Are You A Cyberbully?
I just received the below email, stating that I have now become a CYBERBULLY.
Carolyn,
The best way to know that we’re having an impact? When our opponents lash out at us. And boy did they ever.
Politico wrote an article that highlights some of the work we’ve done in opposition to CISPA — including our campaign to call Mark Zuckerberg out on lining up Facebook in support of the bill:
Facebook, IBM and other firms — along with lawmakers — have been targeted this week in attacks on Twitter and Facebook, via email and online petitions.
What do the powers-that-be think of our grassroots activism?
“Cyberbullying,” one tech company insider dubbed it.
Right on. We want to be free to ‘bully’ mega corporations and politicians whenever they deserve it. And your donations keep us independent and make it possible for us to do so.
We haven’t won yet, but they’re calling us cyberbullies because we’re having a tangible impact on the workings on Capitol Hill.
We’re making it harder for big businesses to push a pro-corporate, anti-Internet, anti-consumer agenda.
Over the last month alone we’ve generated more than 300,000 emails to Congress, nearly 200,000 signatures on our open letter to Facebook, and more than 15,000 phone calls to lawmakers.
And we’ve seen tangible results:
- Amendments were adopted that made CISPA (marginally) better.
- Earlier this month CISPA was supposed to sail through, but we helped foment real opposition, and the House vote was far closer than anybody could have imagined even a couple of weeks ago.
- Most Democrats held firm in opposition, and more than two dozen libertarian-leaning Republicans defied their leadership and vote no.
- Most importantly, President Obama has threatened to veto CISPA.
Thanks so much for your support!
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THEY’RE STILL AT IT… The wanton desire, by the greedy few, to sabotage Internet creativity is still going and going like the Energizer Bunny. I hope we, who use the Internet for creating and viewing and learning and interaction with other Internet entities will have a voice in President Obama to stop this new threat upon our civil liberties in the guise of protecting us. Hmmm, again, where have I heard that before? 
Please tell President Obama to stand strong against the new SOPA bill called CISPA… http://act.demandprogress.org/sign/obama_cispa/
CISPA by any other name would smell as SOPA
CISPA has garnered favor from corporations and lobbying groups such as Microsoft, Facebook and the United States Chamber of Commerce, which look on it as a simple and effective means of sharing important cyber threat information with the government. CISPA has been criticized by advocates of internet privacy and civil liberties, such as the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the American Civil Liberties Union, and Avaaz.org. Those groups argue CISPA contains too few limits on how and when the government may monitor private individual’s internet browsing information. Additionally, they fear that such new powers could be used to surveil the general public rather than to pursue malicious hackers.
Some critics saw CISPA as a second attempt at strengthing digital piracy laws after the anti-piracy Stop Online Piracy Act became deeply unpopular. Intellectual property theft was initially listed in the bill as a possible cause for sharing web traffic information with the government, though it was removed in subsequent drafts.
The legislation was introduced on November 30, 2011 by U.S. Representative Michael Rogers (R-MI) and 111 co-sponsors. It was passed in the House of Representatives on April 26, 2012.[9] President Obama has argued that the bill lacks confidentiality and civil liberties safeguards and has threatened to veto it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyber_Intelligence_Sharing_and_Protection_Act
Who supports and opposes CISPA, and why?
The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA), which recently passed the US House of Representatives, will soon see its counterpart bills debated in the Senate. The vote on CISPA comes only months after the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) was withdrawn after widespread protest, and many are wondering whether CISPA will garner the same high-profile opposition. By allowing companies to share user data with each other or the government to combat vaguely defined “cyber threats,” CISPA has raised major questions about online privacy.Unlike SOPA, however, the provisions of CISPA largely absolve companies from responsibility if something goes wrong. This means that Google, Facebook, and others stand much less to lose (and in many cases, a good deal to gain) if it passes. We’ve taken a look at where several of the major tech companies and websites stand on this proposal.The Opposition:
CISPA has generated its share of controversy, with the Cato Institute, American Civil Liberties Union, Center for Democracy and Technology, and many others speaking out against it. Few major tech companies, however, have followed suit. Two notable exceptions so far are Mozilla and Cheezburger Inc., both of which have strongly opposed the bill.”"This is SOPA’s cousin who works for the CIA.” ”Mozilla came out against the measure yesterday, telling Forbes that “CISPA has a broad and alarming reach that goes far beyond Internet security. The bill infringes on our privacy, includes vague definitions of cybersecurity, and grants immunities to companies and government that are too broad around information misuse.” Cheezburger was more succinct: in an interview with ProPublica, CEO Ben Huh said CISPA was “SOPA’s cousin who works for the CIA.”
The Support:
The parties above, however, are far outnumbered by companies in favor of CISPA. Major technology interest groups and businesses like Intel, IBM, and Symantec have sent letters of support, and some have further announced their positions more publicly. In February, for example, Facebook policy VP Joel Kaplan commended the bill to the House of Representatives, saying that it would remove “burdensome rules that currently can inhibit protection of the cyber ecosystem” and “provide a more established structure for sharing within the cyber community while still respecting the privacy rights and expectations of users.” More recently, the company posted about CISPA on its blog and told Time that “when one company detects an attack, sharing information about that attack promptly with other companies can help protect those other companies and their users from being victimized by the same attack.”"”A more established structure for sharing within the cyber community while still respecting the privacy rights and expectations of users.”"
Likewise, major carriers have expressed support for CISPA. AT&T called the bill “an important and positive step in strengthening cybersecurity collaboration,” and Verizon said it “enables private sector entities to defend their and their customers’ networks, allows them to share cyber-threat data with others in the private sector and the US Government, and improves our nation’s ability to identify and mitigate cyber threats before they can do damage.”
In rare cases, companies have backed away at least marginally from their initial commendation. Microsoft supported the bill when it was introduced, calling it a way to “eliminate barriers and disincentives that currently prevent effective information sharing to guard against cyber-attacks.” Since then, it has qualified that statement to CNET, stating that its position is “unchanged” but that any bill must allow “us to honor the privacy and security promises we make to our customers.” A spokesperson said that Microsoft will “ensure the final legislation helps to tackle the real threat of cybercrime while protecting consumer privacy.”
The Undecided:
At this point, the biggest question is not who has come out in favor of CISPA, but whether it should expect significant opposition from major technology groups. Several of the biggest potential critics are still debating the bill internally or watching for major developments, including Wikipedia, one of the biggest participants in the influential SOPA blackout. Wikimedia spokesperson Joe Walsh has told ProPublica that the organization is still undecided on CISPA: “It’s still early days. We don’t want to rush to conclusions.” The Wikimedia Foundation is apparently still monitoring the bill.
Reddit also established itself as a major player during the SOPA controversy, but the site’s administrators are taking a more measured stance so far on CISPA. As mentioned in a recent site post, Reddit wants to help sort out the issues surrounding the bill: it’s lining up a group of experts involved with the bill, starting with a Center for Democracy and Technology panel today. “We want to make sure we’re familiar with all of [the different House and Senate bills] and the different details before we release an official position,” Reddit general manager Erik Martin told us today. Martin said, however, that this doesn’t mean Reddit is “in support or even neutral” on CISPA.”"We want to make sure we’re familiar with all of the different details before we release an official position.”"
The last undecided name is one of the biggest. Search juggernaut Google has hardly shied away from supporting or opposing legislation in the past, but the company has yet to take a stance on CISPA. The closest it’s gotten is a recent statement to Forbes, where a spokesperson said that “we think this is an important issue and we’re watching the process closely but we haven’t taken a formal position on any specific legislation.”
The President:
CISPA does, of course, have one fervent detractor: President Barack Obama. In a recent statement (PDF), the Executive Office of the President said the Obama Administration was “strongly opposed” to the bill in its present form, and that the President’s advisers would recommend he veto it if lawmakers did not limit the amount of personal information that could be disclosed and remove companies’ “inappropriate” blanket protection from legal liability. This protection, the Administration says, “not only removes a strong incentive to improving cybersecurity, it also potentially undermines our Nation’s economic, national security, and public safety interests… The American people expect their Government to enhance security without undermining their privacy and civil liberties.”
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GOP TEA PARTY’s War On Women, War On Working Class and NOW…
GOP TEA PARTY’s War On Women, War On Working Class and NOW…
Da ta da da da da daaaah!
War On Communism!
ALEC – A Really Scary Movie
ALEC’s ‘stealth lobbying’ does not deserve non-profit status – The Young Turks with Cenk Uygur Current TV
I’ve added overtones of an old-time SCARY MOVIE to this video
to emphasize how frightening a closed door oganization such as
ALEC, is to a democracy.
It is hard to understand how human beings can be so callous;
conjuring up ways to turn a profit off the extreme suffering of others.
Yet it appears that is exactly what the Republican Party along with its
affiliates, are all about. If they are not exposed and stopped, our
nation will cease to be a Democratic Republic and we-the-people
will anguish at the hands of The Slave Masters.
Hmmmm, where have I heard that before?
thethinkingblue youtube channel.
I Am A Job Creator
Ain’t that the truth! I once wrote a brief summary on how my family helped create jobs, for an on-line petition. I can’t remember the petition but I’ve located the word doc I created with my 2 cents worth:
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“Congress keeps mum on how jobs can be created; they seem to be telling us with their silence that, THEY HAVE NO IDEA HOW TO CREATE JOBS. How strange is that, when my family has created jobs by repairing our infrastructure… i.e. NEW ROOF (the old one was shot and leaked) NEW SEPTIC TANK (the old one cracked and became a health hazard) NEW WATER PUMP (the old one quit working and we were without water) not to mention, washing machine, air-conditioner, hot water tank, and ceiling repairs (due to the leaky roof). Congress can’t create jobs, but my “low income” household can, WHAT GIVES?”
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And it goes without saying how we, the 99 % buy gasoline that keep BIG OIL filthy rich with profits; Purchasing food and umpteen other needs that make those who payout dues to ALEC, wealthy beyond their dreams.
(And, I can’t begin to express how much of our hard earned cash goes out to Big Pharma, Big Medicine and Big Insurance… Oh, and let us not forget the $$$, we shell over to Big Education making debt the real lifelong career.)
Yes indeed, we are the JOB CREATORS and each and every one of us should thank one another for keeping this country running.
(Yet The Corporate Personhood will step on our face every chance they get, TELLING US, IT’S OUR OWN DAMN FAULT BECAUSE WE ARE THE CAUSE OF THE PAIN WE FEEL.) It’s enough to make us SCREAM a collective “UNCLE”! thinkingblue
OCCUPY WALL STREET -
AMERICAN AWAKENING
OCCUPY WALL STREET 4TH WEEK UPDATE
OCCUPY WALL STREET WEEK SIX –
We Shall Overcome
OWS – POLICE RAID OVER HEALTH CONCERNS
‘ALEC’ Has Been Forced To REAR ITS UGLY HEAD At Last!
EVERYTHING YOU WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT AMERICAN LEGISLATIVE EXCHANGE COUNCIL (ALEC) but was (afraid) oops I mean (too outside the loop to know WTF was going on ) to ask! Lot’s of great stuff in here. thinkingblue
http://alecexposed.org/wiki/ALEC_Exposed
ALEC is not a lobby; it is not a front group. It is much more powerful than that. Through ALEC, behind closed doors, corporations hand state legislators the changes to the law they desire that directly benefit their bottom line. Along with legislators, corporations have membership in ALEC. Corporations sit on all nine ALEC task forces and vote with legislators to approve “model” bills. They have their own corporate governing board which meets jointly with the legislative board. (ALEC says that corporations do not vote on the board.) Corporations fund almost all of ALEC’s operations. Participating legislators, overwhelmingly conservative Republicans, then bring those proposals home and introduce them in statehouses across the land as their own brilliant ideas and important public policy innovations—without disclosing that corporations crafted and voted on the bills. ALEC boasts that it has over 1,000 of these bills introduced by legislative members every year, with one in every five of them enacted into law. ALEC describes itself as a “unique,” “unparalleled” and “unmatched” organization. We agree. It is as if a state legislature had been reconstituted, yet corporations had pushed the people out the door. (SCARY STUFF HERE!)
(MORE SCARY STUFF)
What goes on behind closed doors?
The organization boasts 2,000 legislative members and 300 or more corporate members. The unelected corporate representatives (often registered lobbyists) sit as equals with elected representatives on nine task forces where they have a “voice and a vote” on model legislation. Corporations on ALEC task forces VOTE on the “model” bills and resolutions, and sit as equals with legislators voting on the ALEC task forces and various working groups.
SCARY ISN’T THE RIGHT WORD… IT’S MORE LIKE BLOODCURDLING!
How do corporations benefit?
Although ALEC claims to take an ideological stance (of supposedly “Jeffersonian principles of free markets, limited government, federalism, and individual liberty”), many of the model bills benefit the corporations whose agents write them, shape them, and/or vote to approve them. These are just a few such measures:
• Altria/Philip Morris USA benefits from ALEC’s newest tobacco legislation — an extremely narrow tax break for moist tobacco that would make fruit flavored tobacco products cheaper and more attractive to youngsters.
• Health insurance companies such as Humana and Golden Rule Insurance (United Healthcare), benefit directly from ALEC model bills, such as the Health Savings Account bill that just passed in Wisconsin.
• Tobacco firms such as Reynolds and pharmaceutical firms such as Bayer benefit directly from ALEC tort reform measures that make it harder for Americans to sue when injured by dangerous products.
• Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) benefits directly from the anti-immigrant legislation introduced in Arizona and other states that requires expanded incarceration and housing of immigrants, along with other bills from ALEC’s crime task force. (While CCA has stated that it left ALEC in late 2010 after years of membership on the Criminal Justice Task Force and even co-chairing it, its prison privatization bills remain ALEC “models.”)
• Connections Academy, a large online education corporation and co-chair of the Education Task Force, benefits from ALEC measures to privatize public education and promote private on-line schools.
Coke Quits ALEC on Threat of Color of Change Boycott
TIME’S LIGHTBOX PHOTOS OF THE TITANIC PRE April 15, 1912
TIME’S LIGHTBOX PHOTOS OF THE TITANIC PRE April 15, 1912
I came across these pictures posted in Time magazine’s LIGHTBOX-TITANIC. They are stupendous, to say the least and I had to try and video them up a bit just for the fun of it. If you saw James Cameron’s “Titanic” you will notice how he used these very photos in the making of his movie. Great Stuff! Also watch WHY SHIPS SINK on PBS NOVA 2012 http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/tech/why-ships-sink.html Carolyn
Michelle Bachmann Tosses Up Her Tar Baby Sleep Toy, Again.
Michelle Bachmann Joins The Hall Of Shame.
Today’s post has nothing to do with nothing. Michelle Bachmann lost the Repub Presidential Primary and we don’t have to fear her insaneness any longer.
(Or do we?) BUT…..
Why do we have to see and hear the nonsense she spreads so furiously around like so much TAR on a leaky roof? Hey MAINSTREAM MEDIA, listen up! We are sick of Bachmann and her convoluted ideas about reality. Banish her to FOX FAKE NEWS where she belongs and leave us to enjoy the sweet aroma of FACT FILLED TRUTH! Yeah right, like I believe, in this LOONEY TUNE TEA PARTY America we find ourselves in, that THAT will ever happen. 
thinkingblue
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Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) blasted President Obama following his proposed “crackdown” on firms found to be manipulating the oil market, saying he is “waving a tar baby in the air” as a distraction from high gas prices.
“This is just about waving a tar baby in the air and saying that something else is a problem,” Bachmann said in an interview Wednesday with The Shark Tank, a conservative news organization that covers Florida politics. “I have never seen a more irresponsible president who is infantile in the way that he continually blames everyone else for his failure to first diagnose the problem and second to address the problem. It’s always everyone else’s fault.”
She said her message for the president is, “Get over it,” and stop blaming everyone else.
The term “tar baby” is a racially loaded phrase coined in the “Brer Rabbit” tales. The term generally means a “sticky situation,” but has also been used as a derogatory term for a black person.
Rep. Doug Lamborn, a Republican from Colorado, apologized last year after he said associating with Obama was “like touching a tar baby.”
Bachmann’s attack on Obama comes after he pushed Congress this week for legislation that would increase penalties on oil speculators manipulating the market. He called for increased federal supervision of the markets and funding for enforcement.
“We can’t afford a situation where speculators artificially manipulate markets by buying up oil, creating the perception of a shortage and driving prices higher, only to flip the oil for a quick profit,” Obama said during a Rose Garden speech Tuesday. MORE HERE
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On April 6, 1956 Michelle Bachmann (YIKES) came into existense.
So here is a belated birthday gift for those of us who enjoy listening to this exotic queen from La La Land. Michelle Bachmann the Minnesota-Representative-turned-failed-presidential-candidate’s 56th birthday. To celebrate, we’ve drawn up this list of the 56 best things about Michele Bachmann.
Don’t say we never do anything for you, M-Ba! FROM: http://www.indecisionforever.com/blog/2012/04/06/the-56-best-things-about-michele-bachmann
1. She enjoys corn dogs.
2. She also enjoys “noodles, cheeses, chicken and bacon.”
3. She’s tough on Iran and knows our imaginary embassy in Tehran should be relocated to Krypton or Atlantis.
4. There was that one time she dressed up like Princess Leia at a debate. That was awesome.
5. She gets all her facts about HPV vaccinations from random women she meets, unless they happen to be scientists.
6. She was born 24 years after the Lindbergh baby kidnapping, so there’s no way you’re pinning that on her.
7. She never looks directly into a TV camera because she knows her eyes will turn the viewers at home into stone.
8. She totally understands why you didn’t do your math homework.
9. She’s pro-choice, in terms of lightbulbs.
10. She was the first Jewish Republican to run for president, and she’s not even Jewish.
11. There’s a rumor that she’s raised a number of children, but since she mentions it so rarely we can’t confirm.
12. She bravely fought to repeal Hoot-Smalley, despite the challenge of it not existing.
13. She was preceeded in office by a man named Mark Kennedy, and she has misquoted Abraham Lincoln, so… connect the dots.
14. When she talks to God, God talks back.
15. She’s a decorated veteran of the War on Christmas.
16. She’ll do anything to keep her congressional seat. Except acknowledge science.
17. Her name, anagrammed, is Man! Blame Chic Hen.
18. She’s never had a gaffe.
19. She knows there are great qualities in every American, even serial child killers.
20. She really understands the plight of that one black person she knows (Michael Steele).
21. She looks fantastic, especially considering 56 is 300 in Lizard People years.
22. One word: Marcus (as in Bachmann).
23. She’ll never let President Obama tell you how many babies to have; only Jesus can do that.
24. She’s invulnerable to evil. Even when he’s disguised as a cute little boy.
25. American humans have elected her to make laws at the federal level. Multiple times.
26. She has plenty of choot-spa.
27. She’s twice as conservative as Ronald Reagan but only half the weight of Rush Limbaugh.
28. She believes you’re never too young to be a Founding Father.
29. She makes Sarah Palin look reasonable.
30. She is a lovable little fuzz ball.
31. She had the guts to stand up to Big Census.
32. She was extremely popular with GOP primary voters. Ten months before any actual voting started, but still.
33. She gave America the House Tea Party caucus it didn’t know it was clamoring for.
34. She still believes in Santa, even though he’s an anagram for Satan.
35. She doesn’t make a big freaking fuss about sweater vests.
36. She advocated a strategy of subpoenaing for freedom.
37. She studied literature in college, so apparently she knows how to read.
38. We’re at least a year or so away from her reality TV show.
39. She’s open-minded enough to “take the president at his word” that he was born in the United States.
40. She received her law degree from Oral Roberts University. Haha, Roberts.
41. Every once in a while she really does say something accurate about foreign policy.
42. One L, two Ns. Maverick.
43. She may never pose for the cover of Newsweek again, but if Death Panel Watch Monthly comes calling, you bet she’ll answer.
44. She volunteered for Jimmy Carter’s campaign as a college student back in 1976, so she has a solid track record of working to defeat Democrats.
