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May 24, 2013

Here's a few enjoying a drink and a bath after a hot day with what sounds like a storm coming:



Wind chimes and the sounds of wind in trees, late afternoon or early evening.


May 23, 2013

I wouldn't call it ODS, though. She's paid to be provocative and incite people, like Pamela Geller.

They enjoy playing 'radical' as it pays them well and sucks a lot of people into their fan club. Do they ever really do anything to change anyone's lives?

No. That would require hard work, education and taking a lot of flak they can just walk away from. If they ever get into enough of a stink for an arrest, they get bail. Same as Infowars darling Naomi Wolfe, giggling after being arrested and then released while OWS regulars got roughed up.

These characters thrive on the pain of others but never pay any real cost for it. Gadflies. I'm not angry at her for speaking out and Obama needs her to speak, but she is a Libertarian, Rand Paul supporter and Infowars darling. That's not about saving lives or changing policies for the 99%, it's exactly opposite.

These guys are not like us, can hang around and incite crap and walk away. I've seen these frauds since Vietnam who talk so tough but are nowhere when the SHTF. No, they stand and laugh, as they demoralize those who are working on change, not running their mouths.

There is a cost in one's life to getting things done that last, and a lot of humility is required. I see none of that with this lot, or they would show a little respect and be open-minded, and work with Obama. Instead, they tear him down for nothing.

Thanks for the chance to

May 23, 2013

+1. She's a Libertarian who 'Stands With Rand,' Jones and Kokesh who'll have a circus in D.C. soon.

to demoralize Democrats and energize Teabaggers.

See her running buddies:

http://www.dronereport.net/top-10-voices-drone/

http://www.democraticunderground.com/101664335#post7

It's the Koch method to reduce Democratic votes by co-opting liberal causes. The end result benefits the 1% and the Koches.


May 23, 2013

Media Benjamin is a Libertarian who hangs out with 2nd amendment march organizer Adam Kokesh, etc.

No, she didn't want to hear a word that he had to say, she was there to do a hit job. She failed, but then she got some more publicity.

Used to think she was cool, but she supports Rand Paul, Alex Jones, Truthers, etc. Here's the company she keeps, pretty conservative bunch of cranks:

http://www.dronereport.net/top-10-voices-drone/


May 22, 2013

Can't get that link, but here's a bit more:



I get the STAND in my email. More ways to get involved at the link below:

http://www.thestand.org/?p=23858

Thanks for posting this, it's not likely to get much major media coverage.

May 22, 2013

Not Oprah. Sarah Palin. See the 'O' here?



Sarah Palin Sculpture To Roast A Pig At Bridgeport Arts Complex


CHICAGO (CBS) — Democratic politics are responsible for the colorful history of the Bridgeport neighborhood, but on Friday afternoon, a prominent Republican politician will be in the spotlight.

Visitors on Friday to the Bridgeport Art Center, 1200 W. 35th St., will be greeted by a giant metal sculpture of Sarah Palin’s head, and the wide open mouth on the sculpture isn’t just intended to suggest Palin’s expression at her most indignant.

The sculpture, called “We’re Havin’ a Tea Pear-ody,” doubles as a working stove, and at 5 p.m. Friday, it will cook a whole suckling pig, which will be roasted right in the mouth. The smoke from the roasting process will billow from the sculpture’s head, which is adorned with hair ratted up in a high bun just like the real Palin...

The artist, J. Taylor Wallace of the Ukrainian Village neighborhood, unveiled his Palin sculpture last year at the National Ornamental Museum in Memphis. The sculpture also cooked a pear-stuffed suckling pig for that occasion.


http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2012/04/20/sarah-palin-sculpture-to-roast-a-pig-at-bridgeport-arts-complex/?hpt=us_bn6#photo-1

Sorry about that... Hope you don't have nightmares now.


May 22, 2013

Actually, since HAARP's in Alaska, and Infowars sez it created Katrina, Ike, Sandy and this tornado,

it's time to put the blame where it belongs:



This is divine retribution from Our Lady of Guns, Sister Sarah. Naturally, people will blame Obama.



May 22, 2013

Thanks, President Obama and Secretary of Defense Hagel:

Obama: 'No tolerance' for military sexual assault

By Michael O'Brien, Political Reporter, NBC News 5-7-2013

President Barack Obama said Tuesday that he has “no tolerance” for sexual assault in the military, comments made in the wake of a new Pentagon report showing the instances of such crimes have spiked since 2010.

The president said he had spoken today with Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel to urge him to “exponentially step up” efforts to identify suspects in assaults, and aggressively prosecute those cases.

“The bottom line is: I have no tolerance for this,” Obama said at a press conference following his meeting with South Korean President Park Geun-hye
.

‘I expect consequences,” Obama added. “So I don’t just want more speeches or awareness programs or training, but ultimately folks look the other way. If we find out somebody’s engaging in this, they’ve got to be held accountable – prosecuted, stripped of their positions, court martialed, fired, dishonorably discharged. Period.

http://nbcpolitics.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/05/07/18107743-obama-no-tolerance-for-military-sexual-assault?lite

May 21, 2013

The Koch brothers have directly threatened Obama to force him to agree to this for years.

As a nation, we need to reject the Koch brothers method of governance such as Synder's emergency managers in MI and Walker's selling off WI, and not buy their propaganda which is designed to keep Democrats away from the polls in 2014. Under every scandal and loose charge is a Kochroach.

May 20, 2013

Thanks, sheshe! TOD and the pictures there and at the Atlanta-Constitution are beautiful.



A joyous day in Atlanta. I haven't been to Atlanta in many years, but I did enjoy a summer there. My Irish grandmother and some of her sisters lived there.

On the youtube page it said Obama is the first POTUS in 80 years to visit Morehouse College. History is continuing to be made by our 44th President!

~ Forward ~



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