16 December 2012. A Point to Ponder. THIS is What the Republican Party Wants… DO YOU?

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John Boehner speaks of “reforming” Social Security. That’s rightwing-speak for “reducing benefits to ordinary people so that the Affluent Effluent can party on without a care”. Quite frankly, Jim DeMint, Rand Paul, Mitch McConnell, Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, Grover Norquist, Paul Ryan, Willard Romney, et al are all unpatriotic self-centred pigs at the trough who want to kick the weakest amongst us so that they have more swag in their sacks (so that they can stash it offshore and spend it here). THIS is what they want. Take a GOOD look. They want to kick your parents and grandparents in the teeth so that the idle rich can continue to enjoy the lowest tax levels in the developed world. That’s EVIL.

We’re Christians… that means that we believe in a communitarian religion. We’re not Evangelicals or Mormons, who’re nothing but apologists for power and  money. You can have Christian sharing n’ caring or you can have Evangelical greed and hypocrisy. God or Mammon? You can’t have both…

BMD

 

9 December 2012. WARNING! Oh, the Humanity! Will the Rich Have Enough Money to Buy Politicians After the Coming Tax Increase?

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I saw the following on Andy Borowitz:

Introducing a new wrinkle into the already-fraught fiscal cliff showdown, a consortium of billionaires today warned that if their taxes were raised, they’d no longer have enough money to buy politicians.

Here’s the REAL reason for the Republican reluctance to raise taxes on the Affluent Effluent. As the Grasping Olde Perverts are the main beneficiaries of the oligarchs’ largesse, they fear a crimping of their lavish lifestyles and wants. That’s why they oppose taxing the rich… every dollar that’ll go to taxes won’t go in their pockets.

None dare call it hypocrisy and evil…

BMD

Cabinet Supports Public Office Ban for Draft-Dogders

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According to Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin, the Cabinet of Ministers supports a legislative initiative banning draft-dodgers from holding public office in Russia. On Saturday, he addressed a congress of volunteer supporters of the armed forces, saying, “In general, we believe that those who didn’t serve in the forces, or, rather, those who avoided service in the forces, shouldn’t have the right to hold public office”. Earlier this month, Franz Klintsevich, a United Russia deputy, suggested banning people who haven’t performed their mandatory military service from government jobs and slapping them with a 13 percent tax. Earlier, RIA-Novosti reported that Klintsevich’s proposal failed to win government approval. As Deputy Prime Minister, Rogozin oversees the Russian military-industrial complex.

29 September 2012

RIA-Novosti

http://en.ria.ru/russia/20120929/176299564.html

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Mittens isn’t only a cowardly draft-dodger, he’s a grasping tax-cheat who pays less of his income in tax than many working stiffs. Is that the kind of America that you want? A land where the idle and feckless rich pay less in taxes (proportionately) than we do? Think hard on that before 6 November…

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Editor’s Note:

The present Republican Party (unlike the pre-Reagan GOP… let’s be truthful) is a warmongering organisation. Here’s the kicker… the most virulent sabre-rattlers are all cowards who refused to serve in the forces. Mittens had his gazillionaire daddy buy him a bogus “clergy” deferment during the Vietnam War. Rush Limbaugh claimed that he had a cyst on his arse (no lie). Former-US Vice President Richard Cheney, US Representative Paul Ryan (R-WI), Sean Hannity, Bill O’Reilly, Reinhold Reince Priebus, Governor Dropout Scott Walker (R-WI), and US Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) all refused to serve (Cheney was honest, at least, saying, “I had better things to do”). US Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) served on active duty for one month and US Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-OH) served even less. In short, the current GOP is a set of arrant warmongering cowards who want to send other people to die so that they can rake in the cash and profit from the wars.

General Smedley Butler was right, “War is a racket”… that’s why we need universal national service. I mean not merely military service, “national service”… everyone gives 18 to 24 months of continuous national service doing something for the common good at a distance from home. We also need a law similar to that of France… no conscript can serve in a foreign war unless it’s a “declared war”. That is, no conscript soldier can go to war unless the war’s declared or it’s an attack on US territory.

I’m tired of selfish money-grubbing self-centred jingoistic rightwing pukes calling those of us on the left “unpatriotic”. I’ll say, “Most of these trashy sorts refused to serve their country, therefore, don’t let them serve in the government”. Not only that, we should make it law that no one convicted of or found responsible for an offence under the UCMJ can hold public office… that means that disreputable trash like US Representative Allen West (R-FL) would get the boot… he was found responsible for abusing a detainee, but he got a slap on the wrist because he was a “black Republican”… but the board did fine him (but his pals amongst the Bushies saw to it that he retained his pension), which means that he’s utterly unfit to serve in the US Congress, and that he stinks up the chamber with the reek of his dishonour to the uniform and flag.

Let everyone (and I do mean everyone, save for the severely-disabled) serve the country at age 18 (or after high school graduation). Not only should the physically-fit serve, but those physically-unable to do military duty should do civilian service of national importance. Let blind people do office work, let people in wheelchairs do what they can (and that’s a lot more than nothing, kids), and let deaf people serve, too. There’s good work for all the hands out there. Women should serve as well as men, although most women would serve in civil capacities. Let there be NO college deferments. Everyone serves before going on to school or to work. In fact, let no one go to the military academies until they’ve completed their national service successfully.

That’s my vision, and I’d describe myself as a Democratic Labour-Socialist. That’s how we’ll get the country on an even keel… not by kissing the arses of the rich and hoping that they’ll throw us a crumb or two. We need to stress SERVICE, not PROFIT. We need to stress what we share in common and what we need to do to preserve it, not foster a pointless, fruitless, and selfish “rugged individualism”. I AM my brother’s keeper… I AM one of many, not a “solitary consumer”… and, yes, this land is OUR land… and its well-worth defending and serving. As for the rich… the less that’s said of such godless Mammon-worshippers, the better…

BMD

7 July 2012. A Picture IS Worth a Thousand Words… Uncle Sam After GWB… Any Questions?

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11 April 2012. Sergei Yolkin’s World: Vladimir’s Already Aware of It

Vladimir’s Already Aware of It

Sergei Yolkin

2012

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On 26 March 2012, US and Russian Presidents Barack Obama and Dmitri Medvedev held talks in Seoul. Journalists found out that during his confab with Medvedev, Obama asked the Russian leader for “space” in negotiations on missile defence, until the end of the US presidential election. The reporters did hear the conclusion of the conversation before their joint press conference. Obama said, “This is my last election. After my election, I’ll have more flexibility”; Medvedev replied in English, “I understand. I’ll transmit this information to Vladimir“.

28 March 2012

Sergei Yolkin

RIA-Novosti

http://ria.ru/caricature/20120328/608042538.html

Editor’s Note:

Most commentators in the West misread the roles of Putin and Medvedev. Medvedev is NOT a ventriloquist’s dummy… he’s not a John Boehner, George W Bush, or Rick Perry… all of whom were (or are) nothing more than mouthpieces for their oligarch paymasters. As Western journalists are familiar with such empty-headed political running-dogs, they assume Medvedev’s the same sort. He isn’t… Putin brought back the New Roman/Old Russian idea of a “diarchy”… that is, “rule by partners”. Dmitri Anatolyevich proved that at the time of the South Ossetia War in ’08… he ably oversaw the initial Russian moves against the Georgian aggressors, and he stayed in Moscow at the head of the state apparat whilst VVP went to the front. There’s no doubt that VVP’s grooming DAM to be his successor as senior dyarch. Let’s give all the Western-outlet journalists a break, though… they’re just dirt-dumb ignorant, which is something that one can remedy. Shall they, though? Perspirin’ minds wanna know…

BMD

6 March 2012. Rush Limbaugh Reveals His True Character… GOP Refuses to Repudiate Him… You KNOW what to Do!

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Read this. Note the following:

Conservative David Frum, the Canadian-born pundit and former George W Bush speechwriter, has warned the party for years about Limbaugh’s influence. On Sunday, on CNN’s Reliable Sources, he described Limbaugh’s weekend apology to Fluke, coming in the face of fleeing advertisers and suggestions she has grounds for a libel lawsuit, as “about the most graceless apology ever. What’s good for Rush Limbaugh isn’t necessarily what’s good for the Republican Party”. While Limbaugh may have lost some advertisers, Frum said, “He leaves the Party behind him in a smoking ruin”. …

