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Will The Republicans Shut The Fuck Up

by gdy Saturday, Sep. 12, 2009 at 9:10 AM

The latest outburst from the moron from South Carolina during President Obama’s speech on health care is just he latest example of Nazi behavior being exemplified by Republican party

Will The Republicans Shut The Fuck Up


Sept 10, 2009
From the Streets of Little Beirut
Glen Yeadon




The latest outburst from the moron from South Carolina during President Obama’s speech on health care is just he latest example of Nazi behavior being exemplified by Republican party. Its also a direct result of the Democrats rolling over and playing dead, an example needs to be set this type of behavior will no longer be tolerated by booting this buffoon out of congress.
This outburst and the organized disruption of townhall meetings brought about by the Republican party and all examples of their Nazi tactics and their fascist agenda for one world government. This includes the gun toting thugs at a couple of town meetings they should have been arrested because their behavior demonstrated to everyone that they had no interest in rations discourse and their presence was solely to intimidate supports of Obama’s health plan. For those wishing a deeper understanding of the close association of the Republican party and the Nazis before and during the war can obtain a copy of the author’s book “The Nazi Hydra In America” from amazon dot com.
For those that claim government is never the answer and that the free market system can always provide a better answer, please pull your head out of your ass and take a good look at reality. Your free market system has presently told one out of ten workers to drop dead. We don’t need you and you can go live in a tent somewhere and eat dandelions or whatever else you can find but don’t pitch your tent in a park or on public property or we’ll have the police either burn or bulldoze your camp. The only income these people have is from food stamps and unemployment and the Republican party and their big business supporters would like to take that away too. The free enterprise has told one out of three workers to go to hell we ain’t providing you with any health insurance and we don’t give a damn if you can’t afford it, the CEO needs a new corporate jet.
There is a good working health care plan in Canada despite all the right wing laws about Canadians travelling to the US for care it doesn’t happen except for a few isolate cases. Moreover, there is no waiting for care in Canada like the wing nuts tells. If you want a really long wait go to any major city emergency room with out insurance your more apt to die than get care. Despite the lies from the bitch of the North there are no governmental death panels. But back here in the US courtesy of the free market system, there are several death panels they are dressed in fancy three piece suits and occupy luxury offices and are paid by the health care company to deny you coverage. The more money they save the insurance company the bigger their bonuses and if you should die because coverage was denied, who gives a shit, now will someone please tell Sara to ride her caribou off into the sunset.
The other large problem in providing health care is to avoid any rationing. The Canadian plan does not ration care everyone is eligible. However, health care in the US is certainly rationed, only the ones lucky enough to have insurance or that are rich enough to afford the care receives any help.
It is clear that the American people want affordable health care and they want it now. The Canadian system offers an ideal solution that could be fined tuned. It is clear that the private sector or free enterprise system is totally inept in providing even the basics as the best they can do is clearly evident with one out of three Americans doing without any care. The options are limited it is clear the private sector is either unable or unwillingly to provide health insurance for all American citizens. A government plan such as Canada has the advantage of removing one third of the cost of health care by eliminating the insurance companies and if Sara is listening that would also eliminate the current death panels that exist in every insurance company. Canada also maintains a steady eye on the cost of prescription drugs and doesn’t allow the drug maker to gouge consumer the way big pharm puts the screws to the consumers in the US. Only a very few people have any idea how muck big pharm marks up its drugs. A few years ago I received an email of the markup of some of 50 of the more common prescription drugs. The active chemical in each of these drugs was readily available on the world market like that of any other commodity such as corn or soybeans. The article then calculated the percentage markup from the basis of bulk price available in the world market compared to the price of the active amount in a single tablet or capsule. The results were frankly astonishing. The percentage markup was generally 100 to 700 thousand percent. The lowest markup was 30,000 percent. Will someone please get the damn rope we need to hang a few of the son of bitches for extortion and price gouging.
Lets be perfectly clear on this, the current economic crisis is due directly to the inept economic policies of George W Bush and the Republican party. Through 8 years of the George W Bush presidency the economy failed to produce one single job. The least the Republicans could do is to offer working solutions (that means socialized medicine since it is clear that the private sector is either unable or unwilling to provide health care for their employees) or hang their heads in shame and shut the fuck up.

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Republidiot traitors

by Fredric L. Rice Monday, Sep. 14, 2009 at 9:11 AM
frice@skeptictank.org

L:ook at what Republicanism has devolved to today. The GOP is nothing but insane Christian theofascist hate mongers who hate the higher ideals of the U.S. Constitution and the ideas of that America supposedly holds dear.

