Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Tea Party Pot Calling The Tea Kettle Black


It pays to throw a Tea Party: Business, politics merge for leaders

Mon Apr 26, 5:05 pm ET

Whatever ultimate political effect that Tea Party
conservatism has on the country, one thing is increasingly
clear: Being a high-profile leader of the small-government
movement is very big business.

The movement's popular appeal stems from grass-roots outrage over the bailout of America's financial system, the expanded role of government, and the growing deficits. But the Tea Party has also been aggressively promoted by conservative media, political leaders and advocacy groups — and its broad appeal has blurred the distinctions among the three.

A year into this fledgling political movement's life,
reports are emerging of the huge money being made by Tea
Party leaders. Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck are in front of the
pack, but a few new faces and a few old faces are also
getting into the game.

MORE HERE

THE POT CALLING THE KETTLE BLACK - is that the pot is sooty (being placed on a fire), while the kettle is clean and shiny (being placed on coals only), and hence when the pot accuses the kettle of being black, it's the pot’s own sooty reflection that it sees: the pot {Tea Party} accuses the kettle {Obama Admin.} of a fault that only the pot has, From: wikipedia



Hypocrisy to the highest degree, the teabaggers are jumping up and down, faces red with rage and raising clenched fists at governmental spending. Meanwhile, back at the ranch, they rush to donate money to this, their darling movement (cult) and buy up Tea Party goodies, as quickly as they hit the retail shelves just to hear their leaders Palin, Beck, et al, spew forth hyperbolic propaganda and lies (misleading or outright mendacity). Their motto TAKE AMERICA BACK... Yeah, back to the way it was before the Civil War. Wake up teabaggers you’re not Southern, you’re AMERICAN and the only thing the leaders of your movement are looking for is their bottom-line! thinkingblue

PS: Below, Thom Hartmann weighs in on a berserk Tea Party, Teabagger:

Tea Bagger says all Socialists are nuts except his socialism thomhartmann

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PS: Below, Thom Hartmann weighs in on a berserk Tea Party, Teabagger:

Tea Bagger says all Socialists are nuts except his socialism



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Sunday, April 25, 2010

Why Is Hemp Illegal?

WHY IS HEMP ILLEGAL?

POLITICAL JUNKIES

I just joined a facebook group called Political Junkies… (which I certainly believe I am) It’s a group that is suppose to include all persuasions of the political spectrum, Liberal, Moderate, Conservative, Libertarian and so on. I blog mostly in the Liberal/Progressive arena, which needless to say, gives rise to the old cliché PREACHING TO THE CHOIR. (trying to make believers out of people who already believe) sometimes, I do ask myself… “What’s the point?” But actually, I don’t blog to make believers out of anyone … I blog to get things off my chest… But I digress…

Political Junkies http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=377643615572&ref=ts has a question of the week: This week’s question was: "Should the voluntary sale, purchase and usage of controlled substances be legalized and taxed within the United States?" Below was my response: thinkingblue




One illegal substance that should be legalized is Medical Marijuana, why it is not makes no sense at all. Actually, I believe all cannabis should be legal especially hemp.


Industrial Hemp or “hemp”, can provide many of the raw materials we
need as a society to function. Hemp food, HEMP OIL, hemp
plastics, hemp insulation, hemp concrete, hemp paper, and
other hemp composites all available today! And yes, the list
goes on and on. Plus, Hemp is both Eco-friendly and
Renewable. Hemp is one of the fastest growing plants in the
world producing about 10 tons of dry product per acre per
year. Hemp was one of the first plants to be processed and
used by humans making the history of hemp over 12000 years
long! More Info at
http://www.hemp.com/





Why everyone doesn’t question this is beyond reason…






There hundreds of alcohol overdose deaths each year, yet there has
never been a marijuana overdose death in history. The
consumption of alcohol is also the direct cause of tens of
thousands of deaths in the U.S. each year. (And Marijuana is
far less addictive than alcohol.)


There has never been a documented case of lung cancer in a
marijuana-only smoker, and recent studies find that marijuana
use is not associated with any type of cancer. The same
cannot be said for alcohol, which has been found to
contribute to a variety of long-term negative health effects,
including cancers and cirrhosis of the liver.






Still, I repeat... STILL the US Government outlaws Marijuana while keeping Alcohol
Legal… It’s time everyone start raising questions and stop following like sheep, those who tell us that the legalization of marijuana would be bad for the country while not
mentioning the ill effects from alcohol use.

