The death penalty is too easy. She needs to rot in a cell for the rest of her life!

At a time when  the young woman defendant Jodi Arias is about to speak in her own defense, abandoned by her attorneys and by witnesses who would have spoken in her defense but suddenly withdrew for threats of retaliation, and facing the possibility of being put to death, I feel compelled to offer my own personal experience on how traumatizing life events can obliterate one’s recollections.

Now 74 years old, with three earned degrees and seven degrees of misery, multiple surgeries,  strokes, and heart attacks behind me,  fighting daily to stay above medical circumstances that have taken the lives of many persons younger than myself,   I reflect on the tragic events  that remain as open wounds after more than four decades,  events at a time when I was a young minister who had known nothing but a life of dedication to the Lord and the service of the ministry.

It has been amnesia from shock out of the period of being raped and dislodged from a normal life when I was in the terrible throes of disability after losing my wife and family. I wound up in a hospital and an infirmary at a notable school,  and there I was, left at the mercy of a doctor who kept me there for 13 days for a migraine headache. During that time he aimed at seducing me and getting me into his office where he forced himself into me with his large phallus, compelling to lie prone on a gurney for what he claimed was an anal exam I needed for my prostate (strange because I have never prostate problems even to this day). It was while he had me in his office that he told me from his medical knowledge how I could take my own life without any detection possible of the means used to do it.  Also taking me to his home from time to time, feeding his wife breakfast, then coming downstairs to seduce me on the couch. Chasing me around from place to place, even to an island off the Atlantic Coast that his wife’s ancestors helped found, even getting into the wedding line of my marriage to my second wife.  I had no idea I was that attractive, though I was chosen as one of three in New York City to be a model and centerfold.  

Who is this person, and why has he been covering all this up?  What happened to his wife?  Suddenly I learned she had died, and he never even told me, and I was supposed to be his special friend.   I went out to eat with her and this doctor.  Not long before, and she seemed perfectly healthy to me. What happened to the young man who was at the infirmary who suddenly was dead?  What happened to other students who had fallings out with him because of inappropriate behavior at the infirmary? 

Somehow I felt used and abused because he wanted $35,000.00 to add on a medical room at the infirmary. He knew because of the professional closeness I had inherited over a million dollars.  I was a student, doing my work and trying to keep up a ministry, travelling back and forth. He even visited my home, and reached out to try to seduce me again and again both in hotels, and boarding places in at the school.  He abused me by telling me I did wrong by getting involved with a woman and bringing more children into the world.   Very difficult circumstances for me;  these traumatizing events led me to a period of amnesia about these happenings. It is only in the wake of my recent, and intensive 7 ½ hour long deep brain surgery that memories have started to return, causing me to reflect more deeply and lucidly about these events.  

When I was raped in the infirmary at the school, I screamed and hollered to where it was heard up and down the hallways of the infirmary. His secretary, a German woman, embarrassed me because he didn’t want it to be known what he was doing. As I have shared he had me face down on the gurney.  Covered it up with his professional and church connections. My life was being prevailed upon by this monstrous abuse I was subject to, and which I didn’t know what to do with.  

I can relate to what this Jodi Arias is going through.  Though what she did was horrible,  I do believe that the trauma of being abused can eradicate the memory of events  of all that transpires around you, and you go on as if none of it had happened.   I’ve tried to keep in touch with this doctor to play along, allowing him to believe I was interested in him, for the hope of eventually  dealing with and exposing him over what happened to me;   I never have had an explanation of what happened.  As to why it has taken so long to come to grips with these happenings:  the pain was such that I kept these things buried so I could carry on with my life without being inundated with them – at the same time they  have remained open wounds in need of healing and resolution.   As I write this doctor is travelling with his lover of 25 years to their summer home.  

I am  very distraught because I hate to see this young woman Jodi Arias put to death and nobody will speak on her behalf about her circumstances.   She certainly made a terrible mistake in her life,  but  could not remember any of it; something that goes on when religion, faith, and sexual  abuse are mixed through psychological and physical force.

I have had  memories return to me in the nights of the events surrounding what I was personally subject to.  I am hoping that something will dissolve this thing from my mind so I don’t have to be tortured any more.