Republicans are hate-filled Christians first and foremost. They can not be educated, they can not be reasoned with, they are driven by occult hate and nothing can cure them.
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"They can not be educated"

by a special kind of stupid Monday, Sep. 14, 2009 at 10:43 AM

Any parent recognizes that those who are hopelessly crippled by acne still have all the answers.
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keep hiding comments, asswipe

by pointer Wednesday, Sep. 16, 2009 at 12:00 PM

Even after at least two months the same gossamer skinned bedwetter who hides comments is begging for donations.

Is there a connection between abject stupidity and panhandling?
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dog gone it

by Yada Squawks Wednesday, Sep. 16, 2009 at 12:47 PM

give it up. Seek therapy, stop sniveling.
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Bipartisan Corruption is Grounds for Seccesion!

by Establishment Democrats not perfect either!! Friday, Sep. 18, 2009 at 9:21 AM

author of above piece wrote;

"We don’t need you and you can go live in a tent somewhere and eat dandelions or whatever else you can find but don’t pitch your tent in a park or on public property or we’ll have the police either burn or bulldoze your camp. The only income these people have is from food stamps and unemployment and the Republican party and their big business supporters would like to take that away too. "

Whom are you addressing here? The Republicans you told to "shut the F up and pull their heads out of their asses" or actual houseless people? The switch from "you" to "these people" in the following line is a bit confusing..

So we need a strong federal government to prevent homeless people from sleeping in public parks and eating dandelions? What if "these people" want to eat some healthy and nutritious acorns? Call out the national guard?

As someone with an semi-anarchist and 'green libertarian' ideology, the rush of many on the establishment left to protect the "good" Obama Democrats against the "evil" Bush Republicans seems a bit out of balance. We are all taught to ASSUME that since the Republicans fulfill the wishes of corporations and the wealthy elites that then only other option is for the Democrats to support the working class and populations of people living in poverty, all the while protecting the environment and telling great jokes and touching stories while they're at it. After all, what other choice is there besides the "lesser evil"? We can't even try to vote for the "least possible evil" third party choices of Ralph Nader, Cynthia McKinney, Bob Barr, etc... or else the establishment Democrats call us spoilers!!

To quote the late, great Malcolm X;

"Do not assume anything, brother (or sister)!"

Hip, hip, hooray for Obama, so much more literate, charming and educated than the previous inhabitant of the White House!

Now that we have that out of the way, let's discuss the actual outcomes of the current health care system, western medicine and insurance corporations. Obama talks a great game against the insurance corporations making excessive profits on sick people, though we still have no public option nor an answer as to why we need health insurance corporations to begin with..

What did indigenous Native Americans do without health insurance corporations for the last 10,000 years they lived in North America? Did they die anytime they became ill because they couldn't afford to pay the doctors because they lacked medical insurance coverage? Most likely that is not the case, as the ecosystem was intact and plenty of medicinal plants and herbs grew throughout the region that could be harvested by either laypeople or shaman healers depending on tribal customs.

Of course back then (or now) they didn't have effective treatments for "white man's diseases" like cancer, diabetes and other such illnesses caused by either pollution of the ecosystem from radiation or pollution of the body from unhealthy food..

When suggesting that people return to earlier times of greater ecological sanity, that may include eating dandelions also, (provided some idiot hasn't sprayed them with toxic petrochemical pesticides because they thought they were weeds), we don't need some establishment neoliberal telling us to "shut the f up" because they don't want to bother looking outside of their modernist bubble..

Most modernist people of the status quo; BOTH Republicans and Democrats (ie., neoconservatives and neoliberals), need a serious wake up call about their overdependency on western medicine's pharmaceutical based treatment of symptoms instead of focusing on ecological sanity (ie., prevention of environmental pollution from toxin spewing corporations) and nutrition (ie., preventing pollution of the body by eating a healthy diet)..

Here's a healthy care plan that i'm willing to endorse, tribal community self-care;

"Health Care in a Phantom Democracy"

by Jan Lundberg

06 September 2009

"If Money Can't Buy Love, Can It Buy Health Care?

In 2002 I wrote The Health Care Tribe, but not in response to high health care costs. Rather, my concern was that people need to take care of one another: family, friends, neighbors. Sounds a little odd for the U.S., does it not?

Low cost health care, or rather medical care as it really is constituted, is not a benefit if healing is not the purpose. "Getting better" perhaps -- through treatments purchased -- is what's hoped for, even for the rich. In their case, life is sometimes extended through great expense, but is it worth living hooked up to machines? Democracy has come to mean the poor too are on multiple legal drugs, with side-effects requiring still more drugs.

