. GOP allegiance has dropped from an annual average of 31% in 2003 to annual averages of 23 or 24% the past five years straight."
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2013/07/policy-divisions-challenge-obama-but-gop-battles-its-own-discontent/
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2013/07/policy-divisions-challenge-obama-but-gop-battles-its-own-discontent/
July 23, 2013
REALLY??
Talking to The Brody File on the Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN) yesterday, Reince Priebus assured conservative Christians of every stripe that the GOP stands for God’s Own Party. After the catastrophic failure of God’s brand in 2012, College Republicans came up with a scheme to get more votes without budging an inch on socially divisive culture war issues. As Salon put it, “Seem Tolerant.” Priebus reassured his audience, however, that the GOP is “a party that embraces marriage,” and that he “is a chairman that understands that there’s only one sovereign God and that we ultimately aren’t dependent on what happens in politics, that what ultimately matters in our lives is that we’re salt and light in the world and that we’re honoring God in the things that we do every day.” There you have it. From the RNC chairman’s mouth. Priebus doesn’t want to seem tolerant. He doesn’t even like the word “tolerant.”
What this means, of course, is that all the bigoted and hateful things Republicans do to minorities, to blacks, to women, to the LGBT community – to the very air we breathe and water we drink – are done to honor God. Like all the atrocities committed in God’s name throughout sad history of monotheism from Moses onward. The only difference should be, says Priebus, is that while they’re persecuting the Other, Republicans should smile more and be polite about it, because apparently, this is what the Bible says to do while you’re persecuting the hell out of people you don’t like.
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http://www.politicususa.com/2013/07/23/rnc-chairman-reince-priebus-republican-party-religion.html
RNC Chairman Reince Priebus Says The REPUBLICAN PARTY IS A RELIGION
REALLY??
Talking to The Brody File on the Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN) yesterday, Reince Priebus assured conservative Christians of every stripe that the GOP stands for God’s Own Party. After the catastrophic failure of God’s brand in 2012, College Republicans came up with a scheme to get more votes without budging an inch on socially divisive culture war issues. As Salon put it, “Seem Tolerant.” Priebus reassured his audience, however, that the GOP is “a party that embraces marriage,” and that he “is a chairman that understands that there’s only one sovereign God and that we ultimately aren’t dependent on what happens in politics, that what ultimately matters in our lives is that we’re salt and light in the world and that we’re honoring God in the things that we do every day.” There you have it. From the RNC chairman’s mouth. Priebus doesn’t want to seem tolerant. He doesn’t even like the word “tolerant.”
What this means, of course, is that all the bigoted and hateful things Republicans do to minorities, to blacks, to women, to the LGBT community – to the very air we breathe and water we drink – are done to honor God. Like all the atrocities committed in God’s name throughout sad history of monotheism from Moses onward. The only difference should be, says Priebus, is that while they’re persecuting the Other, Republicans should smile more and be polite about it, because apparently, this is what the Bible says to do while you’re persecuting the hell out of people you don’t like.
Brody: I want to talk to you about this way forward for the GOP. When you use that word “intolerant” in what the RNC put out, Evangelicals start to grab the Excedrin bottles when they hear “tolerance” because they think “oh no the GOP is changing and the whole gay marriage situation.” Why don’t you address this and maybe put evangelicals at ease, or can you put them at ease at all here?
Priebus: Well, one hundred percent. I don’t know if I’ve used the word “tolerance.” I don’t really care fo for that word myself. I don’t have a problem with it. I just think it has another meaning politically that can go the other direction. I happen to believe that our principles are sound. I do beleive, and I still will tell you that our party believes that marriage is between one man and one woman. Our party believes that life begins at conception. I think those are foundational issues that aren’t going anywhere but what I have said, which I don’t think should be controversial at all and I would think Christians and pastors and everyone in between should agree that our principles have to be draped in the concepts of grace, love and respect and that’s not code language, that’s the New Testament, so I don’t think there should be any problem with that thinking in our party. That’s all I’ve said. It’s not what you say, I think, it’s sometimes like our moms used to tell us, it’s how you say it; and I think that’s really the issue and quite frankly I think some of that has been overblown. I’m happy to address it but clearly myself and our party haven’t changed on those principles.
