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Let Sleeping Conservatives Lie!

John R. Liming

My Opinion

Date:  June 12, 2013

Subject:  How And Why Many Who Call Themselves Conservatives Are Living In A Fantasy World And Lying About Our Democratic Government:

Dear Friends:

If you want to get a lesson in how a lot of folks who call themselves “Conservative” can tell lies about The President, Liberals, Democrats, Progressives – - The Government – - The Economy – - The Constitution – - and a whole lot of other things – - all you really have to do is (A) Read a radical Right Wing blog written with a lot of anger, hate and angst – - and there are plenty of these on the internet – - or (B) tune in to the constantly blaring propaganda constantly being blared out over the internet and the airwaves or in some of the Rightist print media – - it looks to me like a whole lot of that kind of people are simply “brainwashed.”  I don’t think they have much of a sense of what is real and what is not – - and I think their failed governance is solid proof of this thesis.

For a synopsis of the problem that I found intriguing and most revealing, may I suggest reading the following article on “Salon” – - HERE.

“OBAMACARE’ SAID TO BE WORKING!

Date:  June 7, 2013

Rightsters Keep On Bashing “Obamacare” With Their Lying Propaganda But There Is A Big Reality Shock In Store For A Lot Of Them:

The biggest shock to the Right-Wads who seem to me to  hate Obama, Obamacare and Democrats, Progressives and Liberals with all the energy they can muster may easily be  that their wild claims that Obamacare will be prohibitively expensive to implement are reportedly about to be disproven – - and I think it will be no time at all before the Righties will have to crap-can their myth-leading on this score.

I think instead of wasting a lot of time listening to the unmitigated fabrications and bull crap found on a lot of Right Leaning Propaganda sites – - – people ought to get a little dose of what is really happening in the world under their belt by consulting sources that know what the Hell they are talking about.

The Radical Right can blow up all the balloons of fear about Obamacare  they want to but I am confident  the last laugh will be with the ones who see that the healthcare program is not the monster that some Righties want to make it out to be – - –  and although there have been some increases in cost projections since the program was first initiated – - – something I can understand  was always probably bound to happen because of ever-changing economic factors – - – I think there are plenty of elements having to do with the economics of the thing that will motivate some who might want to scam the system see things in the light of a new economic reality – - – a light that I like to call “The Magic Of Competition In The Market Place.”

Right now a whole lot of those that I view as bootlickers of The Radical Right look to me like they are really busy spinning the numbers to try to make their case against Obamacare a little stronger – - but I am convinced they are doing little more than urinating into the wind because what I think of as the  ”Real” indicators show that in a short time from now those states that have done what they need to do to make the law work will see far lower insurance rates than they do now – - and this is already reported to be starting  to take shape in – - you might have guessed it – - California!

The Radicals seem to be  trying to convince the gullible that Obamacare is bound to cause a lot of  private insurers to jack up their rates for individual policies – - – and maybe some of this might be being contemplated  in some locales  - – -  but this kind of price gouging is reportedly unsustainable as competition within the exchanges starts to cause lower rates – - often much lower rates.

For a closer look at what I think is reality on this score,  there is what I think is a really great article on the website “Forward Progressives” and that article may be read ( HERE ).

Reality is still much more attractive – - in my opinion – -  than some of the fantasy being spun by some of the “true believers” on the Radical Right who I believe simply can’t stand anything that Liberals, Democrats, Progressives or The President of The United States says or does.

Posted by John Liming on June 7, 2013

The Blind Lead The Blind Sometimes!

Social Security Poster: old man

Social Security Poster: old man (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

John Liming – - -

My Opinion – - -

I knew this one elderly guy once who always ranted and raved about how he would never take a dime of “that there Obummer Care – - or any other type of Gubmint handout.”

As he got older and less able to get around, he started depending on friends and neighbors to ferry him to the grocery and to doctor appointments and wherever he needed to go because he couldn’t see well enough to drive any more.

The friends and neighbors apparently got their fill of it because the next thing I knew “Mr. Independent Republican Tea Party Type” was on Social Security and Medicare and getting some kind of aid from the state to help him and his wife live in a senior facility of some kind where there were plenty of other people to “lend a hand when needed.”

This guy was like a lot of people I have known in my lifetime – - They desperately need their Social Security and Medicare – - and Medicaid – - and Food Stamps – - and what other “Gubmint Handouts” they can get their hands on just so they can make ends meet – - – but in what I think is far too many cases – - - they continue to vote for Republicans and to hate the Democrats who originated these life-saving programs in the first place.

I have never figured this out but it sure doesn’t make a lot of people look too awfully bright in my estimation.

I hope everyone who reads “American Liberal Times” has also discovered the following site:

(Americans Against The Republican Party).

Respectfully yours,

John

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

 

 

Democrat or Republican – what difference does it make?

Date:  May 15, 2013

Subject:  OP-ED by John Liming

Re:  How Republicans and Democrats have different thoughts about things and whether or not it matters in the larger scheme of things:

To:  Mr. and Mrs. America and all the World.