More and more middle aged people in this nation look and feel like they are older: out of shape, and sometimes in the grip of chronic illness. The ultimate direction is early death. Health is a puzzlement to most people, just as buying a large house may or may not present structural or other flaws: surprises can happen, so we throw money at it and hope for the best. Too bad it doesn't work with the body. What does work, for the petrochemical pharmaceutical makers, is an increasingly addicted generation of sufferers.

Before we can solve this worsening scam, though a tribal community approach, one must take personal responsibility to care for one's body. Garbage in, garbage out. Get the garbage out through detoxifying. [Fasting treatise is below under Further Reading - ed.]

Injecting self-care and community-care into the current "health care debate" requires redefining the power of the individual and the concept of community. If a maximum of community is desirable, tribal bonding (i.e., organized mutual aid) ought to be considered ideal, because less community through employment or other servitude results in a sham of community.

As innovative and effective as the Health Care Tribe concept may be, it cannot compete with big bucks from the capitalist medical/insurance establishment. Although we can reach many people with the health care tribe concept, and a few of them might implement it, we are almost entirely shut out of the national public discussions -- not just on health but on everything. This is how our "democracy" works. It is not an accident or a flaw; it is deliberate."


read on @;
http://culturechange.org/

As a registered Green who voted for Cynthia McKinney, i am neither a racist nor a right wing tea party mad hatter singing looney tunes who "hates Obama because he is black, and that is why i am oppossed to so-called health care reform". My view is that BOTH Republicans and Democrats are corrupt beyond hope and do not deserve my vote, never have, never will..

My new government is the recently established "shadow government" of Co-President Cynthia McKinney, Co-President Ralph Nader and Co-President Bob Barr. These three new "shadow presidents" are the people that i would look to for leadership, and their diverse views serve to balance one another out so that no one position dominates the other. The three "shadow presidents" also are not influenced by corporate campaign contributions as are BOTH Republicans and Democrats. Am inviting the only honest ones i know [Dennis Kucinich - (D) and Ron Paul - (R) ] to jump ship from their respective corrupt parties and join the "shadow government" as advisors..

Please take this "shadow government" with a grain of salt for the time being, we don't want the FBI busting down Ralph Nader's door accusing him of seccession..

However, it needs to be said that another real shadow government in Afghanistan is the DIRECT result of corruption in government offices under the Karzai regime, installed puppet of GW Bush and so-called "winner" of the recently stolen election. The Taliban moved into the position of the real shadow government because the Afghani people were tired of government corruption and favoritism under Karzai, the Taliban are strict (ok, so maybe they are harsh!) yet fair and unbiased in their judicial rulings. Their fair and unbaised rulings seems to be more valued by the Afghani people than are concerns about the harshness of the punishments inflicted by the Taliban..

BTW, i was part of the "Cascadian" secessionist movement under GW bush regime's reign of terror, though i have dropped it following the election of Obama because i wanted to give him a chance (naive hope maybe?) to fix the mess caused by GW Bush and also because now secession can be confused with racism (ie., Confederate secession) by ignorant establishment hacks who don't bother to learn anything outside the narrow realm of their two party system..

Now (thanks in part to the above smart alecky article) i am returning to my original goals of Cascadian secession, regardless of whether establishment hacks will call me racist or not..

So keep your federal raiders (DEA, FBI, CIA, ATF, etc...) EAST of the Mississippi, por favor!!

On the topic of secession, starting from the Pacific coast and moving inland, my suggestion is everything south of Sacramento is for the Aztlan Nation and everything north of Sacramento is for Cascadian Nation. Sacramentro represents a meeting place where both government can discuss their futures..

Cascadia;

"Now is the time for the citizens of Cascadia to demand their freedom from the oppressive governments of Canada and the United States. For too long have our people put up with indifference and condescendence from distant seats of power. We have been subject to francophonic imperialism and wasteful spending of our tax money. Our entrepreneurs have been attacked by the so-called justice system for merely doing their jobs and growing our economy. When will we say enough is enough?

The former American states of Oregon and Washington and the former Canadian province of British Columbia must join together as a sovereign nation. Only then can we have self-determination and take our rightful place in the Global Community."

visit Cascadia @;
http://zapatopi.net/cascadia/

Aztlan;

"ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A University of New Mexico Chicano Studies professor predicts a new, sovereign Hispanic nation within the century, taking in the Southwest and several northern states of Mexico.

Charles Truxillo suggests the “Republica del Norte,” the Republic of the North, is “an inevitability.”

