Thursday, October 31, 2013

GLENNBECKISTAN CONSPIRACY THEORY GENERATOR

I wish I would have thought of this, it makes so much sense. Kudos.
http://politicalhumor.about.com/library/bl-glenn-beck-conspiracy.htm?PS=148%2C399%2C715%2C96%3A1

NEWS FROM GLENNBECKISTAN

ITEM 1
It has been revealed that some guy named Rafael Cruz, apparently the father of now Sen. Ted Cruz gave a speech to a Tea Party group in 2012. At one point papa Cruz stated that " Obama should go back to Chicago, I wish he would go back to KENYA ." He also after first stating that Senator Obama was obviously a Socialist, then later stated that President Obama is a " Marxist ." Whew.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/31/rafael-cruz-birther_n_4181207.html
Please note that I am not declaring all of this as a fact, you must see for yourself. If you are a resident of Glennbeckistan you will understand that disclaimer.

ITEM 2
Birther Queen Orly Taitz, esq. & dentist & litigious expert has once more gone to the court with a 32 page brief apparently trying to further antagonize four different Judges and to ask that Occidental College be forced to show entrance documents that she, Birther Queen Orly Taitz, esq., is positive will show that one Barack Hussein Obama enrolled as a foreign student from Kenya.
Whew.

ITEM 3
Rep. Darrel Issa today issued more subpoenas hoping to find out how far up the food chain does the ACA website fiasco responsibility go. As usual he wants to know " what did the President know and when did he know it." He said the same thing about the Benghazi incident, " what did the President know and when did he know it." He continues to try everything possible to throw roadblocks up to the process of governance. Tea bags were being dipped all across our great land.
Whew.

ITEM 4
The media, especially the tea drinkers, were agog today about the latest poll that shows President Obama with an all-time low approval rating of 42%.
Most of them forgot to mention that the Republican approval rating fell to 22%.
Enough said, I think.

Nothing stated here should be accepted without looking it up for yourself ( as Glenn likes to say )
ED


Wednesday, October 30, 2013

DEAD VOTERS

Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted announced that the names of 245,000 DEAD PEOPLE had been removed from Ohio's voter rolls. He did not state however, but I will, there is not a single case of a dead person voting in Ohio. Just for the record Ohio had 115 cases of possible voter fraud in 2012. If all were found guilty, that is a voter fraud rate of 0.0024 percent out of 5.63 MILLION votes cast.

You can stomp your feet all you want, it does not change the facts,
ED

YOU CANNOT KEEP YOUR POLICY

There is not a person alive in the United States today, October 30, 2013, that has the same Health Insurance policy that they had on October 30, 2003. Period. End of the controversy.

Look it up, it's the truth,
ED

OUR EXCEPTIONAL COUNTRY, MAYBE

I love my country, I have served my country, I served twenty years in the U.S. army Reserve. I worked for a living for over 50 years. I have traveled eight times to Germany, seven times to Canada, twice to Japan and once to Honduras. I have seen the exquisite beauty of Hokkaido and the Winter Ice Festival. I have seen the abject poverty of the mountains of Honduras. Many times I have stayed in the small villages in beautiful Bavaria. I have walked the walls and streets of Rothenburg and Dinkelsbuhl and Nuremburg in Germany. I have shopped the alleys in downtown Tokyo. I have strolled down six foot deep tunneled snow sidewalks in Sapporo, Japan.
I always welcomed coming home to the USA, except for the drive from one airport to the next in New York City, where the expressway was a guantlet of old sofas, burned out cars, old tires and blowing litter. I hope that has changed.
Now I sit through endless Congressional hearings on C-Span and have to listen to the endless drivel about how our country is the greatest this and the greatest that. Usually the reference is to our Healthcare System or our Education System. Neither of these declarations are true. Our Healthcare is the most expensive in the world. I will concede that. Our Education system is the most expensive in the world. I will concede that also. However, when facts are facts, the outcomes of our Healthcare System and our Education System are NOT exceptional.
The brilliant article on the Huffington Post expands this realistic truth to other aspects of our exceptional country.
READ IT AND WEEP.
I CANNOT MAKE THESE THINGS UP,
ED

