But in some cases, attention is the one thing they need.
I'm talking, of course, about Michael and Debi Pearl, two horrible excuses for human beings who profit off of the abuse of children.
www.nogreaterjoy.org
They sugarcoat it, and glorify it, but at its core is an extremely literal application of the Bible--that is, using "the Rod" to "guide" children.
The Rod, of course, is a symbol of authority. "Guiding", in this case, means behavior modification--swatting and smacking children for even the most minor of transgressions, and sometimes no transgression at all.
Michael Pearl's practices have directly led to the deaths of not one, but TWO children.
http://www.salon.com/life/feature/2010/02/22/no_greater_joy/index.html
Many other links can be found in that very article that serve purpose there far better than I could make them.
Spread the word. Make these people known. Show them that they only get their fortunes because the people they sell their books to are young, naive, and simply too stupid to raise a child themselves!
Quarter-inch PVC pipes and branches from bushes are NOT proper tools with which to "guide" children! It is NEVER okay to hit a baby for crying, and raising a child is NOT about the parents' comfort or desires!
www.stoptherod.net
Mordric is out.
Peace.
Friday, March 5, 2010
Thursday, March 4, 2010
He's here, He's new, He's my son and has his own mind...
I want to take the time to introduce to my gazillion(6) readers to a new poster ....he is my son Ben, AKA Mordric...
He has an new and fresh view on the world that we all inhabit, please take a look and give your opinions to a new, fresh, attitude, offered to you with no apologies.....He is his own person.
On the other side, I would like to hear your opinions on todays issues ...fire away and be ready for response from either of us.
Peace, love and light, TR
He has an new and fresh view on the world that we all inhabit, please take a look and give your opinions to a new, fresh, attitude, offered to you with no apologies.....He is his own person.
On the other side, I would like to hear your opinions on todays issues ...fire away and be ready for response from either of us.
Peace, love and light, TR
Sunday, February 14, 2010
I could not have said it better...
This being cross-posted from "the Smirking Chimp" and also and to the point, Harvey Wassserman's blog on the same Smirking Chimp.
Our Founders Were NOT Fundamentalists
Religious Right
by Harvey Wasserman | February 13, 2010 - 12:43pm
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"God made the idiot for practice, and then He made the school board."
--Mark Twain
Tomorrow's New York Times Sunday Magazine highlights yet another mob of extremists using the Texas School Board to baptize our children's textbooks.
This endless, ever-angry escalating assault on our Constitution by crusading theocrats could be obliterated with the effective incantation of two names: Benjamin Franklin, and Deganawidah.
But first, let's do some history:
1) Actual Founder-Presidents #2 through #6 -- John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe and John Quincy Adams -- were all freethinking Deists and Unitarians; what Christian precepts they embraced were moderate, tolerant and open-minded.
2) Actual Founder-President #1, George Washington, became an Anglican as required for original military service under the British, and occasionally quoted scripture. But he vehemently opposed any church-state union. In a 1790 letter to the Jews of Truro, he wrote: The "Government of the United States, which gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistances, requires only that they who live under its protection, should demean themselves as good citizens." A 1796 treaty he signed says "the government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion." Washington rarely went to church and by some accounts refused last religious rites.
3) Washington was also the nation's leading brewer, and since most Americans drank much beer (water could be lethal in the cities) they regularly trembled before the keg, not the altar. Like Washington, Jefferson and Madison, virtually all American farmers raised hemp and its variations.
4) Jefferson produced a personal Bible from which he edited out all reference to the "miraculous" from the life of Jesus, whom he considered both an activist and a mortal.
5) Tom Paine's COMMON SENSE sparked the Revolution with nary a mention of Jesus or Christianity. His Deist Creator established the laws of Nature, endowed humans with Free Will, then left.
6) The Constitution never mentions the words "Christian" or "Jesus" or "Christ."
7) Revolutionary America was filled with Christians whose commitment to toleration and diversity was completely adverse to the violent, racist, misogynist, anti-sex theocratic Puritans whose "City on the Hill" meant a totalitarian state. Inspirational preachers like Rhode Island's Roger Williams and religious groups like the Quakers envisioned a nation built on tolerance and love for all.
