Sheeple! If Sarah Palin Is REALLY One Of You...then this is YOUR life!

Since the day that Sarah Palin stepped onto the McCain platform she has convinced her naive followers that she is one of them.  To this day she still tells the masses, I am one of you!  Well I want to see what You look like and how You live!- Mem

Wow!  Nice house and private plane YOU have

The International Herald Tribune published an extremely detailed estimate of Gov. Palin’s assets on October 1, 2008.

WASILLA, Alaska: Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin and her husband have pieced together a uniquely Alaskan income that reached comfortably into six figures even before she became governor, capitalizing on valuable fishing rights, a series of land deals and a patchwork of other ventures to build an above-average lifestyle.

Even REAL Women Who Kill Moose Can Lose Their Powers Sarah...

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Sarah Palin Is Trying To Peddle Herself As The Reincarnation Of Ronald Reagan

She very well could be...so let me remind you of who Ronald Reagan was!~Mem

RONALD REAGAN-He rallied vicious legions of fascists, killers, and mindless religious patriots to the GOP cause ! Revolutionary Worker #1244, June 20, 2004, posted at http://rwor.org/

Ronald Reagan--the U.S. president from 1981 to 1989--relentlessly drove this planet to the very brink of nuclear world war--while preaching, with a fundamentalist fervor, that a nuclear Armageddon was "winnable."

He rallied vicious legions of fascists, killers, and mindless religious patriots to his cause--and had them trained, funded and promoted in an unprecedented way.

Everything that opposed the domination by U.S. capitalism, anything that was progressive (or even just vaguely enlightened) became a target. Christian crusaders, bigots and rightwing death squads were unleashed on the people in countless ways, both open and secret.

Now Reagan has finally died. And this empire, its leaders and its utterly shameless media are all honoring this monster. This myth-making, this utter reversal of right and wrong, says a lot about them and their system. And it says a lot about this moment in history--when American is in a midst of a new aggressive global offensive.

The Rise of a Rightwing Hatchet Man
Ronald Reagan was active in the anti-communist witch hunts after World War 2. Reagan, a hack actor in Grade B westerns, introduced a "loyalty oath" for actors and for the officials of the union he headed, the Screen Actors Guild (SAG). He testified before the "House Un-American Activities Committee" and privately snitched to the FBI to help them purge Hollywood of "disloyal" artists.

Anti-communism soon became his career. Reagan toured the U.S. for General Electric, giving speeches that promoted "free enterprise" capitalism and rightwing politics. Prominent ruling class forces saw Reagan could put a slick "aw shucks" face on rightwing politics. With their backing, he became governor in California in 1966, running as a rabid opponent of "unwashed kooks, campus malcontents and filthy speech advocates." He announced, "I would have voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964."

And once in office, he launched a high-level vendetta against the rising radical currents--like the Black Panther Party and the youth movement in Berkeley.

In May 1969, police moved against the communal Peoples' Park in Berkeley that symbolized a rejection of capitalist property. Street fighting erupted. One man, James Rector, died of gunshot wounds as squads of police opened fire in the streets. Reagan sent his National Guard troops marching through the Berkeley campus with fixed bayonets as state helicopters gassed the crowds. Reagan personally defended the police decision to shoot people.

In 1974 Governor Reagan bitterly denounced huge crowds of poor people who excitedly showed up to get free food that the Hearst Corporation had been forced to distribute by the SLA kidnapping of Patty Hearst. Reagan said: "It's just too bad we can't have an epidemic of botulism."

Reagan was an arrogant opponent of Black Liberation, a supporter of U.S. escalation in Vietnam, a law-and- order counter-revolutionary, and a sneering enemy of the radical youth culture. He was a hated symbol of everything the '60s radical upsurge wanted to overthrow.

AmeriKKKa is Back
"We have so many people who can't see a fat man standing beside a thin one without coming to the conclusion that the fat man got that way by taking advantage of the thin one!"
Ronald Reagan, 1964

"Why should we subsidize intellectual curiosity?"
Ronald Reagan campaign speech, 1980

"Beginning with Reagan in particular, when he became President in 1981, there was a massive ideological assault to undo what people had learned, to make them `stupid' and to promote another view, a reactionary viewpoint."
Bob Avakian, "We Want State Power--and We Should Want It," Revolutionary Worker, May 4, 2003

"Reversing correct verdicts goes against the will of the people."
Mao Tsetung

The dreams of an "American Century" were punctured by the 1960s. The U.S. invasion of Vietnam was defeated. The U.S. was widely exposed as a global oppressor whose roots lay deep in slavery, genocide and aggressive expansion. Mindless patriotism, conservatism, conformity, traditional sexual roles, support for the military, "get rich" manias--all were put on the defensive.

Presidents toppled. First Lyndon Johnson, then Richard Nixon left office in disgrace.

By the late '70s, the U.S. ruling class was looking for a way out of this "malaise." In 1979, they were hit hard. Vicious U.S. puppets were overthrown in Nicaragua and Iran. And their social-imperialist rivals, the Soviet Union, invaded Afghanistan. The U.S. ruling class decided to mount an aggressive global comeback challenge. To spearhead this, they tapped Ronald Reagan, a man from the extreme right fringe of U.S. politics, and made him president in 1980.

