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Well just got back from my vacation and what do I find on my liberal blog? The nice folks at google have loaded my blog with Republican and conservative ads. Hey I am just trying to earn a little secondary income but NOT from supporting Republicans.

Google Adsense Needs An Exorcist

I will be removing the Google Adsense ad program from this site. While they do provide a means to remove individual advertisers, once one Republican group’s ad is removed another one takes it’s place. Sort of like rodents don’t you think!

Anyway please bare with me while I read up on how to change from group ads to just search ads. The Amazon ads do long interesting though. Google Adsense works by analyzing the text and thus putting so called relevant ads on the space provided. What they never figured out is that when the issue is politics you need to find if the person is for or against the concept being discussed.

Thus with google Adsense if their “bot”  were to spot the word “abortion” in the text it would generate an ad dealing with abortion from those opposed to those in favor. – WOW this from the people who drive me nuts with their S.E.O rules and regulations.

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When I hear Republicans talk about “freedom” I need to take a Rolaids because my stomach turns acidic. Tim Palenty used this terminology at a recent meeting of the conservative group CPAC! Actually this is classic Republican rhetoric!  The “Freedom” that they so prize is not freedom for the American Middle Class!

In this era where corporations are defined as “persons” I find my personal freedom under further attack! Just this year we have the record recalls of Toyota cars for multiple reasons.  Also the diabetes drug “Avandia” has been labeled by many as the cause of heart problems! CBS News says that the company that makes Avandia, “Glaxo Smith Kline” knew about the danger for years!

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The Republicans were so happy when our nation lost it’s bid for the 2016 Olympics. (See video below). They even rejoiced saying Barrack Obama had lost his charisma! But their glee was short lived when our President received the Nobel Prize for Peace! You would think they would stand behind our President especially in this time of war! No instead they stand behind the CUT AND RUN CAPITALISTS who ship our jobs and technology to distant shores, often the enemies of America. They support Halliburton which has transferred it’s Corporate HQ to Dubai and whose subsidiary has caused the death of our soldiers by electrocution due to faulty base construction! But they rather target ACORN since that “sinister” organization is registering new voters that are not influenced by K-Street targeted ads.

Where is the old mainstream news-media while our nation gets bashed by these America bashers of the right wing? Read the rest of this entry »

Last week we heard the Republicans and their fellow travelers claim our President insulted doctors when he mentioned that doctors might choose options based on reimbursement rather than what is best for the patient. Senator Grassley today said the very same thing as an excuse for his double talk about President Obama wanting “death panels” to pull the plug on Grandma! In the video below he now back tracks on his statement concerning “pulling the plug on Grandma” and at the 2:20 mark makes the same remark about doctors that President Obama made. (See Video below)

Yet the Democrats in their masochism continue to strive for “Bipartisanship”. To hell with bipartisanship! Senator Grassley should have educated his constituents when he held his town hall meeting. Instead he continued the Republican Party lies about Universal Health Care being a conspiracy to pull the plug on Grand Ma. Apparently someone has pulled the plug on the blood flow to Senator Grassley’s brain!

Meanwhile I am sure Senator Grassley and his fellow travellers will be very happy to know that according to MSNBC millions of Americans now face shrinking Social Security checks! But then again in we must make our nation safe from Socialist programs like Social Security and Medicare! (See Video Below)

Democrats must realize that the Republicans are attempting to destroy Universal Health Care. Their fellow travellers, so called “Blue Dog Democrats” are growing fearful of loosing their insurance special interest contributions! When will Progressives stand up and fight back?

We need to kick some Republican butt and give these Blue Dog Democrats some testosterone to stand up for the Middle Class!

Well today we heard that Republican South Carolina Governor Sanford apparently had his own “stimulus package” to deliver to Argentina! Ah yes the party of “family values”, the party that says “No” to Gay marriage because marriage is a sacred institution. Damn dem Gays are breaking up to many marriages right Gov. Sanford?

Well now you Republicans say what about John Edwards? Well that is up to John Edwards wife but politically that he is not in the same ball park as Governor Sanford because John Edwards did not point the finger at other people and preach this self righteous krap from the religious right!

Remember the self righteous pomposity of the Republicans when our President wanted to have just a small amount of money in the budget for the distribution of Trojans to high school kids? Oh they whined and wailed. Then when the final cost of the package came out the Republicans complained that our kids would be paying the price for the stimulus package! Well maybe we should put Trojans back into the budget because our nation doesn’t need any more unwed mothers on welfare and fatherless teenage boys running around in criminal gangs. Yet this is the price that our society is going to pay for the Republicans following the Christian Right!

Hell if the Republican Governor cannot keep his zipper shut how can you expect a teenage boy?

I was on lunch break and saw Gov. Sanford’s speech. He went on an on before finally getting to the point. Folks is it only me? But since this guy was the Chairman of the Republican Governors caucus you would think he would have his apologies “after” he first told us the main event of the speech. That is to say he cheated on his wife! The reason?

Well for God’s sake this guy went on and on and I wanted to get back to work! But never mind me! Being the good family value oriented Republican Gov. Sanford is did he not have any consideration for CORPORATE AMERICA! That’s right! What about all the advertising revenue that was being lost due to his speech? If he said what he had to say upfront then the media could break away for their ads. Hell a good Republican would have consideration for CORPORATE AMERCIA!

Well what is really funny is that he mentioned that he meet his girl friend at a Bible Study! Well instead of outlawing Gay Marriage maybe we should out law Bible Study Classes as a means to preserve marriage!

No doubt at Bible Study they were discussing those awful pinko liberal Democratic Party Gay Marriage advocates! Oh yes the Republican Party – The FAMILY VALUES supporters!

I remember the Republicans used to say that foreign policy differences ended at our shore line! I guess that does not apply when they want to criticize President Obama and his handling of the Iranian Crises! Yet the Republicans and their fellow travelers in Halliburton had no problem doing business with the terrorist nation of Iran’s Mullahs! (See Video below)

These CUT AND RUN CAPITALISTS who want to be the pals of terrorists not only Iran but China also. Isn’t it amazing how the Republicans criticize our President in these difficult times yet I did not see them attempting to place a hold on American companies doing a “CUT AND RUN” to China after Tiananmen Square to make a buck! What is even worse is that brave students are using the internet as a means of communication in both the current Iranian and Tiananmen Square revolt. Yet American Corporations in their pursuit of profit before people have even assisted the Chinese Government in policing their internet and capturing dissidents! (See video below).

We live in an era of licentious permissiveness where “Individual Freedom” is subjugated to needs of the CORPORATE COLLECTIVISTS of Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and others. Did they care about the freedom loving students of China? Yet these same pompous asses preach “individual freedom” and the danger of big government! What about the effects of the CORPORATE COLLECTIVISTS with their usage of K Street on the American body politic?

The Republicans say President Obama is timid and weak in dealing with Iran and they mock him for his past desire to talk to the Iranian leadership about their nuclear program. Yet they have no problem talking to China and shipping American jobs, technology and wealth to China as long as they profit from such transactions. We in the Middle Class have seen these CUT AND RUN CAPITALISTS conduct a massive wealth redistribution program from the middle class to their own pockets while our national security suffers from such transactions!

President Obama realizes that both candidates in the recent Iranian Presidential elections were similar. However the followers of Mir Hossein Mousavi are evolving. First they opposed Ahmadinejad but now they are moving against their Supreme Leader and this could place them in opposition to the entire concept of the “Islamic Republic”! The crucial factor is not only their leader, Mir Hossein Mousavi, but the educated classes of the cities! By being placed in this evolving situation they are becoming outcasts of the Islamic Republic and ripe for conversion to real change! Hopefully as I mentioned in my prior post, to restoring some sort of Constitutional Pahlavi Monarchy!

Understand this crucial factor:

Change of that nature comes when anchors are cut. That is the reason for Obama’s reaction. Not simply that the Fundamentalists will crack down if we speak up. That is not the issue. The issue is the attitudes of the Iranian middle class in the cities. If the masses feel America is threatening them then the fundamentalists will succeed in their propaganda. Remember the VIETNAM WAR when blue collar workers where recruited by Republicans to fight the college students? The fundamentalists in Iran are attempting a “Richard Nixon” on the Iranian Silent Majority! They are claiming to be the advocates of “law and order” and defending the nation. Richard Nixon made the middle believe communists where behind the peace movement. The Islamic Fundamentalists are saying it is “the great Satan America”.

Yes the time is coming when Obama can come out of the closet and attack the fundamentalists.

But in social psychology when you wage psychological operations you change attitudes when the individual comes to the conclusion on his own. The young of Iran are now coming to that conclusion and most importantly “owning that conclusion”! As that occurs then we must overtly support them. Till then we must twitter away the time while using covert operations!

Let us just hope that American Multinational Corporations don’t sell their internet expertise to the current Iranian government! The time has come for all Americans to rally around our President!

Nancy Pelosi has been a first rate wimp over the last two years as Speaker of The House. She did not want to pursue the impeachment of Bush or Cheney! Despite all the lies about the facts leading up to the war she did nothing to pursue a rigorous investigation of intelligence gathering.

Now over the last week surprise! Nancy Pelosi is waking up! She is also appearing just as wimpy and flip flopping as before! If she had lead the charge against Bush and Cheney the focus would be now on them rather than her!

A key strategy of the Republicans is to appear decisive and attack flip flopping! She has fallen into their trap and may hurt the Democratic Party because she was not decisive over the last two years in going after former President Bush and Cheney! Republicans know that Americans like ACTION FIGURES! Bush was an action figure by kicking Iraqi butt and initially Americans liked him for that. President Obama got elected because when the issue turned to the economy he was perceived as an ACTION FIGURE while McCain was an advocate of Laissez-faire capitalism!

