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I am so sick of seeing this damn thing show up on my facebook feed. Yes, you’re totally right, America should be more like Afghanistan, North Korea, and Iran, because they are obviously shining beacons of integrity - countries the entire world should be modeled from.  If you want to be mad about people not paying taxes, lets take a look at Exxon Mobile, who every hour receive over 45 thousand dollars in direct government subsidiaries. Or we can look at the Walmart heirs who, despite their worth being more than 40% of Americans combined, voted to keep wages so low that over 80% of their employees qualify for at least some kind of Welfare program (that includes full time employees).  The reason this country is in debt, is because we are engaged in a war that has raged for more than a decade, and still paying for a war we recently ended. The ultra rich are not paying shit for taxes, and hiding behind this falsehood of “job creators”. Multi-billion dollar corporations are not only skirting taxes on an outrageous scale, but also have their palms outstretched for massive government subsidies that in turn provide no new jobs, no cheaper prices, and no innovation. Couple all that with these constant divisive statements that pit our growing low and dwindling middle class Americans against each other to hinder any meaningful debate for progress, and THAT is why we are a country in debt.  

I am so sick of seeing this damn thing show up on my facebook feed.

Yes, you’re totally right, America should be more like Afghanistan, North Korea, and Iran, because they are obviously shining beacons of integrity - countries the entire world should be modeled from.  If you want to be mad about people not paying taxes, lets take a look at Exxon Mobile, who every hour receive over 45 thousand dollars in direct government subsidiaries. Or we can look at the Walmart heirs who, despite their worth being more than 40% of Americans combined, voted to keep wages so low that over 80% of their employees qualify for at least some kind of Welfare program (that includes full time employees).  The reason this country is in debt, is because we are engaged in a war that has raged for more than a decade, and still paying for a war we recently ended. The ultra rich are not paying shit for taxes, and hiding behind this falsehood of “job creators”. Multi-billion dollar corporations are not only skirting taxes on an outrageous scale, but also have their palms outstretched for massive government subsidies that in turn provide no new jobs, no cheaper prices, and no innovation. Couple all that with these constant divisive statements that pit our growing low and dwindling middle class Americans against each other to hinder any meaningful debate for progress, and THAT is why we are a country in debt.

 

Petition to privatize Thatcher's state funeral

freemasonic-yowl:

naazee:

good

For jahanzebjz

The petition is closed, but good god what a brilliant idea.

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Poll: 33% of Americans support Christian as state religion.

On a foot note, 200% of me wants to just die and leave this place.

In the fall of 2010, the party combed through data to identify 23,452 households where residents were registered, and likely to be Democrats, but rarely voted. A team of 41 volunteers and paid staff then spent five weeks calling and visiting those homes, urging them to vote. The project cost a little over $40,000.

The results were startling: a 54% jump in straight-ticket Democratic voting, and a turnout rate nearly 20% higher than the rest of Travis County.

The conclusion, according to county Democratic chairman Andy Brown, who ran the drive: “People respond if you ask for their vote. And in Texas, millions of people have never been asked.

WSJ: Deep in the Red of Texas, Republicans Fight the Blues (via kileyrae)

That is a very clever tag line. 
Also, I bet with a little luck we can take Texas, especially with a widening Latin@ base in the state. Imagine a blue Texas.

The Wall Street Journal

Jose Antonio Vargas is one of the 11 million undocumented immigrants in this country today, and he has something important to say.

blackjackaught: Hey, did you know Border Patrol agents are fond of destroying the food and water caches left in the desert crossing so people don’t die of hunger and thirst? 179 people died crossing between Mexico and Arizona last year, where this happened. Way to contribute to the deaths of innocent people, sworn officers of the American government! This makes me sick. An act of such malice could only point to a complete lack of regard for immigrants and their lives. These officers should be relieved of their posts indefinitely, and publicly humiliated on national television. I want them to go home and have to explain to their friends and family just why exactly they thought innocent people should sooner die in agony of thirst, than come into America.  Scum. If anyone should be exiled from this country, it should be you.

blackjackaught:

Hey, did you know Border Patrol agents are fond of destroying the food and water caches left in the desert crossing so people don’t die of hunger and thirst?

179 people died crossing between Mexico and Arizona last year, where this happened.

Way to contribute to the deaths of innocent people, sworn officers of the American government!

This makes me sick. An act of such malice could only point to a complete lack of regard for immigrants and their lives. These officers should be relieved of their posts indefinitely, and publicly humiliated on national television. I want them to go home and have to explain to their friends and family just why exactly they thought innocent people should sooner die in agony of thirst, than come into America. 

Scum. If anyone should be exiled from this country, it should be you.

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Another installment of Peachsss’ facebook shenanigans.

Enjoy.

If you haven’t read the White House response to the Death Star petition, here’s the link. I promise that you won’t regret it.

blogvader:

Pure, unadulterated, magnificent geekery!

And that guy gets one Peach award.

Just saw a conservative blogger condescendingly ask if President Obama knows that Martin Luther King, Jr. was a Republican

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I usually ignore such nonsense, but since this misleading claim can be so easily and quickly debunked:

  1. King had no strong allegiance to either party, believing that “the Negro should be more of an independent voter…this would give him more bargaining power” and stating “I’m not inextricably bound to either party.”
  2. In 1956, he wrote in a letter to Miss Viva O. Sloan, “I haven’t fully decided which candidate I will vote for. In the past I have always voted the Democratic ticket.”
  3. He also supported John F. Kennedy for President but, despite urgings from friends, decided not to publicly endorse either candidate. “I felt that Kennedy would make the best president. I never came out with an endorsement.”
  4. He strongly opposed the Vietnam War, in part because he felt money used to finance the war should instead be devoted to anti-poverty programs: ”A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.”
  5. Later in life, he was a self-identified democratic socialist: ”There must be a better distribution of wealth, and maybe America must move toward a democratic socialism.”

In the future, let’s try not to rewrite history.   

Reblogging this for the references. I have had this argument five times in the last month alone.

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Oh hi mostly my entire blog. 

Well, except cat pictures. I post those often.

This is all fine and dandy, believe me when I say that I follow a LOT of… non-conservative types? I’m not sure how to phrase it; I follow people of everything on the left half of the political compass. But! Don’t forget to pay attention to the other side once in a while, too. 

That being said, I focus on current events, political stories - usually within the US, and other nifty and enlightening things - all with left-leanings. I have been slacking due to my being overworked, but soon this blog will be working at full capacity again.

Welcome, Comrade.

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