We need to stop ignoring common sense statistics and begin to realize that the legalization of cannabis would be good for the country (revenue and I believe controlled marijuana would be less likely to fall into youngsters hands) and bad for crime (putting the drug cartels out of business). More facts at this site: http://www.saferchoice.org/content/view/24/53/

Also: Top Five Marijuana Myths - http://www.drugpolicy.org/marijuana/factsmyths/#tobacco

Another good read: The Real Reason Hemp is Illegal - http://www.venusproject.com/ethics_in_action/Real_Reason_Hemp_Illegal.html

HEMP CAN SAVE THE EARTH! Why
is this HUGELY environmentally friendly plant illegal?!



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Friday, April 23, 2010

CFL's and Dirty Electricity

CFL'S and Dirty Electricity




A friend of mine sent me the
below video,"THE DARK SIDE OF CFL" containing so called facts about compact fluorescent lamps and Dirty Electricity… I didn’t think much of it because this friend is somewhat of a conspiracy theorist and has sent me over the years many “theories” that have surfaced on the Internet with only one aim and that is to inform us of the harm that awaits us in any which way imaginable. But I did research it in an effort to debunk the terrifying and alarming, fundamental message, so I could send it back with a “SNARK YOU’RE WRONG”, to my conspiracy theorist buddy.



Regrettably, I couldn’t find even one source that would tell me this is a
load of crap. Then, I thought, Holy Moly can this information be true? I shifted my search to finding out what exactly is DIRTY ELECTRICITY… cause I’ll be damned, if I ever heard of it before… Lo and behold, I came upon this site,
Four Components that Comprise Dirty Electricity and other EMFs in a Home. which explains that dirty electricity is all around us in our modern world…



Excerpt: (Most of the dirty electricity is created by electrical devices in our own homes. Computers, TVs, florescent tube, CFL and low-voltage halogen lighting and virtually all of today's energy-efficient electronic devices induce high levels of high frequency harmonics and electrical"noise" back onto circuits and then into a building's electrical system creating an invisible, powerful,high frequency EMF called "dirty Electricity")

Although the site’s objective, I believe, is to sell you an EMF meter:



(Visit our on-line store and see our complete line of EMF meters, detectors, Graham-Stetzer filters and other proven EMF protection solutions)


I still think it informational. Our world (life itself) is so full of dangers that to go through life fearful of every move you make, is nonsensical and pathetic. FDR’s poignant statement "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself” is just as accurate in today’s microcosm as it was in the dark days leading up to World War II.



Instead of dreading “Dirty Electricity” maybe we should all exercise our
Fight, Flight or Freeze responses on a real honest-to-goodness
threat like what Ron Paul, Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck's delusional
teabaggers are pushing for without their knowledge:
FASCISM



Another Franklin Delano Roosevelt quote




Unhappy events abroad have retaught us two simple
truths about the liberty of a democratic people. The first
truth is that the liberty of a democracy is not safe if the
people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where
it becomes stronger than their democratic State itself.
That,
in its essence, is fascism
— ownership of government
by an individual, by a group or by any other controlling
private power.

The second truth is that the liberty of a democracy is not
safe if its business system does not provide employment and
produce and distribute goods in such a way as to sustain an
acceptable standard of living. Both lessons hit home. Among
us today a concentration of private power without equal in
history is growing.”

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THE DARK SIDE OF CFL


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Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Do You Want Your Identity Compromised? Use Internet Coupons.

Who would have thought? An innocent tool that we’ve used for years to save a dime or two has turned into something that should be avoided at all “COSTS”! In this age of technology, anything goes! The corporate world who is crackerjack at knowing how to part you from your money, is now using all the latest technical devices it can get its hands on to know exactly what YOU need or desire. Just imagine a benign little bar-code on a printed page containing volumes of information about YOU. It’s chilling! Now that the Supreme Court has deemed Corporations, flesh and blood, there will be no limits, on what your friendly neighborhood corporate busybody can tell the world about YOU! thinkingblue



Web coupons Know Lots About you, and They Tell

For decades, shoppers have taken advantage of coupons. Now, the coupons are taking advantage of the shoppers.

A new breed of coupon, printed from the Internet or sent to mobile phones, is packed with information about the customer who uses it. While the coupons look standard, their bar codes can be loaded with a startling amount of data, including identification about the customer, Internet address, Facebook page information and even the search termsthe customer used to find the coupon in the first place.

And all that information follows that customer into the mall. For example, if a man walks into a Filene’s Basement to buy a suit for his wedding and shows a coupon he retrieved online, the company’s marketing agency can figure out whether he used the search terms “Hugo Boss suit” or “discount wedding clothes” to research his purchase (just don’t tell his fiancée).

