January 12, 2015

Good article. Love the picture there. Thanks for posting, Sleepless!

January 12, 2015

If Obama had attended, Faux would demand we nuke Paris immediately to clear out ALL the Muslims...

Since they say Obama is their leader.

Honestly, though, why didn't they call for Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, McCain. Palin, Bachmann, Graham, Cruz, North, Kristol, Christie, Perry, Paul or the rest of their highly touted 'better than Obama' crew to go?

Who did I leave off the list?

And where was Putin when the French needed him?



Few people had heard of Vladimir Putin when Russia's then-President Boris Yeltsin appointed him prime minister in 1999. But the stern-faced former KGB officer triggered a love affair with the Russian population — by starting a popular second war in Chechnya later that year.

Soon after hostilities began, the man who later became president surprised the country with the first of what became known as "Putinisms." He issued a threat to Chechen rebels using slang terms usually heard only in Russia's notoriously tough prisons.

"If they're in the airport," Putin said, "we'll kill them there... and excuse me, but if we find them in the toilet, we'll exterminate them in their outhouses."

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=90083829

Doesn't that just warm your heart? Faux wants him in the White House. Whatever...

January 12, 2015

I was amazed to have a talk with a bagger relation. I brought up the Nordic model and summed it up.

'It means we are all in it together.'

This relation is old enough to remember the advantages the New Deal gave, despite years of Fauxian propaganda and living in a very red state.

The bagger thought it was great! There was actually a tone of joy in her voice and she is gradually leaving hate.

It was a lightbulb moment...

January 11, 2015

New York's Whiniest, Zimmerman and Self-Evident Truths (to AA's) by Bill Maher:

Bill Maher takes on NYPD

to Quixote1818:

http://sync.democraticunderground.com/1017237302

There are at least two uncool remarks by Maher, but I didn't want to pass up by the 'by the book' killings and that 'the book' must be written by George Zimmerman! He really nailed that.

Oh, a little bit for the income inequality fans, first you get justice, then comes equality. The NYPD union, et al, needs a new book. Like yesterday.

January 11, 2015

All talkers? What about Bush and Cheney? They killed lots of Muslims. Why did they get a pass?

Al Qaeda Source: AQAP Directed Paris Attack

By Jeremy Scahill - 09 Jan 2015

...Sheikh Usama (RA) said in his message to the West: If there is no check on the freedom of your words, then let your hearts be open to the freedom of our actions...

The source, who demanded anonymity because the group had not yet released an official statement, also told The Intercept that two images in the latest issue of its publication, Inspire, published in December, contained a clue foreshadowing the attack on Charlie Hebdo. One image (at right, click to enlarge) shows a Muslim kneeling in prayer with a cooking pot similar to the one used by the Boston marathon bombers. “If you have the knowledge and inspiration all that’s left is to take action.” On the page immediately below it is a picture of a French passport. Throughout the day, several AQAP members have been praising the attack on social media and discussion sites. An AQAP source pointed The Intercept to a recording they claim is Cherif Kouachi, one of the suspects, acknowledging that his trips to Yemen in 2011 were “financed” by U.S.-born radical imam Anwar al Awlaki and that he was sent to Yemen by AQAP...

The Charlie magazine team deserved what they got. Many warnings have been given before, but they were persistent. They had the freedom to use cartoons in their magazine, and we have the freedom to use bullets from our magazines. As the ‘Wanted List’ stated: A bullet a day, keeps the kaffir away. Yes, Charb is no more. The lions of Jihad have stood. The followers of Muhammad – peace be upon him – have never forgotten. As Sheikh Anwar Rahimahullah put it: The Dust Will Never Settle Down.

Do not look for links or affiliation with Jihadi fronts. It is enough they are Muslims. They are Mujahideen. This is the Jihad of the Ummah. So France, are you ready for more attacks; Weren’t you asked by Inspire Magazine immediately after the Wanted List...

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/01/09/alwaki-paris/

There is a false equivalency by AQ on some cases there. And grievances about actions and not words. They appear to let neocons off the hook, though.

January 10, 2015

They know that and it's why they're gutting education and healthcare.

They are fully against all forms of healthcare, assistance and public education. They'll get both cheap labor while they need it and reduce the population at the same time.

They're working to bankrupt all the states with no taxes. This is fully intentional. We must stop being outraged and understand what we're up against with these guys who aren't playing by our rules, but by the Koch playbook. Once more:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024806298

They are enacting this state by state and have met most of their goals as too many voters now agree with the reasoning there. You will not find any changes in that platform in any state or nationally that support any public education, publicly owned institutions, healthcare or help.

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January 10, 2015

Birthrates determine power and always have. That's why women are under assault everywhere. Link pic:

Nothing surprising about the effect of demographics. It's why controlling women from birth until their childbearing years as always been a focus of religion and advertising. Both mentally and physically. One can consider that with pleasure or horror, it's just a fact of history.

January 9, 2015

Here are some more details, I'd stopped posting the defense of the ACA some time back:

to BlueCaliDem

9. This has been the conundrum that President Obama and Democrats were faced when mulling single-payer vs a system that Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, and other European countries have chosen: half gov't (subsidies), half private (premiums). This is ObamaCare at its core today and it's less expensive and quicker to implement.

Lest some forget, it took Canada no less than thirty years to implement their single-payer system. Considering the presidents and Congresses we've had in the past thirty years, I don't see how we could've done it.

That said, a provision in ObamaCare does provide for each State to either implement the ACA or they can apply for a waiver under subsection 1332 the "State Innovation Waiver" which will help fund their own system if that system can show that they can cover more people for less and won't burden the Federal budget. NO STATE can afford to implement single-payer because it's just too expensive to set up - as Vermont is now finding out.

So to those who claim that President Obama and Democrats had abandoned single-payer... they need to read section 1332 in the ACA. Single-payer is there. It's up to them and their State to choose that route.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014984216#post9

If you go to the link there the part I have underllined will produce the document. The reason I stopped defending it is because the attacks on PBO about single payer were made baseless but no one seemed to want to hear it.

And it's from a thread that is reporting and complaining about the VT governor who was trying to implement but there is not sufficient state revenue to do so. So VT did not get it, but may have done Medicaid expansion. I wish that people would look deeper into how these things happen or don't happen. Believe me, I wish my state implemented it. But after we did the Medicaid expansion the GOP legislators here tried to literally defund the entire state government and it took months to resolve. The enemy of single payer and Medicaid expansion is not the Democratic Party or our elected officials. The opposing forces exist in blue states, too.

At this point I have to leave for an appointment, though and not search any further.

Thanks for the post.

January 9, 2015

Thanks, Turborama. I hope this puts to rest feelings that incite hatred.

Tears for this man doing his job and his family who lost him in such a brutal way.

January 8, 2015

Not bad! Is that this one in NYC or one in D.C.?

Knowing you, I bet it's a very famous library in Washington, D.C.