Amanda Knox is Innocent

Boycott Perugia Italy! Amanda Knox is still imprisoned there. There is NO justice in Perugia Italy. Do NOT vacation there. Boycott Italy. Pass it on.

GOP Tea Party Republicans Say Don't Blame Us

It is funny how when you point out the fact that the GOP Tea Party Republicans have been overall silent when Beck, Hannity, Palin, Savage, Oriely, Fox not really news people called the president a Marxist, Socialist, Secret Terrorist that was not born is America, and wants to take your guns away, destroy freedom and the country.  They don't want to take any responsibility for it but, the fact is When McConnell was asked about the president being a Muslim instead of saying outright he is a Christian. McConnell said, I take him at his word. Making sure to leave some doubt alive.  This has been the case over and over.  The party of personal responsibility doesn't want to take any and doesn't want America to point out any of it.  Now that it is in their lap we as a nation need to hold them accountable.  Democrats always want to forgive and forget and then move on to what is best for the American people.  This time we need to hold their feet to the fire.  We need to say NO.  You have done these things and now you need to take responsibility for them.  As a nation we need to protest and boycott the sponsors of the hate.  We need to let the sponsors of Radio and TV that we will NOT buy their products as long as they advertise with Beck, Hannity, Palin, Savage, Oriely, and Fox not really news.

Boycott hate speech.

Gabrielle Giffords and twenty others were shot by a lunatic!  But why were they shot by a lunatic?  I truly believe that this would never have occured except for the likes of Right Wing Propaganda radio and TV like Fox (not really)News, Rush, Beck, Palin, Hannity, OReily, Savage, and the like.  I hope that everyone reading this will boycott Hate Radio and TV broadcasts that promote the hate speech we have been seeing. Radio shows like Glen Beck, Rush Limbaugh, and Mike Savage should be boycotted. TV shows like Sean Hannity, Glen Beck, Bill Oreily, And Sarah Palin should be boycotted.

Dancing with the Tea Party, The Tea Party Effect

Bristol Palin was upset on Dancing With The Stars because of what people were saying about the vote.  She felt that she was as good as the others and that the people who thought she didn't deserve to go forward were just haters.  The truth is she was only getting voted forward because of the Sarah Palin fans and the Tea Party people.  The Tea Party people have an effect.  They don't really know what they want.  But they know what they do not want.  They don't want a black president, they don't want to pay taxes, they don't want gays to serve in the military or get married, and they mostly don't want anyone to disagree with anything they don't want.  The tea party effect is to confuse everyone including Bristol Palin.  They vote for her even though she is not the best thing.  They do the same thing for America.  They have the effect of being bad for America.  The Tea Party people were all over the place and America was trying to figure out what the hell their message was.  One message from them was we don't want taxes.  Wow that's a great idea.  lets get rid of taxes.  Next they wanted the two parties to get along.  OK, that is a good idea but, they only want the two parties to get along if it's the stuff they want them to get along on, like not giving gays and lesbians the right to serve openly or marry.  Americans need a bad guy and the GOP Tea Party Republicans are really, really good at pointing at someone even if they know they are really NOT the bad guy.  The American people don't know what to believe and with Republican leadership like Jim DeMint, Mitch McConnell, Michele Bachmann, and John Boehner , talk radio hosts like Hannity, Beck, and Rush and reality show actors like Sarah Palin willing to spew lies like the president is a Muslim, Socialist, Marxist, Manchurian candidate, it's no wonder Americans think that the President and the Democrats must be the problem; When in fact the opposite is true.  Americans want to believe their leaders.  They want to believe that what their doctors, lawyers, judges, police, authority figures and leadership tell them is true.  Americans want to believe their news broadcasters are telling them the truth.  They want to believe that their mortgage brokers and bankers are giving them good advice and leading them in the right direction.  Unfortunately American ethics has become weaker than ever especially when you have Fox news not reporting the facts, mortgage brokers pushing bad loans on unsuspecting first time home buyers, Wall Street selling financials they know are bad, and Pharmaceutical companies selling drugs that they know will harm or kill people, all for the sake of increasing the bottom line.  Huge corporations and foreign governments are now buying our elections.  Is that what the American people really want?  I don't think so.  The Tea Party is having an effect and it is not a good one.  They seem to think the deficit is the only problem and tax cuts and spending cuts are the only solutions.  When the country is just coming out of the worst economy since the Great Depression and the countries economy is still fragile the last thing we need is to cut jobs.  The Tea Party leadership in the house read the constitution on the floor which was cool but then on the first day they broke there own stated rules that everything would be done following the constitution.  They disregarded the constitution by allowing Rep. Pete Sessions (R-TX) and Rep. Mike Fitzpatrick (R-PA) to take legislative actions without being sworn in.   They weren't sworn-in when they participated in legislative actions on Tuesday and Wednesday. That resolution is expected to disqualify any votes they took before they were sworn in.  I don't know but I am guessing they will count those votes anyway.  Yes the Tea Party is going to have an effect.  They will work for fewer jobs for Americans moving the middle class toward poverty and, They will work hand in hand with the GOP Republicans to lead this country down the path of Wall Street, big corporations, and the ultra wealthy continuing to make the biggest profits in history on the backs of middle class Americans.