I don’t want to see another person wrongfully taken to be put to death because she lost her mind and sense of direction.  Why there aren’t more people coming to her defense, not for the wrong she did, but because of her  telling what she went through, her making a mistake and not being able to remember what went on. This fellow was a Mormon; I don’t have much respect for the Mormon church. We have that fellow down in Texas who was  put away for taking on children.  Now we hear of a young boy who was being chased by this Travis Alexander, and his  running from woman to woman, causing rage and trauma in the life of a woman who was used to be living monogamously, then suddenly being forcibly subject to a different faith and sexual abuse.   

As to what I went through personally as a vulnerable young man and student, I can’t understand why I have had to be subject to it all, except there be a reason to speak out at this time on behalf of this vulnerable young woman, an ingénue whose heart and life had been all but derailed by the double trauma of being forced into a different religion and being forced upon sexually, even while I cope with my own unresolved  traumas and losses. 

Who is this doctor that sought to take advantage of me and forced himself upon me, a young minister reeling from the trauma of divorce and the forcible loss of my children?; who was this Travis Alexander that enticed a young, artistically gifted woman into a faith not her own, and forced her into the trauma of sexual abuse?  The questions remained unanswered, and the mysteries remain unresolved.

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"A NIGHT IN THE 40's"

Take a Sentimental Journey at one of the largest
Big Band Hangar Dance and WWII Musical Shows in the country
at the Commemorative Air Force Aviation Museum,

March 9, 2013

The Commemorative Air Force Aviation Museum (CAF), and presenting sponsors CareMore and Hensley and Company invite you to take a Sentimental Journey back to 1943 with “A Night in the 40s” Big Band Dance. This glamorous event is one of the largest Big Band Dances in the country. “A Night in the 40s” event features a WW II 1940’s Musical Show followed by a Big Band Orchestra playing sounds of the era to dancing men and women dressed in period styles - all in the shadow of the vintage B-17 WW II Flying Fortress bomber "Sentimental Journey"!

Besides being a nostalgic journey back in time, “A Night in the 40’s” benefits a worthwhile cause — a fund raiser for the non-profit CAF Aviation Museum, located at 2017 N. Greenfield Rd at Mesa’s Falcon Field, NE corner of McKellips and Greenfield; The CAF is an organization dedicated to keeping aviation history alive for current and future generations.

"This is a great opportunity to recapture one of the most important and nostalgic times in our history," said Dave Dunton, Arizona Wing volunteer member and Dance Chairman.  “Events like these pay special tribute to all who fought for freedom during WW II and allow us to look back on our past.

"The generous support from our sponsors demonstrates that they take an interest in the efforts of community events like the Night in the 40’s Dance and helping an all-volunteer nonprofit organization like the Arizona Wing preserve our history for future generations. The Arizona Wing greatly appreciates the help from our sponsors". Night in the 40’s sponsors include CareMore, Hensley and Company, Southwest Airlines, AM 1230 KOY, Arizona Lindy Hop Society, Alpha Creations Awards and The Buffalo Chip Saloon and Steakhouse.

“A Night in the 40’s” Big Band Dance will be held Saturday, March 9; doors open at 4:30pm. All participants are encouraged to come dressed in the style of the 40’s. Mark Jeffrey from AM 1230 KOY will be the Master of Ceremonies. A free swing dance lesson will be given by Steve Conrad of “Arizona Lindy Hop Society” at 4:45 to help you get ready to dance the night away! Entertainment begins at 5:30 p.m. with “Sing, Sing, Sing with a Swing”, a 1940’s Musical Show with singers and a professional set of piano, bass, saxophone and trumpet. At 7:30pm, swing time kicks in featuring the “Sonoran Swing Big Band Orchestra” playing favorite Big Band Music from the war years. There will also be a contest for the best-dressed 1940’s costume, a swing dance contest, and participants will have the opportunity to get their picture taken in front of the B-17 Sentimental Journey.

Food and refreshments will be available for purchase at the event including a barbeque  plate catered by The Buffalo Chip Saloon and Steakhouse.  Tickets for “A Night in the 40’s” are $35 per person purchased in advance and $40 per person the day of the dance. Night in the 40’s Tickets can be purchased online at www.BigBandDance.com, or at the Commemorative Air Force Arizona Wing Aviation Museum, 2017 N. Greenfield Rd.

