Yes, there are two Americas’ Virginia, they exist as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist. One tolerant and broadminded, the other intolerant and narrow-minded!
Sincerely, thinkingblue, from the TOLERANT AND BROADMINDED USA
PS: Joe (You Lie) Wilson, et al reside in the other America!
Sunday, June 30, 2013
Trayvon Martin Case Proves Bigotry, Beyond A Shadow Of A Doubt
I'm
sorry but this really pisses me off... That poor girl (Nineteen-year-old Rachel Jeantel) didn't ask
for any of this and now she is being mocked by the Right side of
our country. One of the biggest reasons I could never adapt to a
conservative ideology is the fact that so many of them seem to
think it’s OK to be mean, hateful and cruel. They wickedly
judge others without having a clue as to what it might be like to
walk in their shoes. I've had it with the Right-wing; they are
too infantile and too obnoxious to be taken seriously. They
really should be pitied. If that sounds like a judgement, so be
it.
Again, today on
Facebook, an image that sparked an interesting (critical
thinking) debate was posted. On face value (no pun intended) we
all conjure up some kind of readymade thought when we think of
these two human figures. Not too many of us hoi polloi get to
escape the indoctrination we are bombarded with the minute we
come out of the uterus and into existence. So whenever an
automatic response pops out from within our brain cells, we
should all STOP, and analyze it first before the POP goes verbal.
thinkingblue
Both historical
eccentrics have been recorded as having somewhat practical
philosophies, although sometimes opposite of one another…
Here is a vintage video of Ayn Rand’s appearance on Johnny
Carson in 1967. Too bad there is not a video of the man called
Jesus verbalizing his philosophy in real time. All his quotes
have been manipulated by man, to the point that if he did exist,
his own words have all been replaced with propaganda that is
solely intended to control the masses. thinkingblue
The
GOP Tea Party army had gathered for war against the women of the
land. The two armies (Anti-Choice and Pro-Choice) faced each
other, camped for battle on opposite sides of a steep gallery. A
GOP Tea Party giant measuring over nine feet tall and wearing
Senate Bill 5 upon his head came out each day for forty days,
mocking and challenging the pro-choice women to fight. His name
was Rick Perry and all the thinking women of the land were
terrified of Rick Perry and his ilk.
One
day, Wendy Davis was sent to the battle lines by the people to
bring back news, about what the Texas Tea Party Governor was up
to. While there, Wendy heard Perry shouting his daily
defiance and saw the great fear that stirred within Pro-Choice
supporters, amid their cries for help, she realized if SB5 was
signed into law by Perry, the measures would close almost every
abortion clinic in Texas. There was much at stake here for the
women of the land.
So
Wendy Davis volunteered to fight Rick Perry. Dressed in her pink
running shoes, carrying a small notebook, Wendy approached Rick.
The giant cursed at her, hurling threats and insults.
As
the Texas Governor moved in for the kill, (pen in hand to sign
this horrendous anti-women bill into law) Senator Wendy reached
into her bag of words and slung several at Perry's head. Finding
a hole in his head where Senate Bill 5 had been worn, the words
sank into the hole and he and his SB5 fell down on the ground.
But
alas, contemptible Perry was able to get to his feet and dust the
notorious anti-abortion, anti-women bill off and start the whole
WAR ON WOMEN again. thinkingblue
http://www.newsday.com/news/nation/wendy-davis-filibusters-abortion-bill-vote-misses-deadline-1.5571336 Let us begin with 3 BIG
CHEERS for Sen. Wendy Davis of Fort Worth... Without a doubt, I
am now fully aware of, why I do not like most Republican lawmakers...
(Why?) Because they are a wild bunch of bullies and brutes and
want everyone to adhere to their (convoluted) way of thinking
whether or not it 'WILL' hurt people and help erode our freedoms
just a little bit more!
BTW, talk about
bullies, John Roberts completes 30 year mission to kill Voting
Rights Act and Two Hours After The Supreme Court Gutted The
Voting Rights Act, Texas AG Suppresses Minority Voters…
When you have a (Supreme)court that has a majority (Republicans)
rule, making decisions that will hurt We-The-People ensuring
their clan (more like Klan as in KKK –‘Welcome to the
Ku Klux Klan, Bringing a Message of Hope and Deliverance to WHITE
CHRISTIAN America!’) will always win. And with these
"R"wins our Republic WILL slowly morph into one of the
following:
Totalitarianism - In a totalitarian society the government
holds absolute control over all aspects of the lives of its
people. A set of beliefs is imposed on the people, who have
to conform or face unpleasant consequences.