45. She’s read the Bible cover-to-cover. Well, parts of it.
46. She’s never allowed mere ignorance on a subject to get in the way of having a strong opinion about it.
47. She encourages her husband’s interest in doggie sunglasses.
48. She’s gone on record that the Pope is not the Antichrist.
49. Her sister talks to Bigfoot who’s her neighbor.
50. She submits to her husband, if not to rational thought.
51. She was the first woman to win the Iowa Straw Poll, unless you count Phil Gramm.
52. She’s adaptable.
53. When she got heckled by a gay robot, she didn’t even ask Marcus to re-program it.
54. She was brave enough to infiltrate the IRS as a double agent years before she would learn that she hated it.
55. She’s not Mitt Romney.
56. She’s perfect. (Michele Bachmann, when asked for her opinion of the most conservative candidate in the GOP race…
“I was. I was the perfect candidate… America had their chance with the perfect candidate.”
And we blew it. We blew it! Damn us! Damn us all to hell!)
AND OF COURSE WE CAN THANK ALL THAT IS GOOD, she didn’t win the Republican campaign for presidential candidate. Do we hear VP?
Like I said, Truth will not be seen (or whiffed) as long as we have the GOP Tea Party Applauding Insanity. thinkingblue
Why Do Kids Bully?
Why Do Kids Bully?
Bully paralyzes middle school student with a punch to the abdomen.
NJ bully’s paralyzing punch nets $4.2M settlement
AP – Wed, Apr 18, 2012RAMSEY, N.J. (AP) — A New Jersey school district has agreed to pay $4.2 million to settle a lawsuit by a middle school student who was paralyzed when a known bully punched him in the abdomen.
MORE HERE http://news.yahoo.com/nj-bullys-paralyzing-punch-nets-4-2m-settlement-161933503.html
When I hear stories like this, I am saddened to the core of my being. A 12 year old boy goes off to school to learn and prepare for his life as an adult. Then some sick bully (who was most likely bullied himself) punches him in the stomach, paralyzing him. More and more I am realizing that when we send our children to school (especially middle school) in reality, we send them off, to spend hour upon long hour, each day, in a prison resembling the LORD OF THE FLIES, in which there is NO ESCAPE. What is wrong with our adult world? I ask this question, not expecting an answer because the answer is already WIDESPREAD. Too many adults watch FOX FAKE NEWS (where they get the WHOLE LIE AND NOTHING BUT THE LIE and where they learn who and what to hate!) and of course there’s Rush Limbaugh (Whose talk radio show should be called BULLYING 101). It seems so simple to me, turn the channel and turn that sick radio program off and maybe our children won’t find it necessary to punch someone in order to rationalize his inadequate feelings about himself. I guess I’m the simple one. thinkingblue
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EXCERPT: In “Lord of the Flies”, British schoolboys are stranded on a tropical island. In an attempt to recreate the culture they left behind, they elect Ralph to lead, with the intellectual Piggy as counselor. But Jack wants to lead, too, and one-by-one, he lures the boys from civility and reason (JAKE = FOX FAKE NEWS?) to the savage survivalism of primeval hunters. In Lord of the Flies, William Golding gives us a glimpse of the savagery that underlies even the most civilized human beings.
The three most important aspects of Lord of the Flies:
1.The major theme of Lord of the Flies is that humans are essentially barbaric if not downright evil. The stranded boys begin by establishing a society similar to the one they left behind in England, but soon their society has degenerated into rival clans ruled by fear and violence; (Limbaugh’s BULLYING 101) before the book is over, three boys have been killed.
2.The novel is an allegory, which is a story in which characters, settings, and events stand for things larger than themselves. For example, the island represents the world; Ralph and Jack symbolize different approaches to leadership.
3.William Golding wrote Lord of the Flies following World War II, during which the Nazis exterminated six million Jews and the United States dropped two atomic bombs on Japan. In this context, the novel’s profound pessimism is understandable. MORE HERE http://www.cliffsnotes.com/study_guide/literature/lord-of-the-flies/book-summary.html
(NOT TO MENTION SAD!)
http://www.cliffsnotes.com/study_guide/literature/lord-of-the-flies/book-summary.html
Interestingly Sick!
