Thought Progress

For Obama, No Opportunity Too Big to Blow

noreply@blogger.com (Suisse Bird) — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 18:28:00 +0000

"There are very few U.S. Presidents who have squandered as many once-in-a-generation opportunities as Barack Obama. More than anyone else, the Copenhagen failure belongs to him."- Naomi Klein.

I so agree, AMEN!
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Portia de Rossi To Elisabeth Hasselbeck: Gay Marriage Should Be Called Marriage (VIDEO)

noreply@blogger.com (Suisse Bird) — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 19:54:00 +0000

Putting people's rights (either the right to prayer or to marry) up to vote is the cruelest form of democracy. It is the pathway to division of a nation. Rights are(I thought) taken away by violation of law and through the decision of the courts. I should not have to fear my neighbors opinion, religious values, mores, or voting record. My neighbor should not be my judge nor I for thee.

If this continues, I fear the voting on human rights by the public will force all us to hate each other for all of our lifestyles, no matter how holy you think you are, is subject to ridicule. Just think, we could all vote ourselves into prison. Or into anarchy.

Voting to allow or disallow human rights is a violation, in my opinion, of human rights.
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Keith Bardwell Explains Refusal To Perform Interracial Marriage (VIDEO)

noreply@blogger.com (Suisse Bird) — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 17:22:00 +0000

OoooooH! He did it for the chil'rrun! Well bless his heart!

Really, what do you expect from LOUISIANA! I never expected the southern states to embrace such progression of 'mixun uv da races'. He seems old enough to remember Emmit Till. A black man with a white woman? He would have to have a lobotomy to allow such a disgrace, in his Jim Crow mind.

So this is not a news story, in a sense that it's the everyday goings ons of southern bigots (or in the mind of Yankee bigots who lack the guts to be so forthright, such stories give them glee). Now with 24/7 hour convenience store news cycle and having nothing else to report, a light has been shone up this particular bigot. He is this weeks balloon/attic boy. This poor bigot is probably just earning his stripes for the white angst that exist today. Now with all this attention, he can probably retire with a clean Klansman mind and 'clear' Jim Crow soul.

With that said,l respect his honesty, no matter how primitive it maybe.
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"Balloon Boy" ALIVE: 6-Year-Old Falcon Heene Was Never In The Aircraft

noreply@blogger.com (Suisse Bird) — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 23:03:00 +0000

This seems like a sad day the media worldwide. All western news outlets carried this story. Welcome to globalization people. Benign stories to keep the masses occupied. Yeah, I know I sound like a conspiracy theorist, but don't we have two wars, bombings, health care debate, and a multitude of more important other things to tend to?

I'm guilty, watching in suspense, wanting to be entertained by the entertainers.

Thanks Heene's for keeping mind off serious things.

Baahahahahaha (I thinks that right).
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When they came for...

noreply@blogger.com (Suisse Bird) — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 09:56:00 +0000

Recently in Switzerland there has been a few instances of political racism. This one below is the anti-minaret campaign. This has the support of the Peoples Party (SVP), a rightwing organization in the parliament here. The SVP is famous for 'wanting to keep the Swiss blood pure' and 'closing the borders to immigrants'. Both ads are considered extremely hurtful and flat out racist here.

This one below was circulating right at the time I was arriving in Switzerland. It drew protest in my neighborhood that year when the leader of party came to Lausanne to give a stump speech. My point to all of this is the whenever economic troubles are manifested the xenophobia is increased. Switzerland has been lucky so far, but this is the temperature of the racism and xenophobia that exist already during good economic times. Just imagine if Switzerland landed in the mire like US.

Now the video below shows what happens when the right-wing fringe and the racism combines with economic hardship. This is modern day nationalism. Something I see in the rhetoric of many American politicianss. Lindsey Graham's and McCain comments about Obama not 'being a Muslim because he's a good man'. The Joe Wilsons, the Michelle Bachmanns, and the Glenn Beck's of the the U.S. are creating the environment the video below enjoys. I don't want to infringe upon anyone's right to freedom speech but we should infringe upon the right to complacency of violence.

