tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-84968702024-03-07T20:39:49.543-08:00Truth 2 Power ProjectAnyone who thinks they have all the Answers before they've even heard the Question - is Dangerously Deluded! Real Truth Requires Vigilance, Perseverance and Courage, regardless of Party and who wields Power. Left, Right, Center, Corporations, Government, Unions, Criminals or the Indifferent.Vyanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04525361990361769626noreply@blogger.comBlogger1695125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8496870.post-77242278874476971042011-08-03T09:54:00.000-07:002011-08-03T09:54:08.330-07:00Al Gore Wants You! (To Begin the New American Spring Movement)Al Gore Wants You! (To Begin the New American Spring Movement)Vyan1http://www.blogger.com/profile/07952830917532231860noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8496870.post-3634631540131892752011-07-31T10:43:00.000-07:002011-07-31T10:43:25.233-07:00O'Reilly Calls out "Hateful Crazy Right-Wing Rhetoric" against ObamaO'Reilly Calls out "Hateful Crazy Right-Wing Rhetoric" against ObamaVyanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04525361990361769626noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8496870.post-73094257002226727092011-02-17T11:46:00.000-08:002011-02-19T11:58:00.066-08:00Walking Like an Egyptian in Madison WisconsinNot long ago Rush Limbaugh suggested that people should "Go Egypt on Obama" over Health Care - but it appears that what he suggests is already happening, but it's already happening in Madison Wisconsin.
The issue for those who don't already know is the Governor Walker's attmept to fix the $130 Billion Million State Budget shortfall -Which just 2 Weeks Ago was Running a SURPLUS, until the Vyanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04525361990361769626noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8496870.post-43898516322528278202011-02-17T11:42:00.000-08:002011-02-19T11:46:36.482-08:00Lawrence Nails Rep. Chaffetz as Tax CheatThis has to be seen to be believed.
After getting Rep. Jason Chaffetz that he would seek to raise the Social Security retirement age, and cut the COLA for Social Security Benefits - which by the way have already been frozen for the last two years - O'Donnell closes in and Boom goes the Dynamite.
The issue Lawrence raises is the fact that Rep. Chaffetz doesn't Rent a place to sleep in Vyanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04525361990361769626noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8496870.post-88589174047909672892011-02-16T11:36:00.000-08:002011-02-19T11:39:56.968-08:00A Truly Progressive Budget, could save $3.2 TrillionSo the President has put out a Budget that cuts $1 Trillion over the next ten years, while the House GOP has proposed $63 Billion in cuts that Obama has already promised to Veto. But has every reasonable (not to mention unreasonable) idea been brought to the table?
Thinkprogress has Five Progressive Ideas that neither the GOP or the President has mentioned, maybe it's something the House Dems Vyanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04525361990361769626noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8496870.post-25695078006574944242011-02-15T11:33:00.000-08:002011-02-19T11:36:41.423-08:00Fox Attacks Gregory for Questioning Boehner on Birtherism
Via Media Matters.
On his Fox News show tonight, Bill O'Reilly criticized NBC's David Gregory for wasting "valuable airtime" during the February 13 edition of Meet The Press by pushing Boehner on his refusal to condemn those who claim Obama is Muslim. O'Reilly said of Gregory: "We've got a country that's just about bankrupt. We may be selling furniture on Capitol Hill pretty soon. And he's Vyanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04525361990361769626noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8496870.post-6224716270076743282011-02-15T11:28:00.000-08:002011-02-19T11:33:38.476-08:00South Dakota GOP to Make Killing Abortion Doctors LegalYes, that's right the South Dakota GOP is literally and seriously considering making Murder - a legal option if the person being killed is a Doctor who provides abortions.
A law under consideration in South Dakota would expand the definition of "justifiable homicide" to include killings that are intended to prevent harm to a fetus—a move that could make it legal to kill doctors who perform Vyanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04525361990361769626noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8496870.post-9875076373865464552011-02-15T11:26:00.000-08:002011-02-19T11:28:08.024-08:00TeaPublicans Balance the Budget on the Backs of Bruised, but save the Best Cheddar for themselvesRachel Contrasts the Budget Priorities of the President and Republicans. Both suggest harsh cuts - but it's on the spending that we see interesting and dramatic differences. Obama still wants to invest in Fast Rail, Green Tech and High Speed Telecom Backbone - they want to buy C-17s and engines for the F-31 that the Pentagon Doesn't Need.
And isn't it an interesting coincidence that the plantsVyanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04525361990361769626noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8496870.post-41211338899164083522011-02-12T13:50:00.000-08:002011-02-14T13:52:46.429-08:00Arizona Sues Gov over Border Security, while TeaPublicans Cut ItIn a counter suit to the governments blocking implementation of SB1070, Arizona Governor Jan Brewer has filed against the Government for $760 Million dollars in alleged lost State Revenue for the cost of incarcerating non-documented residents.