8) The US was founded less on Judeo-Christian beliefs than on the Greco-Roman love for dialog and reason. There are no contemporary portraits of any Founder wearing a crucifix or church garb. But Washington was famously painted half-naked in the buff toga of the Roman Republic, which continues to inspire much of our official architecture.
9) The great guerilla fighter (and furniture maker) Ethan Allen was an aggressive atheist; his beliefs were common among the farmers, sailors and artisans who were the backbone of Revolutionary America.
10) America's most influential statesman, thinker, writer, agitator, publisher, citizen-scientist and proud liberal libertine was -- and remains -- Benjamin Franklin. He was at the heart of the Declaration, Constitution and Treaty of Paris ending the Revolution. The ultimate Enlightenment icon, Franklin's Deism embraced a pragmatic love of diversity. As early America's dominant publisher he, Paine and Jefferson printed the intellectual soul of the new nation.
11) Franklin deeply admired the Ho-de-no-sau-nee (Iroquois) Confederacy of what's now upstate New York. Inspired by the legendary peacemaker Deganawidah, this democratic congress of five tribes had worked "better than the British Parliament" for more than two centuries. It gave us the model for our federal structure and the images of freedom and equality that inspired both the French and American Revolutions.
It's no accident today's fundamentalist crusaders and media bloviators (Rev. Limbaugh, St. Beck) seek to purge our children's texts of all native images except as they are being forceably converted or killed.
Today's fundamentalists would have DESPISED the actual Founders. Franklin's joyous, amply reciprocated love of women would evoke their limitless rage. Jefferson's paternities with his slave mistress Sally Hemings, Paine's attacks on the priesthood, Hamilton's bastardly philandering, the grassroots scorn for organized religion -- all would draw howls of righteous right-wing rage.
Which may be why theocratic fundamentalists are so desperate to sanitize and fictionalize what's real about our history.
God forbid our children should know of American Christians who embraced the Sermon on the Mount and renounced the Book of Revelations...or natives who established democracy on American soil long before they saw the first European...or actual Founders who got drunk, high and laid on their way to writing the Constitution.
Faith-based tyranny is anti-American. So are dishonest textbooks. It's time to fight them both.
HARVEY WASSERMAN'S HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES is at www.harveywasserman.com, along with PASSIONS OF THE POTSMOKING PATRIOTS by "Thomas Paine." This article is written in honor of the spirit of Howard Zinn.
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Harvey Wasserman / Solartopia.org
About author
Harvey Wasserman is author of HARVEY WASSERMAN'S HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES; SOLARTOPIA! OUR GREEN-POWERED EARTH and A GLIMPSE OF THE BIG LIGHT: LOSING PARENTS, FINDING SPIRIT, all at www.harveywasserman.com. He writes regularly on politics and the environment at www.solartopia.org and www.freepress.org.
Much more eloquent than anything I could say yet it embodies the reality of my belief ... We are Americans dedicated to the advancement of all people and for the freedom to indulge in true pluralism amd the understanding that multiculturalism, is fundamental to our exixtence on this planet and perhaps even our place in an advanced universe.
Peace, love, and light....TR
P.S. Go hug someone, even if you don't like them ...it makes the bond of dislike weaker and then perhaps you will see the world from someone elses concepts, even if you don't agree.
Our Founders Were NOT Fundamentalists
Religious Right
by Harvey Wasserman | February 13, 2010 - 12:43pm
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"God made the idiot for practice, and then He made the school board."
--Mark Twain
Tomorrow's New York Times Sunday Magazine highlights yet another mob of extremists using the Texas School Board to baptize our children's textbooks.
This endless, ever-angry escalating assault on our Constitution by crusading theocrats could be obliterated with the effective incantation of two names: Benjamin Franklin, and Deganawidah.
But first, let's do some history:
1) Actual Founder-Presidents #2 through #6 -- John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe and John Quincy Adams -- were all freethinking Deists and Unitarians; what Christian precepts they embraced were moderate, tolerant and open-minded.