The CAF Aviation Museum is an all-volunteer, non-profit organization supported only by membership dues, private donations and fund-raising events such as “A Night in the 40’s”. No government funding or support is provided. All admission fees and donations are fully tax deductible as the Commemorative Air Force Aviation Museum is approved under IRS code 501(c)(3).

For further information call (480) 924-1940 or visit the Night in the 40s website at www.BigBandDance.com. For additional information on the Commemorative Air Force Aviation Museum visit the website at www.azcaf.org.

Guns And Ammo Sold Out? The Gun Grabbers Have Released Their Worst Nightmare          

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Sehr besser!

He won, not as convincingly as 08

Do you see how moot your point is GCR?  Pubbies lost and lost big!  They were gloating about how many more popular votes they were going to get than our President.  They didn't!  Case closed.

And Obama had 10 million fewer than 2008

We went out with a wimper?  Romney  and Ryan lost their home states and Romney got 2M votes less than mcCain in 08.

So on this petition, how many people are registered voters?

This petition is a waste of time.

We the people petition the Obama administration to:     Recount the election!         https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/recount-election/ZQmy0Mlv  

1. Todd Akin: “If it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways of shutting that whole thing down” - mid 2012 Senate Campaign

2. Clayton Williams: “If it’s inevitable, just relax and enjoy it” - mid 1990 Gubernatorial race in Texas

3.  Chuck Winder: “I would hope that when a woman goes in to a physician with a rape issue, that physician will indeed ask her about perhaps her marriage, was this pregnancy caused by normal relations in a marriage or was it truly caused by a rape. I assume that’s part of the counseling that goes on.” - March 2012

4.  Ken Buck: “A jury could very well conclude that this is a case of buyer’s remorse … It appears to me … you invited him over… the appearance is of consent.” - October 2010

5. Rick Santorum: “I think the right approach is to accept this horribly created — in the sense of rape — but nevertheless a gift in a very broken way, the gift of human life, and accept what God has given to you… rape victims should make the best of a bad situation.” - January, 2012

6.Richard Mourdock: “life is that gift from God,” and “even when life begins in that horrible situation of rape, that it is something that God intended to happen.”

You got to watch this video and if you are a women or a man that actually gives a shit about a womens right to choice this is doomsday for the Romney Ryan ticket! http://current.com/shows/the-young-turks/videos/keeping-it-real-tyt-exposes-romneyryan-extreme-rape-and-abortion-policies-in-a-new-ad

The BIG Con!

Tuesday, October 09, 2012

By Jerry Anthony/ Contributor

By definition “conned” 1. Involving abuse of confidence: deceitfully manipulative.  2. To swindle: trick. 3. To persuade by deception. 4 a confidence game or swindle. 5. A lie, exaggeration, or glib self-serving talk.  Now match this with what Mitt Romney has actually been doing now for over a year!  The flip flopping and pandering to whomever he happens to be with is all part of the BIG CON that he and Paul Ryan are running on both parties and everyone else in this country.  The proof is in all those video bites MSNBC has been running for some time.  The fuzzy math and tax cut for the rich and we are not going to cut Medicare is the CON.  These two Republicans are trying to CON their way into the White House with no plans.  They really believe people will vote for “trust me I will tell you later”. 

The Republican Party is openly trying to control the outcome of this election like there is no democracy or Constitution of the United States!   

So I have to ask this question:  How could anyone except the billionaires that are buying this country vote for these Republicans?

Romney wants a two trillion military budget?  No Social Security?  No Medicare or Medicaid?

No restrictions on Wall Street? No Government regulations to protect our food, air and water supply?  War with Iran? 

Just who do you think these crazy men think is going to pay for all this social and economic destruction?

Well you better start thinking because this maybe your last chance. 

The BIG CON is on and you better wake up!

http://washingtonexaminer.com/60-of-firms-to-kill-health-insurance-or-charge-more-under-obamacare/article/2508994#.UGXU5q7N1UV

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/28/romney-health-care-plan-double-costs_n_1922555.html

American Airlines sends thousands of layoff notices

Mary Altaffer / AP

American Airlines has told over 11,000 workers they could lose their jobs as part of its reorganization.