"Our citizens have lived with this dark cloud for too long .. It's time for the federal government to do its job and secure the border," said Governor JanVyanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04525361990361769626noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8496870.post-12600118166016455712011-02-10T13:42:00.000-08:002011-02-14T13:49:47.483-08:00Egypt just gave us al Qaeda's worst NightmareA secular, non-islamic, non-violent uprising of the people - just drove out a pro-American, pro-Israeli dictator who'd been well lodged in place for 30 straight years.
al Qeada's entire raison d'etre has just been shot in the goat nads.
Mubarak has Stepped Down and Left, power has been transferred temporarily to the Military and Courts - Democracy has Won. The People have Won, without Firing aVyanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04525361990361769626noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8496870.post-37054212001608656642011-02-10T13:41:00.000-08:002011-02-14T13:42:31.131-08:00A Foxer Finally Admits, They just make Shit UpYeah, we've all known it for a long time and Robert Greenwald did a great job of laying it all out with insiders and detailed analysis in his film "OutFoxed" - but today yet another report has come from behind partisan enemy lines, and the truth is devastating.
Indeed, a former Fox News employee who recently agreed to talk with Media Matters confirmed what critics have been saying for years Vyanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04525361990361769626noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8496870.post-21646758119139476482011-02-09T13:34:00.000-08:002011-02-14T13:38:12.534-08:00Clarence Thomas should recuse himself from Affordable Care Act DecisionsThat's what 74 lawmakers apparently think...
As an Associate Justice, you are entrusted with the responsibility to exercise the highest degree of discretion and impartiality when deciding a case. As Members of Congress, we were surprised by recent revelations of your financial ties to leading organizations dedicated to lobbying against the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. We write Vyanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04525361990361769626noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8496870.post-55145784964141056762011-02-08T14:19:00.000-08:002011-02-08T14:19:52.359-08:00No, Rummy the Intelligence Wasn't Wrong - You Were.Rumseld with Diane Sawyer.
Rumsfeld: The idea that he (Powell) was lying (before the U.N.) or duped is nonsense. He believed it. Our military believed. Our military got chemical weapons suits on to protect them. Saddam Hussein neighbors told us, "Be ready, when you get close to Bahgdad their going to use Chemical Weapons againt yor troops"
Sawyer: But you were wrong?
Rumsfeld: Oh my goodness,Vyanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04525361990361769626noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8496870.post-40752306119779836922011-02-06T13:55:00.000-08:002011-02-06T13:55:53.749-08:00So Why do the Righties Love Reagan - the tax raising, cut and running, terrorist appeaser - Again?Mike Stark Strikes Again... in this brilliant pwning of Rush Limbaugh.
Stark: I want to know why a tax-raising, amnesty-giving, cut-and-running, negotiating-with-terrorists (Iran-Contra) guy is a hero to the conservative movement?
Yeah, why is it that a President who blew a Mount Rushmore Size hole in the budget, grew the Federal Government, delt with terrorists, cut and ran in Beirut, gave Vyanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04525361990361769626noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8496870.post-18322042278837219312011-02-04T13:57:00.000-08:002011-02-06T14:00:06.258-08:00Caliphate-o-Phobia vs the Power of HopeThis weeks dramatic story in Egypt has riveted the world, with amazing images of courage and brutality, such as this one here where Christians lock hands to protect Muslims in Tahrir square during their morning prayers.
