Monday, March 28, 2011

Obama Speaks to US on Lybia

Gaddafi declared that he would show “no mercy” to his own people. He compared them to rats, and threatened to go door to door to inflict punishment. In the past, we had seen him hang civilians in the streets, and kill over a thousand people in a single day. Now, we saw regime forces on the outskirts of the city. We knew that if we waited one more day, Benghazi – a city nearly the size of Charlotte – could suffer a massacre that would have reverberated across the region and stained the conscience of the world.

It was not in our national interest to let that happen. I refused to let that happen.

Transcript here

I've added this guy to my links. Go find out why

America, I'm talking to you...

Jim Wright at Stonekettle Station

Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Shock Doctrine

I've been talking about this book for years now. Every time I read part of it I get angry and wonder why we have such ineffective Democratic leadership that we refuse to fight for what's left of America? Here's an interview with Naomi Klein that gives the short version of what it is and how we are being destroyed as a country.

Interview with Naomi Klein, author of "Shock Doctrine".

Sunday, March 13, 2011

We Need Real Democrats!

Why are things so rotten in America right now? Well actually they are really really good for the richest people and multinational corporations. Things only suck if you are one of the other 297 million citizens of the United States of America. Inside the gated communities things are going just swell. It's just that that doesn't include you and me.

What happened? The people who are supposed to be our friends sold us out. Here's an excerpt from your Sunday reading assignment:

Republicans had taken a prosperous, peaceful nation with a budget surplus and turned it into a nation tottering on the edge of economic catastrophe, with an overextended military and nothing but lint in the bank account. When President Obama came into the office with huge levels of support, it wasn't just that people got caught up in the spirit of the occasion. It was relief. The Republicans, whose every working principle had turned out to be not just wrong but dead wrong, were gone.

All Democrats had to do was to offer an alternative.

Republicans didn't have any master strategy. They didn't have a clue how to get back on top. But as it turned out, they didn't need one.

Instead Republicans only had to sit on their hands as the Democrats rewarded the people who brought down the economy and failed to bring anyone to justice for the complete failure of the system that the Republicans had built up to fail. Failed to bring anyone to justice for deliberately misleading the American people into a war that has taken thousands of lives. Failed even to restore the rule of law and the rights of the accused.

So the number one step we can take as a nation to rebuild this country For The People is....drum roll...

Re-enact the Fairness Doctrine in American media.

Canadians just overwhelmingly reaffirmed their version of the Fairness Doctrine. It simply states that no media outlet can present false or misleading information as "news" and that opinion must be labelled opinion. What could be wrong with that?

That we did not see Democrats immediately re-enact the Fairness Doctrine tells us that there were enough Democrats who were compromised that it could not have passed. Democrats who believe that they are in office as a result of corporate money would not vote against their masters except in cases of extreme harm to the country and its people. Republicans have no such qualms. By failing to step up in their moment of power, Democrats may have doomed our country.

Sunday Reading

Monday, March 7, 2011

Thursday, March 3, 2011

We Have to Become Real Democrats!

Rachel Maddow nails exactly what I've been trying to tell my Democratic friends for a decade now. 98% of all Americans should be Democrats. Let the Republicans represent the other 2%. The problem is that we've let money buy our elections. We've let money buy our news media. And we've let 2% of all Americans get most of the money.

So what do we do? We have to become REAL Democrats!

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Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Tea Puppet Mind Blind in Tennessee

The Tea Party Puppet Masters have been exposed in Wisconsin with their own tactics being used against them in a guerrilla video that caught the governor admitting that busting the teacher union has nothing to do with the budget deficits which he himself caused. The same mind blindness that drives Wisconsin Tea Partiers to harass the few rational Republicans left in that state has struck Tennessee.

The Tea Puppets weren't stepping up to the Koolade bucket fast enough to match the fire that has been lit under Tennessee's unions so they had to resort to hiring crazy people.

Here's the ad running on Craig's List:

Sick of Unions chipping away at the core of American Values?
Tired of Teachers and State workers bankrupting our future?
Take action and take America Back!

We Are looking for Activists that are willing to stand up to the big Union bosses and help us take our state back!

We are looking for energetic, compassionate activists that can help organize protests, signature campaigns and grassroots movements that will help limit the damage of public workers unions.

Must have your own transportation.

Please email a cover letter and resume.

* Location: Knoxville
* Compensation: $800 a week
* Principals only. Recruiters, please don't contact this job poster.
* Please, no phone calls about this job!
* Please do not contact job poster about other services, products or commercial interests.


The mysterious anonymous Tea Party Liberty is waging a campaign of terror against any Republican state legislator who has a lick of willingness to be thoughtful about the rash of bills attacking teachers in Tennessee.

Does that ad have anything to do with this call to attack the few sane Republican legislators we have left?

Action Alert

THESE ARE OUR REPRESENTATIVES WHO HAVE BEEN ADDED TO THE EXPANDED WAFFLE LIST AND NEED MIGHTY PRESSURE EXERTED ON THEM TO PASS HB 130--COLLECTIVE BARGAINING BILL!

WE NEED TO "WEAR THEM OUT" NOW! SEND EMAILS, CALL THEIR OFFICES, AND STRONGLY ENCOURAGE THEM TO SUPPORT WITH THEIR VOTES THIS BILL! WE HAVE GOT TO FOCUS ATTENTION ON THE HOUSE SIDE OF THIS ISSUE. WE HAVE THE VOTES IN THE SENATE.

(56) SPEAKER BETH HARWELL 741-0709
speaker.beth.harwell@capitol.tn.gov

(19)HARRY BROOK 741-6879
Rep.harry.brooks@capitol.tn.gov

(6) DALE FORD 741-1717
Rep.dale.ford@capitol.tn.gove

(23) JOHN FORGETY 741-1725
Rep.john.forgety@capitol.tn.gov

(9) MICHAEL HARRISON 741-7480
Rep.mike.Harrison@capitol.tn.gov

(78) PHILLIP JOHNSON 741-7477
Rep.phillip.Johnson@capitol.tn.gov

(99) RON LAWLER 741-7086
Rep.ron.lawler@capitol.tn.gov

(72) STEVE MCDANIEL 741-0750
Rep.steve.mcdaniel@capitol.tn.gov


(12) RICHARD MONTGOMERY 741-5981
Rep.Richard.Montgomery@capitol.tn.gov

(35) DENNIS ROACH 741-2534
Rep.dennis.roach@capitol.tn.gov

(61) CHARLES SARGENT 741-6808
Rep.charles.sergeant@capitol.tn.gov

(8) ART SWANN 741-5481
Rep.art.swann@capitol.tn.gov

WE HAVE BEEN TOLD THAT THEY NEED TO RECEIVE TENS OF THOUSANDS OF EMAILS AND PHONE CALLS.

WE ADDED SPEAKER HARWELL TO THIS LIST FOR GOOD MEASURE. WE ARE ALSO BEING TOLD THAT GOVERNOR HASLAM IS EXCEEDINLY WEAK...WE NEED TO APPLY PRESSURE TO HIM!

SB 2012 HAS BUMPED HB 130 AND IS ON SUBCOMMITTEE OF EDUCATION CALENDAR FOR MARCH 2, 2011.

In Liberty,

The Tennessee Tea Party Team

Wouldn't "liberty" mean the freedom to organize? At what point will the Democratic Party galvanize and defend the middle class against those who build their walls of cannonballs?

Tea Puppetry is a sickness infecting our communities that must be fought. Common sense and honesty must be brought back.

Courage,

Steve