Fascism - Fascism is usually headed by a dictator. It
involves total government control of political, economic,
cultural, religious and social activities.
Oligarchy - An oligarchy in which only a few wealthy people
hold power. A republic may be an oligarchy if just a few
people have the RIGHT TO VOTE.
OR
Plutocracy - rule by the wealthy. The decision by the U.S.
Supreme Court on Tuesday to strike down a key part of the
Voting Rights Act has "pushed us back into a kind of
plutocracy where the rich shall inherit the earth,"
former U.N. Ambassador and Congressman Andrew Young says.
And I am not, I
repeat, I am NOT whistling Dixie. thinkingblue
Holy knothead Batman, it's been a long time
since I've checked in on Crooks and Liars. But that's going to
change; this website is overflowing with info on what REALLY is
going on these days within the realm of ‘Bat Shit Crazy’,
not to mention REALITY itself. Not only that, they do REAL
journalism, which is in short supply and can hardly be found
ANYWHERE. Check out the stories below and enjoy a reality check
at their website itself. http://crooksandliars.com/
thinkingblue
CLICK HERE to see an image on this so called Tea Party, IRS fiasco.
Don't
click away just yet, here's another gem from C&L.
Well
it didn’t take long for those who believe that bigotry is
not a malignancy of our times and that bigotry is a harmless
product that we all indulge in from time to time. Here’s a
facebook group (Bring Back Paula Deen) who believe Paula Deen
should not receive any form of discipline for her insensitivity.
The only way we can change the prejudice that flows like ‘whipped
cream’ through our daily life is to make obvious that it
will no longer be tolerated. thinkingblue
Paula Deen is a very
selfish woman but that’s not her real sin, many in business
become hoggish and narrow. The fact that she’s affiliated
with the Democratic Party and acts like a Tea Party Bigot is
unforgiving! thinkingblue
PS:
Hey Paula, you may be a registered Democrat but yo ain’t no
LIBERAL!
Come outta the closet girl!
Deen has faced extensive criticism for the high amounts of
fat, salt, and sugar in her recipes. She faced particularly
strong objections with the release of Lunch-Box Set, a
cookbook aimed at children, with Barbara Walters saying of the
book, "You tell kids to have cheesecake for breakfast.
You tell them to have chocolate cake and meatloaf for lunch.
And french fries. Doesn't it bother you that you're adding to
this?" Celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain commented in
2011 that he "would think twice before telling an
already obese nation that it's OK to eat food that is killing
us." On January 17, 2012, Deen announced that she had
been diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes three years
before, a disease for which a high-calorie diet is a major
contributing factor.It was also disclosed that
Deen is a paid spokesperson for the Danish pharmaceutical
company Novo Nordisk, whose main export is
insulin. She was called a hypocrite for continuing to promote
her high-sugar diet while only disclosing her medical
condition when it benefitted her in representing the drug
company to market their diabetes management program. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paula_Deen
I hope all will sign this
petition. How many more mass shootings before the NRA will lose
some of its power and our government will conclude that mandatory
background checks must become a gun buying reality... 100? 1000?
5000? Or more? Every time a mentally impaired person sets out
with his legally obtained semi automatic along with several high
capacity clips lusting for 15 minutes of fame, remember this
great poem written by John Donne.
A Conspiracy Theorist
would never dare to believe in Occam's razor, which is a
principle of parsimony, economy, or succinctness used in logic
and problem-solving. Which states that among competing
hypotheses, the hypothesis with the fewest assumptions should be
selected. To a Sociopath like Alex Jones, (Conspiracy Theorist on
Steroids) hypothesis with few assumptions have no place in his
convoluted and very complicated world of fantasy.
Today,
again, I’ve come across an Alex Jones interview where old
Alex did what he does best... Act like a bat-shit crazy LUNATIC.
I cannot believe he has a following in the millions. What kind of
a country have we become when crazies that use to be laughed at,
while ranting on street corners, in an ordinary middle-class
American neighborhood, now summon respect? The below video should
be called a Sociopath’s Bellow but I've simply titled it:
“Alex Jones, Never Met A Conspiracy Theory He Didn't
Like."both fit, don't ya think? thinkingblue
This has
probably made the rounds before in Meme land but I saw it for the
first time this morning and thought it worthy of another GO
ROUND.