2) Actual Founder-President #1, George Washington, became an Anglican as required for original military service under the British, and occasionally quoted scripture. But he vehemently opposed any church-state union. In a 1790 letter to the Jews of Truro, he wrote: The "Government of the United States, which gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistances, requires only that they who live under its protection, should demean themselves as good citizens." A 1796 treaty he signed says "the government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion." Washington rarely went to church and by some accounts refused last religious rites.
3) Washington was also the nation's leading brewer, and since most Americans drank much beer (water could be lethal in the cities) they regularly trembled before the keg, not the altar. Like Washington, Jefferson and Madison, virtually all American farmers raised hemp and its variations.
4) Jefferson produced a personal Bible from which he edited out all reference to the "miraculous" from the life of Jesus, whom he considered both an activist and a mortal.
5) Tom Paine's COMMON SENSE sparked the Revolution with nary a mention of Jesus or Christianity. His Deist Creator established the laws of Nature, endowed humans with Free Will, then left.
6) The Constitution never mentions the words "Christian" or "Jesus" or "Christ."
7) Revolutionary America was filled with Christians whose commitment to toleration and diversity was completely adverse to the violent, racist, misogynist, anti-sex theocratic Puritans whose "City on the Hill" meant a totalitarian state. Inspirational preachers like Rhode Island's Roger Williams and religious groups like the Quakers envisioned a nation built on tolerance and love for all.
8) The US was founded less on Judeo-Christian beliefs than on the Greco-Roman love for dialog and reason. There are no contemporary portraits of any Founder wearing a crucifix or church garb. But Washington was famously painted half-naked in the buff toga of the Roman Republic, which continues to inspire much of our official architecture.
9) The great guerilla fighter (and furniture maker) Ethan Allen was an aggressive atheist; his beliefs were common among the farmers, sailors and artisans who were the backbone of Revolutionary America.
10) America's most influential statesman, thinker, writer, agitator, publisher, citizen-scientist and proud liberal libertine was -- and remains -- Benjamin Franklin. He was at the heart of the Declaration, Constitution and Treaty of Paris ending the Revolution. The ultimate Enlightenment icon, Franklin's Deism embraced a pragmatic love of diversity. As early America's dominant publisher he, Paine and Jefferson printed the intellectual soul of the new nation.
11) Franklin deeply admired the Ho-de-no-sau-nee (Iroquois) Confederacy of what's now upstate New York. Inspired by the legendary peacemaker Deganawidah, this democratic congress of five tribes had worked "better than the British Parliament" for more than two centuries. It gave us the model for our federal structure and the images of freedom and equality that inspired both the French and American Revolutions.
It's no accident today's fundamentalist crusaders and media bloviators (Rev. Limbaugh, St. Beck) seek to purge our children's texts of all native images except as they are being forceably converted or killed.
Today's fundamentalists would have DESPISED the actual Founders. Franklin's joyous, amply reciprocated love of women would evoke their limitless rage. Jefferson's paternities with his slave mistress Sally Hemings, Paine's attacks on the priesthood, Hamilton's bastardly philandering, the grassroots scorn for organized religion -- all would draw howls of righteous right-wing rage.
Which may be why theocratic fundamentalists are so desperate to sanitize and fictionalize what's real about our history.
God forbid our children should know of American Christians who embraced the Sermon on the Mount and renounced the Book of Revelations...or natives who established democracy on American soil long before they saw the first European...or actual Founders who got drunk, high and laid on their way to writing the Constitution.
Faith-based tyranny is anti-American. So are dishonest textbooks. It's time to fight them both.
HARVEY WASSERMAN'S HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES is at www.harveywasserman.com, along with PASSIONS OF THE POTSMOKING PATRIOTS by "Thomas Paine." This article is written in honor of the spirit of Howard Zinn.
_______
Harvey Wasserman / Solartopia.org
About author
Harvey Wasserman is author of HARVEY WASSERMAN'S HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES; SOLARTOPIA! OUR GREEN-POWERED EARTH and A GLIMPSE OF THE BIG LIGHT: LOSING PARENTS, FINDING SPIRIT, all at www.harveywasserman.com. He writes regularly on politics and the environment at www.solartopia.org and www.freepress.org.
