July 2012

John Boehner Really Doesn't "Give A Damn"

Posted 7/19/12 at 10:09am by jamie

Yesterday John Boehner tried to claim that President Obama "doesn't give a damn about the middle class". Now let's look at who really doesn't "give a damn".

First, get ready. You are going to see your grocery bill go up even more. The cause is something that no party can control, the weather:

Corn prices are now north of $8.10/bushel, a new record high.

This is above the previous record of $7.99 in July 2011.

A historic drought has caused corn crop yields to shrink and prices to explode higher.

Some form of corn or refined corn goes into countless types of goods. Eventually, this could hit producer and consumer prices.

Corn is used in all kinds of food, mostly in the form of corn syrup. But it's not just corn either:

The price of soybeans hit an all-time high Wednesday as a devastating heat wave continued to pound crops in fields.

Soybeans for August delivery rose 44.5 cents, or 2.7 percent, to finish at $16.835 per bushel. Wheat prices ended at the highest level since the spring of 2008 and corn prices are pushing toward their all-time high set in June 2011.

Matt Drudge Pushes Socialism!!!!!!!

Posted 7/18/12 at 3:59pm by jamie

Matt Drudge has decided to start pushing socialism. Look at his big headline right now:

Here's the story Drudge links to, but I want to go to a story about this that came out two days earlier:

Hardheaded Socialism Makes Canada Richer Than U.S.

On July 1, Canada Day, Canadians awoke to a startling, if pleasant, piece of news: For the first time in recent history, the average Canadian is richer than the average American.

According to data from Environics Analytics WealthScapes published in the Globe and Mail, the net worth of the average Canadian household in 2011 was $363,202, while the average American household’s net worth was $319,970.

A few days later, Canada and the U.S. both released the latest job figures. Canada’s unemployment rate fell, again, to 7.2 percent, and America’s was a stagnant 8.2 percent. Canada continues to thrive while the U.S. struggles to find its way out of an intractable economic crisis and a political sine curve of hope and despair.

I've brought up before, how things like Canada's single payer healthcare system has been a big attraction to businesses, but there's also things like education:

The [Toyota] factory will cost $800 million to build, with the federal and provincial governments kicking in $125 million of that to help cover research, training and infrastructure costs.

Funny! Boehner Says Obama Doesn't "Give A Damn"

Posted 7/18/12 at 1:45pm by jamie

John Boehner would almost be comical if it wasn't for the extreme delusional state that man lives in. Here's what he told reporters a bit ago:

Boehner said the president's focus on Romney's tenure at Bain Capital shows that Obama, in Boehner's words, "doesn't give a damn about middle class Americans who are out there looking for work." He said voters are more concerned about unemployment than what's in Romney's tax returns.

John Boehner has been Speaker of the House for 19 months. During that time they have done 33 votes to try and repeal the healthcare act. During that same time they have done zero votes to help boost the job or economy - ZERO!

So who is it that doesn't "give a damn"?

And even more signs of delusion are evident in his little statement there. Mitt Romney has been facing increased criticism for shipping U.S. jobs overseas. These are the factory jobs that used to fuel our middle class and Romney got rich off of getting rid of those. That's what these tax returns will show, just how rich he got.

I almost chuckle every time I hear a Republican warn about the rise of the Chinese government. Are the really that stupid to question it while pushing for a man to become President that played an instrumental role in the rise of the Chinese economy? Come on. People can not be that moronic!

Why doesn't Boehner show he "gives a damn" about his own district? He needs to climb down off his high horse and look in his own backyard. Travel the 7 miles over here to Hamilton and look at a town that was a booming manufacturing town and now is crumbling. This is a town that was credited with helping to win World War II because of our manufacturing. Now there are none of those businesses left. This is a town that was a major paper producer and now the final factory is packing up.

We're #55. The U.S.A.'s Voter Turnout Problem

Posted 7/18/12 at 10:34am by jamie

I was just reading something really interesting:

Facebook users in Washington state will have something else to brag about to their online friends: that they registered to vote on Facebook.

The secretary of state's office said Tuesday it will have an application on its Facebook page that allows residents to register to vote and then "like" the application and recommend it to their friends. It's expected to launch as early as next week.

As soon as I saw that I thought "wow, what an idea!" What Washington is doing is trying to get their citizens more involved in our democracy. They want to make it easier for people to take the necessary steps to engage in their constitutional right to vote.

Voter turnout in the United States averages 67% in a Presidential year. Non-presidential years, it drops below 50%. Our nation, once considered the birthplace of democracy, has dropped to number 55 in voter participation. That is a joke, but one the GOP loves.
Amazing!

Since Republicans had their wave in 2010, a concentrated effort by the right has commenced to make it harder for people to vote. The Republicans know an amazing fact; this country is mostly Democratic. They know that when Democrats get energized and get out to vote that the GOP will lose. So instead of trying to conform more to the views of the people, the GOP has taken to actions to silence the people.

That's a problem.

Romney Surrogate John Sununu Thinks Hawaiians Aren't American

Posted 7/17/12 at 2:10pm by jamie

Former New Hampshire Gov. John Sununu is the big news maker this week, and it's only Tuesday. Earlier I reported about his flat out lie that it was Obama who scrapped the shuttle program and made us resort to using Russian rockets to fly our astronauts to the space station. Now he's he's accusing the President of not knowing how to be an American:

"I wish this president would learn how to be an American," said former New Hampshire Gov. John Sununu said toward the beginning of the call. Asked later to explain his comment, Sununu said he was referring to Obama's economic philosophy, and apologized for not being clearer.

