Friday, April 20, 2012

Ted Nugent Questioned by Secret Service over violent NRA remarks against President Obama

Ted Nugent Questioned by Secret Service over violent NRA remarks
against President Obama

Nugent told the NRA gun group last week that he would be 'dead or in
jail' next year if Obama is re-elected in November.


Ted Nugent: 'I Have Never Made Any Threats Of Violence Towards Anyone'

Rocker Ted Nugent has assured U.S. Secret Service officials he has no
plans to attack President Barack Obama or high-ranking Democrats
during the nation's 2012 elections, despite fiery remarks he made
during a National Rifle Association rally at the weekend.

The "Cat Scratch Fever" hitmaker, who is a staunch conservative, hit
the headlines after passionately declaring his support for the
leader's chief rival, Republican Mitt Romney, at the Missouri NRA
gathering.

And he urged members and fans to rally against Obama and the
Democrats, stating, "We need to ride into the battlefield and chop
their heads off in November."

In a video, which has since been removed from YouTube.com, Nugent also
ranted, "If Barack Obama becomes the president in November again, I
will either be dead or in jail by this time next year."

But he insisted he meant nothing by his comments when he met with
Secret Service agents on Thursday.

In a statement released by the rocker before a concert in Oklahoma,
Nugent wrote, "I met with two fine, professional Secret Service agents
in OK today... (It was) a good, solid, professional meeting concluding
that I have never made any threats of violence towards anyone. The
meeting could not have gone better.

"I thanked them for their service, we shook hands and went about our
business. God bless the good federal agents wherever they may be."

Meanwhile, Romney's campaign spokeswoman Andrea Saul has distanced
herself and the presidential hopeful from Nugent's remarks, stating,
"Divisive language is offensive no matter what side of the political
aisle it comes from. Mitt Romney believes everyone needs to be civil."

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House of Orange Boehner on ENDA: ‘I haven’t thought much about it’

Boehner on ENDA: 'I haven't thought much about it'

U.S. House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) expressed little interest
Wednesday in advancing the Employment Non-Discrimination Act in the
wake of an announcement from the White House last week that the Obama
administration won't take action against LGBT workplace discrimination
at this time.

Although the administration insists it will work with Congress to pass
legislation in lieu of an executive order barring federal contractors
from discriminating against LGBT workers, Boehner seemed unaware of
ENDA in response to a question from the Washington Blade, saying, "I
haven't seen the bill. I haven't thought much about it."

Asked whether passage of ENDA might alleviate the 8.2 percent
unemployment rate if employers were barred from firing LGBT workers,
Boehner said "ample laws" are in place and deferred further comment to
the House Committee on Education & the Workforce. The committee didn't
immediately respond to a request for comment.

"No one should face discrimination in the workforce," Boehner said.
"There are ample laws already in place to deal with this. Having been
the chairman of the Education & Workforce Committee, I'm quite
familiar with employment law. But if there are further changes that
are necessary, I'm sure the committee will look at it."

Even if Boehner were to bring the bill to a vote, it is unlikely to
pass the House where Republican lawmakers hold the majority. ENDA has
161 co-sponsors in the House, far short of the 218 votes that would be
needed for passage.

But Boehner's lack of interest in ENDA raises questions about how the
administration expects to move forward with legislation prohibiting
LGBT workplace discrimination in the wake of announced plans to work
with Congress to the pass the bill instead of taking administrative
action and issuing an executive order.

On Monday, White House spokesperson Shin Inouye told the Blade and
other media outlets that the "time is right" for a comprehensive
legislative approach to passage of ENDA.

Tico Almeida, president of Freedom to Work, said Boehner's response
indicates he doesn't want to appear to go against the majority of the
American public, which backs the idea of legislation protecting LGBT
workers from discrimination, according to several polls. Some of those
polls show that many Americans remain under the false impression that
such a law is already in place.

"I think Speaker Boehner ducked this question from the Washington
Blade because he does not want to have to publicly side with the small
and decreasing number of Americans who tell pollsters that simply
being gay should be grounds for firing a talented and hard working
employee," Almeida said. "Polling data shows that LGBT workplace
fairness is quickly becoming a winning wedge issue to use against
pro-discrimination politicians who hold antiquated and un-American
beliefs."