He envisions it encompassing all of California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas and southern Colorado, plus the northern tier of Mexican states: Baja California, Sonora, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo León and Tamaulipas."

visit Aztlan @;
http://www.aztlan.net/homeland.htm

BTW - Followers of Malcolm X and black nationalism can have their own self governing nation in the southeast; Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana if they so desire, of keep having false hopes following Uncle OToma..

Open invite to al Queda to visit our secessionist nations and establish training camps as needed..

Peace out feddies!!





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Policies of secessionist governments

by Relations with al Queda not likely Friday, Sep. 18, 2009 at 12:54 PM

From above comment;

"Open invite to al Queda to visit our secessionist nations and establish training camps as needed.. "

This really isn't such a good idea and was intended as a half joke. Myself and many other Cascadians are mostly pagan and/or secular heathens and this would not be acceptable to the al Queda leadership, unless they chill out with the religious fundamentalism and try to focus on building relationships with the secessionst malcontents of the west..

That probably wouldn't work either, as we all know that Wahhabist Sunni al Queda was never able to build a relationship with secular Sunni Saddam, so why would they embrace a relationship with nature loving heathen pagans??

The claims made by GW bush regime prior to the invasion of Iraq was that al Queda had put aside their differences with Saddam in hopes of working together to defeat a common enemy. After the fact we learned that this tidbit of info was gained only by torturing al Queda operative al Libby until he lied under duress. So in reality Saddam and al Queda never did collaborate in any way, their hardheaded ideologies were too different even to work together against the "Great Satan"..

On the other hand media rumors persist that al Queda is anti-Semitic, though one of their top spokespeople Adam "Azzam the American" Ghadan is a Jewish man from Orange County, CA. In this instance, al Queda seems to have set aside their rabid anti-Semitism (in reality anti-Zionism, NOT anti-Semitism, there is a significant difference!!) and promoted this American convert to the upper ranks of public relations. Neither did Adam disappoint them, his U.S. insider status and cultural experiences here allowed him to present al Queda's positions and demands in clear and articulate manner..

What if someone could do the same thing without needing to travel to Afghanistan and spend the rest of their life in a 24/7 cave party? Maybe we could try to understand what makes al Queda tick, as in what is the motivation for average run of the mill Muslims leaving their loved ones and strapping on suicide packs?

As someone who has already read al Queda's demands spelled out by Azzam, it is clear what they are asking of the U.S. people and our government. Simply put, if we close down our military bases in Muslims lands, stop spreading media propaganda into Muslims lands and stop the biased funding and support of Zionist Israel, we may have some chance for al Queda to cease to exist from lack of enrollment..

Another analogy is a group of people standing around a house that has just begun to burn. After watching the fire for a few minutes, the "leader" of the group instructs the people on the front line to "Pour the liquid from that can onto the fire to put it out." The frontliners follow instructions of the leader, though the flames suddenly rise higher instead of going out. The frontliners then sniff the liquid and discover that it is kerosene, not water. They return to their leader to report this news, though this only angers their leader and he shouts at them, "What are you people, unpatriotic? Do you not care about your fellow Americans? Now go back to the frontlines and keep pouring that liquid on the fire." For some reason the leader is unable to understand that the liquid is in fact kerosene and will not extinguish the fire..

In this case the house represents the stability of Middle Eastern nations and the kerosene represents U.S. military interventions and occupations. The missing vital ingredient is of course water, the ONLY liquid that will extinguish the fires of terrorism..

The missing ingredient of water represents logical, calm and coolheaded foreign policy changes that treats Muslims nations with equal respect as Zionist Israel and ourselves. The water in specifics is outlines above, close down U.S. military bases in Muslim lands, following the wisdom of the last honest Republican Ron Paul, "The U.S. military must cease and desist being the world's police force."..

If the current establishment Democrats cannot accomplish these reasonable goals as they are under the influence of AIPAC, then either a "shadow government" of the three third party Co-Presidents (McKinney, Nader, Barr) OR the two secessionist governments (Aztlan & Cascadia) will need to take this responsibility on themselves by establishing panels to begin negotiations with al Queda public relations opertives like Adam "Azzam" Gahdan..

What we do NOT want is further bloodshed and destruction either in the U.S., Iraq and Afghanistan or anywhere else for that matter. Once the U.S. gives up its patterns of overseas empire building, military occupations and invasions, we can predict that al Queda will cease to exist due to lack of enrollment. That is the water we need to put out the fire, not more kerosene (ie., U.S. military troops to Afghanistan)..
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