Ideas you won't hear from Republicans

Ideas you won't hear from Republicans, raise the Cap on SS, a transaction fee on all wall street transactions, investment in infrastructure creating jobs, making cuts in military spending, capping spending on elections,stopping the tax breaks for shipping jobs to China, forcing candidates to debate instead of buying TV adds, and helping the middle class.

2010 Was A Tough Year. What's Next?

It seems like Americans could not catch a break in 2010.  The market collapse that began in 2007 is still holding us all back.  Our government did some things right trying to keep us from going into an all out depression but did many things wrong.  TARP and the stimulus package was the right idea but the banks should have been forced to modify the mortgages for people to allow them to stay in their homes.  Instead it was left up to them to do the right thing.  They didn't.  The stimulus money should have been put into the infrastructure of our country in a much bigger way.  Building electric speed trains, a new electrical grid, solar, wind, electric cars, and other green energies with a national transition to a green economy would create thousands of jobs with equipment built here in America.  But the transition is coming much too slow.  Power hungry Republicans have blocked every attempt to spur the green economy with the filibuster rule that requires 60 votes instead of a majority vote.  The GOP flooded the our elections with TV commercials that at minimum twisted the truth or just spread outright lies.   money from large corporations and even organizations from outside our country.  It is an outrage how right wing republicans and the Tea Party people have lied to the American people.  On top of all that there was the biggest oil spill in history, and the mining disaster.  It is really difficult for the American people to get the truth about what is happening in DC when we have the right wing propaganda machine Fox News and 90% of talk radio spewing out lies to America.  Watch this video about a study on Fox News viewers: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBA61YrA68Q&feature=related .  Get ready for the next couple of years of things only getting worse for middle class Americans as Reublicans attempt to repeal healthcare, raise the eligibility age on Social Security to seventy or seventy five, stop any investment in building a green infrastructure, strip any meaningful regulations on Wall Street, and basically screw regular working Americans while handing out bonuses to the rich.  You can change this.  Call or write your congress member and tell them you want jobs, a single payer health care system, regulations that stop the banksters from gambling with your mortgage and investments, caps on election spending, candidates to have many more debates in national elections, and the cap on Social Security raised to keep it funded rather than raising the qualification age to 70.  Seventy?  Are you kidding me?  Why not make the qualification death?  What this really does is keep people from retiring and keep them in the workplace, keeping pressure on wages.  Young people will have a harder time getting into the workplace because older people are staying longer.  On top of all that the GOP Republican Tea party people, will do everything they can to STOP any job growth until after the 2012 election cycle so that they can say it's Obama's fault there are no jobs.  So I hope all you hard working regular Americans start to get active and see what the GOP is really got in mind for you.

The Truth Republicans Don't Want You To Know

What are the Death Panels.  Well to start with there is no such thing.  Republicans are really good at making up scary sounding stuff that is NOT true.  What they call "Death Panels" are actually Voluntary conversations that have NOTHING to do with the government.  They are FREEDOM.  THEY ARE YOUR FREEDOM!  Don't you want to make your own decisions of what happens when you are leaving this world and make sure your family and doctor are clear about them?  If you are sick and dying and loose your ability to make decisions about how to handle your death, do you want to make that decision in advance or do you want everyone to guess at it?  Issues like this are why I quit the Republican party and became a Democrat.  I actually voted for Regan.  I didn't realize until years later that he destroyed the American worker by killing the Air Traffic Controller union.  That began the slow spiral down to fewer good jobs, lower wages and fewer benefits for workers.  At the same time the Right wing propagandist really began to pump out the message that unions are BAD and get paid way too much.  Too bad most Americans have bought into it.  For the last thirty years Americans have been getting the shaft without even realizing it.  Here are a few examples:  "We want to cut taxes" (what they don't tell you is they aren't talking about the taxes of the average working person.  They are talking about taxes for huge corporations and the ultra rich),  "Obama Care is Socialism" (It is no more socialism than Social Security or Medicare).  If it had been "Socialism" that would be a GOOD thing because everyone would pay into the healthcare system and lowered the cost for ALL Americans.  Why is that a Bad thing?  Someone please tell me.    There are many more examples of Republicans propaganda but this blog would be way too long.  2011 could be a very tough year.  I hope Americans start to realize that Democrats are on the side of average workers and that the Republicans are NOT.  Republicans only want to help the rich.