He set out to mobilize every reactionary and backward force in a crusade for U.S. supremacy.

Reagan's political work was packed with chilling racist symbolism. After getting the nomination--he praised "states rights" in his first speech--made in Philadelphia, Mississippi, known for the 1964 Klan murder of three young civil rights workers. Reagan ranted about "welfare queens" supposedly riding around in Cadillacs. He even said people were homeless "by choice."

Reagan mobilized the so-called "Moral Majority"--and demanded a return to "traditional moral values," which meant banning abortion, imposing prayer on kids, and enshrining conservative Christianity as an official religion in public life.

He mocked environmental concerns saying most air pollution was caused by plants: "So let's not go overboard in setting and enforcing tough emission standards from man-made sources." His press secretary pointed out a window and shouted: "Look, killer trees!"

Within months of his inauguration, Reagan crushed the Patco strike of air traffic controllers--and set a pattern of union busting that has continued until today.

When Reagan's administrators cut money for school lunches, they classified ketchup and relish as vegetables to hide the drop in nutrition.

For six years after the first cases of AIDS appeared, Reagan refused to sound the alarm, or mobilize social resources. By the time Reagan even mentioned the word "AIDS" in 1985, 30,000 people had died, and the epidemic was in full swing.

*****

In 1985, at the height of the Reagan Years, the Maoist magazine A World To Win described those times:

"The United States of America appears to have gone totally mad. It screams that its `hesitancies' and `self doubts' left over from Vietnam are dispelled. `We won't be pushed around any more!'.Official America brims with unapologetic self-love. Amid a reborn worship of `free enterprise,' the proletarian, the poor, the non-white are openly scorned as `losers' who have somehow personally failed to take advantage of the `limitless opportunities' in the `land of the free.' Classic American know-nothingism is back in vogue. `Traditional social roles,' especially for women and youth, are exalted and increasingly enforced. Backwater religious fanatics are handed respectability and influence. Submissiveness, motherhood, unthinking obedience are watchwords of the times."
(From "Resurgent America Turns to Reaganism," Carl Dix, A World to Win, No. 2, 1985)

Ronnie Ray-Gun at the Brink of World War 3
"My fellow Americans, I'm pleased to tell you today that I've signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes."
Reagan's chilling "joke," before a radio broadcast, August 11, 1984

Reagan's politics marshaled everything backward in the U.S. for a global military drive to win U.S. domination. Their main target was the Soviet Union and its allies, which had formed as a rival imperialist military bloc.

After the restoration of capitalism in the USSR in 1956, its rulers tried to carve out their own profitable imperialist empire, and as the U.S. stumbled in the 1960s and '70s, the Soviet social-imperialists stepped up their efforts.

Reagan set out to force a roll-back of Soviet influence, using raw military power. In the first years of Reagan's rule, the U.S. government spent a full $1.5 trillion to build a "global war-fighting capacity." President Jimmy Carter's push to deploy "first strike" nuclear weapons was carried through, and Reagan added a new ingredient for nuclear war-fighting: plans for a Star Wars system in space.

The U.S. military was moving to be able to launch a quick, unannounced nuclear strike, and then "defend itself" against any attempt by the Soviet Union to retaliate. These were preparations for "waging and winning" nuclear war. Reagan openly argued that such a war could be winnable.

This horrible offensive deeply marked the 1980s--it filled the nightmares of a generation. Europe was treated as a potential nuclear battlefield. And millions of people were drawn into active resistance to this great threat of global nuclear war between two imperialist war blocs.

Death Squads of the Reagan Doctrine
Now, over Reagan's casket, his successors praise him for a "bloodless victory over the Soviet Union." Their mythmaking hides mountains of bones and fields filled with mass graves. Under Reagan, oppressive governments all over were armored with new weapons for threatening their neighbors. Proxy wars raged throughout the third world. And Reagan's government unleashed history's greatest wave of covert CIA operations and secret wars.

On December 1, 1981, Reagan signed a secret National Security Directive (NSD) that authorized the CIA to create a mercenary army to attack Nicaragua's new Sandinista government. These "Contra" killers launched an intense campaign of sabotage and assassination against Nicaragua's people. Reagan also sent "military advisors" to El Salvador--to escalate a rightwing death-squad campaign against rebels and peasant villages.

Reagan's CIA armies used secret drug trafficking to finance their arms purchases--flying planes into U.S. mainland bases loaded with cocaine, and flying back to Central American bases loaded with arms for the Contras. The flood of cocaine helped create the "crack explosion" that hit U.S. ghettos in the early '80s (all while Nancy Reagan declared a "war on drugs" with her "Just Say No!" campaign).

In 1982, a Pentacostal fanatic, General Efrain Rios Montt, staged a coup in Guatemala, with strong support from the U.S. "Moral Majority." He carried out genocidal campaigns against Mayan villagers, killing an estimated 200,000 people. In the middle of this campaign, Reagan personally met Rios Montt to praise him as a "man of great personal integrity and commitment."