Much more eloquent than anything I could say yet it embodies the reality of my belief ... We are Americans dedicated to the advancement of all people and for the freedom to indulge in true pluralism amd the understanding that multiculturalism, is fundamental to our exixtence on this planet and perhaps even our place in an advanced universe.
Peace, love, and light....TR
P.S. Go hug someone, even if you don't like them ...it makes the bond of dislike weaker and then perhaps you will see the world from someone elses concepts, even if you don't agree.
Thursday, February 4, 2010
New guest and of His own opinion...
Welcome one and all to the New and possibly improved version of the Ranting Raven...I hope that the new addition will enlighten you and amuse you at times, this is my son and co-writer, treat him with your thoughts , opinions and respect...
Hi, readers. This is TauRaven's son. Call me Ben.
My dad wanted me to write a post for his blog, so here's my shot at it.
Let's start with a question.
"How many minors must be put on the sex offender registry before one realizes the law is being abused?"
...I should hope you all know the answer. It's deplorable. It's maddening. It's gut-wrenchingly sickening. That people can turn a blind eye to people as young as FOUR YEARS OLD being put on a life-destroying list in the name of "get those disgusting pedos!" makes me sick to my stomach.
I am 21 years old. I'll be 22 in January. And if these laws had been abused when I was a kid as they are now, I could very easily be on the list for being caught playing DOCTOR with a little girl I knew once.
This is what's happening. Children--teenagers, confused by hormones and growing bodies--are being targeted and treated as adults for the horrifying, immoral crime of GROWING UP.
I apologize for the upcoming barrage of links, but I cannot make these claims without some proof.
http://www.rickyslife.com/
This young man, 16 years old, met a wonderful girl his age. You were 16 once, you know what happens...this and that, a kiss here, a rub there...only it turned out she was 13 and lying about her age. Ricky is STILL forced to be on the sex offender registry and spent YEARS trying to fend for himself when everyone turned their backs on him. They blamed him for being lied to! Is this acceptable?
http://www.denverpost.com/ci_4783650
I can't even find the words necessary to describe the lunacy! How can a 13-year-old girl be both the victim AND the offender?! Is this acceptable?!
http://www.wbaltv.com/news/10573391/detail.html
Two for the price of one. Two children UNDER THE AGE OF SIX were accused of sexual harassment. How the fuck would you explain to your child what sexual harassment is and why they're in trouble for it?! IS THIS ACCEPTABLE?!
I have more. They're sickening, they make me want to vomit, and I wish to God, Allah, Buddha, and all the other deities that I were making this up, that I were playing some kind of prank...but I'm not.
These are the last two, guys. I promise. I have so many more examples, but I think the point's been made.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,190586,00.html
http://freestudents.blogspot.com/2009/09/there-is-fury-and-and-sadness-inside.html
Read them. Read them and understand, once and for all, what's really happening when a politician says "look, we're helping".
This is a tragedy, folks. This is something that absolutely must stop. This isn't protecting children at all! There's no "stop the molesters" here! It's "punish children for growing up"!
Is this the stance we're taking as a society? Is this what's happening? We're taking little girls and boys and telling them their bodies are terrible. We're telling little girls that all men are depraved perverts and must be actively distrusted, while at the same time they must be as attractive to those depraved perverts as possible (while STILL at the same time telling them they have no sex drive and are pure, innocent angels). We're telling little boys that they are worthless, and that they have no chance to be anything better than a drooling idiot with his hand around his dick--or worse, a rapist and child molester, simply because he had the misfortune of being born with a penis!
Here's my request to you. When people in the media say "think of the children", they mean nothing more than "I know how to get votes/publicity". I implore you, every last one of you, to truly and honestly think of the children, and spread the word. Make it known that the law is being misused and MUST be changed.
Please. For me, for you, and for our society's future--because as it stands, we're not protecting our children.
We're destroying them.
Peace.
-Ben
Well there you go my friends, take it for what you will and respond as you see fit....I care for you all and may you blessed ...and on top of that ... have really nice day!!!!...LOL
Hi, readers. This is TauRaven's son. Call me Ben.