Meanwhile, LGBT advocates continue to push President Obama to issue
the executive order — despite the announced "no" on the proposed
action delivered to them last week — as they call for congressional
action in the Democratic-controlled Senate on ENDA. The Blade reported
extensively on the importance of a trans-inclusive hearing and markup
on the bill last month.

Michael Cole-Schwartz, an HRC spokesperson, alluded to the importance
of a hearing as he lambasted Boehner for his response to the
legislation.

"If the speaker is so familiar with employment law he should know it's
perfectly legal to fire LGBT people in most states," Cole-Schwartz
said. "This attitude is precisely why we need congressional hearings
on an inclusive ENDA so the costs of employment discrimination are put
on full display."

No federal law or federal regulation bars employers from firing LGBT
workers based on their sexual orientation or gender identity. Firing
or discriminating against someone because they're gay is legal in 29
states; firing or discriminating against someone because they're
transgender is legal in 34 states.

Despite calls for a Senate hearing on ENDA, the Senate Health,
Education, Labor & Pensions Committee hasn't yet scheduled a hearing
on the legislation.

Justine Sessions, a Senate HELP Committee spokesperson, said this week
no plans are in place to hold a hearing on the bill.

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"Sen. Harkin is strongly supportive of an inclusive ENDA and looks
forward to working with Sen. Merkley and other supporters to advance
this important issue," Sessions said. "The HELP Committee has not
planned any hearings beyond the month of May, but I am happy to keep
you posted."

On the same day Boehner punted to the House Committee on Education &
the Workforce on ENDA, the committee in fact held a hearing on a
related issue: the impact of regulatory and enforcement actions of the
Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs.

The hearing is significant because it would have been an opportunity
to discuss the proposed executive order requiring companies doing
business with the U.S. government to have non-discrimination policies
protecting LGBT employees. Multiple sources have said the Labor and
Justice Departments cleared the measure before sending it to the White
House, which announced last week it won't take action at this time on
the directive.

According to a news statement from Freedom to Work, no complaints were
voiced about the executive order despite the nature of the hearing.

"Today's congressional hearing featured three Republican-selected
witnesses, including business representatives, and not a single one of
them complained about the proposal to add LGBT Americans to the Labor
Department's rules that ensure taxpayer dollars are not squandered by
discriminatory contractors who allow anti-gay hostile work
environments," Almeida said. "Not a single Republican member of
Congress who attended the hearing complained either."

In an email to the Blade, Almeida clarified that the executive order
didn't come up in any capacity during the hearing in addition to no
one voicing any complaints about it. Rep. George Miller (D-Calif.),
ranking Democrat on the committee, was among 72 House members who
wrote to Obama urging him to sign the executive order.

Almeida stressed the importance of signing the executive order as the
most immediate way to provide protections to LGBT workers.

"Ever since I attended the White House meeting last Wednesday with
Valerie Jarrett, White House spokesperson Jay Carney has been ducking
questions from the press and making up lame excuses to justify the
president's delay in signing this executive order that Barack Obama
promised four years ago he would sign if we helped elect him," Almeida
said. "I agree with the Center for American Progress and the Human
Rights Campaign that President Obama should sign the LGBT order now.
To quote the president's own words, 'We can't wait.'"

A transcript of the exchange between Boehner and the Blade follows:

Washington Blade: Mr. Speaker, the White House announced the president
won't issue an executive order requiring federal contractors to have
non-discrimination policies in place preventing them from firing
workers who are gay or transgender. Instead, they said he wants to
work with Congress to pass legislation known as the Employment
Non-Discrimination Act, which would bar most employers from
discriminating against workers on this basis. What are your views on
this legislation and would you be open to bringing it up for a vote?

Boehner: I haven't seen the bill. I haven't thought much about it.

Blade: Arguably, among those who are in the 8.2 percent who are
unemployed are in that situation because they faced discrimination on
this basis. Wouldn't passage of this legislation —

Boehner: Well, no one should face discrimination in the workforce.
There are ample laws already in place to deal with this. Having been
the chairman of the Education & Workforce Committee, I'm quite
familiar with employment law. But if there are further changes that
are necessary, I'm sure the committee will look at it.