Meanwhile, the CIA poured billions of dollars into their largest covert operation in history--organizing an extreme Islamist fundamentalist army to attack Soviet troops in Afghanistan and trap the USSR in an unwinnable Vietnam-style quagmire. The CIA's "Mujahedeen" burned down schools and slit the throats of schoolteachers for teaching boys and girls together in mixed classes. In 1985 Reagan signed another secret NSD--this time providing the Mujahedeen with sophisticated surface-to-air missiles to use against Soviet helicopters.

More than one million Afghani people died in this U.S. Soviet proxy war, one-third of the population fled into the desperation of refugee camps. The CIA's allies in this war, including Osama bin Laden, would later create groups like the Taliban and al-Qaida.

In Africa, the U.S. government recruited armed groups in southern Africa--to attack the movements who had come to power in Angola and Mozambique, and to help preserve the racist apartheid government in South Africa. The CIA's backing of Jonas Savimbi's UNITA movement plunged Angola into long years of civil war that ruined the country and made large parts of the population refugees.

These Nicaraguan contras, Afghan Mujahadeen and similar groups throughout the world were called "freedom fighters" in Ronald Reagan's speeches. But they were armed agents of U.S. imperialism--even though, in the beginning, the direct U.S. role in their crimes was unknown and officially denied.

The Hot Wars of This "Cold War"
Meanwhile, Reagan launched repeated aggression directly using the U.S. military itself.

In 1981, Reagan provocatively sent an aircraft carrier into Libya's territorial waters where they shot down two Libyan planes. It was an open U.S. provocation against this small, oil-rich, North African country. In 1986, Reagan sent planes to assassinate Libya's Col. Muammar Qaddafi in his bed. Qaddafi survived, but the attack killed over 30 people, including Qaddafi's infant daughter.

In 1982, Reagan sent over 1,200 Marines into Lebanon's capital, Beirut. Reagan withdrew that invasion force, after 258 Marines were killed in their Beirut barracks. But he quickly moved to burnish his image of "strongman" by staging an invasion of the tiny Caribbean island of Grenada.

Grenada is only ten miles wide with a population of 90,000 people. Its major product is the spice nutmeg. A popular movement there had placed an anti-U.S. government in power. And so Reagan unleashed "Operation Urgent Fury"--the October 1983 invasion by 2,000 troops. A phony justification was cooked up--claiming that U.S. medical students were in danger there. Reagan later quipped (with raw imperialist humor) that Grenada had to be conquered because Americans "can't make eggnog without nutmeg."

This rape of tiny Grenada was a signal to the whole region of what the U.S. would do to anyone who defied them. Starting in 1983, the U.S. Navy repeatedly held massive exercises that, over and over, took an invasion force within striking distance of Nicaragua.

In the Persian Gulf, the Reagan government backed the Iraqi government in a brutal border war with Iran. The U.S. secretly helped funnel billions of dollars in aid and arms to Saddam Hussein. During that time Saddam Hussein developed chemical weapons and used them on Kurdish villages and Iranian troops. The U.S. government prevented these actions from receiving international condemnation--since they wanted their ally Saddam Hussein to continue undermining Iran's government.

Over a million people died as the U.S. government dragged out this senseless eight-year border war--all to force Iran firmly back under U.S. domination.

At the same time, as Carl Dix remarked in A World To Win :

"U.S. imperialism has found the banner of the `Free World' far too useful for its purposes to abandon lightly. In fact, under Reagan there has been a virtual fad of staging mock elections to prettify death squad regimes from El Salvador to South Korea to Turkey."
It has a remarkably modern ring to it: Ranting about "bringing democracy to the world" while unleashing torture, invasion, and U.S. domination.

A Real-life 1984
Reagan signed NSD 52 that authorized the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and National Guard forces to prepare to round up over 400,000 people into prison camps. Under the guidance of an unknown Marine colonel, Oliver North, a secret operation called "Rex 84 Bravo" practiced these plans in April 1984.

The Miami Herald published parts of a FEMA memo that described an "Alpha Two Phase" of the exercise as a test of "emergency legislation, assumption of emergency powers." In other words, the operation included plans for martial law and the suspension of the U.S. Constitution.

REX 84 was connected to the testing of two other major war plans. Operation Night Train deployed thousands of U.S. troops to Contra bases in Honduras for an invasion of Nicaragua. A separate operation practiced military command-and-control for global nuclear war.

In short, the U.S. government was considering an invasion of Nicaragua. And it was preparing, if necessary, to suspend the Constitution, round up hundreds of thousand of people within the U.S., and be ready to wage a global nuclear war against the Soviet Union. These intermeshed scenarios show how far the Reagan White House thought they might be about to take things.

At exactly that same time, Reagan was elevated to messianic status during the 1984 presidential election. The media reported how they had made this mummified mediocrity "Teflon coated." A carefully manufactured popularity handed him a landslide victory and a second term. It was a sign of a sinister consensus that dominated the larger U.S. ruling class.