The Forbes 400 Shows Why Our Nation Is Falling Apart

noreply@blogger.com (Suisse Bird) — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 17:14:00 +0000

Does anyone find it odd that we spend most of our lives making them rich when the 'creator' has another purpose for us? Doesn't anyone see that freedom and liberty are marketing tools to keep you working toward nothing? Doesn't anyone question this system? Money is not the root of evil but our behavior in the pursuit of it tends to lean heavily toward shameful.

Call me a hippie, socialist, commie or whatever, but I think being a wild animal would give me more so called freedom and liberty than working my life away for superficial, inter-changeable and infuriatingly obsolescent material things. Having to protect it because the time and effort we put into it, kissing the ass of the wealth makers, would be lost if we didn't (or at least that's what is advertised to us). Meanwhile,we maintain this process, not realizing that we are killing ourselves and others so that someone can have extra paper in their, if not our own, pockets. So we can maintain our (false) 'sense' humanity, not conscious of the lost time for an inanimate object to please us when we have each other. I think what we have done, do and participate in is disgusting. It's suicide.

My point, it's time to solve our problems without money. We don't need it. The need is a lie to keep you in the system. It's a lie. The game was created by them and will be maintained by your belief in it.
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Chris Matthews To Town Hall Protestor: Why Did You Bring A "God Damn Gun" To A Presidential Event? (VIDEO)

noreply@blogger.com (Suisse Bird) — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 10:31:00 +0000

How can you call yourself non-violent with a lethal weapon strapped to your leg? Sounds like the nightmare is rearing it's ugly head. It's only a matter of time. I hope the Obamas are wearing bullet proof vest.

One question though, under the Bush Administration would someone protesting anything, with a gun, be considered a terrorist with the intent to assassinate?
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Careful of this health debate.

noreply@blogger.com (Suisse Bird) — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 09:31:00 +0000

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As many of you already know, I live in a society that provides healthcare or mandates some for of health coverage. Listening to this debate in the US and the nut job byproduct arguments of right just test my faith in humanity.

During the abysmal years under Bush I read and watch discussions about the S-CHIP program and was appalled by the resistance of people to care for our young ones. Then it struck me that my fair nation is too greedy and profit driven to put things into perspective.

National security was a favorite talking point of Bush's talking heads. I have always wonder if the nations security is really on the agenda and a major issue why are we not making it mandatory that at least 90% of the US populace is prepared for a biological attack. You know, if people had an up to date status of their health they would be better prepared for such an attack. Or during the last 'bird-pig-chicken-cow-fish' flu wouldn't the US be better of if the system and the population had mutual trust and respect to prepare for something that could wipe out the human race. Doesn't the adage "we are only as strong as our weakest link" ( I don't know if that is right, but you get my point) mean anything?

Our strength is knowing and accepting our weaknesses. Our strength is not the lack of weakness but the ability and the access to pull on resources that can and will mitigate any damage from the weaknesses that we all posses. We are the ills' healthy counter part and vice versa. We learn from the care we give to the ill how to care for the ourselves and how they would care for us. Maturity and will are gained in the process thus giving us a stronger will to live and fight on. It's our human duty to respond to each with a sense of responsibility, to care for another. That other may be our strength and savior one day. The health-care debate, if not a smoke screen, is a dumb and baseless debate. It is indicative of how far out of touch we have become with each other, how much contempt we have for one another.

It's absurd and downright selfish to deny the rights that we enjoy from someone else. It is immoral, in my opinion, to not have a sense of responsibility for each other based on some preconditioned attitude toward that person. If we are intelligent or at least conscious of our frailty, the debate of caring for someone is a waste of time. The astro-turf protesters are exercising a derivative form of loud mouth bigotry, denying right or privileges to other groups based on their preconditioned attitude.

With that being said, I am in no way a blind supporter of anything the government does. I am the first to distrust the government, retain rigid skepticism, and question everything. This bill is not perfect but it bring the a real human issue to the table. It at least puts US back in the U.S.

Gay-To-Straight Therapy Repudiated By Psychologists

noreply@blogger.com (Suisse Bird) — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 08:35:00 +0000

Changing ones sexuality to appease a man-made fallacy is like trying to fit the planet into a cup. We created religion, not homosexuality, bisexuality, heterosexuality, nor transgender or transexuality. If I condemn something for another I have condemned them for myself. Put it another way, the less freedom of expression I have, is less freedom of expression for you.