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Was Jesus gay? Probably

Was Jesus gay? ProbablyI preached on Good Friday that Jesus's intimacy
with John suggested he was gay as I felt deeply it had to be addressed

Preaching on Good Friday on the last words of Jesus as he was being
executed makes great spiritual demands on the preacher. The Jesuits
began this tradition. Many Anglican churches adopted it. Faced with
this privilege in New Zealand's capital city, Wellington, my second
home, I was painfully aware of the context, a church deeply divided
worldwide over issues of gender and sexuality. Suffering was my theme.
I felt I could not escape the suffering of gay and lesbian people at
the hands of the church, over many centuries.


Was that divisive issue a subject for Good Friday? For the first time
in my ministry I felt it had to be. Those last words of Jesus would
not let me escape. "When Jesus saw his mother and the disciple whom he
loved standing near, he said to his mother, 'Woman behold your son!'
Then he said to the disciple. 'Behold your mother!' And from that hour
the disciple took her to his own home."


That disciple was John whom Jesus, the gospels affirm, loved in a
special way. All the other disciples had fled in fear. Three women but
only one man had the courage to go with Jesus to his execution. That
man clearly had a unique place in the affection of Jesus. In all
classic depictions of the Last Supper, a favourite subject of
Christian art, John is next to Jesus, very often his head resting on
Jesus's breast. Dying, Jesus asks John to look after his mother and
asks his mother to accept John as her son. John takes Mary home. John
becomes unmistakably part of Jesus's family.


Jesus was a Hebrew rabbi. Unusually, he was unmarried. The idea that
he had a romantic relationship with Mary Magdalene is the stuff of
fiction, based on no biblical evidence. The evidence, on the other
hand, that he may have been what we today call gay is very strong. But
even gay rights campaigners in the church have been reluctant to
suggest it. A significant exception was Hugh Montefiore, bishop of
Birmingham and a convert from a prominent Jewish family. He dared to
suggest that possibility and was met with disdain, as though he were
simply out to shock.


After much reflection and with certainly no wish to shock, I felt I
was left with no option but to suggest, for the first time in half a
century of my Anglican priesthood, that Jesus may well have been
homosexual. Had he been devoid of sexuality, he would not have been
truly human. To believe that would be heretical.


Heterosexual, bisexual, homosexual: Jesus could have been any of
these. There can be no certainty which. The homosexual option simply
seems the most likely. The intimate relationship with the beloved
disciple points in that direction. It would be so interpreted in any
person today. Although there is no rabbinic tradition of celibacy,
Jesus could well have chosen to refrain from sexual activity, whether
he was gay or not. Many Christians will wish to assume it, but I see
no theological need to. The physical expression of faithful love is
godly. To suggest otherwise is to buy into a kind of puritanism that
has long tainted the churches.


All that, I felt deeply, had to be addressed on Good Friday. I saw it
as an act of penitence for the suffering and persecution of homosexual
people that still persists in many parts of the church. Few readers of
this column are likely to be outraged any more than the liberal
congregation to whom I was preaching, yet I am only too aware how
hurtful these reflections will be to most theologically conservative
or simply traditional Christians. The essential question for me is:
what does love demand? For my critics it is more often: what does
scripture say? In this case, both point in the same direction.


Whether Jesus was gay or straight in no way affects who he was and
what he means for the world today. Spiritually it is immaterial. What
matters in this context is that there are many gay and lesbian
followers of Jesus – ordained and lay – who, despite the church,
remarkably and humbly remain its faithful members. Would the Christian
churches in their many guises more openly accept, embrace and love
them, there would be many more disciples.

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The Boys Who Cried Fox

The Boys Who Cried Fox
By NICOLE HEMMER
Just last week, Newt Gingrich delighted observers on both the right
and the left when he slammed Fox News for "bias" and "distortion."
Gingrich claimed that the conservative news channel slanted its
coverage to favor the less conservative establishment candidate, Mitt
Romney. At first this seemed to be just another example of the former
speaker's ability to unabashedly embrace contradictory ideas. This is,
after all, a man who saw nothing inconsistent about inviting reporters
to the "private meeting" with Delaware Tea Party leaders where he made
his comments.