My dad wanted me to write a post for his blog, so here's my shot at it.
Let's start with a question.
"How many minors must be put on the sex offender registry before one realizes the law is being abused?"
...I should hope you all know the answer. It's deplorable. It's maddening. It's gut-wrenchingly sickening. That people can turn a blind eye to people as young as FOUR YEARS OLD being put on a life-destroying list in the name of "get those disgusting pedos!" makes me sick to my stomach.
I am 21 years old. I'll be 22 in January. And if these laws had been abused when I was a kid as they are now, I could very easily be on the list for being caught playing DOCTOR with a little girl I knew once.
This is what's happening. Children--teenagers, confused by hormones and growing bodies--are being targeted and treated as adults for the horrifying, immoral crime of GROWING UP.
I apologize for the upcoming barrage of links, but I cannot make these claims without some proof.
http://www.rickyslife.com/
This young man, 16 years old, met a wonderful girl his age. You were 16 once, you know what happens...this and that, a kiss here, a rub there...only it turned out she was 13 and lying about her age. Ricky is STILL forced to be on the sex offender registry and spent YEARS trying to fend for himself when everyone turned their backs on him. They blamed him for being lied to! Is this acceptable?
http://www.denverpost.com/ci_4783650
I can't even find the words necessary to describe the lunacy! How can a 13-year-old girl be both the victim AND the offender?! Is this acceptable?!
http://www.wbaltv.com/news/10573391/detail.html
Two for the price of one. Two children UNDER THE AGE OF SIX were accused of sexual harassment. How the fuck would you explain to your child what sexual harassment is and why they're in trouble for it?! IS THIS ACCEPTABLE?!
I have more. They're sickening, they make me want to vomit, and I wish to God, Allah, Buddha, and all the other deities that I were making this up, that I were playing some kind of prank...but I'm not.
These are the last two, guys. I promise. I have so many more examples, but I think the point's been made.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,190586,00.html
http://freestudents.blogspot.com/2009/09/there-is-fury-and-and-sadness-inside.html
Read them. Read them and understand, once and for all, what's really happening when a politician says "look, we're helping".
This is a tragedy, folks. This is something that absolutely must stop. This isn't protecting children at all! There's no "stop the molesters" here! It's "punish children for growing up"!
Is this the stance we're taking as a society? Is this what's happening? We're taking little girls and boys and telling them their bodies are terrible. We're telling little girls that all men are depraved perverts and must be actively distrusted, while at the same time they must be as attractive to those depraved perverts as possible (while STILL at the same time telling them they have no sex drive and are pure, innocent angels). We're telling little boys that they are worthless, and that they have no chance to be anything better than a drooling idiot with his hand around his dick--or worse, a rapist and child molester, simply because he had the misfortune of being born with a penis!
Here's my request to you. When people in the media say "think of the children", they mean nothing more than "I know how to get votes/publicity". I implore you, every last one of you, to truly and honestly think of the children, and spread the word. Make it known that the law is being misused and MUST be changed.
Please. For me, for you, and for our society's future--because as it stands, we're not protecting our children.
We're destroying them.
Peace.
-Ben
Well there you go my friends, take it for what you will and respond as you see fit....I care for you all and may you blessed ...and on top of that ... have really nice day!!!!...LOL
Saturday, January 9, 2010
No, I haven't given up...
To my gazillion(6) readers...no I have not forgotten you, I have had some issues that needed dealing with.
For now I won't rant, I merely wish that all that read this, have a most happy and truly wondrous New Year and that all realize that while peace on earth is the ultimate goal, it takes the smallest of changes from each and every one of us to start that initial ripple that becomes a sunami of peace and prosperity for everyone.
So all I ask of you all this new decade is to be a part of the ripple, because when ripplin' waters flow, who can imagine the power it can create.
Brightest Blessing for the best of New Years for all of you...
Peace, love and light...TR
For now I won't rant, I merely wish that all that read this, have a most happy and truly wondrous New Year and that all realize that while peace on earth is the ultimate goal, it takes the smallest of changes from each and every one of us to start that initial ripple that becomes a sunami of peace and prosperity for everyone.