The 1985 article in A World To Win states:

"Unlike the previous world wars of this century, the United States stands in the very front trenches of a looming third global conflict. It must prepare its population to take the full shock of coming collisions in a way they never had to before, even to the point of staring straight into the glare of the nuclear fireball. For this, the U.S. imperialists must mobilize all of their political reserves, and prepare to put everything on the line in the coming gamble.. To describe the acts planned by these modern Hitlers, a whole new vocabulary would have to be invented. It is this extreme necessity that has conjured up the extremism of a Ronald Reagan."
Iran-Contra
"I see that murderous clown Ronald Reagan--who couldn't remember anything about his part in the illegal war where tens of thousands of Nicaraguan people were butchered by Contra mercenaries. I see his loyal lieutenant Oliver North--who has become a much quoted moral authority these days--lying to Congress and then falling on his sword, while George Bush was allowed to slide and glide into the presidency."
Redwing writing in the Revolutionary Worker , October 11, 1998

Shortly into Reagan's 1984 reelection, the new Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev adopted a new strategy: backing down from an all-out military showdown with the U.S., seeking to buy time, delaying the outbreak of war, all while trying to reinvigorate the Soviet economy and reconfigure their empire. Gorbachev offered concessions to U.S. demands and the U.S. imperialists (headed by Reagan) moved to accept those concessions.

Over the next years, Gorbachev's high-stakes strategy led to the unraveling of his empire, the collapse of the Soviet Union and its bloc, and the transformation of Soviet state-capitalism into more openly privatized forms of capitalist ownership.

At the same time, these developments also spurred an intense and escalating political crisis within the U.S. ruling class known as Iran-Contra Affair.

A Lebanese magazine, Al-Shiraa (Nov. 3, 1986), leaked the first reports that the U.S. had secretly sold Iran 1,000 TOW anti-tank missiles, weapons components, and radar, in exchange for the release of a high-ranking CIA official held hostage in Lebanon. Reagan's envoy Oliver North had taken the profits from this deal and (secretly and illegally) bought arms for the Nicaraguan contras.

Reagan denied the reports. But he was quickly forced to say, "I told the American people I did not trade arms for hostages. My heart and my best intentions still tell me that's true, but the facts and the evidence tell me it is not."

Reagan aides, like Oliver North, his boss John Poindextor, and General Colin Powell, were caught lying on these matters to Congressional committees.

Month by month, more came out about the murderous global campaign that Reagan and his minions had carried out--including a massive global operation of pressuring allies and puppets to provide funds for CIA covert wars. Poindextor tried to wipe out the records of these operations, but overlooked an email backup system in the White House basement.

White House spokesman Bernard Kalb resigned when it was revealed that the U.S. government had accused Libya of preparing attacks on the U.S.--knowing that it was not true.

A high-level U.S. ruling class committee, the Tower Commission, was assigned to resolve the crisis. Reagan was battered and widely discredited. But, in the end, he was not forced to resign (as Nixon had been). He was shoved to the political sidelines of his own White House, and a new political team (headed by Senator Howard Baker, and working closely with Vice President Bush) took over the day-to-day operations of the U.S. government.

This scandal, what it exposed, and the disgrace that fell on Reagan--these have hardly been mentioned in the endless mythmaking that followed his death.

*****

"To the Reaganites, racists, misogynists, televangelists, would-be Rambos, war planners, and America- firsters, we say the future is not yours. Because we see the potential of a different future, we will Refuse and Resist."
Refuse and Resist!, 1987 Founding Statement

What does it mean that the President today seeks to associate himself with Ronald Reagan? What does it mean when the Democratic challenger John Kerry calls off his campaign to honor Reagan--and praises Reagan's leadership and patriotism? Or when Bill Clinton complains that he is not allowed to make a public eulogy over Reagan's corpse?

It means that U.S. imperialism is furiously racing down the same road blazed by that monster, Ronald Reagan! It means they dream of world domination--and they want the world to believe ridiculous myths about their good intentions.

We live in extreme times, that have a new stink of fascism about them. The U.S. government is seeking to exploit its position of military superiority--as the "world's only superpower." They have unleashed armies, death squads, torturers, and police spies.

They have already put Reagan's name on an aircraft carrier and their national airport--and they are now talking about engraving his face on some of their holy dollar bills. Perhaps they should also etch his name on every bullet they send to Iraq, and every cattle prod they use in their torture camps.

Any system and ruling class that can honor Ronald Reagan--this hateful strangler of human hopes--shows what they are about. That alone reveals the intense need to liberate humanity from their rule, and bring something radically new into being.

Thank You Fay for sharing!

Can Barack Obama Ever Be Enough to Satisfy Us?

Amazing Post That Says It All! This should be shared with every American in this Country! My answer is yes! I am very proud of our President and will continue to support him through bad times as well as the good times! ~Mem

Posted on July 24, 2010 by joy50

From the time that Barack Obama campaigned for the Democratic Nomination for President to a year and a half into his Presidency, he has been hammered by the GOP, the media, big corporations, the Tea Party and even some Democrats for not being enough. Every day there is an attack on Obama for never being enough of something. Can we ever be satisfied?

