January 18, 2014

This should prove interesting. Hate those cages they have in the court rooms. Bizarre...

January 18, 2014

Incredible any Democrat uses the words honest, moral and Christie in a statement, after Tampa:

His opening sentence...

"First of all, to all the numbnut librils watching tonight,
we're gonna take a baseball bat to ya."

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014170405#post21

Chris Christie is simply another Republican fraud

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021224806

The face of the modern Republican Party



http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021222467

Chris Christie: Wall Street lobbyist for Bernie Madoff

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021222781

Did she turn a blind eye to what Christie believes in, or the morals of his party? Did she not hear of the Koch luncheon where he outlined his plans to hurt the people of New Jersey for the super rich? Or is she afraid of Chrstie?

Her statement calls into question her crediblilty or attention span, IMHO.

January 18, 2014

I propose legislation making Vitters wear adult diapers everywhere! Humiliating bill recited below:

Uploaded on Jan 24, 2011

"Mommy, wow! I'm a big kid now!"

Nowadays, this guy has absolutely no trouble getting dates. No trouble at all.

January 18, 2014

Sorry Rand, we ain't gonna go back to your plantation system now. We know where you're coming from:

Between Barack and a Hard Place: Challenging Racism, Privilege and Denial in the Age of Obama



http://www.democraticunderground.com/110221654

Full transcript of video to Sheshe:

http://www.mediaed.org/assets/products/137/transcript_137.pdf

The Pathology of Privilege Is what Rand Paul is arguing for. People can't be trusted if they aren't like him. He knows he is privileged by wealth stolen from the majority, despite the Randian deceit of the self-made made man who moves society. He wants to keep his privilege.

The only individual rights Rand wants are for the few. Teapots already got theirs by ripping off the majority. They want to hold onto all of it as the government was all righteous in their eyes when they got free land and grants and benefit.

That is what they mean by 'taking their country back.' Their stolen wealth. Now they want that country gone, because Obama knows the Constitution and the spirit of the Founders and true individual rights and is going to make that happen.

Equality means all get treated the same by government. This is a Libertarian bogeyman he is pushing here. That Democracy itself is Mob Rule. That there should be less of it and the Rulers, the aristorcrats and plutocrats are the only ones who are fit to rule.

Which means subjugating the majority, and making sure their individual rights are eliminated. It's up to us if we are going to let him do this.

January 18, 2014

The hip meth version:

January 18, 2014

The future of the human race. With no promise that those being deprived will live to see it.

Why else would some of the best minds on the planet wage war on humanity, if they didn't expect to live here or somewhere else? They aren't suicidal and have a strong will to survive. Just putting in words the worst nightmare we have, being eliminated from the gene pool.

January 18, 2014

How did we miss this? Happy Birthday Michelle!

And many thanks for sharing Barack with us.

January 18, 2014

Yes, but so are these to me:

Hope decays

Generations disappear

Washed away

As a nation simply stares

Don't want to reach for me, do you?

I mean nothing to you

The little things give you away...

January 18, 2014

Mixed record per Wikipedia:

Children

Abuse

During most of the 14 years that Bergoglio served as archbishop of Buenos Aires, rights advocates say, he did not take decisive action to protect children or act swiftly when molestation charges against Church clergy surfaced; nor did he extend apologies and compensation to the victims of abusive priests after their misconduct came to light.[319] Later, Argentina was among 25% of bishops conferences that did not reach the deadline for putting policies in place to deal with complaints and priests accused of abuse.[320][321]

Pope Francis told Gerhard Ludwig Müller, who leads the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and is the Vatican official in charge of dealing with the crisis, to act decisively, protect minors, help victims of past abuse and introduce unspecified "necessary procedures" against perpetrators who should be punished.

Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP) called for action instead of words.[322][323][324] Others, including Jeffrey Anderson, an attorney who fought many court cases on behalf of abuse victims, are hopeful that Francis will act to protect children.[320][325]

In October 2007, Bergoglio denounced the tolerance of child abuse, which he called "demographic terrorism".

He told a conference:[326]

Children are mistreated, and are not educated or fed. Many are made into prostitutes and exploited. And this happens here in Buenos Aires, in the great city of the south. Child prostitution is offered in some five star hotels: it is included in the entertainment menu, under the heading "Other".

In 2011, Bergoglio again condemned child trafficking and sex slavery in Buenos Aires:[276]

In this city, there are many girls who stop playing with dolls to enter the dump of a brothel because they were stolen, sold, betrayed ... In this city, women and girls are kidnapped, and they are subjected to use and abuse of their body; they are destroyed in their dignity. The flesh that Jesus assumed and died for is worth less than the flesh of a pet. A dog is cared for better than these slaves of ours, who are kicked, who are broken.

The Holy See under Francis failed to provide information about child sex abuse within the Roman Catholic Church to a UN Committee, "The Committee on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC). [327]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Francis

Apparently, this is happening now with reports prepared for the UN. I read on DU early on that he said he would have a zero tolerance policy and such priests would be turned over to government authorities for punishment. That is a seachange for the Pope to acknowledge the moral authority of government, IMO.

I've read of priests turned over and prosecuted, a big change, but am having trouble on search results. And no matter what, people will not change their minds because the wounds run much too deep:




I'm also not Jesus. I don't forgive everything, because I cannot forget.

January 17, 2014

Pelosi is tough. I want to see her as Speaker again. Things are changing. Probably won't get to see

this epic scene again. IIRC, a DU story said she will retitre. She didn't play stupid games and she thought long-term: