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Republican Proposes Cutting Food For The Poor!

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OP-ED by John Liming

“The one who is unwilling to work shall not eat.”

This is a Bible Verse that at least one allegedly rich Republican Representative from the Great State of Tennessee has been reported to have quoted as his reason for wanting to make even more drastic cuts to the government’s “Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) – - – a program that helps 47 million Americans – - – many of which are children – - – to find enough food to survive from day-to-day.

As I was reading this story on “Addicting Info” at 5:39 am this morning, I thought to myself, “This is really disgusting but to me and my way of thinking it is representative of the way that a lot of Right Wingers think about the most vulnerable of our citizens – - – do whatever it takes to make sure the rich and powerful get their share of The American Dream regardless of whether it might devastate someone who does not live at the top of the food chain.”

I also had this thought:  ”This is the kind of shit that should inspire people to vote for Democrats in the elections of 2014.”

So, without further adieu, I say to all my faithful and highly valued Readers – - – READ MORE:

http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/05/21/tn-rep-the-bible-says-not-to-feed-the-unwilling-to-work-so-we-should-cut-food-stamps-to-kids/

Posted by John Liming at 5:42 am.

Anti-Nuke Protesters Reportedly Arrested, Jailed And Charged!

OP-ED by John Liming

Some sources are reportedly calling the three whom some have described as  ”Pacifists” involved in this story by other names – - – names like “Felons” and “Saboteurs.”

I think this is juicy reading because to my way of thinking it has all the elements of high drama – -  good theater if you will.  The only thing is that it looks to me a lot like it has potential to turn into a very serious matter!

There are reportedly some people who are saying that reading this account should make more people in The United States a lot more concerned about how the United States Government handles – - – “Dissent.”

I have my own questions about what might have transpired at The Oak Ridge, TN nuclear weapons production facility when the three “Pacifist Protesters” made their moves as reported in what I have found to be a fascinating article on the website, “Alter Net.”

My question is:  ”Would things in this case have turned out any differently if “No Trespassing” signs had not been ignored as has been alleged or if fences had not been cut?”

I think people are going to have to read the “Alter Net” article themselves.  The article on “Alter Net” may be seen in “Related Articles” at the end of this blog post.

Posted by John Liming at 1:47 pm

“Doctored” Benghazi Quotes In The News!

English: Rachel Maddow in Seattle.

English: Rachel Maddow in Seattle. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

OP-ED by John

Why am I not surprised that someone has disclosed – - – alleged – - – stated – - – said – - – mentioned – - – that some Re-thugs might have been responsible for doctoring supposed quotations from e-mails about the Benghazi Tragedy and that this “doctoring” of those e-mails might have caused false information to have been aired on some television network?

Is someone telling me here that some of the righteous-minded, Jeezus-Following, Church-Going, Moral Family Values Pure Hearts – -  some of the “Better than anybody’s” – - -Right Wing propaganda nuts are capable of – - – fabricating stories – - – telling fibs – - – lying – - –  to try to make the president look bad?

Give me a break!

Is such a thing possible?

Am I looking at a “Nature Of The Beast” scenario here?

What – - – besides total eventual dictatorial political  power over everybody and everything at any cost – - – do they think they have to gain with such tactics?  Can you tell me?

Snark! Snark!

Rachel Maddow seems to have an opinion about all this and I have been reading about it over on “Crooks and Liars.”

I have to admit – - – folks – - – I am totally devastated to think that someone I always thought of as so good and pure and decent and infallible – - – and occasionally a-wad- – -  as some of our Rethugs could even imagine stooping to such lows – - I am  totally devastated to learn of these allegations.

. . . totally devastated – - – totally disappointed – - – totally ashamed to learn that some of our guardians of all morality, decency and religious virtue might have it in them to do anything like what has been alleged here – - – What Would Jesus Think?”  WWJT?

I am starting to wonder – - – at this point – - – if there is anything else they could have ever lied about?

I think I will go into the kitchen and open a beer and make a cheese sandwich – - – and laugh my ass off!