This is how it goes. He didn’t have enough political experience. He didn’t have enough executive experience. He wasn’t Black enough. He wasn’t White enough. He wasn’t old enough. He wasn’t liberal enough. He wasn’t conservative enough. He wasn’t tough enough. He wasn’t angry enough. He wasn’t American enough. He wasn’t partisan enough. He wasn’t bipartisan enough. He wasn’t transparent enough. He wasn’t in the White House enough. He wasn’t out of the White House enough. He wasn’t patriotic enough. He wasn’t apologetic enough. He wasn’t pro Israel enough. He wasn’t anti Israel enough. He wasn’t pro Muslim enough. He wasn’t anti Muslim enough. He wasn’t enough of a peacemaker. He wasn’t enough of a war monger. He’s not concerned enough about education but he’s too educated. He doesn’t take his family on vacations to the right place enough or he doesn’t take vacations at the right time enough. It goes on and on. On one hand the Tea Party accused him of not being enough. On the other hand they accused him of being Hitler and taking over “their” country.

No matter how you look at it, there’s an accusation or an attack on President Obama that he isn’t enough of something. You hear it all day long on the cable networks. You hear it from the GOP every time they speak with rare exceptions. This day to be moderate seems to be the “kiss of death” for the GOP. It’s seen as a lack of purity. If you’re not leaning far enough to the right as a Republican, and denouncing Obama in every way possible, then those who are pulling the strings, clamp down. And who is pulling those strings?

You hear it from Blacks and you hear it from Whites. You hear it from so called liberal Democrats. You even hear it from Senate Majority leader, Harry Reid, right after Barack Obama stomped for him in Nevada. He said Obama wasn’t forceful enough. He was too much of a peacemaker.

The fact is that President Barack Obama is very serious, purposeful and strong. Again, starting back with the Democratic Presidential Campaign, he was underestimated by both parties. Obama was able to defeat the Clinton machine. He later was able to unite with his formidable opponent, Hillary Clinton, for a strong union today that works best for this nation and each other. It even includes Bill Clinton all for the good of the country. The President now utilizes the strength, character, dedication and knowledge of Hillary to head up the State Department. He was able to beat the hard line GOP war hero, John McCain with a significant majority. He was then able to incorporate strong members of the GOP into his cabinet to play roles to assist in the transition like GOP Secretary Gates in the Defense Dept.

Many Americans and media personalities still don’t comprehend the style and approach of this President. He is a diplomat at heart and believes in a peaceful state of being. Martin Luther King, Ghandi and Mandela were great men of character and peaceful leaders but were not referred to as weak men. These men led without violence or combative dialogs, yet they each had highly significant and positive impacts on the world. Barack Obama can be firm and formidable when he needs to be, for example, he secured twenty billion dollars from BP for the victims of the Gulf.

Obama’s method of madness does work. He doesn’t have to scream and holler or shut people down to accomplish his goals and policies. He is pragmatic and inclusive. He intends to spread the wealth because he’s a fair man. He was dealt a disastrous hand that was not of his creation and it continues. He becomes either the Fix it man or Mr. Clean up man. He chose to take it all on, and still it isn’t enough.

The American people, according to current polls, believe all the negative press. Americans are struggling and have to blame someone. Bush was given 8 years to do just about whatever he wanted and he had a surplus leftover by the Clinton administration to consume. He consumed it all and then he managed to play cowboy with our country and our lives. He started two wars that were not paid for. He gave tax cuts to the rich that he didn’t pay for. Bush and the GOP didn’t pay for any of it.

They are not the deficit hawks that they project themselves to be. They are quite the opposite. Big business got the benefits and main stream America had to suffer. The tax cuts did not work to bring us new jobs or help small businesses or provide business loans; and we’re still fighting two major wars. The GOP is campaigning to extend the Bush tax cuts that were never paid for, didn’t help small business, and didn’t create new jobs. Everything that the GOP are proposing will add to the deficit in the tune of about 3 trillion dollars according to Rachel Maddow’s research announced on her show this week on MSNBC.

Jonathon Alter, distinguished journalist of Newsweek and author of “The Promise” (Obama’s first year) says the GOP is being compromised by whack jobs. The “whack jobs” are creating a fear based and dangerous environment. I can’t believe that everyday Americans are buying into the GOP and cable rhetoric, but the polls don’t support Obama.

We cannot let the GOP take leadership again. They have made it their intentions to support big business and Wall Street and not the average hardworking American. The GOP, Fox news, Boehner, McConnell, Limbaugh, Sarah Palin, Beck and the other usual suspects are dangerous to our country and to our President. Obama is a strong leader for the people. After a year and a half of attacks, he has stood his ground. He continues to fight the giants on behalf of the American people. Obama has faced more obstruction from Congress than any other President. The Congress is holding up the jobs bill.