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/29/american-exceptionalism_n_4170683.html?ref=topbar&utm_hp_ref=fb&src=sp&comm_ref=false


Wednesday, October 16, 2013

THE TEXAS HUCKSTER RANTS AGAIN

I'll have to look up to see if Sen. Ted Cruz is a product of the fabulous Texas school system.
I am wondering about the basic math courses. Speaking on the Senate floor before the big vote tonight he again stated that the two million people that signed his petition were a collective evidence of  " the majority of the people in this country are opposed to Obamacare. " I don't remember all of my grade school math, but I do know that 2 million is not a majority of 313.9 million. Sen. Cruz likes to throw numbers like small grenades, hoping that we don't notice. His favorite lately is that 15,000 UPS employees lost their spousal coverage. He fails to note that UPS informed the employees that if the spouse qualifies for insurance through their own employer that they should avail themselves of said insurance. They were not kicked out of insurance as Sen. Cruz is fond of saying.
The entire process is part of leveling and improving the actuarial outlook under the ACA.

Sen. Cruz is very fond of making things up.
I am not allowed to !
ED

Saturday, October 12, 2013

SEN. MARY LANDRIEU LETS THEM HAVE IT

 WHAT ABOUT THE SHUTDOWN ?
With a brilliant speech on the Senate floor, Mary once more tells it like it is, ending with a lovely flow of consciousness about extreme ideology, religious nonsense and common sense.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VdiEcUb7X4

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HOW TO RIG A GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN

Carefully read Section 2 of the Continuing Resolution (H.J. Res. 59) of the House. A deliberate rigging of the rules to keep from re opening the government is facilitated by allowing ONLY the Majority Leader or his designee to offer any motion to vote on the "clean CR"
The Majority Leader is of course the Republican Eric Cantor.

RESOLUTION
Relating to consideration of the joint resolution (H.J. Res. 59) making continuing appropriations for fiscal year 2014, and for other purposes.
  1. 1  Resolved, That the House hereby (1) takes from the
  2. 2  Speaker’s table the joint resolution (H.J. Res. 59) making
  3. 3  continuing appropriations for fiscal year 2014, and for
  4. 4  other purposes, with the House amendment to the Senate
  5. 5  amendment thereto, (2) insists on its amendment, and (3)
  6. 6  requests a conference with the Senate thereon.

     SEC. 2. Any motion pursuant to clause 4 of rule XXII
    relating to House Joint Resolution 59 may be offered only by the Majority Leader or his designee. 

    It's on the record, I am not allowed to make this up.
    ED

Friday, October 11, 2013

ADVICE FROM MILLIONAIRE REPUBLICAN CONGRESSMAN



Millionaire Republican congressman has some advice for
 furloughed government employees.
 Very thoughtful.
 steve pearce


MURDER OR SUICIDE, THAT IS THE QUESTION

It is very telling when an avowed Conservative like Ross Douthat of the New York Times said in effect that the Republican Party had decided to commit murder and suicide, but opted to drop the murder part and to just "slash their wrists."

As much as I have tried to understand it, I cannot put it any more succinctly.
So, thank you Ross Douthat !
ED

Tuesday, October 8, 2013

WHEN ALCEE HASTINGS SPEAKS, THE PEOPLE LISTEN

In a speech Oct. 8th, 2013 on the House floor, Rep. Alcee Hastings, D-FL expressed his frustration with the new tactic of the Republicans and the ongoing piecemeal approach to reopening the government.
Watch his oration on my YouTube channel:
http://youtu.be/5MQdNdrmMIU
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Monday, October 7, 2013

WE CAUSED THE DEBT, NOW WE REFUSE TO PAY FOR IT

The Republicans in the House proudly proclaim every day that " We control the purse !"
I agree, the Republicans have controlled the purse all year. They spent the money, they wrote the bills that authorized the expenditures and all the while proclaiming " We control the purse !"
Now that the bills have come due, the new mantra is " We won't pay the bills that we ran up unless the President negotiates !"
Millions of people realize the irony of this. The next time this happens the Democrats are ready to force more gun regulations, immigration reform, means testing of Social Security, higher taxes for oil companies and the wealthy, etc.
The Republicans would be passing out in the halls of congress.