By Roland Jones, NBC News

American Airlines has told over 11,000 workers they could lose their jobs as part of its reorganization in bankruptcy.

However, the U.S. airline, which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in November, said it expects that fewer than 40 percent of those it sent notices to, or 4,400 people, will actually be laid off in November and December.

The job cut notifications come as a result of the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act, which requires workers to be told about major layoffs or plant closures 60 days in advance.

Jamie Horwitz, a spokesman for the Transport Workers Union, a representative for workers that received WARN Act notices said the layoff notices “will look worse than the actual layoffs.”

Horwitz said about 800 employees had agreed to leave American voluntarily, a move that will further reduce the number of expected layoffs. American said in February it planned to cut up to 14,000 jobs as part of a plan to slim down its operations in bankruptcy.

American also said it is cutting flights by one to two percent for the rest of September and October. 
The cuts are partly due to an increase in pilot sick days and greater maintenance reports by flight crews led to flight cancellations and delays, Hicks said. American operates about 1,700 flights a day.

According to flight tracking service FlightAware.com, over the past two weeks American Airlines has canceled more flights than any other major U.S. airline.

Reuters contributed to this report.

HELL WEEK

DEBACLE... GOP Senate Candidates Break With Mitt... Republican Consultant: 'There's A Feeling That This Thing's In Free Fall'...
Ex-Bush Aide: 'I Honestly Don't Know What Romney Can Do'...
NOONAN: 'Romney Campaign Incompetent... Time For Intervention'

Lame re-posting of a lame commentary by a lame "journalist" by a lame newszap poster.  If you wish to know why Obama will lose in November look no further than this posting.  This is all Obama and his dwindling number of supporters can offer.  "Hope and change" going out with a pathetic wimper.

How to Speak Republican

By Pete Kotz Thursday, Aug 23 2012

Next week, the Republican Party will convene in Tampa to plot world domination. And

Yes, you badly want in on the ground floor of the next culture war or invasion of a small, preferably Muslim, country. Yet the GOP speaks in an elusive language only its followers understand. With just a few coded words, it's able to mobilize the loyalists — while simultaneously dismissing everyone else as un-American and quite possibly queer.

Rosetta Stone offers no help, for this is a dialect only deciphered with written authorization from Jesus or Goldman Sachs. You worry the march to godliness will go forth without you. You'll be left behind with Rosie O'Donnell and those eco-fairies who bicycle to work.

Yet a recently leaked glossary lays bare the mystery of the Republican tongue. Now you too can speak with the superiority of talk radio hosts and pissed-off old guys who live in mobile-home parks. Enjoy your seat at the right hand of God!

Abortion: Reproductive issue best decided by preachers from rural Georgia who believe babies are conceived by using public restrooms.

American: True patriot who hates all the right things, including but not exclusive to: taxes, un-breaded chicken, California, female sportscasters, the Toyota Prius, people who speak Mexican, BET, free-range vegetables, public radio, Al Sharpton, whales . . .

Apologizing: The treasonous admission that America is not always perfect. Usually committed by people who can't even tastefully match their cowboy boots with their firearms.

Bain Capital: Massachusetts investment firm celebrated for providing investors with huge returns by laying off thousands of workers, cutting healthcare benefits, and shipping jobs to those places where foreigners live. Will serve as the model for U.S. economic recovery once the infidel is smitten.

Barack Hussein Obama: Muslim foreigner illegally elected president to pursue the socialist agenda of Karl Marx, regarded as the least funny brother of the famed comedic troupe.

Bible: Historical novel starring omnipotent being who sentences others to eternal damnation unless they do what he says. Think of Pat Robertson, only with a hillbilly beard and the ability to part seas.

Chick-fil-A: Baptist version of eating kosher. Only sells chickens that have provided a documented history of heterosexuality to a commission of small-town Chamber of Commerce officials.

Christian: GOP delegate who's devoted his life to Jesus, handguns and repealing the Clean Water Act. Will be doing missionary work at Tampa gentlemen's clubs next week. At least that's what he'll tell his wife when the MasterCard bill arrives, LOL!

Christian Persecution: When school board bars teacher from conducting faith-healing sessions in his seventh-grade biology class.

Class Warfare: Indefensible act of pitting America against the wealthy, but perfectly reasonable when mocking moms on welfare so they'll finally learn not to wear spandex with a butt that size.

College: American version of Maoist re-education camp, where liberal professors encourage impressionable youth to enjoy critical thinking, Jäger shots and recreational intercourse.

Constitutional Conservatism: Belief that our founding document should be strictly interpreted — even though it was written by guys who wore wigs and capri pants but were definitely not trannies, since that hadn't even been invented yet.

Corporation: Most evolved species of mammal. Designated by Supreme Court as the legal equivalent to people, only better because it can afford to buy congressmen and box seats at big sporting events.

Entitlement Society: Large corporations who demand public subsidies every time they build a facility, move their headquarters, or threaten to relocate to Botswana or Mississippi. Wait. No. Scratch that.

Environment: Convenient place to dump car batteries and kitchen appliances. While lame-stream media insists on its preservation, studies by the business faculty at Liberty University business faculty prove that beavers actually like swimming in hydrochloric acid because it improves their skin tone.

Evolution: Fraudulent theory that man evolved from ape. Have you ever seen an ape with jugs like Jessica Simpson's?

Feminazis: Ingrate women who use the word "Ewwww!" when Rush Limbaugh tries to buy them a Sex on the Beach at hotel bars in Boca Raton.

Food Stamp President: Did we mention that Obama's a negro? And that he's probably a Muslim?

Founding Fathers: Early visionaries who built a start-up country to escape the tyranny of England. Based on the theory that we could more cost-effectively do our own tyranny.

Free Market: Utopian world where corporations are allowed to conduct business without interference from price fixing, consumer protection, or child labor laws.

Global Warming: Theory shared by 99 percent of the world's scientists that man-made pollution is warming the Earth's atmosphere. Easily discredited by pointing to that one day in February when it was pretty cold.

Gotcha Journalism: Shameful media practice using duplicitous interview tactics — often called "questions" — to get vice presidential candidates to admit they can't read.

Homosexual agenda: Conspiracy co-chaired by Satan and Neil Patrick Harris to convince America's youth to quit football and pursue careers as botanists and defense lawyers.

Illegals: American slang for "Mexican." Also: Anyone skilled in the operation of a leaf blower.

Jesus: Celebrated ancient deity who preached that "the poor should get a damned job already" and that all human suffering could be averted by simply lowering the capital gains tax.

Jews: The guys who killed Christ. Occasionally have the audacity to apply for membership in your country club, despite genetic deficiencies and an inadequate short game.

Job Creators: People who pay half the tax rate you do because God likes them way better. Deserving of further deductions because the gardener is asking for $4.25 an hour

Lamestream Media: All media with the exception of Fox News, the Wall Street Journal, and the non-gay parts of PornHub.com. Note: Gay parts can be mildly educational if your wife's at Bible study and the door is locked.

Liberal Agenda: Set of effete East Coast values written by Sean Penn and the Dixie Chicks to destroy the American family by getting our children to suck at math and listen to John Mayer.

Liberal Elite: Immoral foe nearly crushed to extinction by the superiority of the conservative agenda. Membership believed to consist of three elderly men recently expelled from the Newport Yacht club for publicly expressing fond memories of Roosevelt.

Muslims: Swarthy apostates who hate freedom. Believe that blowing up grandmas and blond children will be rewarded with 72 virgins in a jacuzzi suite at the Heaven Best Western. Covert cells mostly operating in Iran and the U.S. State Department.

Obamacare: Theory that all Americans deserve health coverage, when they could just as easily rub some dirt on it.

Radical Feminists: Secret cabal of WNBA season ticketholders seeking to usurp the natural role of men as the boss of everything. Need to shut up and vacuum the living room.

Science: Discredited field of study practiced by sissies at northern liberal arts schools that suck at football.

Second Amendment: The God-given right to carry an assault rifle to Sunday brunch at Applebee's just in case there's a kid wearing a hoodie.

Tea Party: People who hate socialism and government entitlements but live off Social Security and Medicare because stuff like that doesn't really count.

Traditional Marriage: A union between a man and woman who argue over a period of three to seven years, then separate and file unflattering paperwork about each other. Repeat cycle as necessary.