So all I ask of you all this new decade is to be a part of the ripple, because when ripplin' waters flow, who can imagine the power it can create.
Brightest Blessing for the best of New Years for all of you...
Peace, love and light...TR
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Pesident Obama and the Nobel Peace Prize...
Yes, he won the prize,so what,it was accepted and the people of most of America think it's a wonderful thing. Why do the rightwing wingnuts think it's not deserved? Alfred Nobel invented dynamite and several other explosives because he was a manufacturerer of armaments. He never expexted that it would eventually lead to his death (which it did), so in his will he left a grand amount of money for the developement of a prize to be awarded to the deserving candidates from around the world in all the sciences and one in peace for the person who set forth a show and plan to change the world for the better without the violence...wow what a concept.
Now onto my rant...The fact that many rightwingnuts think that it is an award udeserved are spouting supidity and nonsence. This award is given by a group that looks at what a leader (or other person) does to ensure that peace can be achieved without the use of violence, hell I am all in favor of that, and works to ensure that it will happen. So does The President deserve it?
Yes for if no other reason then that he has worked hard to show that negotiation is far more productive than death!
What is wrong with people that have "air time" and are allowed to spout anti-America rhetoric to the public, unwatched and uncontrolled? What is wrong with the public that is willing to deafly listen to that rhetoric and not get angry that their President is being slandered to the nation? Why weren't they this pissed off whem the shrub was in charge and destroyed our economy and our treasury to fund an illegal and immoral war and steal millions from unmetered oid wells in Iraq, and some think he was a saint?
Limbaugh, Hannity, Beck, Savage, and O'Ripley(Believe it or not), spout their insidious rants all about insighting people to violence, and unfortunately many of the deluded minority not only listen but seem to plan and plot against the President and the United States and is true patriots.
This type of behavior is not only unacceptable in this country , but it also borders on treason...but damn it does sell ratings don't it? What the hell happened to honest journalism in the free nation we call home?
President Obama has done much of all he promised to do and yes he has a great deal of work left to do, but for chrissakes people, he hasn't been in office even a year yet, any employee has a period of time given to show what he is made of , and not one of the wingnuts has given him even five minutes to change that disaster the last administration left us. I would never want that mans job for anything , he has a bazillion things on his plate and no time to even eat it. Let's stand up and put on our big person pants and give him some time to show us his metal. In fact maybe it's time we took a closer look at the idiot blue dogs that seem to like money more that their constituents, or maybe the rethuglicans who seem unable to find the forest for the trees. There is a new vote coming soon kids and it time we look at what our representatives are and are not doing.
Oh, by the way kids, don't let them tell you that health care is not a right, as I have said before no American should be refused, denied, or not given the right to quality healthcare for any reason. As I have written before, the constitution states that it was written in part for the "general welfare " of the people. That has far reaching implications that need to be addressed.
Oh and not as an afterthought, let us never forget that the LGBT community was instramental in getting our President elected and truly deserve the rights that they are asking for. All people have basic human rights and no one can be denied them for reasons that only affect their sensibilities. C'mon folks lets all wake up and realize that this "grand experiment " does work and it's up to us to make sure it does.
End of rant .
Now for some humor, or at least my feeble attempt at it...
A guy falls asleep on his boat for several hour and gets a horrible sunburn. He goes to the hospital, and is admitted promptly after being diagnosed with second degree burns. With his skin starting to blister, and seeing the severe pain he is in, the doctor orders an IV with saline, electrolytes, a sedative, and a Viagra pill every four hours.
The nurse, who is rather astounded asks, "What good will the Viagra do him, doctor?"
The doctor replies," It'll keep the sheets off his legs."
Peace, Love, and Light all,
TR
Now onto my rant...The fact that many rightwingnuts think that it is an award udeserved are spouting supidity and nonsence. This award is given by a group that looks at what a leader (or other person) does to ensure that peace can be achieved without the use of violence, hell I am all in favor of that, and works to ensure that it will happen. So does The President deserve it?
