For Obama, No Opportunity Too Big to Blow

"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)

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)

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

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...

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

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)

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.

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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

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)

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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