More reasons to vote Democrat if you ask me!

Read More – - this is spicy!  This is juicy:

http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/heather/maddow-fair-game-disclose-names-republican

Posted by John Liming at 6:48 am

Scandals, Scandals and More Scandals!

A scandal here, a scandal there – - – a scandal seemingly everywhere:

My Opinion

by John

May 18, 2013

I hear this tinny-assed  music being played over and over and over again  on what appears to me to be  rusty old broken records being used by some of the clueless who live in what I view as the misty shadows of the intransigent and most supremely mindless realms of the radical right-tards and the words of the music keep on ragging about all the “massive amount of fraud and scandals and cover-ups” allegedly being perped on The American People ever since the president – - – our President – - – President Obama – - –  took office in 2008.

They speak so freely and easily about criminal acts in high places without ever uttering a peep about all the crap that allegedly went on during the administration of 2000-2008 – - – the now infamous WMD Wars and the alleged deceits that got us into that seemingly endless and prohibitively expensive mess – - – a mess we are still paying through the nose for – - – a mess that our Grandchildren and their grandchildren after them will still be paying for.

The high priests and priestesses of Rightsville look to me like they dearly love to rave on and on  about how none of what they seem to like to call  the “thugs” and “perverts” who make up some of the current administration have “escaped being prosecuted” for their alleged crimes – - – crimes that I think exist only in what passes for minds in some of these feces-filled windbags – - – but none of them seem to me to be mentioning a word about how some in the administration of 2000-2008 who could have faced the music for some things that were allegedly done are still running around free as birds.  What’s up with that?

Some of the Right Mongers complain about how the sitting president and his administration have engaged in allegedly endless constitutional violations but none of them seem to me to be mentioning “The Patriot Act” or un-warranted wiretapping or all the suspension of Habeas Corpus and increased surveillance of American Citizens that went on in connection with the paranoia following 9/11.  It looks to me a lot like the Constitution would have been entirely suspended by that bunch if they thought they could have gotten away with it.

Let me conclude with a short personal observation about one of Rightie’s seemingly favorite things – - – The Benghazi Conspiracy Theory with its seemingly endless investigations and inquiries and accusative insinuations – - – My opinion of that shit is:  ”If Benghazi was Obama’s fault, then why wasn’t 9/ll George Bush’s fault?

Can Rightie answer that one for me?

Political Controversy And America’s Future!

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Opinion by John Liming

What Impact Will The Current “Controversies” Have On The President’s Agenda And On America’s Prospects For The Future? – - -

Well I think I can guess what effect some over on the Right Wing side hope the so-called “controversies” will have on the President’s agenda – - – I think some of them hope the “controversies” will destroy the President’s agenda – - because folks – - – isn’t that what they have been looking for and trying to achieve with their lies, deceptions and treacheries ever since they got their rear ends  handed to them in the elections of 2008 – - – and 2012?

Nothing to see here, folks – - – same old obstructionist intransigent crap from the Radical Right in my opinion!

Right-Wads are saying that the “controversies” – - – Righties do love to create their “controversies”, don’t they? – - – will make prospects for achieving any kind of immigration reform doubtful and will cause additional troubles in getting “Obama Care” up and going full tilt.

As to the “immigration” reform thing – - – I cannot see how Repukes would find difficulties in achieving immigration reform because of “controversies” now in the news because as I understand it they are the ones who are always wanting to build fences aren’t they?

Isn’t building fences and barriers about  the limit of their imagination as far as immigration reform goes – - – you know . . . “keep them out!” I think  The Statue of Liberty would blow out that torch in embarrassment!  What ever happened to “Send me your huddled masses?”  I think it went to Right Wing Hell in a hand basket – - – that’s what I think!

I hear tell that some of the Right Radicals are thinking that the “controversies” might give Republicans a better chance of flooding the political market with their particular brand of failed policy bullshit in the 2014 elections.  I surely hope America is not dumb enough to fall for that old crapola!  We have all been on that crap wagon before and I think a lot of us still remember how those years churned along and what effects it had on this country and on our generations. I firmly believe that our Grandchildren will still be paying for that one!