Priebus: Well, one hundred percent. I don’t know if I’ve used the word “tolerance.” I don’t really care fo for that word myself. I don’t have a problem with it. I just think it has another meaning politically that can go the other direction. I happen to believe that our principles are sound. I do beleive, and I still will tell you that our party believes that marriage is between one man and one woman. Our party believes that life begins at conception. I think those are foundational issues that aren’t going anywhere but what I have said, which I don’t think should be controversial at all and I would think Christians and pastors and everyone in between should agree that our principles have to be draped in the concepts of grace, love and respect and that’s not code language, that’s the New Testament, so I don’t think there should be any problem with that thinking in our party. That’s all I’ve said. It’s not what you say, I think, it’s sometimes like our moms used to tell us, it’s how you say it; and I think that’s really the issue and quite frankly I think some of that has been overblown. I’m happy to address it but clearly myself and our party haven’t changed on those principles.
cont'
http://www.politicususa.com/2013/07/23/rnc-chairman-reince-priebus-republican-party-religion.html
July 22, 2013
While explaining to an incredulous audience that Virginia Republican gubernatorial candidate Ken Cuccinelli wants to make it a felony to have oral sex, “– a felony! YEAH!”, Whoopie Goldberg mainstreamed America’s disdain for Ken Cuccinelli’s extreme Republican values. She also vowed to keep him out of the governor’s mansion. This is exactly what Ken was told to not let happen. The plan to get Cuccinelli into office has been: Do not let them know what a whack-a-doo you are. Run as a moderate Republican and keep your mouth shut until after you’ve been elected“ Michael Douglas better stay out of Virginia,” Joy Behar deadpanned.
The panel had a laugh at Cuccinelli’s plan to outlaw oral sex:
And so mocking Cuccinelli’s extremism was mainstreamed. Walters explained that Cuccinelli automatically equates oral sex with homosexuality, to which Sherri Shepherd quipped, “Well then I’m gay as a — I mean I’m just saying!” Walters continued reading Cuccinelli’s explanation of his fear of oral sex and the homosexual “agenda”, with the ladies getting bug eyed and horrified at “When you look at the homosexual agenda, I cannot support something that I believe brings nothing but self-destruction, not only physically but of their soul.”
The ladies were gobsmacked — oral sex brings self-destruction? Oh no you don’t, sir…
cont'
http://www.politicususa.com/2013/07/22/view-va-gop-gubernatorial-candidate-ken-cuccinelli.html
Ken Cuccinelli Reaches NATIONAL JOKE STATUS Thanks To The View
While explaining to an incredulous audience that Virginia Republican gubernatorial candidate Ken Cuccinelli wants to make it a felony to have oral sex, “– a felony! YEAH!”, Whoopie Goldberg mainstreamed America’s disdain for Ken Cuccinelli’s extreme Republican values. She also vowed to keep him out of the governor’s mansion. This is exactly what Ken was told to not let happen. The plan to get Cuccinelli into office has been: Do not let them know what a whack-a-doo you are. Run as a moderate Republican and keep your mouth shut until after you’ve been elected“ Michael Douglas better stay out of Virginia,” Joy Behar deadpanned.
The panel had a laugh at Cuccinelli’s plan to outlaw oral sex:
“I think we all should—”
“You should stay out of Virginia, Mamma!”
Barbara Walters asked, “What ever happened to the slogan ‘Virginia is for lovers’?”
“You should stay out of Virginia, Mamma!”
Barbara Walters asked, “What ever happened to the slogan ‘Virginia is for lovers’?”
And so mocking Cuccinelli’s extremism was mainstreamed. Walters explained that Cuccinelli automatically equates oral sex with homosexuality, to which Sherri Shepherd quipped, “Well then I’m gay as a — I mean I’m just saying!” Walters continued reading Cuccinelli’s explanation of his fear of oral sex and the homosexual “agenda”, with the ladies getting bug eyed and horrified at “When you look at the homosexual agenda, I cannot support something that I believe brings nothing but self-destruction, not only physically but of their soul.”
The ladies were gobsmacked — oral sex brings self-destruction? Oh no you don’t, sir…
cont'
http://www.politicususa.com/2013/07/22/view-va-gop-gubernatorial-candidate-ken-cuccinelli.html
July 22, 2013
Its all about money!!
If you were hoping for the day when the Catholic Church would stop standing with pedophile priests and begin standing with their victims, you’ll have to wait. California lawmakers have been working tirelessly on a bill that would strengthen protections for the victims of pedophile priests by lifting the statute of limitations on reporting sexual abuse for a group of people who may have missed the previous deadline.