On The Rush Limbaugh Show last Wednesday, Limbaugh said Fluke’s testimony that birth control should be covered by health insurers, in part to help women deal with painful health conditions, “makes her a slut, right? It makes her a prostitute. She wants to be paid to have sex. She’s having so much sex she can’t afford the contraception. She wants you and me and the taxpayers to pay her to have sex”. He added that if taxpayers were to be saddled with such bills… itself a misstatement since no tax dollars would pay for the benefits, only employers and health insurance companies… then, Fluke and other “feminazis” should provide some kind of payback. Limbaugh said, “We want you to post the videos online so we can all watch”. …

Indeed, on Sunday, on ABC’s This Week, conservative columnist George Will said that Republican leaders are scared of Limbaugh, including John Boehner, speaker of the House of Representatives, saying, “Boehner comes out and says Rush’s language was inappropriate. Using the salad fork for your entrée, that’s inappropriate. Not this stuff. And it was depressing because what it indicates is that the Republican leaders are afraid of Rush Limbaugh. They want to bomb Iran, but they’re afraid of Rush Limbaugh”. …

Female voters made up almost 54 percent of the electorate in the 2008 presidential election, and are expected to out-number men in November as well. And a recent poll by CBS News and the New York Times found that 72 per cent of women support requiring private insurance companies to provide contraceptive coverage at no cost to beneficiaries.

Rush Limbaugh’s the son of a well-connected family in Missouri politics. No doubt, that family influence helped him to dodge the draft in the early seventies. Note well that the man is on his fourth wife (how can anyone with such a cavalier attitude to commitment be “conservative?”) and that his… ahem… “misuse” of prescription drugs is well known. Yet, he portrays himself as a moral paragon. Trust me, I’m an ordinary sinful-ginful slogger… there’s more than one sin on my plate. None of us has the “moral high ground”, without exception.

Ask yourself a question… is Rush worth 400 mill (11.87 billion Roubles. 305 million Euros. 255 million UK Pounds) a year? The per capita GDP in the USA is 48,147 USD (1.43 million Roubles. 36,700 Euros. 30,600 UK Pounds) a year, which makes Rush’s income 9,308 times his share of the GDP (that’s not a typo or error… I did the maths). That means that somebody’s picking up the slack for him somewhere. If you have a family of four… that means that your “share of the wealth” is 192,568 USD (5.72 million Roubles. 146,700 Euros. 122,300 UK Pounds)… if you’re not making that, Rush (and those like him) is stealing from you. Oh… he DESERVES it… he’s PRODUCTIVE… and don’t you forget it, you ungrateful and lazy SOB. You nasty and unthankful slug… don’t you know? God approves of such vulture capitalists… Franklin Graham and Pat Robertson said so. Isn’t that SPECIAL? You have to kiss their bums in public… they have more money… that makes them the “elect”… they’re going to heaven. You’re going to hell… for, dontcha know, God gives prosperity to his favourites and poverty to “all the others”. Peachy keen, ain’t it? Oh, yes… I thought that you’d like to know that only 1.5 percent of US households make over 250,000 USD (7.42 million Roubles. 190,500 Euros. 158,800 UK Pounds) a year… and Rush makes 1,600 times the 250,000 USD threshold. Real tribune of the people, isn’t he?

You know what to do… in November mark your ballot. Whilst you do so, bear in mind that the Republican Party endorses Mr Limbaugh’s remarks and attitudes heartily and without reservation. That does “concentrate the mind”, doesn’t it? Mr Limbaugh is NOT repentant at all. He’s only sorry that he “got caught with his hand in the cookie jar”. What he did to Ms Fluke is what he does to anyone who disagrees with him… and he does it to them publicly for the “entertainment” of his drooling soulless claque. I wonder if John Whiteford still has the link up to Rush’s site on his website? Perspirin’ minds wanna know… is Mr Whiteford still dragging Our Lord Christ through the muck (through his endorsement of Mr Limbaugh’s website) or has he “seen the light?” God willing, the latter will prevail and good-sense will win out (don’t we have ENOUGH scandal with a priest suing another priest, during the Great Lent, no less?)…

Barbara-Marie Drezhlo

Tuesday 6 March 2012

Albany NY