In spite of this fact, he has enormous legislative victories…..more than any other President in the time period. As citizens, let’s demand that all Democrats, Independents, and sane Republicans get out and work with the President for the people and for this country, and don’t underestimate Barack Obama. He is a force to be reckoned with. Let’s join his energy in getting Americans back to work, because Obama has done more than enough as president. It’s time he gets the credit that he deserves.

Thanks Politicususa for great articles!

The Teabagger Pledge

I, ________________________, do solemnly swear to uphold the principles of a socialism-free society and heretofore pledge my word that I shall strictly adhere to the following:

I will complain about the destruction of 1st Amendment Rights in this country, while I am duly being allowed to exercise my 1st Amendment Rights.

I will complain about the destruction of my 2nd Amendment Rights in this country, while I am duly being allowed to exercise my 2nd Amendment rights by legally but brazenly brandishing unconcealed firearms in public.

I will foreswear the time-honored principles of fairness, decency, and respect by screaming unintelligible platitudes regarding tyranny, Nazi-ism, and socialism at public town halls.

Also, I pledge to eliminate all government intervention in my life. I will abstain from the use of and participation in any socialist goods and services including but not limited to the following:

• Social Security
• Medicare/Medicaid
• State Children's Health Insurance Programs (SCHIP)
• Police, Fire, and Emergency Services
• US Postal Service
• Roads and Highways
• Air Travel (regulated by the socialist FAA)
• The US Railway System
• Public Subways and Metro Systems
• Public Bus and Light Rail Systems
• Rest Areas on Highways
• Sidewalks
• All Government-Funded Local/State Projects (e.g., see Iowa 2009 federal senate appropriations)
• Public Water and Sewer Services (goodbye socialist toilet, shower, dishwasher, kitchen sink, garden sprinkler)
• Public and State Universities and Colleges
• Public Primary and Secondary Schools
• Sesame Street
• Publicly Funded Anti-Drug Use Education for Children
• Public Museums
• Libraries
• Public Parks and Beaches
• State and National Parks
• Public Zoos
• Unemployment Insurance
• Municipal Garbage and Recycling Services
• Treatment at Any Hospital or Clinic That Ever Received Funding From Local, State or Federal Government (pretty much all of them)
• Medical Services and Medications That Were Created or Derived From Any Government Grant or Research Funding (again, pretty much all of them)
• Socialist Byproducts of Government Investment Such as Duct Tape and Velcro (Nazi-NASA Inventions)
• Use of the Internet, email, and networked computers, as the DoD's ARPANET was the basis for subsequent computer networking
• Foodstuffs, Meats, Produce and Crops That Were Grown With, Fed With, Raised With or That Contain Inputs From Crops Grown With Government Subsidies
• Clothing Made from Crops (e.g. cotton) That Were Grown With or That Contain Inputs From Government Subsidies
• If a veteran of the government-run socialist US military, I will forego my VA benefits and insist on paying for my own medical care
• I will not tour socialist government buildings like the Capitol in Washington, D.C.
• I pledge to never take myself, my family, or my children on a tour of the following types of socialist locations, including but not limited to:

* Smithsonian Museums, eg. the Air and Space Museum or Museum of American History
* The socialist Washington, Lincoln, and Jefferson Monuments
* The government-operated Statue of Liberty
* The Grand Canyon
* The socialist World War II and Vietnam Veterans Memorials
* The government-run socialist-propaganda location known as Arlington National Cemetery
* All other public-funded socialist sites, whether it be in my state or in DC

• I will urge my Member of Congress and Senators to forego their government salary and government-provided healthcare.
• I will oppose and condemn the government-funded and therefore socialist military of the United States of America.
• I will boycott the products of socialist defense contractors such as GE, Lockheed-Martin, Boeing, Northrop Grumman, General Dynamics, Raytheon, Humana, FedEx, General Motors, Honeywell, and hundreds of others that are paid by our socialist government to produce goods for our socialist army.
• I will protest socialist security departments such as the Pentagon, FBI, CIA, Department of Homeland Security, TSA, Department of Justice and their socialist employees.
• Upon reaching eligible retirement age, I will tear up my socialist Social Security checks.
• Upon reaching age 65, I will forego Medicare and pay for my own private health insurance until I die.

SWORN ON A BIBLE AND SIGNED THIS _____ DAY OF __________ IN THE YEAR _______.

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Sign and Print Full Name-Address-City-St-Zip-HomePhone-CellPhone-WorkPhone-EmailAddress
(anything the teabaggers can sell~Mem)

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The Day After

I was going to write a letter to the Republicans who have been total Asshats during this process but then I received this letter from Michael Moore that say's it all!

The Great Thing About the Health Care Law That Has Passed? It Will Save Republican Lives, Too (An Open Letter to Republicans from Michael Moore)

Monday, March 22nd, 2010

To My Fellow Citizens, the Republicans:

Thanks to last night's vote, that child of yours who has had asthma since birth will now be covered after suffering for her first nine years as an American child with a pre-existing condition.