It all goes back to 2011, when the California Supreme Court ruled against five brothers who attempted to a bring a suit against the Catholic Church decades after a priest sexually abused them. The brothers repressed the painfully memories all that time until they were finally able to remember and pinpoint the abuse as the root of their constant distress. However, the court ruled that they would be unable to bring their lawsuit, even though the priest had admitted to abusing at least two of the brothers before dying in 2010, because the statute of limitations had run out. It may be too late for the brothers to get justice for themselves, but it won’t be too late for other victims if the state government of California has anything to say about it. The ruling of the court inspired lawmakers to introduce a bill designed to lift the limitations for a year so that newly discovered victims can come forward and sue the Catholic Church, as happened in 2003.
The Catholic Church, however, adamantly opposes the bill and is leading a crusade against it. The California Catholic Conference of Bishops has spent tens of thousands of dollars in an effort to kill the legislation, and Archbishop of Los Angeles Jose Gomez is trying to organize Catholics against it, saying that it would harm social services and education work that the Church performs. Unfortunately, many Catholic priests don’t just perform social services and educational work, they also prey upon children who are so traumatized that they repress the horrible abuse for years, even decades, before they are able to come forward and attempt to get justice. The Catholic Church and its allies also charge that the bill is unfair because it doesn’t include public schools, only private organizations.
While it is true that the bill doesn’t include public organizations in the legislation, even if it did, the Catholic Church would probably fight the measure anyway. In 2003, the Church paid $1.2 billion in restitution to sexual abuse victims who were able to come forward after California passed SB 1779 a year earlier. The Church was forced to release thousands of documents including confidential files on suspected pedophile priests that ultimately led to 1000 cases being filed in 2003 alone http://www.ocregister.com/articles/swimming-516810-bill-abuse.html and only 50, a mere 5%, were dismissed because they didn’t meet the requirements. So, the Catholic Church is not objecting so much to public schools being left out of the bill as much as they are trying to protect their money and the priests that committed the crimes.
cont'
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/07/21/catholic-church-defends-pedophile-priests-crusades-against-new-sex-abuse-victims-protections/
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Catholic Church DEFENDS PEDOPHILE PRIESTS, Crusades Against New Sex Abuse Victims Protections
Its all about money!!
If you were hoping for the day when the Catholic Church would stop standing with pedophile priests and begin standing with their victims, you’ll have to wait. California lawmakers have been working tirelessly on a bill that would strengthen protections for the victims of pedophile priests by lifting the statute of limitations on reporting sexual abuse for a group of people who may have missed the previous deadline.
According to the Huffington Post,
Senate Bill 131 would permit many victims who would otherwise be unable to file a civil suit due to time and age restrictions… to sue their abuser’s employer in civil court.
The proposed law would lift the statute of limitations for one year for the group of alleged victims who were 26 and older and missed the previous deadline.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/17/catholic-church-california-abuse-bill_n_3611462.html
Senate Bill 131 would permit many victims who would otherwise be unable to file a civil suit due to time and age restrictions… to sue their abuser’s employer in civil court.
The proposed law would lift the statute of limitations for one year for the group of alleged victims who were 26 and older and missed the previous deadline.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/17/catholic-church-california-abuse-bill_n_3611462.html
It all goes back to 2011, when the California Supreme Court ruled against five brothers who attempted to a bring a suit against the Catholic Church decades after a priest sexually abused them. The brothers repressed the painfully memories all that time until they were finally able to remember and pinpoint the abuse as the root of their constant distress. However, the court ruled that they would be unable to bring their lawsuit, even though the priest had admitted to abusing at least two of the brothers before dying in 2010, because the statute of limitations had run out. It may be too late for the brothers to get justice for themselves, but it won’t be too late for other victims if the state government of California has anything to say about it. The ruling of the court inspired lawmakers to introduce a bill designed to lift the limitations for a year so that newly discovered victims can come forward and sue the Catholic Church, as happened in 2003.
The Catholic Church, however, adamantly opposes the bill and is leading a crusade against it. The California Catholic Conference of Bishops has spent tens of thousands of dollars in an effort to kill the legislation, and Archbishop of Los Angeles Jose Gomez is trying to organize Catholics against it, saying that it would harm social services and education work that the Church performs. Unfortunately, many Catholic priests don’t just perform social services and educational work, they also prey upon children who are so traumatized that they repress the horrible abuse for years, even decades, before they are able to come forward and attempt to get justice. The Catholic Church and its allies also charge that the bill is unfair because it doesn’t include public schools, only private organizations.
