May 10, 2014

Friday Night at the BOG!

Leaves With Michelle, Eat Your Heart Out...

As Promised, But The Crowd Cries Out For More...

But Some Can't Handle The Truth...

May 10, 2014

It looks bad for honeybees. And those who depend on pollinators:

The beautiful honeybee of my memory:



Pretty sad stuff here:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/laura-turner-seydel/support-the-save-americas_b_4426904.html

And from Wikipedia:

On July 12, 2013, Rep. Earl Blumenauer, Democrat of Oregon, introduced The Save American Pollinators Act in Congress. If it becomes law, the Act will suspend the use of four neonicotinoids, including the three recently suspended by the European Union, until their EPA registration review is complete. The legislation will also require a joint Interior Department and EPA study of bee populations and the possible reasons for their decline.[22]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neonicotinoid#US_EPA_reregistration_and_Congressional_action

There is a petition, but it appears dead:

https://secure.avaaz.org/en/petition/Support_the_Save_the_Americas_Pollinators_Act_of_2013/

This says it has 0% chance of passing. Some say the bill was written badly, but remember, this is a GOP Congress:

https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/113/hr2692

Differing views here:

http://www.beesource.com/forums/showthread.php?286699-Avaaz-petition-taking-off-Save-America-s-Pollinators-Act

May 9, 2014

There is more than one kind of theocracy. May I suggest they consider the term, and not the brand?

The love of theocracy in this nation is pushed by Christian Dominionists. Who are scarcely a friend of Islam. All religions go through phases they want to grow out of as they mature, if they want to survive.

America seems to be most fertile ground for grifter religions on the planet, from Palin to the Phelps to the guy in Florida who makes money off his perennial threats to burn the Koran.

Of the religions that feel they are misunderstood, none can compare to the American obsession of those who have a persistent media pressence that alleges there is a 'War on Christmas.'

The Monty Python video, is also not anti-Catholic, anti-woman, anti-English, anti-Christian, nor is it anti-Spain. Europe has made peace with its own history, AFAIK. I love 'em all, I just don't want to live under such a system.

The video a farce about fearsome things we hope are relegated to history. It's essential to have a good laugh at oneself at times. I know I laugh at myself quite a bit.

But DU doesn't write these stories in the news. They are written by the people doing things that are considered news, or the pundits selling them.

Anybody who thinks that opposing freedom of expression is okay, is not playing by the Bill of Rights enshrined in the US Constitution. It guarantees the right to choose one's religion, or none at all, and that is protected by government and secularism.

By definition, Theocracy denies that human right by using the power of the state to deny the freedom of the mind and one's own conscience. This is essential to fulfill one's purpose in life within the Earthly plane. Thus it is not to the best system.

JMHO...

May 9, 2014

They didn't have their NRA convention dummies with them, had to have a body for cover. Warning:

Graphic Picture at the link:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022810234

They also sold dummies that looked like Obama. All with packets to 'bleed' like blood. You can't convince me these knuckledraggers aren't just itching to kill someone, they are mentally preparing for it.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002894485

May 9, 2014

Always the best heart from John Lewis! Love that man and anything he has to say! Thanks, Cha!

May 9, 2014

Well, there is one thing wrong with that picture. Seagal actually likes Sheriff Joe of Maricopa...

And he's put out the idea he wants to run for Governor of AZ with Joe as campaign manager. Seagal is not the only one who appreciates the cuddly Putin:



Depardieu gave up his French citizenship to become Russian over taxes. I'll bet Seagal is in the same camp as Gerard on issues like that.

Former German Chancellor Schröder is also best buds with Putin and supported the Russiana actions in South Ossetia:

http://www.dw.de/image/0,,17601782_404,00.jpg



http://www.haaretz.com/polopoly_fs/1.587998.1398765279!/image/276225165.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_640/276225165.jpg

Not all Germans agree with him. And Chancellor Merkel is said to not be as friendly to Putin.

Henry Kissinger is old friend of Putin, too, or so it's alleged:



http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/20/world/europe/henry-kissinger-to-meet-with-vladimir-putin-in-russia.html?_r=0

They're not the only ones:

http://abcnews.go.com/International/vladimir-putin-enjoys-bromance-german-chancellor-gerhard-schroeder/story?id=23513126

Alex Jones and the rest of the Pauliban have spoken highly of Putin. I think we will be seeing a lot more of Putin and we might as well get used to seeing that baby face.

May 8, 2014

Gowdy Dowdy speaks out of both sides of his mouth. Check his rebuke of the Repukes here:

Republicans stick with Benghazi cash grab 


Republicans have no intention of listening to Trey Gowdy.

A number of Republican candidates and conservative groups have openly used the Sept. 11, 2012, attacks in Benghazi, Libya, as a cash grab. And that’s likely to continue despite a strongly worded rebuke from the new chairman of the Republican select committee assigned to investigate the response to the attacks.

Gowdy, a South Carolina Republican, commented on MSNBC Wednesday that he and fellow Republicans should not fundraise off “the backs of four murdered Americans” — creating a new standard by which the party can be judged and opening the GOP up to charges of past, present and future hypocrisy.