Coupons from the Internet are the fastest-growing part of the coupon world — their redemption increased 263 percent to about 50 million coupons in 2009, according to the coupon-processing company Inmar. Using coupons to link Internet behavior with in-store shopping lets retailers figure out which ad slogans or online product promotions work best, how long someone waits between searching and shopping, even what offers a shopper will respond to or ignore.

The coupons can, in some cases, be tracked not just to an anonymous shopper but to an identifiable person: a retailer could know that Amy Smith printed a 15 percent-off coupon after searching for appliance discounts at Ebates.com on Friday at 1:30 p.m. and redeemed it later that afternoon at the store. MORE HERE



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Sunday, April 18, 2010

A Picture Worth a Billion Words - Party of NO is at it again!

A PICTURE WORTH A BILLION WORDS.

This says it all folks! The Party of NO is at it again. There's no time for rest when you're out to destroy America! thinkingblue

President Obama Criticizes Mitch McConnell in Finance Reform Push

President Calls Kentucky Senator's Statement on
Proposal 'Cynical, Deceptive"

By RACHEL MARTIN





President Obama used his weekly
address today to remind Americans of all the damage left in
the wake of the financial crisis and the need to pass
financial reform.

In his weekly address, the president discusses financial
accountability."Eight million jobs lost, trillions in
savings erased, countless dreams diminished or denied,"
Obama said. "I believe we have to do everything we can
to ensure that no crisis like this ever happens again."

But the president also got personal today, directly attacking
Senator Minority Leader Mitch McConnell for leading the
charge against the Democrats' financial reform billnow making
its way through Congress.

In his address, the president cited a meeting the Kentucky
Republican had weeks ago with Wall Street Executives.

"Lo and behold, when he returned to Washington, the
Senate Republican Leader came out against the common-sense
reforms we've proposed," the president said. "In
doing so, he made the cynical and deceptive assertion that
reform would somehow enable future bailouts -- when he knows
that it would do just the opposite."

Administration officials say the current reform bill has two
primary objectives: to protect taxpayers from bearing the
risk of future bank failure and to bring the derivatives
market out of the "shadow market" so it can be
better regulated.

Republicans have been railing against the bill, in particular
a $50 billion fund -- paid for by the banks -- intended to
pay for possible bank failures in the future.



The White House doesn't support the idea of such a fund,
either, but Republicans are using it as an opportunity to ink
the entire bill with the poisonous "bailout"
moniker.

On the Senate floor earlier this week, McConnell said:
"In fact, if you look at it carefully, it will lead to
endless taxpayer bailouts of Wall Street banks."

All 41 Senate Republicans signed a letter Friday saying they
will block the current reform bill if and when it is brought
to the floor next week. The bill, they say, "establishes
new and unlimited regulatory powers that will stifle small
businesses and community banks."

Punctuating the political battle over financial reform is the
latest revelation linking Wall Street greed to the disastrous
U.S. housing crisis.

On Friday, the Securities and Exchange Commission slapped
Goldman Sachs with a civil suit, alleging widespread investor fraud.

"The civil suit raises the level of awareness of deceit
on Wall Street, the selfishness and self-serving behavior
that needs to be regulated," University of Maryland
economist Peter Morici said. "We might have gotten
financial services reform without it, but this makes it more likely."

But when it will happen is unclear.

Republicans say they want to go back to the drawing board in
hopes of getting a true bi-partisan bill.

But earlier this week White House press secretary Robert
Gibbs said the administration would not support bad policy
just for the sake of bi-partisanship. He used a rather
obscure analogy to suggest that when it comes to
bi-partisanship, Republicans are afraid of commitment.

"A lot of Republicans get to church," he said,"but very few of them have made it to the altar."


Also See McConnell Enemy Of America

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Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Sparing The Rod Helps Make A Normal Child

Sparing The Rod Helps Make A Normal Child I've always thought spanking or slapping kids was WRONG. For some parents beating a child or as the Religious Southerners would say, giving kids a whooping is good for them. I live in a rural community in the middle of the Biblebelt and I‘ve seen this aggressive display upon children countless times. In Wal-Mart I heard a mom tell her toddlers, they were bad and “WAS A GONNA GIT A WHOPPEN!" ... (They were in the back of the store behind some tall shelves so no one could see this monster mom in action) I couldn't see the little kids but I heard them plead for mercy... "No, please mommy don't do it, we’ll be good... We promise! Next sounds were whacking and screaming. How I wished I would have encountered the tyrant and taken her belt and WHOPPED her instead but since I wasn't raised in a house of brutality I didn't try to confront the bitch. What is wrong with these people? Why don’t they realize they’re teaching their kids to become bullies? Ignorance is not bliss, it’s brutal! Please read the article below: SPANKING

KIDS LEADS TO AGGRESSIVE BEHAVIOR thinkingblue

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My parents didn't put me in time-out, they
whooped my ass!