I am not a statistician nor a sociologist, but common sense tells me that it's corrosive to any society to condemn bed room behavior between consenting adults. We can't have control over everything, we barely have control over ourselves.
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Orly Taitz Melts Down On MSNBC, Blames MSM "Brownshirts" (VIDEO)

noreply@blogger.com (Suisse Bird) — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 08:56:00 +0000

This woman should get great kudos for out doing SNL. Jon Stewart would have a two day special on her. I feel for her. She allowed herself to look like a buffoon. She has such giggle qualities.
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Maddow Demolishes Buchanan's Surreal Facts About America's Racial Past (VIDEO)

noreply@blogger.com (Suisse Bird) — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 11:03:00 +0000

Thank you Rachel.

I am happy that a 'white folk' has stood up for us 'other folk'. Not that it has not been before, but this time it was on broadcast to thousand if not millions, of people worldwide. Thank you for exemplifying a 'post racial' attitude that we as humans, not just Americans, must have in order for us to make any worthwhile progress and survive any future turmoil as a species. I appreciate this piece because it schools the ignorance that many and myself may have had, right out of existence.

P.S.

We must continue to remember not just the millions of minorities and women that 'built' the US, the Native Americans must always be included. There would be no US without them.
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Taleon Goffney, Gay Porn Star, Going To Prison For Using Handsaw, Ax To Break Into Stores

noreply@blogger.com (Suisse Bird) — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 16:04:00 +0000

Thank you so much, joshuachayne! NO ONE LIKES TO BE ABUSED NOR MISUSED! That is not a joke.
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Giant Blob Of Floating Goo Found Off Alaska's Coast (VIDEO)

noreply@blogger.com (Suisse Bird) — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 15:54:00 +0000

I have heard of islands of trash floating in around the surfaces of oceans. Could this be a chemical version of the our destructive and disgusting existence? In either case it's sad and, boy, just disgusting.
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Sammy Shannon Fires Gun At Sons When They Refuse To Do Their Chores (VIDEO)

noreply@blogger.com (Suisse Bird) — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 16:57:00 +0000

I like this story because, good grief, if you are living under your parents roof, you are under your parents rules. Plain and simple. Sounds likes pops comes from the ol' school of thought that 'I brought you in this world and I can take you out'.

Take out the papers and the trash! Chores is nothing more than earning a clean environment.
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Twiran by the Stimulator.

noreply@blogger.com (Suisse Bird) — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 10:21:00 +0000

Show your support @ http://submedia.tv/stimulator/2009/07/03/twiran/. Ciao slaves!

Lindsey Graham Says He Has Secret "Sins" Of His Own

noreply@blogger.com (Suisse Bird) — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 21:46:00 +0000

Well hush my mouth, he is just trying to still the 'glorious' shine from the other southern bell, Cantor. Oh, yes shuga, I've been noticing his sweet-tea southern charm since he's been elected. Cantor the 'House' boy, Graham the Senate Queen, I do declare!

At least it's better than 'man on dog' Santorum.
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Shepard Smith Says His Email Is Becoming "More And More Frightening" (VIDEO)

noreply@blogger.com (Suisse Bird) — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 22:39:00 +0000

He's right. I have been watching some the patriot sites since the fall of Bear Stearns (there is an intricate web of connection drawn to this with that- the New World Order, FEMA camps, fall of the dollar, Swine Epidemic, Iran, China) and I know that they will spin this into a threat against the 2nd Amendment.

They have been ginning this up for some type of event that they feel will be the catalyst for their guns being taken away. I have no particular position either way, yet the lightning of the storm has struck,I just hope that it does set fire to anything.

With the current conditions in the US ripe with angst and anguish, it will only get worse with another unhappy, unemployed, disgruntled man (or possibly woman) losing their way of living and blaming the Magic Negro in office.