But accusing Fox News of pro-establishment bias is not simply a quirk
of the Gingrich mind. In mid-March, Rick Santorum (like Gingrich, a
former Fox News contributor) accused the network of boosting for
Romney. "He has Fox News shilling for him every day," Santorum
grumbled to Fox News Radio host Brian Kilmeade. "No offense, Brian,
but I see it." The conservative journalist Robert Stacy McCain called
out Fox for "a clear bias toward front-runners." He was backed up by a
pair of columnists who reported concerns "that Fox News is morphing
into just another liberal leaning voice."


Nor do conservatives reserve the bias complaint for Fox News. When
National Review promoted the candidacy of Mitt Romney in mid-December,
it stoked outrage among the base. Rush Limbaugh dismissed the magazine
as part of the "Republican establishment media." The promotion of
Romney, the nephew of National Review's founder claimed, "proves only
that this is no longer the magazine of William F. Buckley, Jr. My
uncle would be appalled." Commenters on National Review Online
unfurled the nickname National Romney Online, which soon began popping
up on other conservative sites.

The funny thing is that this role reversal is the end product of a
process that was set in motion by the conservative media. Having spent
decades promoting the charge of bias, they have helped strip it of
meaning. These days, bias translates roughly to "reporting something I
don't like," a reflexive defense against stories that cut against
conservative interests. (Liberals claim bias, too, but here we're
focused on the curious spectacle of right-on-right crime.)

That definitional drift entered new territory in 2008, when the mere
fact of reporting on Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin became a hostile
act. When the story broke about Palin's pregnant daughter, the
Republican National Convention transformed into an airing of
grievances against liberal media. Most memorably, Arkansas Governor
Mike Huckabee thanked "the elite media" for unifying the Republican
Party behind the ticket, calling their coverage "tackier than a
costume change at a Madonna concert."

A few weeks later Katie Couric asked Palin what newspapers and
magazines she regularly read, only to get a fumbling "all of them" in
response. This episode led conservatives to lambaste Couric for her
anti-Palin slant. Only those with a very elastic concept of bias could
interpret asking a vice-presidential nominee about her reading habits
as lobbing a mortar-round rather than a softball.

The 2008 election involved an unusually expansive use of media-bias
claims, but they didn't start there. To trace their roots requires
going back to the 1950s, when modern conservative media first
appeared. In the midst of an anticommunist liberal consensus, a new
conservative movement emerged. The messengers of that movement — a
group of men (and a few women) — developed publishing houses,
periodicals and radio programs dedicated to rolling back the liberal
tide at home and the communist threat abroad. They sought to uproot
the liberal anti-communism of the day, which called for containing
communism where it was. The right militated against this policy,
seeing it as both morally and strategically flawed. How could America
be content to simply contain an evil enemy bent on eradicating free
nations everywhere?

Conservatives saw established media as the major obstacle to advancing
political alternatives. Existing media, they believed, professed
objectivity but in fact shored up the liberal establishment. The new
conservative media made no bones about their own tilt. The newsweekly
Human Events called itself "objective" but "not impartial," explaining
that the publication "looks at events through eyes that are biased in
favor of limited constitutional government, local self-government,
private enterprise and individual liberty," principles that
"represented the bias of the Founding Fathers." This story is more
familiar at National Review, with its central purpose "to counteract
the reprehensible journalistic trend toward a genteel uniformity of
opinion" that "permeates our Liberal press."

They had a point. Mid-century American media reflected the liberal
consensus of its day. Not uniformly, of course. The Chicago Tribune
sustained the Midwestern conservatism of Robert Taft long after the
hero of the hard-nosed, isolationist Republican Right died in 1953.
And to say the press reflected liberalism is not to say it did so
consciously or conspiratorially, as many conservatives claimed, nor to
say it stifled only one type of opinion. Try being a socialist or
anywhere to the left of Adlai Stevenson in the 1950s and 1960s and you
would quickly find the limits of media's leftward lean. Still, the
bias charge, which equated "liberalism" with "the establishment," was
rooted at least partly in reality.