A
neat thing happened to me on facebook today, I came across this
short piece that speaks to the South and the GOP Tea Party. The
old proverbial nail hit on the head, once again. thinkingblue
Secessionists
"This is not my nation any more.
This is not my America!" they say.
Don't laugh- they're probably right.
Because if you believe that America in the 21st century should
function under the same assumptions and with the same values as
America in the 18th century...
then no, this actually isn't your America any more.
If you believe that "Freedom of religion" means that
you have the right to make decisions about health care, family
planning, equal rights, evolution and education for people who do
not share your religion...
you're in the wrong place.
If you believe that black people vote for a black man only
because of race but white people never vote for a white guy
because of his race...
if you believe that a 90 year old veteran who has been voting for
50 years should be denied a ballot because he no longer has a
driver's license...
then it's not your America any more.
If you believe that bullying and abuse is ok as long as you do it
for Jesus, and that kids are better off in orphanages than with
gay parents and that rape shouldn't be an 'excuse' for an
abortion because some girls rape easy...
this is not your America.
If you believe that the working poor, pensioners and veterans in
America just want 'free stuff' but the wealthy demand their
personal income tax cuts for the good of the nation...
no, this is not your America.
If you think you have the right to say who other people can
love...
this isn't that place.
And if you believe that it's not possible for your candidate to
lose an election unless the "urban" people cheated...by
voting... that an acceptable way to win is to try to stop as many
people as possible from voting, that "bipartisan' means that
all the wrong people are supposed to do things your way and that
the "United" part of "United States of
America" only applies when your party is running the show...
then you don't understand what America is.
It's not a country where you can just 'opt out' when things don't
go your way, and where a bunch of people whining that they want
to leave will make us turn our backs on our principles.
It's not a place where beginning a sentence with "I'm not a
racist' makes it ok to call the President a ni**er.
It's not a country where a rich, privileged old man can attack a
young woman's character in vicious and almost pornographic simply
because he disagrees with her politics and not suffer
consequences.
It's not a place where we believe that a helping hand in the
middle of a natural disaster should come with a pricetag..
It's not a nation where we think it's ok for poor people to die
from treatable diseases because millionaire CEO's don't want to
cut into their profits.
And thankfully, it's not a nation where bitter, obscenely wealthy
men can buy themselves an election.
You folks are the same people who yell "America- love it or
leave it" at us every time we try to fix what's broken
around here.
Now, it seems like you don't love it enough to stick around and
work together.
Well, we're not trying to run you out, but you are certainly free
to go.
Of course you don't get to take your state with you- sorry, but
that 'Constitution' thing you're always going on about says the
states stay together.
And you don't get the flag you're always waving; that belongs to
America.
But you can leave, if that's really what you want.
I now firmly believe that SCOTUS has become
irrelevant, their rulings seem to be either very politically
motivated or just plain goofy. Take for instance what Justice
Anthony Kennedy wrote for the majority vote: Kennedy
described DNA testing as a logical and more effective successor
to the longtime practice of fingerprinting criminal suspects.
“An individual’s identity is more than just his
name or Social Security number, and the government’s
interest in identification goes beyond ensuring that the
proper name is typed on the indictment,” Kennedy wrote.
“Identity has never been considered limited to the name
on the arrestee’s birth certificate. In fact, a name is
of little value compared to the real interest in
identification at stake when an individual is brought into
custody.” http://www.politico.com/story/2013/06/supreme-court-upholds-dna-testing-felony-arrests-92140.html
To me, what Kennedy
and the rest of the Supremes who voted for this Police State
ruling neglected to address is DNA does not only identify an
individual it also identifies his or her whole being into
existence and discloses family and ancestral genes prone to
mental or physical syndromes.
Nearly every major mental illness has been identified with
a gene(s). This would include anxiety, depression, ADHD,
bipolar disorder, and schizophrenia. http://psychiatristscottsdale.com/genetic-mental-illnesses/(Wouldn't Adolph
Hitler have loved to have DNA testing as a tool.)
Brave New World has
become somewhat of a reality and real soon this fictional tale
will be a way of life and our Republic will be no more. Why
isn’t there someone in power who can say ENOUGH ALREADY;
let’s keep some things sacred and revered like the privacy
of our genetic make-up (unless we volunteer it to be exposed or a warrant is issued to take it by force) for goodness sake... Not
SCOTUS that’s for sure. If no one speaks up, Democracy and
our Republic will someday just become a footnote in a history
book. thethinkingblue
The Supreme Court on Monday upheld the police
practice of taking DNA samples from people who have been arrested
but not convicted of a crime, ruling that it amounts to the 21st
century version of fingerprinting.
