Six-Year-Old Tea Party Kid Recites '10 Reasons Not To Vote For Obama' (VIDEO)

So these "parents" thought they were being cute putting the "bloopers" at the end. All it does is proves what everybody already knew, a six year old doesn't have their own critical thinking skills yet. It shows them coaching him.



So sad they feel they need to indoctrinate their own child rather than let him be a typical curious kid. Not to mention everything he spouted has been debunked in some form or another. I guess Bill Maher had it right. Republicans have brought themselves down to the children's level which is now even lower than their original fourteen year old level.
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Richard Muller: 'Humans Are Almost Entirely The Cause' Of Climate Change

It's not fair to attack Muller or anybody who reassesses their position on climate change just because they denied it to begin with. I see a lot of posters doing just that and it is truly unbecoming. If he and others like him sincerely have changed their mind and come to your way of perceiving climate change you should be grateful. You don't have to kiss their butts or anything but you should acknowledge gracefully that they have been able to overcome their ideology.



We need more people coming around at least to the extent that some real research into what we need to do is happening. Then we need some real change that won't happen if you can't convince the opposition to at least look at the situation reasonably. Nobody with any type of influence will be willing to try and talk sense into the Right if they think they will only get attacked for changing their minds. So try to be the bigger person and let it show when you speak (comment) publicly.
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Middle-Class Tax Cuts Preserved For A Year In Bill Passed By Senate (UPDATE)

Why do Republicans continue with the "you didn't build that" meme when it has been debunked entirely. Including the fact that Jack Gilchrist, the main character in the commercial, "took over $1 million in government loans since the 1980s". His business also "said that to this day about 10 percent of his business comes from defense-related projects."



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Yet WTKR in Hampton Roads continues to show it every commercial break. And now McConnell is following through. They were showing about two and sometimes three pro Romney commercials all evening long yesterday. Not one Obama ad! I don't know if President Obama has bought ads in that market but if not he needs to get on the ball. That station alone reaches a lot of people in Va. and NC with their cable alignment. This commercial is one of the biggest frauds and any person that considers themselves a Republican should be insulted anytime one of their ilk throws anything back at them from it.
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Melissa Harris-Perry On Gun Violence Statistics: 'People Are Not Numbers' (VIDEO)

The fact of the matter is nobody is advocating taking away their precious "second amendment rights" to own a gun. All anybody wants is commonsense laws and regulation. The argument for protecting yourself from a "tyrannical Government" is moot because there is no gun you can legally buy that could protect you from the arsenal our Government has.



I know a lot of hunters including family members and I don't know the first one that hunts with an assault rifle. The only people I ever met that had any type of weapon like that were in the drug racket and I knew a few. One man kept his Uzi tucked between the couch cushions where he sat, right next to his cocaine stash among other things. Even the "hunters" he associated with were in awe but weren't interested in having it to hunt with. And even they knew they only needed X amount of rounds to protect themselves and their family.



The sad thing here is we used to be a Nation of commonsense and logic. That has gone out the window for at least the last thirty years and we are regressing. What will it take to put us back on the right path?
About Aurora Shooting
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As Defense Cuts Loom, Weapons Makers Say Tax Hikes Should Be On The Table

I love the hypocrisy. These two statements just prove it:

"Everybody does exactly what you did today," Smith said as the hearing wound down. "You flatly refused about saying anything about making those choices and dump it all on us. Not only do you flatly refuse to say anything about it, you take steps that systematically kick our legs out from under us as we try to deal with it."



And:

"The House passed the Sequestration Transparency Act in a 414-2 vote, effectively asking Obama for a specific outline of how he will implement the more than $100 billion in automatic cuts triggered by the failure of the Super Committee last fall. That bipartisan panel was tasked with finding a $1.2 trillion deficit reduction package."



You have a committee asking the defense contractors how they should choose to make the cuts and when they are too scared to answer the whole house decides to kick the can to President Obama. And for Cantor to say "[t]ime is overdue for the President to come to the table to work with Congress," shows how little he has been paying attention. I agree with Mudcat Saunders, Cantor is corrupt. If not literally then at least ethically.
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Rick Perry Says Eric Holder 'Poll Tax' Comments Aimed To 'Incite Racial Tension,' Asks For Obama Apology

In this instance Holder's reference to a "Poll Tax" is not directed at just African American voters. It's for the poor, elderly, disabled, students, and anyone else that doesn't fit into their vision of an eligible voter. This is coming from the party who thinks only property owners should have the right to vote or a school I.D isn't valid but a gun registration is. So the only one referencing race is Perry. He should apologize.
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Republican Convention 2012 Has Pair Of Shoes With No Sarah Palin In Them

I could remember a time when if you had two campaigns and one was being run as professionally and classy as President Obama's campaign is and with what he has accomplished. The other was coming off looking as if they were running for President for clown school with questionable makeup skills. The latter would have been laughed off of the stage. The former would be winning by double digits and their wouldn't be any question as to who would win.



