Showing posts with label Racists. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Racists. Show all posts

Wednesday, June 10, 2009

BEWARE THE RIGHT WING EXTREMIST!

Those people or groups who seek to do violence against people of a different religion, race or ethnic group are right–wing extremists. Let me be clear; there are right-wing extremists of every religion, color, race, ethnic origin, and gender and s. orientation. Don’t confuse this fact.

We must never elect those kinds of people. We want peace-seeking Moderates and peaceful people who are inclusive and believe in inclusiveness (of peace-seeking people). That is what the Democratic Party stands for and the Democratic leadership stands for.

I was saddened when Ed Schultz (of “The Ed Show) in response to someone calling the President Muslim, said quickly that the President wasn’t Muslim. He didn’t even have the guts to say, “though there’s nothing wrong with being Muslim” or the other phrase that many use, “though I have friends who are Muslim”. At least Colin Powell was brave enough to say there’s nothing wrong with being Muslim.

For the sake of clarity, when I say left-leaning, I am speaking about those left-leaning groups in the United States that stand behind our constitutional rights and human rights. I am not talking about left-leaning groups in any other country; though many of those left-leaning groups have similar beliefs.

The majority of violent extremist groups are right wing extremist groups; they seek to exclude people from enjoying, Human Rights, Women's Rights, Constitutional rights, or Civil rights.

I’m also irritated when news commentators or others want to say that liberals and left leaning progressives have violent extremist groups. The very nature of the group being left-leaning means you tend to abhor violence against another group of people.

You will, however, find right-wing Progressives and some groups who call themselves Progressive, who would advocate violence. That’s why you have to distinguish the group from right-leaning or left-leaning or Progressive. I am a left leaning Progressive and abhor violence.

Perhaps media and others should look up the word Progressives in Wikipedia.

I don’t know any left-leaning/liberal or any left-leaning group driving around plotting to kill pro-lifers. I don’t know any left-leaning/liberal or any left-leaning group driving around or meeting to kill racists. I don’t see any left-leaning/liberal groups driving around or meeting to kill those who want to deny others of their basic human rights. I do know Moderates, left-leaning people and left-leaning/liberal/left-leaning progressive groups who will use peaceful means to try to get violent groups to stop their hate filled and violent acts.

On the lighter side … the only people that absolutely drive me insane are those people who drive around with their radios turned up loud with the base, coming from their car stereos, which reverberate and penetrate my home. I love peace and quiet. Could this group be associated with right-wing extremism? (smile)

Monday, February 9, 2009

PRESIDENT OBAMA FIRED-UP AND FINDING HIS BASE

A fired-up Barack Obama ditched his TelePrompter to rally House Democrats and rip Republican opponents of his recovery package Thursday night - at one point openly mocking the GOP for failing to follow through on promises of bipartisanship.
In what was the most pointedly partisan speech of his young presidency, Obama rejected Republican arguments that massive spending in the $819 billion stimulus bill that passed the House should be replaced by a new round of massive tax cuts.
"I welcome this debate, but we are not going to get relief by turning back to the same policies that for the last eight years doubled the national debt and threw our economy into a tailspin," said President Obama - sounding more like Candidate Obama than at any time since he took the oath of office less than a month ago.
Obama, speaking to about 200 House Democrats at their annual retreat at the Kingsmill Resort and Spa, dismissed Republican attacks against the massive spending in the stimulus.

"What do you think a stimulus is?" Obama asked incredulously. "It's spending - that's the whole point! Seriously."(Source: Politico)
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Guys, I am so proud. Finally we've got the President fired-up against the Republican's "let's go back to the way things were and really kill this economy" ridiculous "tax cut problem solving tactics".
Last week [and I repeated it on Sunday], I urged you all to shut off your television and go over to "The BiPolar Ultra Mellow Lounge" or read a book, go to the movies, or if you couldn't tear yourself away from the "nutty tube", watch comedies. Hopefully you did so.
If you did follow my instructions, don't you feel at least 80% better?
Remember people, television (especially cable television -exception: The Rachel Maddow Show) is the last place to get reliable news.* According to media watchdog group "Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting" in consultation with the Survey and Evaluation Research Laboratory at Virginia Commonwealth University, a study that was conducted, showed that a majority of journalists, although relatively liberal on social policies, were significantly to the right of the public on economic, labor, health care and foreign policy issues.[1]
Their study continues: “we learn much more about the political orientation of news content by looking at sourcing patterns rather than journalists' personal views. As this survey shows, it is government officials and business representatives to whom journalists "nearly always" turn when covering economic policy. Labor representatives and consumer advocates were at the bottom of the list. This is consistent with earlier research on sources. For example, analysts from the centrist Brookings Institution and conservative think tanks such as the Heritage Foundation and the American Enterprise Institute are those most quoted in mainstream news accounts; liberal think tanks are often invisible. When it comes to sources, ‘liberal bias’ is nowhere to be found.”
I don't think media has caught on to certain realities ... for 8 years they sought out Republican officials ... yeah, Dick Cheney, Rumsfeld, etc. for information. Horrors! But there's a new majority Party in town [the Party of the people]... and evidently, media hasn't gotten the message.
Don't get me wrong, the Republican's used to have some good ideas. That pretty much went the way of the dinosaur starting when the Southern Dixiecrats and racists ran "kicking and screaming" from the Democratic Party to the Republican Party after the 1965 Voting Rights Act.**
Reagan wasn't too bad, ... but he was a "union busting", "tax cut loving [followed by huge deficits]", "kick the disabled off of Social Security, and "kiss the feet" of Big Business and Large Corporations kind of guy.*** Ugh! We languished in the wilderness four years, before businesses started hiring again. Reagan did me no favors, I and my friends had a job before his entrance. Ten months later, I was unemployed and stayed unemployed [there was a job freeze] until mid or late 1985. Thankfully, I was able to go back to college. Those days, college was affordable [and we had Pell Grants].
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Interesting Facts and Comments:
Michael Steele's remarks about Jobs
More of Michael Steele and the Republican Party (and this is hilarious)
Corporate Globalization Fact Sheet
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