Values Voters: People willing to be economically sodomized as long as we keep bagging on the homos and the wetbacks.

The GOP’s Will to Fantasy

Jonathan Schell

August 15, 2012  

Mitt Romney’s choice of Paul Ryan as his running mate is the latest episode in a story of conflict within the Republican Party that has many chapters. It has been said a thousand times that, in the long competition between the party’s radical base and its slightly less radical leadership (there are no moderates anywhere in sight in the GOP these days), the choice of the extreme budget-cutter Ryan represents a shift toward the extreme base, and that is certainly true. But it is also a development in another, related story.

The record of the last decade or so suggests that the party these days is animated by two main goals. First, it seeks unchallengeable, absolute power. Its modus operandi for achieving that goal has been to use institutional power—the power of corporations, courts and legislatures—to acquire more institutional power. A recent case is the drive in Republican-dominated states around the country to disenfranchise Democratic-leaning constituencies, such as the poor and minorities, by legislating onerous requirements for voting.

The other goal has been a less familiar one. More and more, Republicans have exhibited a strong desire to take up residence in an imaginary world, an alternate reality—one in which global warming is found to be a fraud perpetrated by the world’s top scientists, Obama turns out to have been born in Kenya and is a Muslim (and a socialist), budgets can be slashed without social pain, firing government employees reduces unemployment, tax cuts for the wealthy replenish government coffers, and so forth. Perhaps it seems odd to identify such an objective as a political goal, but past ideological movements of the left as well as the right offer many examples of the power of such a longing.

Conscientious fact-checkers in the media have rebutted individual items that make up the GOP’s factitious universe. Such efforts are always worthwhile but are likely to backfire with the believers. When ideology takes over from reality, fantasy is not a disadvantage for the believers; it is the source of appeal. The deceptions are then popular not in spite of their untruthfulness but precisely because of it. When the target of the insurrection is not only some hated rival or establishment but the factual universe, with all its unwelcome restrictions and psychological burdens, then the more flagrant the violation of truth, the keener the thrill.

Often, the will to power and the will to fantasy go together. As the totalitarian regimes of the twentieth century discovered, the two can reinforce one another. Such seemed to be the explicit ambition of President George W. Bush’s adviser Karl Rove when, at one giddy moment at the height of the Iraq War, he famously said that the Bush administration had delivered a coup de grâce to nothing less than “the reality-based community,” for “we’re an empire now, and when we act, we create reality.” It was a classic statement of the totalitarian logic of the propaganda artist in power. What better way to win support for propaganda than to abolish the reality that contradicts it? Rove’s boast was premature, but his logic was clear: If we don’t like the real world, we can do away with it.

Those dreams of omnipotence expired in the sands of Iraq and Afghanistan, but the conflict between the will to power and the will to fantasy lived on in new forms. The career of Sarah Palin offers an illustration. She and reality were strangers, as the world saw in her first interviews and subsequently. Her mind was almost a blank slate in that respect, and she showed neither inclination nor aptitude to remedy the lack. To draw her into that world was a kind of cruel mistake. She soon withdrew from it, deciding, after protracted dithering, to stay out of this year’s presidential race and retreat into a world in which her talents and temperament were in fact stellar, the world of myth-making and spin on Fox News. (It is entirely in keeping with this choice that her husband, Todd Palin, has now turned up in NBC’s militarized “reality” show—that is, unreality show—Stars Earn Stripes.)

There was a lesson in Sarah Palin’s withdrawal. For all the triumphs of cash-fueled political manipulation, the sphere of policy and governmental decisions has its dangers for the addicts of unreality. Fantasies can be a path to power, but they can also become a costly self-indulgence.

Palin’s balk at reality’s edge was only one of many twists and turns in the winding path the GOP has followed between power and fantasy. Sometimes it has tipped one way, sometimes the other. Twice—in the presidential primaries of 2008 and those of this year—the party harked for a time to the siren call of the unreal world of the base (Mike Huckabee in 2008; Rick Perry, Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich this year) but twice it veered away, entering, with conspicuous distaste, into the arranged marriage with the more sober choice (John McCain in 2008, Romney this year).