---Study: Spanking Kids Leads to More Aggressive Behavior By ALICE PARK


Disciplining young children is one of the key jobs of any
parent - most people would have no trouble agreeing with
that. But whether or not that discipline should include
spanking or other forms of corporal punishment is a far
trickier issue.

The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) does not endorse

spanking for any reason, citing its lack of long-term
effectiveness as a behavior-changing tactic. Instead the AAP
supports strategies such as "time-outs" when
children misbehave, which focus on getting kids to reflect on
their behavior and the consequences of their actions. Still,
as many parents can attest, few responses bring about the
immediate interruption of a full-blown tantrum like a swift
whack to the bottom.

Now researchers at Tulane University provide the strongest

evidence yet against the use of spanking: of the nearly 2,500
youngsters in the study, those who were spanked more
frequently at age 3 were more likely to be aggressive by age
5. The research supports earlier work on the pitfalls of
corporal punishment, including a study by Duke University
researchers that revealed that infants who were spanked at 12
months scored lower on cognitive tests at age 3.


"I'm excited by the idea that there is now some nice
hard data that can back up clinicians when they share their
caution with parents against using corporal punishment,"
says Dr. Jayne Singer, clinical director of the child and
parent program at Children's Hospital Boston, who was not
involved in the study.


Led by Catherine Taylor, the Tulane study was the first to
control simultaneously for variables that are most likely to
confound the association between spanking and later
aggressive behavior. The researchers accounted for factors
such as acts of neglect by the mother, violence or aggression
between the parents, maternal stress and depression, the
mother's use of alcohol and drugs, and even whether the
mother considered abortion while pregnant with the child.


Each of these factors contributed to children's aggressive
behavior at age 5, but they could not explain all of the
violent tendencies at that age. Further, the positive
connection between spanking and aggression remained strong,
even after these factors had been accounted for.


"The odds of a child being more aggressive at age 5
if he had been spanked more than twice in the month before
the study began increased by 50%," says Taylor. And
because her group also accounted for varying levels of
natural aggression in children, the researchers are confident
that "it's not just that children who are more
aggressive are more likely to be spanked."


What the study, published Monday in the journal Pediatrics,
shows is that outside of the most obvious factors that may
influence violent behavior in children, spanking remains a
strong predictor. "This study controls for the most
common risk factors that people tend to think of as being
associated with aggression," says Singer. "This
adds more credence, more data and more strength to the
argument against using corporal punishment."


Among the mothers who were studied, nearly half (45.6%)
reported no spanking in the previous month; 27.9% reported
spanking once or twice; and 26.5% reported spanking more than
twice. Compared with children who were not hit, those who
were spanked were more likely to be defiant, demand immediate
satisfaction of their wants and needs, get frustrated easily,
have temper tantrums and lash out physically against others.


The reason for that, says Singer, may be that spanking
instills fear rather than understanding. Even if a child were
to stop his screaming tantrum when spanked, that doesn't mean
he understands why he shouldn't be acting out in the first
place. What's more, spanking models aggressive behavior as a
solution to problems.


For children to understand what and why they have done
something wrong, it may take repeated efforts on the parent's
part, using time-outs - a strategy that typically involves
denying the child any attention, praise or interaction with
parents for a specified period of time (that is, the parents
ignore the child). These quiet times force children to calm
down and learn to think about their emotions, rather than
acting out on them blindly.


Spanking may stop a child from misbehaving in the short
term, but it becomes less and less effective with repeated
use, according to the AAP; it also makes discipline more
difficult as the child gets older and outgrows spanking. As
the latest study shows, investing the time early on to teach
a child why his behavior is wrong may translate to a more
self-aware and in-control youngster in the long run.


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Sunday, April 11, 2010

The Winky Stinky Sarah Palin, played by Tina Fey



PRESENTING

THE WINKY, STINKY MS. SARAH PALIN

Tina Fey just dusted off her very clever and amusing imitation of Sarah Palin on Saturday Night Live.

The real Palin tries to incite her followers to riot and wreck havoc across our country with her incendiary rhetoric but Tina Fey's depiction of the so called 'earthy' “Palin” is a RIOT and keeps you in stitches, making you realize that the real Sarah Palin, virtually belongs, in a Cuckoo’s Nest! thinkingblue

Saturday Night Live, with...



The Winky, Stinky Ms. Sarah Palin...
(played by Tina Fey)

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