The ruling was 5-4. Justice Antonin Scalia, a conservative,
joined three of the court's more liberal members — Justices
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan — in
dissenting.
Scalia, who typically sides with the court's conservatives,
expressed deep reservations about DNA swabbing at the oral
argument. The purpose of the practice, he acknowledged, was
"to catch the bad guys." But he added: "The Fourth
Amendment sometimes stands in the way."
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Well, as the story goes on to say, if it's just to catch the
"bad guys", then I'm ok with that.
But is that likely? What will they do with the information if you
are not charged or convicted? Keep it, like fingerprints?
What say you, ATS?
On the other hand, how many times have they picked up a
"suspect" in a crime, release him/her only later on to
find DNA linking them to the crime?
Meantime, they had committed more crimes.
Brave New World is a masterpiece of science
fiction. Huxley has imaginatively employed scientific facts
and theories to produce a classic of its kind. This novel is
in the tradition of Jules Verne, the French novelist who
wrote Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea and Journey
to the Center of the Earth, and H. G. Wells, the English
novelist who wrote War of the Worlds. Few writers of
science fiction have equaled Huxley's ability to make the
unbelievable seem believable and to make the improbable seem
probable. His own interest in science, its use and misuse,
its peril and its promise, contributed to the accuracy of his
presentation and to the horror of his envisioned Utopia.
Huxley qualifies as a social commentator by reason of his
diversified interest, his acquaintance with the great, the
near-great, and the not-so-great. His comments are always
perceptive, sometime biased, but never dull. He sees little
chance of mankind saving itself; he sees mankind inexorably
moving toward self-destruction. He sees himself as a voice
crying in the wilderness - but crying to no avail, for the
deaf refuse to hear.
The prophetic elements in Brave New World contribute
much to its continuing popularity because year by year we see
more and more of Huxley's fantasy becoming reality. Huxley
himself later commented that we are moving in the direction
of this Utopia much more rapidly than anyone could have
imagined. At the time the novel was written only a
comparatively few research scientists were concerned with
conditioning, the importance of heredity and environment, and
the effect of chemical imbalance on physical and mental
development. Today, governments, educational institutions,
and industries are exploiting the results of research in
these areas. Read more: http://www.huxley.net/studyaid/
GOP Desires Poor Children To Go Hungry. Compassionate Conservatism? My Foot!
There Was a Time When Ending Hunger Was a National Goal for Republicans and Democrats
By DOROTHY SAMUELS
“That hunger and malnutrition should persist in a land such as ours
is embarrassing and intolerable.” So declared Richard Nixon in May 1969
in his now widely forgotten “Special Message to the Congress
Recommending a Program to End Hunger in America.” In that document, he
summoned the country to a new level of generosity and concern and laid
out a series of strong legislative steps and executive actions,
including a significant expansion of the food-stamps program.
While campaigning for the White House in 1968, Mr. Nixon did not
focus on the existence of a serious hunger problem. His conversion came
as public calls to do something about hunger rose — driven, in part, by
Senator Robert Kennedy’s highly publicized trip to Mississippi in 1967
where he encountered nearly starving children and the Rev. Dr. Martin
Luther King Jr.’s focus on hunger as part of the Poor People’s Campaign.
During the ’70s, another Republican leader, Senator Bob Dole of
Kansas, forged a partnership with George McGovern, the South Dakota
Democrat defeated by Mr. Nixon in 1972. They helped pass legislation to
improve the accessibility and antifraud provisions of the food-stamps
program. For example, it eliminated a requirement that recipients buy
food-stamp coupons, a prohibitive burden for the lowest-income
Americans.
That kind of dedicated bipartisan commitment to ending hunger was
light-years ago in American politics — before President Ronald Reagan
and, later, Speaker Newt Gingrich made attacking food stamps a prime
Republican obsession, and certainly before moderate Republicans, a
disappearing breed, lived in fear of making any move that might provoke a
primary challenge from a Tea Party-supported candidate.
nytimes.com/2013/05/21/opinion/food-stamp-politics.html
Yes, there are two Americas’ Virginia, they exist as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist. One tolerant and
free-thinking, the other intolerant and close-minded!
Sincerely, thinkingblue, from the TOLERANT AND FREE-THINKING USA
PS: Joe (You Lie) Wilson, Glenn Beck, Sarah Palin, Rush Limbaugh et al reside in the intolerant America!
thinkingblue