That factual basis turned media-bias accusations into a potent weapon,
one whose influence trickled up to the presidency when Richard Nixon
took office in 1969. The media had long been Nixon's bête noire. The
day after he lost his 1962 gubernatorial race, Nixon blasted the press
for supporting his opponent. "You won't have Nixon to kick around
anymore, gentlemen," he growled, "because this is my last press
conference."

It wasn't: his October 1973 press conference was a master-class in
attacking journalists. After lashing out at the assembled press for
"outrageous, vicious, distorted reporting" on Watergate, Nixon added,
"Don't get the impression that you arouse my anger. You see, one can
only be angry with those he respects."

Yet Nixon hardly invented complaints about the news media. Such
complaints were practically a presidential rite of passage. They
stretched back at least to 1805, when Thomas Jefferson spent a healthy
chunk of his second inaugural address protesting the press's assaults
on his administration. "The abuses of an institution so important to
freedom and science are deeply to be regretted," he said, lamenting
that the press that so bedeviled him had managed to escape the
"wholesome punishment" of defamation suits.

But a hostile press was not the same thing as a biased press. When
Vice-President Spiro Agnew took a swipe at "a closed fraternity of
privileged men, elected by no one" in a 1969 speech on Vietnam, he
triggered a national conversation about bias. The attack troubled
members of established media. "My feeling is that the White House is
out to get us, all the liberals in the media," one CBS commentator
worried. "We're in for some dangerous times."

For conservatives, however, Agnew's words signaled that their message
was breaking through. Right-wing media reverberated with praise for
the vice-president. On the conservative radio program "The Manion
Forum," Red Motley, the publisher of Parade magazine, called Agnew's
indictment "timely, and proper." Buckley declared that the
vice-president had "done an extremely useful service" in unleashing
what National Review saluted as "a counterattack in the struggle for
public opinion." The right then set about providing evidence of the
bias Agnew condemned.

Edith Efron, a writer for TV Guide, began documenting liberal bias for
a book called "The News Twisters," which appeared in 1971. With
research funds that Buckley made available, Efron compiled what
purported to be a scientific study of liberal bias. Her method?
Watching news coverage of the 1968 election and tallying up favorable
and unfavorable comments about Richard Nixon.

This methodology was clearly susceptible to confirmation bias, and
sure enough, Efron concluded network news followed "the
elitist-liberal-left line in all controversies." (An internal review
by CBS in response to the book found, also unsurprisingly, that its
coverage was balanced and largely neutral.) Despite its weaknesses,
Efron's book won accolades across conservative media. "The News
Twisters" soon became a best-seller, thanks to Nixon. The president
ordered Special Counsel Charles Colson to get the book on the best
sellers list of The Times, which Colson managed by buying out the
stores used to determine sales numbers.

Efron's slipshod, self-confirming method reveals one of the weaknesses
of the bias argument, as well as the reason Fox News has fallen prey
to the accusation from its right. The words "liberal bias,"
"establishment" and now "lamestream media" have become a sloppy
shorthand for an entire system of beliefs. This has its parallels on
the left, where reflexive cries of "rigged elections" and "Faux News"
create the same divisions. For both sides, the world can be easily
split into us and them, conservatives on one side, liberals on the
other, locked in a pitched ideological battle for political power.
When it's us, it's truth; when it's them, it's bias.

So when the anti-Romney crowd started seeing Fox News and National
Review as "them," it could only mean one thing. Though long considered
bulwarks against pro-establishment (read: liberal) bias, these
once-trustworthy media outlets were now hopelessly riddled with it.
When everyone not with you is against you, the world becomes a bleak
place indeed.

This is the dynamic Newt Gingrich exploited in Delaware. After his
scornful rebuke of CNN's John King in a January debate, it's unlikely
the former speaker meant it when he told the gathered Tea Party crowd
that "CNN is less biased than Fox." By deploying the media-bias charge
against an institution developed to combat it, Gingrich demonstrated
just how meaningless the indictment has become.

