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The Conservative Hate and Ignorance Problem underlying the Republican Symptom

A collection of articles that happened to cluster together 1 day a couple weeks ago and struck me as significant when articles continued and even seemed to accelerate over the last week involving Republican hypocrisy, lies, and attempts to hide their misconduct:

Sean Hannity was fired from his first radio job, only to have the decision overturned with help from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
Bill Maher: Mitt Romney Is A Symptom; The Problem Is The Republican Party
Yet Another Arkansas Legislator Is Nuts: ‘If Slavery Were So Godawful, Why Didn’t Jesus Condemn It?’
Welfare queen Michele Bachmann super excited about government she hates building her a new bridge
Tea Party leader and CNBC editor flew into a rage after he was asked to defend his suggestion that the most recent jobs report had been doctored to help President Obama get re-elected.
Billionaire CEO David Siegel and owner of nation’s largest house Threatens to Fire Employees If Obama Wins
Who Cares If Romney Lied During The Debate? He Looked Good! - ‘Today, Fox & Friends not only dismissed concerns for the truth but actually attacked Democrats for making it an issue.’
“27% of Americans knew that the money for PBS and NPR was <1% of government spending. Remarkably, 40% guessed that the share was between 1 and 5% and 30% said it was in excess of 5% — including 7% who said that more than half of the federal budget was spent on television and radio broadcasts.”

The 1% (with eager Republican assistance) versus Voters

From 3-4 weeks ago, late September, before the latest surge in Republican election fraud. Those with money in power representing the rich once again shows itself as the real problem hiding behind the distraction ploy of voter ID fraud. It’s not even about discrimination (much too much work and too easy to record for the 1%) as much as to allow them to appoint the candidates they own. The real issue is to allow them to continue their registration and vote machine fraud while people are lost in a meaningless debate of whether we need enhanced bathtubs to stop Grover Norquist from drowning:

Media Matters captures corporate Media spinning hard against President Obama

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Daily Caller’s Tucker Carlson compares debate moderator Candy Crowley to John Wilkes Booth.

Limbaugh wants women to know Obama thinks they are “dumb and stupid,” “not even people.”

CNN parrots NRA falsehoods on assault weapons ban.

In a continued attempt to attack Obama over Benghazi, Fox omits key date from their timeline graphic.

Debt increase by presidents: Reagan 186%, Bush 54% Clinton 41% Bush II 72% Obama 23%

In summary, Democrats have to save and spend wisely to make up for Republican excesses and bank runs:

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UPDATE: These numbers are old (based on this) most recent numbers can be found here: http://t.co/pktMrId

Updating the post to reflect the current numbers:

Reagan - 189% Bush - 55% Clinton - 37% Bush - 86% Obama - 35%

Hat tip to Ron Workman for the correct numbers and links.

Oil, Kochs, and Nazis. The Foundation of Republican Conservatives »

Notorious Nazis Ilse Koch, her husband Karl Otto Koch and Erich Koch are the ghosts of Koch Industries, who seized the U.S. conservative political agenda years ago and seem capable of seizing

ALEC Petitions

2 petitions I recently created to eliminate American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) ties from local (Minnesota) corporations. Signers pledge to boycott or protest to corporations until they dump ALEC.

Dunn Bros.: End all ALEC & Chamber of Commerce Funding. A boycott of Dunn Bros. The Chamber is included because it is a “member” that just happens to support everything ALEC does, but does so through lobbyists, election contributions, and its own political ad campaigns. This has made some progress already. Dunn Bros. corporate office has said it wants nothing to do with either ALEC or the Chamber. It even removed the Chamber member seal from its corporate office. 1 franchise has ended or never was a member of the Chamber. What remains is to get Dunn to add ALEC and the Chamber to what amounts to its “Do Not Join List”. So far, it seems content to let franchises to join whatever organizations it wants.
Stop Aquatennial ALEC Support The lead sponsor that the Torchlight Parade is now named after, CenterPoint Energy, is a member of ALEC directly and through the American Gas Association (AGA – feel free to substitute a fracking F for the G) and the Chamber of Commerce. Other big sponsors include Target and US Bank. It’s a parade by and of the corporations. Even McDonald’s and that clown was part of the 2012 parade. This parade should be considered a front group. It’s literally owned by the “Minneapolis Downtown Council”, which is another corporate association that provides a front for government and Chamber of Commerce deals.

Twitter Posts - Archive June 14 - June 21, 2012

The ongoing saga of doing what Twitter should do - archiving tweets so they can be easily searched, found, and linked to.

Twitter Posts - Archive June 7 - June 14, 2012

Sadly, Twitter has been failing since its forced “upgrade” into the new twitter last year when it comes to accessing your past tweets. This includes only what I’ve posted or retweeted. I’ll post more as it becomes available and this blog may turn into my twitter archive.

11 Jun Rep. Keith Ellison ‏@keithellison