While it is true that the bill doesn’t include public organizations in the legislation, even if it did, the Catholic Church would probably fight the measure anyway. In 2003, the Church paid $1.2 billion in restitution to sexual abuse victims who were able to come forward after California passed SB 1779 a year earlier. The Church was forced to release thousands of documents including confidential files on suspected pedophile priests that ultimately led to 1000 cases being filed in 2003 alone http://www.ocregister.com/articles/swimming-516810-bill-abuse.html and only 50, a mere 5%, were dismissed because they didn’t meet the requirements. So, the Catholic Church is not objecting so much to public schools being left out of the bill as much as they are trying to protect their money and the priests that committed the crimes.
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http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/07/21/catholic-church-defends-pedophile-priests-crusades-against-new-sex-abuse-victims-protections/
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July 19, 2013
John Wayland’s drag racing electric Datsun, White Zombie, has graced these pages many times before. But Wayland is currently undergoing a project of a different kind, sourcing parts from GM’s original electric car, the EV1, and swapping them into a Honda Insight hybrid. The resulting car Wayland calls the Silver Streak, could go as far as 400 miles on a single charge.
The epic saga of the GM EV1 has been cataloged in the documentary “Who Killed The Electric Car?”, but to recap; after leasing over 1,000 EV1s to customers, GM took the cars back and crushed all but a few of them. The survivors were then deactivated and sent to museums and universities to study. A couple of EV1s have been restored, and are even driving around, as reported in this Plug-In Cars article, an undertaking that required quite a bit of reverse-engineering.
But even cooler is Wayland’s side project, which utilizes the shell of the Honda Insight, America’s first mass market hybrid car. Wayland is using the Insight shell, which even with a drivetrain weighed just 1,800 pounds, as the basis for his EV1 resurrection. Wayland is using the EV1’s transaxle and motor in the Insight, while utilizing more modern lithium-ion batteries from Dow Kokam. The project has been in the works since 2011, and is about 80% complete so far. It is expected to make its road debut in August or September, according to Wayland.
The 71.5 kWh of batteries should be good, according to Wayland’s estimates, of up to 400 miles on a single charge. Wayland says he is “flipping the bird” to GM for how the original EV1 program ended, and his project shows how far along EVs might be had GM not abandoned them so soon. The spirit of the EV1 lives on in this awesome little project.
http://gas2.org/2013/07/15/ev1-honda-insight-ev2-an-electric-car-with-a-400-mile-range/
ELECTRIC CAR ‘Silver Streak’ Has 400-MILE RANGE On A Single Charge
John Wayland’s drag racing electric Datsun, White Zombie, has graced these pages many times before. But Wayland is currently undergoing a project of a different kind, sourcing parts from GM’s original electric car, the EV1, and swapping them into a Honda Insight hybrid. The resulting car Wayland calls the Silver Streak, could go as far as 400 miles on a single charge.
The epic saga of the GM EV1 has been cataloged in the documentary “Who Killed The Electric Car?”, but to recap; after leasing over 1,000 EV1s to customers, GM took the cars back and crushed all but a few of them. The survivors were then deactivated and sent to museums and universities to study. A couple of EV1s have been restored, and are even driving around, as reported in this Plug-In Cars article, an undertaking that required quite a bit of reverse-engineering.
But even cooler is Wayland’s side project, which utilizes the shell of the Honda Insight, America’s first mass market hybrid car. Wayland is using the Insight shell, which even with a drivetrain weighed just 1,800 pounds, as the basis for his EV1 resurrection. Wayland is using the EV1’s transaxle and motor in the Insight, while utilizing more modern lithium-ion batteries from Dow Kokam. The project has been in the works since 2011, and is about 80% complete so far. It is expected to make its road debut in August or September, according to Wayland.
The 71.5 kWh of batteries should be good, according to Wayland’s estimates, of up to 400 miles on a single charge. Wayland says he is “flipping the bird” to GM for how the original EV1 program ended, and his project shows how far along EVs might be had GM not abandoned them so soon. The spirit of the EV1 lives on in this awesome little project.
http://gas2.org/2013/07/15/ev1-honda-insight-ev2-an-electric-car-with-a-400-mile-range/
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