It is so strange to me that Right Wingers still try to hang onto their “Benghazi” controversy even though the national polls are all reportedly giving the president high marks for his handling of national security issues.

This doesn’t make too  much sense to me – - – but then it is rare that anything the far Right does makes sense to me – - – or to most of my friends and associates either – - – or apparently to the American Electorate who has twice chosen this president over all Right Wing contenders.  That surely has to be evidence of something worth considering doesn’t it?

I am always in favor of going with “America’s Choices” because I usually have the greatest confidence that when America agrees on something, that is what was destined to be and it will always turn out for the best in the long run.

One of the current “controversies” seems to be related to something the Internal Revenue Service did in the course of their normal duties – - – some kind of “Too close scrutiny” of some political groups or something and I think I have my own ideas about that discussion too:

I think the IRS, The FBI, The CIA and all other agencies involved with protecting our tax money or our safety or our national security should be as free as birds to investigate whatever and whomever they choose the same as any Law Enforcement Agency should be able and free to do their investigative work.  That just makes sense to me.  I don’t think we should be hamstringing our Federal Protections because of someone’s hurt feelings.

Keep in mind that you are reading an “Opinion” blog and that is what I am doing here – - – I am expressing my opinions!

It don’t look to me like any Right Wingers have all that much trouble calling for all kinds of “Investigations” when something has tickled their strings but it does look to me like maybe some of them can’t stand a little dose of their own medicine or something like that.

Is it really true that “They” can “Investigate” anything and everything or anybody they want to “Investigate” but when somebody else decides to investigate them that is a “No No?”  Why is that?  How is that?  I do not think such things ought to be!  I think that what is good for the goose is good for the gander!  I do not see where their gripe lies in some of this stuff.

The next point I want to address in relation to these “controversies” is the question of how they might affect the president’s “job approval” rating.

Of course we must remember that the president is in his second term now and I am not so sure that any so-called “job approval” rating is really relevant at this point in the game.

I think the president is going to do what he has always seemed to me to do – - – I think he is going to shrug off the intransigence and obstructive nature of the A-wads who oppose him so strongly and just go ahead and do what he thinks needs doing to the best of his ability with the tools that are granted to him.

It looks to me like one great advantage for this president is that he does not have to worry about running for the office again and I think that idea ought to feel “Liberating” to him at this stage of the game.

Then finally I would like to say a word about the Federal Government:

There are some radical right wads out there who I truly believe would love nothing better than to see the end of our Federal system of government and a return to some kind of regressionist backward-looking, non-progressive stagnation but I think if they are expecting this spate of what I consider as nothing but  ”manufactured” controversies to bring this vision to pass they are pissing in the wind.

In the first place I believe that all contemporary ultra-conservatist idiot-ology is designed to ultimately fail and it has been doing a heckuva good job proving that ever since 2000.

In the second place, if we did not have the Federal Style of Government, the United States would cease to be and something else would move in to fill the vacuum – - – and I do not envision that “something else” as being at all attractive.

But I do imagine  that if it were at all possible, Right Radicals would conceivably be in charge of whatever it is and the end result would most likely be a true “one party-two class” system in which there is nobody but (1) The rich who demand to be served in their every whim and (2) The “Others” who would be obligated to spend their entire lives serving the whims of their masters.

Posted by John Liming at 10:18 pm

Picture Credit:  The picture of the elephants and the U.S. Capitol are used with gratitude and permission of MARIO PIPERNI.

Shocking Revelations About 2000 Presidential Election!

Date:  5/17/2013

Subject:  The Gore Vs Bush Election Of 2000

Strictly My Opinion

By John Liming

To:  Mr. and Mrs. America and Everyone Everywhere:

In 2000 – - – for the first time in America’s long and challenging History, a President of The United States was not “elected” by “The People” but was – - – appointed – - – crowned – - -coronated – - – by The U.S. Supreme Court.