Thanks to last night's vote, that 23-year-old of yours who will be hit one day by a drunk driver and spend six months recovering in the hospital will now not go bankrupt because you will be able to keep him on your insurance policy.

Thanks to last night's vote, after your cancer returns for the third time -- racking up another $200,000 in costs to keep you alive -- your insurance company will have to commit a criminal act if they even think of dropping you from their rolls.

Yes, my Republican friends, even though you have opposed this health care bill, we've made sure it is going to cover you, too, in your time of need. I know you're upset right now. I know you probably think that if you did get wiped out by an illness, or thrown out of your home because of a medical bankruptcy, that you would somehow pull yourself up by your bootstraps and survive. I know that's a comforting story to tell yourself, and if John Wayne were still alive I'm sure he could make that into a movie for you.

But the reality is that these health insurance companies have only one mission: To take as much money from you as they can -- and then work like demons to deny you whatever coverage and help they can should you get sick.

So, when you find yourself suddenly broadsided by a life-threatening illness someday, perhaps you'll thank those pinko-socialist, Canadian-loving Democrats and independents for what they did Sunday evening.

If it's any consolation, the thieves who run the health insurance companies will still get to deny coverage to adults with pre-existing conditions for the next four years. They'll also get to cap an individual's annual health care reimbursements for the next four years. And if they break the pre-existing ban that was passed last night, they'll only be fined $100 a day! And, the best part? The law will require all citizens who aren't poor or old to write a check to a private insurance company. It's truly a banner day for these corporations.

So don't feel too bad. We're a long way from universal health care. Over 15 million Americans will still be uncovered -- and that means about 15,000 will still lose their lives each year because they won't be able to afford to see a doctor or get an operation. But another 30,000 will live. I hope that's ok with you.

If you don't mind, we're now going to get busy trying to improve upon this bill so that all Americans are covered and so the grubby health insurance companies will be put out of business -- because when it comes to helping the sick, no one should ever be allowed to ask the question, "How much money can we save by making this poor bastard suffer?"

Please, my Republican friends, if you can, take a quiet moment away from your AM radio and cable news network this morning and be happy for your country. We're doing better. And we're doing it for you, too.

Yours,
Michael Moore
MMFlint@aol.com
MichaelMoore.com

P.S. I'll have more to say on this tonight, live on CNN, at 9pm ET. I'll be talking with Larry King about the health care bill and where we go from here, considering we still don't have universal health care.

P.P.S. In case you missed these photos in yesterday's NY Times Sunday Magazine... That's the results of seven years of madness. The Iraq War began its 8th year this weekend. How can we remove more of those responsible for this tragedy in November?

They Call Themselves Patriots

We call them The Republican Party, Blue Dog Dems, Corporate Ass Kissers, Teabaggers, Wingnuts, Hate Mongers, Racist, Palin, Beck, Limbaugh, McCain, Fox Poison and Anti-
Americans!

Democrats Theme Song For Wing Nuts

Wing Nuts Sitting In A Big Ol' Tree
The Media (must be true the birds are always talking) wants ratings and so they pander to the Hate and Lies spread by the Republican Party, Right Wing Extremist, Teabaggers, Palin, Beck, Limbaugh and Fox Poison on a daily basis. How many times have you heard the wing nuts say I heard it on the news so it must be true? (They think fox is news as well)
With all their delusions of flat earth, birthers, death panels and wondering who is next you just have to laugh when you picture the nuts in this big ol' tree.
Big Tree View
Aaryn Russell-Austin, Texas

Palin's Tea Party Crib Notes

Stefan Sirucek

Independent journalist and foreign correspondent
Posted: February 7, 2010 12:24 AM
UPDATE (Huff Exclusive)
Closer inspection of a photo of Sarah Palin, during a speech in which she mocked President Obama for his use of a teleprompter, reveals several notes written on her left hand. The words "Energy", "Tax" and "Lift American Spirits" are clearly visible. There's also what appears to read as "Budget cuts" with the word Budget crossed out.


(Photos AP)

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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (8 PM CST)

Ahh sweet Earl Grey Revolution! Sarah Palin knew that speech like the back of her hand. The Q&A answers, however, were on the front of her hand.

Or so it appeared.

During the Q&A following her speech at the Tea Party Convention, Ms. Palin appeared to read from her hand in answering.

The following image was caught by some sharp-eyed Twitter users, notably @jryanlaw


UPDATE #2: A high-quality video on youtube seems to prove that something was indeed on the palm of Palin's hand. The question is what.


UPDATE #1: And, via ThinkProgress, the Video:

Crib Notes? This potential presidential candidate and "movement" leader was using crib notes to answer basic questions?

This would mean:

A) That she knew the questions beforehand and the whole thing was a farce. (Likely.)

and

B) That she still couldn't answer the previously agreed-upon questions without a little extra help.

If true, this is supremely rich coming immediately after a speech in which Palin took a shot at President Obama for using a teleprompter to read his prepared speeches.

You can bet that the President wasn't reading scribbles off his extremities while he sparred with Republicans and Democrats in an unscripted format in his recent Q&As.