OK folks get out your puke buckets! 
The Hypocrisy of the GOP/TP/ROMNEY is OUT OF THIS WORLD for most of us but we do not watch FOX FAKE NEWS so the lying propaganda does not touch us. But even if we did watch FOX FAKE NEWS 24/7 that propaganda still would not touch us. I wonder why?
Maybe it’s because WE THINK!
Stand Your Ground Law, OVERKILL?
Stand Your Ground Law, OVERKILL?
After Zimmerman arrest, questions about ‘stand your ground’
{{{If self-defense is sufficient, they argue, “stand your ground” may, literally, be legislative overkill.}}}
WTF! Do you ever feel like you are the only one, oh just hanging around, with at minimal, A HALF A BRAIN?
Good grief, from the get-go this nasty Florida (along with many other states) law was OVERKILL, “literally”!
The NRA is an organization made up mainly (it appears anyway) of very frightened human beings. They fear every unknown in their life, which is of course most everything. No one can count on the next minute, hour, day, month or year to be without danger or mishap; most of us carry this thought way, way back in our minds, deeply tucked away, safely hidden within the brain, so we can behave normally and act unafraid most of the time. But with the card carrying people of the NRA, this dark thought is up front, right beneath their forehead, at the tip of their frontal lobes. In actuality, they’re like frighten little children and cannot feel grown-up unless they carry a gun around and have an arsenal of weapons “LEGALLY” within their homes.
The NRA, along with its lobbies and members, get outrageous and dangerous laws passed like the STAND YOUR GROUND or SHOOT FIRST LAW, because they can, they’re a large institution with many big bucks (ALEC) which enables them to buy our legislative leaders and turn them into puppets that they can play with…
(That is, when they’re not playing with their guns!)
I’m not sure the whole reason why they want to push laws that force us to live in a menacing environment but one thing for sure it involves
BIG GREEDY BUCKS! And because they have these over-sized greedy pockets to fill, and they do not give a RAT’S ASS who gets hurt while they fill them.
It’s SAD!
thinkingblue
ALEC Exposed Through the corporate-funded American Legislative Exchange Council, global corporations and state politicians vote behind closed doors to try to rewrite state laws that govern your rights. These so-called “model bills” reach into almost every area of American life and often directly benefit huge corporations. In ALEC’s own words, corporations have “a VOICE and a VOTE” on specific changes to the law that are then proposed in your state. DO YOU? MORE HERE
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Accountability and responsibility for the guns everywhere mentality
In the last few weeks, an awakening has occurred. We have always known that public opinion comes down on the side of reasonable measures concerning gun control in America. (Here and here)We have also always known that too many of our elected leaders have chosen to ignore the support for reasonable gun control measures in deference to an organization called the NRA whose uber power and influence in America has led to the passage of gun laws which have made us all less safe instead of safer as is the job of our leaders.
Who is accountable for the culture in America where guns have become more important than people? This article makes it clear:
“How many students have to be shot to death in their schools before this country has a serious discussion about guns? Are the 10 who have been gunned down just since Feb. 27 enough?
The question of the constitutional right to own guns is irrelevant here—even if you believe that the Constitution gives every last American the right to own a firearm (which The Times editorial board does not, but many other reasonable people do).
There is simply no defending the many states that allow people not just to keep guns in their homes, but to buy an unlimited number of weapons each month, and to carry guns, concealed or visible, into public areas, including schools and churches and libraries. The culture of permissiveness is now so out of control that the city attorney in Tampa has said he cannot stop people from carrying guns into the security perimeter that will be established around the site of the Republican convention in August.”
There is no defense for what is going on in our country. But yet, the NRA, its’ bought and paid for politicians, the entire gun lobby, those involved in ALEC, and the public (who have been lulled into complacency by the onslaught of laws they did not want but got anyway) are all responsible. But Congress and our legislators are the ones who pass the laws and make the rules. They should be making the rules, not the NRA. The guys with the guns should not be making the rules: MORE: http://www.commongunsense.com/2012/04/accountability-and-responsibility-for.html
To join the Brady campaign on facebook: http://www.facebook.com/bradycampaign