It seems he is taking queues from the GOP's supreme leader, Rush Limbaugh, who said Obama "hates America" yesterday.

But it doesn't stop there. Sununu isn't only insulting the President, but he has also decided to insult an entire state:

"He has no idea how the American system functions," Sununu told Fox. "And we shouldn't be surprised about that, because he spent his early years in Hawaii smoking something, spent the next set of years in Indonesia, another set of years in Indonesia, and, frankly, when he came to the U.S., he worked as a community organizer, which is a socialized structure, and then got into politics in Chicago."

Spent years in Hawaii? I guess because the people of Hawaii don't know how to be Americans. Does that also mean the 2402 soldiers who died at Pearl Harbor also didn't know how to be Americans? That's a very callous statement coming from a man who never had the guts to serve this country.

SURPRISE! Romney Pushes Drudge Lie!

Posted 7/17/12 at 9:57am by jamie

On Sunday I posted about a huge lie that was being pushed by Drudge:

The article linked to by Drudge even pushed that this was Obama's doing, but as I also pointed out it was George W. Bush in January of 2004 that announced the retirement of the shuttle program. It was the Republican controlled 108th and 109th Congress that started the massive budget cuts. It was even George W. Bush in 2008 that signed the waiver stating American astronauts would fly on Russian spacecrafts to the ISS.

But don't let these facts stop the Romney campaign from pushing a huge lie that "President Obama outsourced the space program". Here's Romney surrogate and former New Hampshire Governor John Sununu on Monday:

Romney's Latest Tax Defense Rivals Schoolyard Tactics

Posted 7/16/12 at 5:42pm by jamie

"I know you are, but what am I". Remember that one from grade school? Well that little jab might seem rather mature compared to Mitt Romney's latest defense about not releasing more of his tax returns. Here's what he told Fox and Friends:

“John McCain ran for president and released two years of tax returns,” Romney explained. “John Kerry ran for president. You know, his wife, who has hundreds of millions of dollars, she never released her tax returns. Somehow this wasn’t an issue.”

And neither did Cindy McCain, but has the left brought that up? No. And what happened to wives being off limits? I guess that is out of the question now.

But way to go Mitt. You have now shown you are the biggest child to entire presidential politics in a lifetime, if ever. Only you can sink to new lows like this. I'm just glad you're finally showing America what kind of man you really are.

Current Drought Blows Out The Dust Bowl

Posted 7/16/12 at 3:33pm by jamie

Credit:
weather.com

It's dry. Its very, very dry. As matter of fact, it's now so dry that this year has officially rivaled the Dust Bowl of 1936:

The 2012 drought disaster is now the largest in over 50 years, and among the ten largest of the past century, according to a new report released by the National Climatic Data Center today.

As The Weather Channel reported in an exclusive preview of the report Sunday, data computed from the Palmer Drought Severity Index shows that 54.6 percent of the contiguous 48 states was in drought at the end of June, the highest percentage since December 1956, and the sixth-highest peak percentage on record.

And for those that don't know what the Dust Bowl looked like, here's a sample:

When it comes to irrigation, we do have much better technology today than we did in the 1930's. Hopefully that technology holds.

So what do you think; are we headed to a repeat of the 1930's?

Republican Lawmakers Advocate The Killing Of Unborn Children

Posted 7/16/12 at 12:03pm by jamie

You always think that the Republicans are the ones working to protect the unborn child. That might be the case on the surface, but consider the most important key to the health of a fetus is its living environment - the mother. If she isn't healthy then that babies chances of survival starts dropping exponentially. So one would think that the "pro-life" right would work hard to protect the earliest incubators, right? Wrong:

ThinkProgress has already documented the hypocrisy in Rep. Steve King’s (R-IA) attempt to overturn California’s prohibitions on foie gras and inhumanely produced eggs, while insisting that the state can ban birth control. But King’s amendment to the latest farm bill — introduced very shortly before its near-literal midnight passage — doesn’t only affect California. It threatens to destroy state regulations on food safety altogether, according to an analysis by the nonpartisan Environmental Working Group’s legal expert Heather White:

Reagan Appointed Judge Blasts Citizen United

Posted 7/16/12 at 10:11am by jamie

A couple weeks ago Richard Posner, one of America's most influential conservative judges, made big news when he said the Republican Party has become "goofy". Now he is backing that claim up more by offering his view on some of the bigger decisions the Supreme Court has made and the right supports, namely Citizens United:

Speaking to foreign educators, Judge Richard Posner told the assembled that the wealthy give lots of money to legislators and that an individual legislator “knows that if he doesn’t promote the interests of the donor,” he won’t get any more money.

[snip]

Posner left no doubt about his criticism of the Supreme Court’s Citizens United campaign-finance decision. He said, “Our political system is pervasively corrupt due to our Supreme Court taking away campaign-contribution restrictions on the basis of the First Amendment.”

Let's think about this in common sense terms and maybe terms that those on the right will understand. I own a business that makes devices for abortions. Congress is going to try to outlaw abortions after all these years. Well business has been good and I have a ton of cash. I know if this legislation passes and becomes law, my cash flow ceases. So I decide to give some huge donations to key players in Congress. Why? To prevent this legislation from becoming law. To keep my cash flow coming.

Citizens United did just that - it allowed that unlimited cash flow to come in to the hands of our politicians. It didn't open the door to bribery, it made bribery legal. I believe Ronald Reagan would have seen it that way and the fact that one of his most famous appointments to the federal court sees it like that helps me validate my view.

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