Palin, on the other hand, seems to need a cheat-sheet just to get through a contrived lovefest with a smitten interviewer and an adoring audience.

I'm no fan of the Tea Party movement - if it can be called such - but if this is their leader I actually sympathize with them.

The Pit Bull In Lipstick Is Back

Saturday, Feb 6, 2010 21:07 EST

She's "tired of hearin' the talk talk talk" but Palin wowed Tea Party Nation Inc. with nastiness for fun and profit
By Joan Walsh
AP/Ed Reinke

Sarah Palin addresses attendees at the National Tea Party Convention in Nashville, Tenn., Saturday, Feb. 6, 2010.

Eric Hoffer didn't live to see Tea Party Nation, but I always think of his most famous quote when I'm forced to deal with it: ""Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket."

I'm not sure the Tea Party cause is a great one, but it's an influential one, and it degenerated into a racket lickety split, in less than a year. This weekend's gathering in Nashville splintered both the Tennessee and the national Tea Party movement, as local go-getter Judson Phillips set up the once-anticipated "convention" as his own for-profit business. We'll have a first-hand report from the racket that paid Sarah Palin more than $100,000 to speak Saturday night. But I can't help weighing in.

Wow. This was the Palin we saw at the 2008 Republican convention, the snarling pitbull in shimmery lipstick. I know journalists aren't supposed to use words like mean and dumb, but I can't help it. Palin is one of the meanest people on the public stage today. She wallows in it. She loves it! Also? Possibly one of the dumbest. But mean works, and so does dumb. And so do lies, and there were many mean, dumb lies in her speech.

How rich that she read her talk in a sing-song voice as she ripped Barack Obama for using a Teleprompter. Once she left the speech for the Q&A, she really went off-message, as well as nearly off-English. (Even though it looked like, at one point, she was reading answers off of her hand.) "They're not knowin what are we gonna do if we don't have Tea Party support" was one of my favorite head-scratchers, a great echo of "when Putin rears his head."

But it was also in her brief Q&A that she made one comment she might regret, if anyone in the Republican Party ever held her accountable. She told the crowd her husband Todd -- according to recently released emails, the non-elected former governor of Alaska -- is "much too independent" to be a Republican, because he's even "more conservative" than she is. What a great way to revisit the controversy over Todd's membership in the secessionist Alaska Independent Party! Remember how Palin dogged poor McCain campaign manager Steve Schmidt, trying to get him to denounce Salon's reporting on the Palins and AIP? She tried to get Schmidt to lie and say her husband checked the AIP box on voter forms mistakenly, and he refused. Now she's bragging her husband isn't a Republican because he's so "independent."

She lied about rejecting stimulus money for Alaska (apparently she rejected a small home-weatherization project, which as it is sounds kind of mean for the governor of Alaska.) She lied about Obama's position on terrorism and the Christmas Day would-be bomber. She mixed up Alaska and America at least once. It was hilarious to hear her denounce political "talk, talk, talk" and also brag about the job she did as governor, when in fact she quit that job to talk, talk, talk, for money, at wine shows and for-profit tea parties and of course for Fox News.

I have to say, I've been assuming Palin probably won't run for president, and that she quit her job as Alaska governor to cash in on her fame. I now feel pretty certain she's trying to do both. She's certainly looking like a grifter, and cashing in at the for-profit Tea Party Nation event, and taking questions from the increasingly despised Phillips, may hurt her politically. But it's now pretty clear to me that in all her narcissism, she thinks she can get rich and run for president at the same time. And who am I to say she can't, given the delusions of her right-wing supporters?

Tea Party Patriots Attack Family who Lost Daughter And Grandchild (Video)

*This is the kind of hate, racism, fear-mongering and lies that the republican party has brought our country to.~Mem

A group called the Chicago Tea Party Patriots publicly heckled a grieving family and suggested that the couple fabricated their tragic story.

At a town hall held by Rep. Dan Lipinski (D-Ill.) on Nov. 14,, Dan and Midge Hough spoke about how they believed the death of their daughter-in-law and her unborn child were caused, in part, by a lack of health insurance. Twenty-four-year old Jennifer was uninsured. According to her in-laws, she was not receiving regular prenatal care and was not properly treated when she got sick. She ended up in an emergency room with double pneumonia that developed into septic shock, had a heart attack, a brain bleed and a stroke. The baby died and Jennifer died a few weeks later.

Midge Hough was heckled by anti-reform crowd members. "You can laugh at me, that's okay," she said, crying. "But I lost two people, and I know you think that's funny, that's okay."

A local Tea Party organizer falsely claimed that the couple had made up the story and tried to justify the town hall behavior, according to the Southtown Star.

Catherina Wojtowicz, of Chicago's Mount Greenwood community, an organizer for a Tea Party splinter group, Chicago Tea Party Patriots, falsely claimed that the Houghs fabricated their story. In an e-mail, she called them operatives of President Barack Obama who "go from event to event and (cry) the same story." [...]

The audience, Wojtowicz later explained, was exasperated by stories of isolated tragedies that cloud debate over the health care bill itself.