The facts are clear, but despite that Mubarak Regime has attempted to weave a completely alternative scenario as to what is actually happening claiming that "outside interests"Vyanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04525361990361769626noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8496870.post-19903629064319096422011-01-28T17:39:00.000-08:002011-01-28T17:40:32.061-08:00CBO says Bush Tax Cuts will Explode Deficit, Again!It's been said before, but yet again in their most recent update to the current Budget CBO has said it again. Here are the before and after projections.As you can see there is a marked increase from the OMB numbers for FY2011 Budget compared to latest CBO projection. Why the difference? Follow over the flip.From the CBO's Full ReportRevenues under the President’s proposals would be $1.4 Vyan1http://www.blogger.com/profile/07952830917532231860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8496870.post-36732024991453516202011-01-24T15:03:00.000-08:002011-01-24T15:15:08.002-08:00Glenn Beck Rants Spark Death Threats against 78 yr-old ProfGlenn Beck's repeated fantasy rants about the "Great Leftist Plan to Collapse our System" has resulted in the issuances of Death Threats against a 78 year-old sociology professor for a minor paper she co-authored in 1966. as if it had any bearing on events here today.Beck: Perpare for a crash landing, this plane is coming down, because the pilot is intentionally steering it into the trees. We'll Vyan1http://www.blogger.com/profile/07952830917532231860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8496870.post-53906704541272877462011-01-23T13:35:00.000-08:002011-01-23T13:36:31.091-08:00Glenn Beck Defends "Shoot Them In the Head" CommentsYes, Glenn Beck has stepped forward to defend, justify and rationalize this comment:Beck: Shoot me in the head, before I stop talking about founders. Shoot me in the head, if you try and change our government....You're going to have to shoot them in the head, but be warned - they might shoot you first. Karl Marx is their George Washington, you'll never change their minds. Nancy Pelosi, those areVyan1http://www.blogger.com/profile/07952830917532231860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8496870.post-55973835195407157082011-01-23T13:33:00.000-08:002011-01-23T14:03:40.341-08:00Fox's Operation Save Saint Sarah: Phase 2So Sarah Palin decided after her brilliant performance trying to upstage the memorial service for those injured in the Loughner attack to double down and upstage Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day by making a whirl wind tour of Sean Hannity's Satellite feed. You see six people were killed last week and 14 wounded in an attempted political assassination, but enough of those whiners and losers - let'sVyan1http://www.blogger.com/profile/07952830917532231860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8496870.post-60561747734851797062011-01-23T13:32:00.000-08:002011-01-23T13:33:27.884-08:00Did anyone (in Media) actually Say Palin Inspired Loughner?In the last week the Right-Wing hss been incensed - incensed - that poor sweet Saint Sarah was so unfairly and rudely accused of pretty much shooting Gabrielle Giffords in the head, or at the very least, inspiring the Jared Lee Loughner to launch his killing spree.One wonders if Sarah Palin's name hadn't even come up after the Giffords shooting, would she have even bothered to make this video? Vyan1http://www.blogger.com/profile/07952830917532231860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8496870.post-51079331612403896862011-01-15T13:14:00.000-08:002011-01-15T13:35:20.411-08:00Glenn Beck Inspired 3 Death Threats/Assassination AttemptsFeeling wounded and attacked Sarah Palin and the Right Wing have whined that media has committed a Blood Libel and a Pogrom against Conservatives - which if you ignore the fact that these were terms meant to describe the persecution of Jews like Gabrielle Giffords - means that they feel they are being unfairly victimized and attacked for things they had nothing to do with.Well there's a reason Vyan1http://www.blogger.com/profile/07952830917532231860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8496870.post-76708608709088031192011-01-15T05:59:00.000-08:002011-01-15T06:06:56.637-08:00Impact of Tucson Speech felt around the WorlAlthough the international response to the actual shooting has been somewhat muted, the response to Obama's stunning speech not only silenced the Right-Wing Critics (for about 3 minutes) it's also had a massive response from around the world.Details (compiled by my wife Robin) over the flip.http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/blog/2011/jan/12/arizona-shootings-fallout-obama-tucson-speechArizona Vyan1http://www.blogger.com/profile/07952830917532231860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8496870.post-33750721462482804992011-01-14T12:27:00.000-08:002011-01-14T12:29:32.989-08:00This is why Obama is PresidentIt seems to me that we'd forgotten who Obama truly was. we'd forgotten the depth of empathy, compassion and stirring Hope that he could bring to the table. if anyone was born to fulfill a task, to help heal a grieving and frustrated, Nation - bitterly back-bating against itself - pick it up, dust it off and send it back in the right direction - Barack Hussein Obama was that man.How could we Vyan1http://www.blogger.com/profile/07952830917532231860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8496870.post-22400034861377358302011-01-11T19:12:00.000-08:002011-01-11T23:43:50.669-08:00Wishing Death is Wrong on the Right, Wrong on the LeftIf it was wrong for Bill O'Reilly to suggest Dana Milbank should be Beaten and Decapited, wrong for Bernard Goldberg to threaten the New York Times with a Baseball Bat, wrong for Beck to fantasize about strangling Michael Moore or poisoning Nancy Pelosi, wrong of Michele Bachmann to suggest Republicans should be "Armed and Dangerous", wrong of Sharon Angle to call for "Second Amendment Remedies" Vyanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04525361990361769626noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8496870.post-60942165671144380582011-01-11T18:39:00.000-08:002011-01-11T18:39:32.564-08:00Fox Attacks - Sherrif Dupnik and those Against Violent Speech?First we have Good 'Ole Glenn Beck show claims the Arizona Tragedy is being Politicized and it's a shame. Therefore we need to fight back against those who say - "Let's stop all the violent talk", because you see - Glenn Beck Doesn't USE Violent Rhetoric.
Beck: The Problem is that everybody is playing politics with a national tragedy. Paul Krugman says it's long past time took a stand against Vyanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04525361990361769626noreply@blogger.com0