The fact that this election is even being considered seriously tells me one thing. It has to do with the skin color of the incumbent, non clown. If he was a pasty old white haired man it would be no competition and you will not convince me otherwise.
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Verizon Fighting To Censor You

Verizon has decided that since it is a corporation (person) it has the right to censor your content, any content, on its networks, calling censorship another form of free speech. They are taking the FCC to court to fight for this alleged right. According to Verizon:

"[b]roadband networks are the modern-day microphone by which their owners engage in First Amendment speech," ..."Just as a newspaper is entitled to decide which content to publish and where, broadband providers may feature some content over others,"

According to Verizon any traffic that travels over their networks is theirs for the censoring. Seriously! Because anything you text, phone, email, including photos or any other digital communication you send that goes over their networks, since they own the particular networks, gives them the right to censor it. They are actually arguing that censorship is a form of free speech. If that maybe sounded a little repetitive it's because it needs repeating.

Below is the legal filing with all of the legal jargon. But to put it simply Bill Snyder helps layout why Verizon would want to do something like this.

OK. Take a deep breath. I think it's highly unlikely that Verizon will pull the plug on Web sites containing opinions or content that its board of directors disagrees with. I'm hardly a Verizon fan boy, but I simply don't believe it. Does Verizon really want to be responsible for everything distributed on the Web, including libel, theft, and other illegal behavior? Of course not.
So why would Verizon claim a right that it likely has no interest in exercising?
Verizon, in fact, doesn’t really want the power to censor, but it does want the power to discriminate. And by discriminate, I mean the power to treat different forms of content, or content owned by different providers, differently. Here is an example of how that actually works.
If you're a Comcast customer, watching a streaming movie via Netflix will count against your monthly allotment of data. But if you watch the same movie via Comcast’s Xfinity TV app on the Xbox 360, it won't count against your allotment. Comcast, of course, wants people to watch the content that it sells, not the content of a competitor.

If Verizon struck a deal with Microsoft in a world in which net neutrality didn’t exist, it could block content from Google search and allow content from Bing to move ahead. Or, it could create "express lanes" that speed content to users at high speeds, while content from competitors travel in the slow lane.

No matter how you look at it, it isn't right and would set one company up to abuse the internet as we know it.



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Iraq-Iran Ties Grow Stronger As Iraq Rises From The Ashes

This sentence: "Fly also blamed many of Iraq's failings on the Obama administration's troop pullout" and this sentence: "But even before the end of George Bush's presidency, the Iraqis insisted on setting a deadline for the departure of U.S. troops" just don't seem to go together. But some people will go to any lengths to attempt to back up their core beliefs. Right or wrong! People want to continually blame President Obama for things done under Bush. All of those poison pills he left laying around will be felt for decades to come.



Truth is many of us know and knew we had no business in Iraq to begin with. What will they be saying when President Obama is no longer in office after another 4 1/2 years, if we make it that long, and they don't have him as their whipping boy, for lack of a better term? Just another failure from the previous decade/administration brought to light. Hindsight really is 20/20!
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Lindsey Graham: 'It's Really American' To Avoid Taxes Like Mitt Romney Does

Simply put, just because you can do something doesn't mean you should! When I was making a halfway livable wage I would try my best to spend my money locally. I wanted to support the local economy. Times I could have gone to Walmart and save some money just didn't feel right. I knew I benefited more by keeping it local. I filed my taxes under the 1040ez form because I had no problem paying taxes because it was the right thing to do.



Maybe, if I made millions I would probably take advantage of certain write-offs but I wouldn't go out of my way to avoid paying my taxes and my money would definitely stay in my Country. I can only figure the main difference is I have a conscience. I like having police departments and fire departments. I like knowing there is an agency that is supposed to look out for the interests of people when it comes to the food we eat, the air we breath, or the water we drink. But that's just me!
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Black lung surges back in coal country

Are these the "freeloaders" and/or "lazy slackers" certain people, and I use that term loosely, are referring to when there are stories about the "big bad government" and their programs to help people?
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WTF-The Tea Party and Slavery

It appears the Tea Party Groups in Tennessee have decided that the teaching the children about the Founding Fathers and slavey are a little depressing and have decided that they want to teach a "sunnier side".