That’s put the party in an awkward spot. Republicans on Capitol Hill are eager to lend the looming committee investigation into the murder of four Americans an air of sobriety, dignity and seriousness. But political strategists are eager to mobilize the GOP base and amp up grassroots fundraising by capitalizing on the base’s outrage over how the Obama administration handled the attacks.

The 2012 consulate attack and accusations of a White House cover-up are catnip for grassroots donors and activists. And Benghazi — and the select committee assigned to investigate it — is a key part of the GOP fundraising and mobilization strategy. This week, the National Republican Congressional Committee rolled out a new fundraising campaign called “Benghazi Watchdogs” — an effort by the aiming to raise money off Gowdy’s new position. Publicly available domain registration data shows that the site was registered Tuesday.

A lot, lot more of their reasons for this at the link:

http://politi.co/RsDGyW

Which has led to this:

Disgusted Democrat Slams Republicans for Running the House Like a Political Circus

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024922491

Just because we need a laugh:



http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024926651

May 7, 2014

This is the first video I saw of Obama was in Iowa in 2007. His last stop in 2012 was in Iowa.

This is the first video I saw of Obama was in Iowa in 2007:



Barack Obama talks to the crowd in Manchester, Iowa about exactly what the war in Iraq is costing the American people.

Last stop in 2012, the last time he'll ever run for office, was in Iowa:

What Obama said about Iowa:



Obama Cries In Final Speech - Last and Final Campaign 2012 Presidential Election



As sentimentality goes, President Barack Obama hosting the last campaign event of his political career in Des Moines, Iowa, is hard to top. The Hawkeye State launched the then-junior senator from Illinois to national prominence. And there is a movie script-like quality to having such a historic political trajectory emerge out of the frosty cornfields.

Speaking just steps from his 2008 caucus headquarters on Monday evening, it seemed at times as if the magic hadn't faded.

"I came back to ask you to help us finish what we started because this is where our movement for change began," Obama declared. "To all of you who've lived and breathed the hard work of change: I want to thank you. You took this campaign and made it your own ... starting a movement that spread across the country.

"When the cynics said we couldn't, you said yes we can. You said yes we can and we did. Against all odds, we did," he said.

Wiping the occasional tear from his eye, and looking over a crowd of 20,000, Obama concluded with the same story that he told on the last day of his '08 campaign: about the origins of his signature "fired-up-ready-to-go" chant. The arc of his first term in office was seemingly complete.

President Obama's Full Speech from His Final Rally - Des Moines, Iowa



Sorry, I couldn't pick out just one. The angle with the dark background is the one I remember, just saw the full version so I added it here. Thanks, IA.

May 7, 2014

President Obama has just weighed in on this:

U.S. To Send Team To Nigeria In Response To Girls' Kidnapping

President Barack Obama said Tuesday that the U.S. will do everything it can to help Nigeria find nearly 300 teenage girls who have been missing since they were abducted from school three weeks ago by an Islamist extremist group that has threatened to sell them. Finding the girls is the immediate priority, Obama said, and dealing with the Boko Haram group is a close second.

"In the short term our goal is obviously is to help the international community, and the Nigerian government, as a team to do everything we can to recover these young ladies," Obama said in an interview with Al Roker of NBC's "Today" program. "But we're also going to have to deal with the broader problem of organizations like this that... can cause such havoc in people's day-to-day lives."

Obama said the Nigerian government has accepted technical assistance from U.S. military and law enforcement officials. "We're going to do everything we can to provide assistance to them," the president said. Obama said the April 15 abduction, which has ignited international outrage and mounting demands for Nigeria to do more to find and free the girls before they are harmed, is a "terrible situation."

"Boko Haram, this terrorist organization that's been operating in Nigeria, has been killing people and innocent civilians for a very long time," Obama said, adding that the group long has been identified as one of the worst local or regional terrorist organizations in the world. "I can only imagine what the parents are going through," added Obama, a father of two daughters ages 15 and 12.

Read more:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/06/us-team-nigeria-kidnapping_n_5274484.html

to big_dog

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014797932

I believe Obama will get the job done, and need our support to save these girls from these armed criminals.

It may be offtopic, but where is the outrage from the right, GOP, evangelicals, etc., on the hideous treatment of these young ladies?

Why are there calls for justice for 4 people at the embassy in Benghazi, who cannot be saved now, when this is about 300 innocents going about their business and trying to make their world a better place (not that the embassy people weren't)?

People need to gather to do something about this, since the Congress does not care about it, instead they want to hold another political witch hunt.

A demonstration occured today in Washington, D.C. before the Nigerian Embassy, from the link:



Mia Kuumba, of the District of Columbia, brandishes a wooden stick during a rally in front of the Nigerian embassy in northwest Washington, Tuesday, May 6, 2014, protesting the kidnapping of nearly 300 teenage schoolgirls, abducted from a school in the remote northeast of Nigeria three weeks ago. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Godspeed to Obama and anyone who can help spare these girls from this living death.

May 6, 2014

#bringbackourgirls... Here are their names (large pic):

to Sheshe2:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=4913641