This – - – of course – - – is one of the reasons I have always said there needs to be strict term limits placed on the Judicial Branch where appointments are presently made for life  – - – and I have always railed against any Judiciary legislating from the bench – - – and I definitely do not believe The Supreme Court should ever take it upon themselves to tell the American People who their President is going to be – - – whether they like it or not!  In my book  that is not what an elective democracy is about and that is why I still think our democracy broke down temporarily during that tumultuous period of the 2000 presidential elections and I hope to God it never happens again because I believe the results of that single action by The Supreme Court resulted in – - well – - as the article says, “It wasn’t pretty!”

It is my opinion that everybody should read this revealing article on “Addicting Info.”

(CLICK HERE)

Posted by John Liming at 6:19 pm.

 

Presidential Leadership Is Always Subject To Discussion!

Date:  5/17/2013

Subject:  The President and The Nation:

Strictly My Opinion

By John Liming

To:  Mr. and Mrs. America and everyone everywhere:

Dear Friends and Fellow Citizens,

It is unfortunate in my view but there still seems to be a lot of uninformed – - – or informed but hostile – - – folks from the far right side of radicalism who appear to want to perpetuate some image of our President as – - – “Lazy” – - – inefficient – - – clueless ” – - – or whatever other adjectives some of them have discovered as they try to repair the terrible lack of understanding and comprehension that I think afflicts many of them.

It must be absolutely dis-spiriting to awaken some fine morning and to discover that a prize hunting hound is nowhere near as good a conversationalist as some other human being might be and to come to the realization that one’s lingual conceptualizations match the mental intellect inherent in the person and that both together are sufficient to perpetuate some primitive form of physical existence but neither or even both in combination are powerful enough to raise one above the most elemental ignorance – - – ignorance that while present and dominant can still be mitigated somewhat by holding conversations with others who have the same problems – - – thereby making the ignorant feel at least a little justified in their pronouncements – - – because “Others” agree with them.  That kind of sums up my impressions of a lot of Righties and explains to some small degree how a lot of them probably attempt to engage the thinking process when they are spouting their incessant crap about the “Gubmint” or the “Prezi-dunt” or whatever else it is that is tickling their extra-anular nerve centers on any given day.

So here is this cob-knocker from God only knows where out in the boonies somewhere writing that President Obama has every desire to be a “good” leader but that he somehow lacks the “git up and go” to “git-er-done!”  In other words, I think this Rightie is trying to suggest the old stereotypes about certain peoples – - – I think it is something is inherent to some of their very characters and make ups – - – I think this tendency is something that is ingrained in the DNA of some intransigents – - – I don’t think those who are afflicted in this manner are aware of what has happened to them or what is happening around them because I also think their entire world is made up of little inconsequential banalities and many of them simply do not have what it takes to visualize anything outside their own self-fabricated insular little cocoon of a – - – world – - – and so . . . lacking actual facts on which to build a premise – - – or the panache to understand anything above a truly elemental level  - – - they “invent” things that must seem comfortable to them – - – and those are the “facts” they go with – - – their own specific revisionist and exclusionist kind of “facts” that they have created with their own two hands and the substance of their incessant flatulence – -  in the Image of  their vision of their Creator.  Hallelujah Brother! God-Like Beings – - infallible – indefatigable – - unconquerable – - all-wise and all-knowing – - invincible … except at the polls during elections – - snark!

There is a Scripture that I like a lot and I kind of think it describes some of the Radical Right -Tards I have known:  ”God will confound the wisdom of the wise and bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.”  I think some of those who think of themselves as “Legends In Their Own Minds” have yet more wake up calls to endure as time goes on. I do not have a clue as to whether some of them are too stubborn to admit their defeats at the polls and in the eyes of The American People or if they are actually stupid enough to believe the things they say – - but I think the future may hold some eye-openers for a lot of them – - and I am personally hoping it all begins in the elections of 2014.

Reality check for Righties:  ”The President of The United States is not lazy and he does not lack leadership qualities.  As much as some of the assholes on the Radical Right would want to paint a negative picture of the President and the Democrats and the Progressives and Liberals – - – and everybody else except themselves – - – they have nothing to go on except over active imaginations and I am unanimous in that!