I am not making this up, it's just too weird !
ED

THE SO-CALLED NEGOTIATIONS HAVE ALREADY TAKEN PLACE


The President has submitted a budget,
The Senate has submitted a budget,
The House has submitted a budget,
The only thing holding up the budget is that Speaker John Boehner has refused to name conferees to a budget reconciliation conference.
FOR SIX MONTHS NOW !
And that ladies and gentlemen is the reason we have a Continuing Resolution !
I did not make this stuff up,
ED

GAUNTLET HITS GROUND WITH LOUD THUD


Now a word from me. 
If Speaker John Boehner does not allow a vote on a clean Continuing Resolution, it is absolute proof that he wants to keep the country hostage to the ideological demands of the Anarchist TEA Party.
We all realize that some Democrats may vote against the clean CR, but it is because they are already angry that they have given up to the Republican budget number and now the Anarchist TEA Party wants more cuts.
The only reason for the Continuing Resolution in the first place is that Speaker Boehner has refused for six months now to name conferees to a budget reconciliation conference.
So here we are on the brink of a worldwide financial storm and the kids are lying on the floor kicking and screaming.
I can't make this stuff up,
ED

BLOWUP OF WORLD FINANCES


BUT WAIT, JOHN BOEHNER SPEAKS
" We will not vote on a clean CR and we will not increase the Debt Ceiling unless there are negotiations. "

INTERPRETATION :
" We will close down the government and allow the world economy to collapse unless our religious and ideological demands are met. "
Sound familiar ? These are the sentiments of the ANARCHISTS and the TALIBAN.

The interpretation is mine, the rest is true. You cannot make these things up.
ED



Saturday, October 5, 2013

MINISTERS AND PRIESTS, OH MY

The Republicans in the House today discovered that Ministers & Priests who are private contractors for the military have been furloughed. Surprise ! Oh snap ! Rep. Marsha Blackburn, R-TN, just made the utterly outrageous claim that if they say the rosary or utter a prayer on base they would be arrested.
I cannot make this stuff up !

ED

Friday, October 4, 2013

REOPENING THE GOVERNMENT A PIECE AT A TIME

According to my calculations, it will take Republicans 285 days to reopen the government under their current plan, a piece at a time. If you deduct holidays, 3 day weekends, vacations, recesses and working through the obfuscations, our government should be reopened in about two and a half years. That assumes we will not be under Anarchy by then.

I did make this one up, but it feels about right.
ED

A MESSAGE FROM THE NATIONAL WIC ASSOCIATION

Call your U.S. Representative immediately and urge them to: oppose H J Res 75, the “Nutrition Assistance for Low-Income Women and Children Act” – a cynical ploy to use low-income nutritionally at-risk mothers and young children as political pawns for political ends.
Funding the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC) in this piecemeal, short-term, stop-gap manner is not an acceptable solution. WIC has sufficient funds to operate through the month of October giving Congress more than sufficient time to pass a “clean” continuing resolution followed by the already marked-up full year FY-2014 House and Senate Agriculture Appropriations bills to fund WIC and the other critical child nutrition programs through the end of the 2014 fiscal year.
We urge Congress to end the uncertainty that exists in our fiscal environment and the already challenged lives of vulnerable mothers and young children by responsibly discharging and fulfilling its moral obligations to the nation. We will not tolerate efforts to leverage the nutritional health and well-being of pregnant and breastfeeding mothers, their babies, and young children to satisfy the political ends or strategies of policy-makers.
http://www.nwica.org 
Just FYI, I can't make this stuff up, I don't have time.
ED

THE DOCTOR IS OUT TO LUNCH

In an interview with CNN this morning, Doctor & Republican Congressman Michael Burgess of Texas tried to comprehend the numbers. Data from 35 states & the Federal Government plus indications from many independent sources state that some 7,000,000 ( SEVEN MILLION ) people attempted to access the web sites for the Affordable Care Act open enrollment in only three days. Dr. burgess implied that the number would be MUCH LOWER if we deducted the Congress & their staff & reporters who tried to sign up.
So, here is my advice to a Dr. Burgess patient, CHECK YOUR MEDS !

I simply cannot make this stuff up.