Yes for if no other reason then that he has worked hard to show that negotiation is far more productive than death!
What is wrong with people that have "air time" and are allowed to spout anti-America rhetoric to the public, unwatched and uncontrolled? What is wrong with the public that is willing to deafly listen to that rhetoric and not get angry that their President is being slandered to the nation? Why weren't they this pissed off whem the shrub was in charge and destroyed our economy and our treasury to fund an illegal and immoral war and steal millions from unmetered oid wells in Iraq, and some think he was a saint?
Limbaugh, Hannity, Beck, Savage, and O'Ripley(Believe it or not), spout their insidious rants all about insighting people to violence, and unfortunately many of the deluded minority not only listen but seem to plan and plot against the President and the United States and is true patriots.
This type of behavior is not only unacceptable in this country , but it also borders on treason...but damn it does sell ratings don't it? What the hell happened to honest journalism in the free nation we call home?
President Obama has done much of all he promised to do and yes he has a great deal of work left to do, but for chrissakes people, he hasn't been in office even a year yet, any employee has a period of time given to show what he is made of , and not one of the wingnuts has given him even five minutes to change that disaster the last administration left us. I would never want that mans job for anything , he has a bazillion things on his plate and no time to even eat it. Let's stand up and put on our big person pants and give him some time to show us his metal. In fact maybe it's time we took a closer look at the idiot blue dogs that seem to like money more that their constituents, or maybe the rethuglicans who seem unable to find the forest for the trees. There is a new vote coming soon kids and it time we look at what our representatives are and are not doing.
Oh, by the way kids, don't let them tell you that health care is not a right, as I have said before no American should be refused, denied, or not given the right to quality healthcare for any reason. As I have written before, the constitution states that it was written in part for the "general welfare " of the people. That has far reaching implications that need to be addressed.
Oh and not as an afterthought, let us never forget that the LGBT community was instramental in getting our President elected and truly deserve the rights that they are asking for. All people have basic human rights and no one can be denied them for reasons that only affect their sensibilities. C'mon folks lets all wake up and realize that this "grand experiment " does work and it's up to us to make sure it does.
End of rant .
Now for some humor, or at least my feeble attempt at it...
A guy falls asleep on his boat for several hour and gets a horrible sunburn. He goes to the hospital, and is admitted promptly after being diagnosed with second degree burns. With his skin starting to blister, and seeing the severe pain he is in, the doctor orders an IV with saline, electrolytes, a sedative, and a Viagra pill every four hours.
The nurse, who is rather astounded asks, "What good will the Viagra do him, doctor?"
The doctor replies," It'll keep the sheets off his legs."
Peace, Love, and Light all,
TR
Monday, October 5, 2009
I can't really say it's plagerized, but it's close...
With a hat tip and a free beer to whoever wrote originally,I offer this tidbit thanx to my dear friend Rose...
So I was telling my kids the other day that I did not want to be kept alive by a machine and have to take liquid nourishment, so they came over and unplugged my computer and threw away my beer...they can be such assholes...!
On another note...Why can't the congress get it through their collective heads that people really do want a public option. I mean come on idiots we hired you to vote for us not yourselves, quit taking all the lobby money and vote the way your constituents want, what are you?, stuck on stupid? Grow a spine and a sac and we might even think about reelecting you...or NOT!
End of rant ...Peace, love , and light.
TR
P.S.The halloween tree is finally decorated, as soon as I can figure out how, I will put up a pic.(never said I was perfect, I just implied it.)
So I was telling my kids the other day that I did not want to be kept alive by a machine and have to take liquid nourishment, so they came over and unplugged my computer and threw away my beer...they can be such assholes...!
On another note...Why can't the congress get it through their collective heads that people really do want a public option. I mean come on idiots we hired you to vote for us not yourselves, quit taking all the lobby money and vote the way your constituents want, what are you?, stuck on stupid? Grow a spine and a sac and we might even think about reelecting you...or NOT!
End of rant ...Peace, love , and light.
TR
P.S.The halloween tree is finally decorated, as soon as I can figure out how, I will put up a pic.(never said I was perfect, I just implied it.)
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