Dear Friends:

I never thought I could lose friends because of something like political differences – - – but I guess a lot of people have some really strong feelings about things these days because in the last couple of years I have had some life-long friends tell me to go to Hell because of my political beliefs.

I have tried to make friends with some Right Wingers on the basis of the idea that both of us are “Jesus Christ” Christians – - – but apparently there is more than one way of interpreting what Christianity really is – - – I have discovered sadly that there are some folks out there who really believe they can be Christians and still harbor hatred in their hearts – - – hatred for Democrats, Progressives, Liberals – - – and The President, The Congress, The Government in General – - – and anything or anybody that gets up their noses or that bites them on the ass.

Yes there are apparently some serious differences in how Democrats and Republicans view things and that is why I was so fascinated with an article I discovered on the website, “Addicting Info.”  This article covers some of the most important areas where I have always believed the two parties differ and I am recommending all my readers take a look:

http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/05/09/fifteen-differences/

This is the kind of thing that I like to make copies of and pass out to friends, relatives, co-workers and strangers that I meet on the street – - – being ever hopeful that I do not meet any people with short fuses and concealed carry permits that is – - – snark! snark!

Posted by John Liming at 1:13:21 (EST)(USA)

 

 

Right Wing Scandals Never Ever Happen Do They?

Internal Revenue Service Building on Constitut...

Internal Revenue Service Building on Constitutional Avenue in the Federal Triangle (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Date:  April 14, 2013

Subject:  Forgotten Government Scandals

To:  All Americans Everywhere.

My Dear Fellow Americans,

Sometimes it seems to me like there are a lot of Right-Leaning Radical Obama Haters out there who must just itch constantly in the crotch – - – or in the end of the sphincter muscle – - – to find any little thing they can try to fashion into some kind of attack on the President or the administration or Liberals, Democrats and Progressives.

Can’t you just see some of them slobbering on their moustaches as they try to get the wheels turning in those old empty belfries trying to gin up some “sh*t” they can smear around the name, reputation or image of elected officials they don’t seem to have any particularly strong love for?

Right now some of them are most likely running to and fro looking for every little snake under every little rock in reference to some crap that happened over at the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and – - – of course – - – let us not forget their seeming ceaseless digging into the – - – Benghazi – - – affair!

Oh some of them get really arty when they try to get something akin to intellect operational and start blowing off at the mouth about how all the thugs, crooks, liars, perverts and so on and so forth – - – should be investigated - – - apparently constantly and for the minutest suspected – - – “imagined”  - – - infractions of things Righties pretend to hold morally dear – - – and as far as I can tell – - – this sh*t is always aimed squarely either at the President of The United States or some member of congress or some person who works in some government agency – - – you get the drift I am sure.

Well – - – it looks to me like a few – - – maybe more – - – of those Rightie Hate Mongers might be licking their chops as they throw words like “Impeachment” and “Prosecution” around with the greatest of ease over things that probably don’t amount to a hill of beans but things I think probably always continue to eat on their sour grapes experience of having had their collective asses kicked in the last presidential election.

It is right about now – - – at this very moment – - – that I would like to introduce another question in regard to all this “Scandal” and what ever else that might be being stirred up by some of the Tightest of The Farthest Reaches of The Fringe Radical Right and the thing that I would like to bring up is this – - -

Why do we never hear a word anymore about:

1.  The big hue and cry about patient neglect and conditions at Walter Reed Military Hospital sometime in or about 2007?

That was a scandal wasn’t it?

2.  The big flap over the firing of some U.S. Attorneys near the beginning of the G.W. Administration?

Wasn’t that some kind of scandal too?

3.  The big scandal that erupted over somebody in the government revealing the identity of a CIA agent named Valerie Plame?

Does anybody remember that one?

4.  The big hullabaloo over Civilian Contractors and their activities in Iraq – - -The so-called ”Black Water Affair” – - – and other things?

Hey – - – there have been reported – - –  at one time or another – - -  to have been  at least 20 scandals that were alleged to have happened during the previous Conservative Administration – - – things that got extensive media play – - – things that seemed to be awfully serious at the time – - – but I don’t remember any Liberals or Democrats going off the deep end and trying to keep the investigations going and going and going on these – - – alleged scandals – - – do you?

Did the Democrats miss a beat here?  Should the Obama Administration have brought up some questions about the Iraq War and how and why we got into it in the first place?

If so, why the Hell didn’t the Obama Administration spend millions of dollars of taxpayer money to have endless investigations into all kinds of allegations of wrong doing during the preceding administration?

Is it because there was no scandal during that administration or what? 

I think that if Righties are going to push all the scandals they can lay their hands on then the Democrats have a right to do exactly the same thing – - – what is good for the goose is good for the gander I always say.

So why aren’t the Democrats digging up these old bugaboos and refocusing the Public onto them?