I as an observer will always be skeptical of the media, their tendency to overplay certain aspects of facts and not really paying much attention to the reaction, cause or the effects (or at least that is what they want you to believe- remember H1N1, SARS, Ebola, etc being hyped to proportions tantamount to a nuclear strike). But the age 88, is an interesting piece... ok I shut up now.
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Contessa Brewer Steamed By Palin Defender: You're Insulting Me, "Cut His Mic"

noreply@blogger.com (Suisse Bird) — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 19:30:00 +0000

Alright, Ms. Brewer. Don't tolerate that. I love me some Contessa.
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Taguba Denies Telegraph 'Rape Photos' Story, White House Urges Coverage

noreply@blogger.com (Suisse Bird) — Sun, 31 May 2009 03:13:00 +0000

Someone got their ass handed to them.
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Ventura Venting the Truth!

noreply@blogger.com (Suisse Bird) — Fri, 29 May 2009 08:46:00 +0000

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The Big Gay Chip on My Shoulder

noreply@blogger.com (Suisse Bird) — Thu, 28 May 2009 16:48:00 +0000

Thank you! Start at the foundation of the subject to find the common ground. That's the strategy that's to work. Thank you!
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Cars Are Like Cigarettes; The New Pariah

noreply@blogger.com (Suisse Bird) — Wed, 27 May 2009 11:14:00 +0000

I have never owned a car and never will. I hate cars. If you decide to run from people and move to the suburbs, that's your problem. Learn how to get groceries from the grocery to the home like poorer people do. Suburbanites are not entitled to pollute atmosphere without their fair share of criticism. I have been a city dweller and I have been a country bumpkin. I carry groceries by hand. If you can't carry it you shouldn't be eating it. If it's too heavy, it's too much (there's a weight loss tip). Families with children over 5 should have their help carry them home; here in Switzerland, that's what I have seen. (Families with newborns and toddlers are exempt).

I have also notice that people who own cars are more likely to gain more weight. You walk less, move less, and sweat less. Cars are the most abused human creation on the planet. People who exercise more live longer on average anyhow. I rather see the demise of the car than the demise of the bike. I like being healthy and not participating in the destruction of our atmosphere.

Conclusion, Amen. People who argue for cars are intellectually lazy. It's amazing the poorest on earth tend live longer without the convenience of a car. This is only my opinion, though rather harsh, it's my planet too.
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Prop 8 Decision: Gay Marriage Ban Upheld By California Supreme Court

noreply@blogger.com (Suisse Bird) — Wed, 27 May 2009 10:43:00 +0000

I have lived in and visited California. My impression of how the gay community went about gaining support is laughable and apparent to me. I am sure the 'twink' population was not interested nor was the older gay male population was not interested in educating the young ones. I can't speak for lesbians, but the rule of thumb is that they had their shit together. I also , believe gays tend to be bigots and elitists assholes, despite their Human Rights Campaign.

Many white and black gay boys/twinks/men are dismissive of blacks. Their attitudes and expectations of blacks, mainly derived from watching BET or Noah's Arc, is dismissive at best. Then many of the gay black men involved, remained invisible, afraid to confront his community, allowed it to happen. Thus helping to alienated one of the most visible and powerful voting bloc of the Californian electorate.

I don't speak for all my demographic representation, but my experiences have taught me that gays can be bigots too and this decision should be a wake up call to grow up. Ignoring African-Americans in election never worked. It's time the gay community learned that.
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Analysis: NKorea widens threat, limits US options

noreply@blogger.com (Suisse Bird) — Mon, 25 May 2009 22:22:00 +0000

WAR is primitive. Period. It's a waste of all resources. This is an issue that needs to be addressed.

Back on the geo-political playground of cock fights, good luck there Obama. China has our money, Iran and N.Korea under it's auspices... Russia is just laying back with it's feet up waiting for our next move. Oh, I forgot neither one is bothered by the events, really, and they both have veto power at the UN.

Talk about screwed.
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Bill Maher Dismisses Sean Hannity's Criticism: He's Just "Terribly Sexually Repressed" (VIDEO)

noreply@blogger.com (Suisse Bird) — Mon, 25 May 2009 18:11:00 +0000

Why does anyone care what comes out of the blowhards at FixedNews? The name of either Foxnews or Rupert Murdoch raises my blood pressure just by the pure mention. I have notice when they leave the nest, nest being FixedNews, the get devoured. Bill Maher is only verbalizing what we all think, News Corp is right-wing sounding board for angry, xenophobic, homophobic, sexual repressed, over the hill, misogynists men. With a needle in the hay-stack exceptions.
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