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http://campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/19/the-boys-who-cried-fox/?nl=opinion&emc=edit_ty_20120420

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Gwen Ifill, PBS Correspondent, Attacked By Conservative Website For Emceeing LGBT Clinic Gala

Gwen Ifill, PBS Correspondent, Attacked By Conservative Website For
Emceeing LGBT Clinic Gala

WASHINGTON -- Gwen Ifill, the author and "PBS News Hour"
correspondent, is under fire from a conservative media outlet over her
decision to serve as emcee at Thursday's annual fundraiser for
Whitman-Walker Health, a nonprofit community health clinic in
Washington. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius will
receive an award at the event.

Tim Graham, director of media analysis at the Media Research Center,
which runs the website Newsbusters, wrote on Thursday that Ifill was
crossing an "Obama line" by emceeing the event, where Sebelius is
being honored for her work in implementing the Affordable Care Act.

Graham writes that this isn't the first time Ifill has crossed "the
Obama line," pointing to her 2008 book "The Breakthrough: Politics and
Race in the Age Of Obama." The book examined the role of race in
modern American politics and at the time, supporters of Republican
Sen. John McCain argued that the book proved that Ifill, who is black,
was too biased in then-Sen. Barack Obama's favor to moderate the sole
vice presidential debate between then-Sen. Joe Biden (D-Del.) and
then-Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R). Ifill moderated the debate.

Founded in 1978, Whitman-Walker Health, formerly the Whitman Walker
Clinic, specializes in "HIV/AIDS care and lesbian, gay bisexual and
transgender care," according to its website.

"This is the first time we've seen an emcee at a WWH event
criticized," Chip Lewis, spokesman for the clinic, told HuffPost.
"We're a nonprofit community healthcare center serving more than
15,000 patients a year, and we don't turn away people who can't pay
for care," he said.

In his post, Graham called the clinic an "LGBT health and advocacy
group." Lewis challenged that characterization. "We're not an advocacy
group and we don't have a political agenda," he said. "Our agenda is
quality healthcare for our community."

Lewis also noted that Ifill, who first emceed an event for the clinic
in 2004, will neither introduce Sebelius on stage nor present her with
the group's Partner for Life Award. "Gwen has nothing to do with
presenting the award at all," he said.

The dinner and silent auction at the Carnegie Institution for Science
expects to raise about $250,000 for the clinic's services from more
than 400 guests, according to Lewis.

Newsbusters is a project of the conservative Media Research Center,
founded in 1987 to "document, expose and neutralize liberal media
bias," according to its website. Newsbusters was recently praised by
The New York Times for breaking the story of the altered NBC tape of
the Trayvon Martin 911 call.

More:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/19/gwen-ifill-pbs_n_1438877.html?ref=daily-brief?utm_source=DailyBrief&utm_campaign=042012&utm_medium=email&utm_content=NewsEntry&utm_term=Daily%20Brief

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Upside Down

 




This is too damned accurate to be funny!

 

You know you live in an Upside-down Land if...

  • A Muslim officer crying "Allah Akbar" while shooting up an army base is considered to have committed "Workplace Violence" while an American citizen boasting a Ron Paul bumper sticker is classified as a "Domestic Terrorist".


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You know you live in an Upside-down Land if...

  • You can get arrested for expired tags on your car but not for being in the country illegally.


===========================================================You know you live in an Upside-down Land if...

  • Your government believes that the best way to eradicate trillions of dollars of debt is to spend trillions more of our money.


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You know you live in an Upside-down Land if...


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You know you live in an Upside-down Land if...

  • The Supreme Court of the United States can rule that lower courts cannot display the 10 Commandments in their courtroom, while sitting in front of a display of the 10 Commandments.


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You know you live in an Upside-down Land if...

  • Children are forcibly removed from parents who appropriately discipline them while children of "underprivileged" drug addicts are left to rot in filth infested cesspools.


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You know you live in an Upside-down Land if...


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You know you live in an Upside-down Land if...

  • Hard work and success are rewarded with higher taxes and government intrusion, while slothful, lazy behavior is rewarded with EBT cards, WIC checks, Medicaid and subsidized housing.


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You know you live in an Upside-down Land if...

  • The government's plan for getting people back to work is to provide 99 weeks of unemployment checks (to not work).


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You know you live in an Upside-down Land if...

  • Being self-sufficient is considered a threat to the government.


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You know you live in an Upside-down Land if...