Read More Here:

http://www.netrootsmass.net/hughs-bush-scandals-list/

If someone out there has an answer to my question, I surely would love to hear your version of that answer.

Posted by John Liming at 4:28 pm

Being imperfect is better than being insane!

Congressional Portrait, Congressman Barney Frank

Congressional Portrait, Congressman Barney Frank (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Date:  April 14, 2013

Subject:  The American Radical Reight Wing

Strictly My Opinion

by John Liming

Some days there are some things that I really get my jollies with that just fall into my lap – - – I sometimes get things that I consider to be absolute priceless gems of information and wisdom and they just come to me – - – free of charge – - – without any effort on my part – - – almost like some of the things that the Right-Tards sometimes refer to as “Revelations From Gawd!”

I woke up this morning just like I do on almost every morning at somewhere around 4:30 in the morning and I turned on my computer – - – as is my normal routine – - – to check out how many hits I got on my blog – - – and to do a little surfing to see what I might blog about for the day.

The blog has been going through a little dry spell lately and I haven’t decided yet whether this is because I am a lousy writer – - – which is totally possible – - – or whether political blogs do best during election times – - – or maybe people have just gotten tired of hearing the back and forth between the forces of good and evil – - – the forces representing the sh*t bin of ignorance and anger (The Radical Reight)  and the forces representing viable hope for a nation’s future (Democrats,Liberals,Progressives and Independents).  Maybe it is a little of all of these.  But I feel compelled to “keep on keepin’ on” anyway because evil never sleeps and I think the vigilant have to stay on their toes all the time of something from the Reight Pits will arise out of the slime and try to devour them.

So like I said – - – I was surfing and I ran into this really fascinating little article over on “Daily Kos” where Representative Barney Frank was being interviewed on television by Lawrence O’Donnell – - – and where – - – somewhere in the midst of the interview – - – Congressman Frank just hit the nail on the friggin’ head when he appeared to me to make reference to what I consider to be the intransigents and the obstructionist fools on the radical right side of the American Politic.

From my perspective it isn’t like the Congressman said something that most of America isn’t aware of.  I think the fact that Obama has won two straight presidencies has more or less proven where the heads of the vast majority of America are in reference to who and what they prefer as leadership – - – and it definitely and damned well ain’t the  radical right wing sh*t slingers is it?

The sour grapers who somehow got their stinky-stained drawers all tied up in a groin crushing knot over America’s choice for president really have no choice but to live with the fact of their defeat – - – at least until 2016 – - – and then – - – maybe – - – perhaps – - – America will have listened to enough of Rightie’s inanity, banality, mundanity and insanity that they will decide they need even more leadership from the Democrats – - – and that would be fine with this blogger – - – that would be fine indeed – - – and I think the cards might be stacking in that direction because I am watching and listening to some of the assholes starting to find whatever reasons they can find to attack a potential 2016 presidential candidate – - – Hillary Clinton – - – even as I write this.  Yes, they are getting an early start and I hope – - – with all my heart – - – that they are fully as successful with what they are trying to do at this point as they have been with all the rest of the garbage they have tried ever since 2000 – - -with the single exception of that slime invasion of 2010 – - –  because if they are as successful as they generally have been it will look very good for Democrats both in 2014 and in 2016 – - – and like I said before – - – that kind of development will be aces with me!

Representative Frank summed the whole difference between the Radical Right SOBs and the Left when he issued the following gem which I firmly believe will live in history as possibly one of the most astute observations ever made by any politician.

I am paraphrasing the Congressman here – - – and I am taking a whole lot of artistic license in interpretation – - –  but I perceive the core meaning of what he said as something on the order of – - –   “Democrats, Liberals and Progressives may not be perfect, but some Republicans and some on the Radical Right are – - – nuts! – - – insane – - – out of it – - – too far gone – - mindless!”

His actual utterance was more on the order of:  ”We may not be perfect, but they are nuts!”

And let me make another point here:

Some of the radical righties will no doubt tell me that the good congressman was doing nothing more than throwing out some red meat for  ”the base” with this statement.  I gotta say that is fine with me because I am part of that “base” and I enjoy the Hell out of red meat!

Lastly – - – Once in a while I get these do-gooder righties in my comments section who try to reason with me – - – bullsh*t me – - by putting on a gentle face and saying things like “More people would read your blog if you were less insulting in your remarks.”  They warn me that what they are referring to as my insulting nature in my writing might turn moderates, independents and centrists off and that the message I am trying to get out might be nullified somehow because I do not see fit to sugar coat crap or to coddle Radicals.

Here is my answer to that little rancid slice of  right-tard baloney:  ”The people being referred to here are not mindless – -  they are more than capable of cutting through right wing fog and feces and they have proven that by helping democrats win the last two elections.  So do not try to sell me on that asinine argument – - – I ain’t buying!

Read More over at “Daily Kos” – - – this is some really good stuff here:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/01/02/1050976/-Barney-Frank-We-re-not-perfect-but-they-re-nuts

Posted by John at 5:39 am