Republicans know that Americans hate the image of a indecisive person! They cannot hang that on Obama but they can on Pelosi. They have successfully reversed the investigation from Bush, Cheney and the CIA to focusing on her instead. Many Democrats, like myself, felt she was indecisive but now are protecting one of our own. I question if that is right! (See the video below)

The time has come to take FORCEFULL DYNAMIC ACTION to:

• Investigate Cheney and his fellow travelers as they steered from a “STRICT CONSTRUCTIONALIST” interpretation of the Constitution that they swore to defend!
• Bring to America’s attention how the Republicans are not bothered by Insurance Companies standing between doctor and patient while they profit from it and attempt to side track the issue by saying we Democrats want the government in between the Doctor and Patient!
• Challenge the vast salary and compensation gaps between the top 5% and the Silent Majority while the President, with much higher responsibility earns only 400K

We Democrats have been keeping our gloves on far to long. Let Obama play “good Democrat” but we need some nasty boys like Vice President Biden to sock it to them! Did the Republicans care when they made a big stink over Bill Clinton’s sexual problems? No they tied our nation down. We must have the same guts else we will not be perceived as “action figures”. We must be like a broken record, yes even attacking the news media! Hell we allowed the Republicans to get away with making the news media seem they favored us when they did not!

Time to stand up for the Silent Majority!

Today I heard John McCain on CBS’s program “Face The Nation.” To use the bloated language of the right wing, John McCain needs to “learn the lessons of history!” According to John McCain the big shots who draw large salaries for their legal expertise did not commit a crime. Instead they merely gave “bad advice!” WHAT planet are you on Senator McCain? When I served in the military we were told NO TORTURE – PERIOD! (see video below).

This doesn’t take a rocket scientist Senator McCain. The prior Administration broke the law. Now some of you who are reading this post may ask the question, So what? The issue is not simply:

• That we are violating the Geneva Convention which has the force of LAW in our nation,
• Nor that this practice of torture served as a recruiting tool by Al Qaeda, John McCain even acknowleges that in the video above!
• That the Republicans accused Democrats of “not supporting our troops” by saying we tortured in Iraq and Guantanamo!

THE ISSSUE IS THIS:

If water boarding and similar practices go unpunished and are allowed to be defined as “enhanced interrogation techniques” what is to prevent such practices and definitions being used against American Citizens at home by future Administrations or even the local police!

So am I going over board? I don’t think so! Let’s remember as conservatives love to say, “the lessons of history”!

Remember folks these are “Republicans” we are talking about. The very same people who believe that owning an assault weapon and keeping it in your home is as American as apple pie! Why? Because they believe it is a final line of defense against the Government taking away the rights of the individual! So excuse me and my fellow liberals if we fear our civil liberties being destroyed by an Administration that says”

“This is America and we don’t torture!” (George Bush)

I heard this line over and over by that deserter in Chief, George Bush! Always with that sickening smirking face! I fear future Presidents saying the same or even a local prosecutor! Where is the incentive to not practice these acts?  Also they attacked liberals for attributing “torture” to our troops! Now with more pictures to be released concerning this rampant practice of torture in Iraq by American troops we are merely to believe that lawyers in Washington “gave bad advice”, as Senator McCain said in the video above! By calling this “bad advice” we have to wonder what is the ethical capability of Republicans! Oh perhaps John McCain is going to lecture us on “ethical relativity”! But I thought that is something they accuse us liberal Democrats of practicing! You know “if it feels good then do it”!

Poor bleeding heart John McCain! He accuses Democrats of being like Dictators in a Banana Republic by going after the prior administration!

So if we let Senator McCain have his way then Republicans have a carte Blanche! After all the fuss the Republicans made about President Bill Clinton and his affair with Monica Lewinsky, the way they dragged this nation through all details while a war in Kosova was going on, they are going to lecture us on “moving forward”! Yeah right. If the Democrats don’t go after Cheney and the Republicans for this then what incentive does a future administration have to think twice about engaging in TORTURE! The only protection we would then have is the “definition” by what ever party is currently in power!

America’s Silent Majority, our great Middle Class, demand LAW AND ORDER! Senator McCain’s logic is the logic that gave Germany it’s “Enabling Laws” that produced the Third Reich! Some can say, “but they were only terrorists”! Some where but not all at Gauantamo! Nor where those who were TORTURED in Iraq! Only a court can define one as a terrorist! Maybe we should release our nation of it’s courts and let the Republicans be our judge and jury!

When the new torture pictures are released remember these Republicans told us “Our troops do not torture”! They made it a patriotic issue! Now they say they were only acting under “bad advice” from some Washington bureaucrats! Ethical Relativity – Republican style! President Obama MUST go after these criminals to the fullest extent of the law.

Maybe we should all buy assault weapons because in the future the Republicans may have the likes of Blackwater patroling our streets!