This President has made what I consider to be  every effort to lead this country through some awfully hard times and as far as I am concerned – - – and as far as millions of others who share my opinions seem to be concerned – - – he has done one helluva great job at leading in the face of every kind of adversity up to and including the seemingly persistent goal of his adversaries to do everything in their power to block – - stop – - halt and obstruct every single thing he has tried to do.  Righties have worked their asses off to try to defeat and undo this President and all they have gotten so far for their efforts has been getting their rear ends handed back to them in a hat as the president they often seem to despise so much went right ahead and won that second term they wanted so desperately to deny to him – - – and in the process they made themselves look a lot more like fools than some of them already are or have been – -  in my humble opinion.

It looks to me like some of the Radical Right-Wads still want to cling to some kind of notion that the agenda of this President is somehow – - “Marxist” or “Socialist” in the sense that some countries are ruled by a brand of “Socialism” that tends to be oppressive but these same Right-Tards cannot understand – - for some reason – -  that some of the very elements of their own ideological overview sometimes approaches what looks an awfully lot to me like a textbook definition of “Fascism” to one degree or another.  I mean if the Righties can look at Democrat tendencies to want to make up Social Safety Net programs designed to help the most vulnerable citizens we have and call those programs “Socialist” then why can I not be justified in looking at the authoritarian nature of the contemporary brand of what I consider to be “crazy” Right-Wad-Ism and reasonably conclude that some of what some of them are proposing borders on the ideals of a type of National Socialism?

Am I wrong in assuming for example that some of the Radical Righties want the entire social order to be totally dominated by politics they deem to be absolutely and unquestionably superior to any other ideology on the face of this earth and that this ideologic politic is none other than – - their very own?  What kind of Democratic two-party system would that kind of thinking eventually lead to?

Do any of their actions such as voter suppression and wanting to change the electoral college and gerrymandering districts and all the other things some of them have been doing suggest that I might be onto something here with the idea they want to control and dominate every aspect of American Life because they think they are – - – superior to everyone and everything else?

Have I not been reading things that have been allegedly said by some on the far fringes of the radical right lately that might suggest some of them feel as if there is some kind of need to maintain a “Purity” and “Strength” among themselves and in their ideology  - – - and is there any reason for me to believe that this attitude might be the basis – - – some day – -  for some kind of internal purging within the parties who espouse these ideals of what I like to call “New Right-Ism” – - – something that seems to have supplanted the Old Order Conservatives in this country and relegated them to the back burner because some of the “Newbies” think of them as “Not conservative enough?”  Can I expand that definition to “Not fanatical enough?”

Am I wrong in assuming that some of those on what I am describing here as the right side of radical conservatism have already begun to talk about their perceived political enemies – - Liberals, Democrats and Progressives – - as “Degenerate” or “Asocial” and have – - on more than one occasion – - suggested in one form or fashion that “Liberals, Democrats and Progressives” have no legitimate reason for being included in the established social order in this nation and should be side lined, defeated, demeaned and denounced in the name of national unity and/or security and prosperity?

Have I not been hearing some form of these kinds of ideas coming out of the mouths of some of the Righties in the past few years or have I just been imagining it all?

Do we in America – - – in point of fact – - already have the seeds of a present and growing American Hyper-Nationalist Movement based in some idea that it is Patriotic to oppose the established order because of some hyped-up notions that the “present order” might be “Corrupt” and leading the nation toward some inevitable tyranny?

Is that some of what all the gun craziness has been about?  There are many who would deny this – - – but I am asking here – -  is any of this possible?  Are any of the signs evident in any of the crap some the far Right Radicals seem to me to have been running off at the mouth about?

Is it just my nightmare – - my personal paranoia – - or am I correct in assuming that the far right extreme radical Right-Tard view of a “Homogenous” society steeped in the security of “National Unity” is a view that excludes governing or decision-making roles for anyone except themselves and their own ideologues?

Read More:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Far-right_politics

Posted by John Liming at 8:06 am