But now comes the choice of Ryan. It is a decided, possibly a decisive, tip in the direction of fantasy. To be sure, Ryan is no Sarah Palin. He is a veritable policy wonk.But he is an ideologue. Ideologues can know a lot, and Ryan does, but their knowledge is so tendentiously selected that information, instead of conducting them to what is real, actually armors them against it. Such is the case with Ryan. The media spotlight has been on the renowned Ryan budget, passed twice by the Republican majority in the House, but even more telling is his stand on global warming. He is a major-league denier. All the most prestigious academies of science around the world, including the American National Academy of Sciences, agree that warming is real, man-made and well advanced. Ryan demurs. He has accused climate scientists of a “perversion of the scientific method, where data were manipulated to support a predetermined conclusion,” in order to “intentionally mislead the public on the issue of climate change.” He has voted against any and all measures to remedy the problem. He has suggested that the existence of snow in winter in Wisconsin is evidence against warming, which he has called “a tough sell in our communities, where much of the state is buried under snow.”

As for that budget, it promises to achieve balance while providing no such thing, instead calling for broad tax cuts without specifying spending cuts anywhere near the level that would be needed as offsets to bring the budget into balance. It depends entirely on one of the hoariest of false promises in politics, the free lunch, thereby contributing to what Paul Krugman rightly calls an economic “culture of fraud.”

The GOP base is fired up. But the cost could be high. Even today’s electoral politics may have one foot still remaining in the reality-based community. Ordinary voters may not be a tribe of Diogenes, carrying lamps through the world in search of truth, but they are much less likely to be passionately attached to a long list of fantasies than the GOP fanatics. That this could be so may be a saving grace of American politics in our otherwise spin-stupefied era

A Campaign Out of Balance

Posted by EUGENE ROBINSON, Washington Post Columnist Aug 14th, 2012 | 

Republican Sabotage!

Wednesday, June 20, 2012

By Jerry Anthony/ Contributor

Mitch McConnell made the statement that they only have one agenda and that is to stop Obama in the next election.  So far the Republicans have proven they are sabotaging the American economy in an ignorant attempt to sway voters to the Republican Party.  Sabotaging the United States economy so they can further destroy it with the Ryan Bill and deregulation of Banks and Wall Street!  Common sense voting should destroy the Republican Party!  Opps!  Maybe not if the 1% can fool their totally controllable Republican base.  All the 1% has to do is put fear on the table again.  Why not “fear” it worked before in 2004.  So what is the 1% doing this time?  Based on actions and not words the Republican “leaders” are herding the base together with abortion issues and gun control.  So far it has worked.  Most Republicans are soaking in so much miss-information about “what Obama is going to do” with no evidence of course but, remember Republicans don’t need evidence.  They just order someone like Scott Brown to say it in front of a microphone.  Then of course it becomes fact.   You know like the aluminum tubes George Bush said were going to be filled with 500 pounds of enriched uranium from Africa.  That story cost about a trillion dollars and counting.

Then there is the middle class Republican voters.  Tens of millions of people thinking that the 1% is going to help them somehow do what?  This is the biggest smoke and mirrors game of the century since the last two Wars Bush and Cheney started. What an insult to your intelligence.  Vote Republican and win what?  This illusion that you are part of the elite 1% is the biggest mistake of your adult life.  Check your bank account to make sure you do not have 100 million dollars in there.  Why would you help anyone that wants to destroy the social services that made this country great?  It was Republican leadership that built the roads and bridges we have falling apart today.  If you vote for a Republican you are going to be part of a rigged game that you will lose like everyone else.  Be advised joke is on you and it will be too late once you leave the ballot box.  

Romney is not going to tell you what he is really doing because you would not vote for him if you did.  He is the 1% poster boy that wants to buy (America) low and sell (America) high.  You are not going to get a check in the mail.  Your kids and family will suffer like everyone else.

The Republicans have painted this picture already.  So far they tried to shut down the Government three times to keep their tax breaks and corporate loop holes in place.

Does that sound like a responsible thing to do for people that do not need this help!  This is a very dangerous Right Wing group that wants control of the Whitehouse. Let’s hope you do a little research before you vote this country into another recession and let the 1% start another War!  Romney will do just that.

Research: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WbQe-wVK9E

Stay Focused on the Truth!