  • Politicians think that stripping away the amendments to the constitution is really protecting the rights of the people.


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You know you live in an Upside-down Land if...

  • The rights of the Government come before the rights of the individual.


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You know you live in an Upside-down Land if...

  • Parents believe the State is responsible for providing for their children.


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You know you live in an Upside-down Land if...

  • You can write a post like this just by reading the news headlines.


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You know you live in an Upside-down Land if...

  • You pay your mortgage faithfully, denying yourself the newest big screen TV while your neighbor defaults on his mortgage (while buying iphones, TV's and new cars) and the government forgives his debt and reduces his mortgage (with your tax dollars).


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You know you live in an Upside-down Land if...

  • Your government can add anything they want to your kid's water (fluoride, chlorine, etc.) but you are not allowed to give them raw milk.


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You know you live in an Upside-down Land if...

  • Being stripped of the ability to defend yourself makes you "safe".


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You know you live in an Upside-down Land if...

  • You have to have your parents signature to go on a school field trip but not to get an abortion.


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You know you live in an Upside-down Land if...

  • Using the "N" word is considered "hate speech" but writing and signing songs about raping women and killing cops is considered "art".


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Unfortunately, this list could go on and on. 
Our world has been turned upside-down. 
We are in distress. Where do we go from here?

"COWARDICE asks the question - is it Safe?"

"EXPEDIENCY asks the question - is it Politically Correct?"

"VANITY asks the question - is it Popular?"

"But the CONSCIENCE asks the question - is it Right?"

"And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither, Safe, nor Politically Correct, nor Popular, but one must take it, because its RIGHT!!"



 

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Umm, skippy eats man’s best friend. Yuck!!



New post on Fellowship of the Minds

Umm, skippy eats man's best friend. Yuck!!

by Steve

OK, and your still going to vote for him. Where's PETA when ya need em?   ~Steve~

 

 

Steve | April 20, 2012 at 3:36 am | Categories: 2012 Election, Idiots, Insanity, Liberals/Democrats, Uncategorized | URL: http://wp.me/pKuKY-dM8

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Pregnant “man” splits up with “wife”



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Pregnant "man" splits up with "wife"

by DCG

Radar:  Pregnant Man Thomas Beatie has split from his wife of nine years.  The transgender male announced Thursday that he and Nancy, 49, were no longer together during a taping of TV show The Doctors.

Beatie, 38, made headlines when he became the first known legal man to give birth back in 2008, to daughter Susan, and has since had two more children; Austin, nearly three, and Jensen, 21 months.

He also revealed that he has had his final female-to-male gender reassignment surgery.  "Nancy hasn't seen the new me yet," he said on the show and explained that their relationship had been rocky. "Like all marriages, we have our ups and downs, and we're going through a rough patch right now," he shared. "At the moment, we're separated."

Although he legally became a man 10 years ago, Beatie opted to keep his female reproductive organs in place and the image of his bearded face and baby bump was a startling visual.

The father-of-three revealed last year that he is done having babies and did not want to get pregnant again.

Maybe Nancy should wait and check out "his" new parts before they finalize their divorce.

DCG

DCG | April 20, 2012 at 3:12 am | Tags: Thomas Beatie | Categories: Children, Culture War | URL: http://wp.me/pKuKY-dLL

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Fresno Calif. police drown man with garden hose after tasering and hogtying him




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Fresno Calif. police drown man with garden hose after tasering and hogtying him

by Harold

Jonathan Benson, Natural News 4/20/2012 The Fresno Police Department (FPD) in California is the subject of a new lawsuit alleging extreme abuse by some of its officers that ended in a man dying. According to Courthouse News Service (CNS), unnamed officers repeatedly tasered Raul Rosas, a father of several small children, pepper-sprayed him, threw him [...]

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Philly: Man disguises self as Muslim to murder barber




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Philly: Man disguises self as Muslim to murder barber

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Philadelphia not only has a growing Muslim problem, it's got a growing problem with criminals using Muslim garb to commit crimes. Thank CAIR and whoever decided importing tens of thousands of Muslims to the U.S. was a good idea. via Arrest made as police say slain barber knew his killer. Police say one thing was [...]

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