I would like to know exactly what they are leaving out, so I have a list of items for them to respond to:
     1-we were brought here in bondage (yes we were sold by our own people, but if the white man hadn't made the deal, we would have been in Africa in peace).
     2-we were put on the auction blocks like live animals (and the animals were treated better and sold for a higher price)
     3-our families were split apart
     4-our women were often the victims of the masters' sexual lust, many times against her will she was raped and produce offspring of the master!
     5-our men and women were handpick not to love each other, but to breed strong young slaves (strong men+strong women=strong children was the thinking)
     6-our people were pited against each other early. Master wanted the lighter skinned high yellow sister in his house and in his bed. the darker ones were left in the fields to rot
     7-our brothers were beaten and lynched if they tried to protect themselves, their women, their children (and please don't get me started about them looking at white women)
    8-our young were not allowed an education
    9-Our culture and language, even our names, were taken from us against our will.

This and so much more is a part of our history, our American History. You can not sugar-coat it, you can not give it a "sunnier side". To do so, to water down the history of an entire race of people is to de-humanize them, to make them feel less than who they are. This is not right! This is not acceptable. Tea Party, Republicans, Skinheads, Racists, you all must realize and know that my history is your history and your history is my history. We are all entwined in one way or another, we are all related. 

I can only hope the good people of Tennessee fight back against the Tea Party. That they continue to teach history as it is/was, not as some misguided people want it to be.

To read more of about the Tennessee Tea Party and their movement to change the history books, please go to: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/23/tea-party-tennessee-textbooks-slavery_n_1224157.html?utm_hp_ref=fb&src=sp&comm_ref=false#sb=3248068,b=facebook

Ann Romney: Obama Campaign Strategy Is 'Kill' Mitt Romney

You're talking about someone who practices a religion which up until the late 1970's preached that black people were the the mark of Satan. The Romney campaign are openly courting the Tea Party which has members calling for an armed rebellion against the Federal Government http://bit.ly/Npa4L1. They are also courting the Christian right who has members holding conferences which the invitation states “All White Christians Invited” http://bit.ly/NpcQ35.



When will someone step up and actually be a leader and renounce this behavior? This statement is wrong and they should openly apologize. Of course I'm beginning to wonder if they know the difference between right and wrong or do they care. You know, "win at all expense". That's what we've been seeing from republicans for three years now.
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Chris Collins: 'People Now Don't Die From Prostate Cancer, Breast Cancer'

I honestly haven't heard the argument "doctors are making a lot more money" except from people who are accusing others of trying to make that claim. There is the debate about doctors and their conflicts of interest when they are sending patients to get tests done at facilities they own a major stake in but that's a different story.



There are hundreds of other reasons for the rise in health care including, but not limited to, insurance companies, medical equipment companies, fraud and waste, profits before anything and on and on.



Regardless people have to have coverage before they can be diagnosed with breast cancer or prostate cancer before they can survive it. All I want to know is what kind of person does it take to back these tools? Unfortunately I know the answer so that is mostly rhetorical. This is really getting exhausting.
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On June 28, 2012 The Supreme Court of the United States of America upheld that the Affordable Health Care Law is constructional. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/28/supreme-court-health-care-decision_n_1585131.html.
This is a once in a lifetime moment. A time where you sit and reflect where you were when you heard the news. Then I wondered: Do Americans do that anymore?  Are we so polarized against each other that instead of taking a moment to reflect on the history we are fortunate to be around to witness, our first instinct is to go on the attack.
Why do we do this? Our parents and grandparents used to sit on the porch or around family dinners and talk about what they were doing when important historical events took place. I remember them well and can even remember where my dad was when, like on that fateful Friday, November 22, 1963 when he learned that President John F. Kennedy had been assassinated (he was working in Virginia pouring cement). Or when Dr. Martin Luther King Jr was gunned down on Thursday, April 4, 1968 (again working in Virginia). He even remembers what buildings he was working on and once took me to see them. Both are gone now, but I see them as clearly as I see my computer.
I remember where I was on fateful days also-January 28, 1986, the day of the Challenger explosion, I was at the corner of Hoffler Street and Herrington Road heading home to see a soap opera. September 11, 2001, day of the attacks on the World Trade Center, Pentagon and  Flight 93, I was working with a client making travel arrangements for his job. I remember other days as well, but those two come to mind the most.
I now share my memories with my children and grandchildren to help them understand the human that history happens every day. I want them to have the same fondness of sitting with my "elders" talking about how our country has grown and evolved, about the good and bad of this nation.
Something has happened in our country! It seems that we don't care about each other, we don't respect each other, we don't respect our history. By doing this, what are we teaching our children, the ones who will be the keepers of the flame.
If you read this post, take a moment to reflect where you were on June 28, 2012. Share that moment with your children, rather you agree with the decision or not. Write it down if you must. Let's leave the younger generation with more than some words on a piece of paper, let's leave them some good memories to go with those pieces of paper. (FYI-on the morning of June 28, 2012 I was walking through my home with a snack cake in one hand and a cold soda in the other when I saw the news on the television. And I will share that will my grandchild!)