Thsi is How Wal-Mart Loves America..

I have been saying to Boycott this "Ultra-Evil" Corporation
Here is another example. Thanks to Tim Valentine for posting this and the Author of This Blog for reporting this under reported story. Gee I Wonder why Fox News is not all over this story. (I am Shocked..Shocked
http://newsreleasenow.blogspot.com/2009/10/black-woman-faces-15-years-in-prison.html

Just in case Someone is looking in

A Great Blog from someone I know, There is someone on Fox News is not a Wacko.
I do expect him to be fired by Friday

http://snafu-ed.blogspot.com/2009/10/foxs-shepherd-smith-schools-gop-senator.html

by John Ridley as (Posted on the Huffington Post)

Emmy-Winning Commentator and Writer for Esquire

Posted April 17, 2009 | 08:12 PM

The Conservatives' Dangerous Game of Hate and Consequences

Empty of better ideas -- of any ideas -- of how to remain relevant, the reactionary wing of the conservative movement has chosen to quit faking respectability and get back to doing what they do best: cranking up the hate to eleven.

This is the week we have lived:

A week when Texas Governor Rick Perry -- a man with presidential aspirations -- gets comfortable being flippant about the idea secession, raising the specter of both the anti-civil rights movement and the Civil War.

A week when Texas Republican State Rep. Betty Brown (what is it with Texas?) told a hearing on voter registration that if Asians wanted to avoid problems at the polls they needed to change their names to something that's "easier for us to deal with."

A week when Illinois Republican Congressman Mark Kirk said he thought the people of Illinois "are ready to shoot" anyone who's going to raise taxes.

A week when the Caucasian Stepin Fetchit Glenn Beck -- which is more of a slam against Lincoln Perry than it is Glenn -- thought it was humorous to take on the guise of our president and pantomime him pouring gas on the average citizen before setting a match to him.

This is the week when even his cover as GOP Chairman couldn't outweigh his blackness and Michael Steele was unwelcome at the not-even-slightly-white-fright based tea parties where signs stoking the fears of WHITE SLAVERY were as prevalent as any saying: I LOVE AMERICA.

And this was the week where Minority Leader John Boehner's only take away from the Bush-authorized DHS report on the threat of extremist violence was that it was offensive to American soldiers.

Really? Offensive to soldiers? From the same John Boehner who, when presenting the Congressional Medal of Honor to the famed WW II era Tuskegee airmen repeatedly -- repeatedly -- referred to these great Americans as the "Tush-Chee-geee airmen." All those aides of his, and he couldn't have one of them run and get him a pronouncer?

Boehner could not disrespect or minimize more. Unless he were disrespecting and minimizing a warning on hate attacks directed primarily at people of color in this country.

And that's what really cuts: the conservatives, aided and abetted by their own Axis Sally Michelle Malkin who does the "that's not racist" dance of the seven white hoods at the slightest yank of her chain -- hate and deny and get indignant and deny some more when the reasoned try to connect the dots between their reactionary rhetoric and the violent consequences to which they lead. We're all just blowing some liberal kookiness and lefty conspiracies.

Tell that to the three Pittsburgh police officers killed by the young man who frequented neo-Nazi and anti-Semitic websites.

Tell that to the families of Marcelo Lucero, Jose Sucuzhanay. Both killed in the wake of President Obama's election in attacks prompted by their perceived place of origin and sexual orientation.

Tell that to the Southern Poverty Law Center which has been tracking an increase in hate crimes and hate group activities long before the "offensive" "conservative-baiting" DHS report.

Have something to say besides peppering every sentence with buzz words like "revolution," "fascism," and "secession."

And in that week what do reasonable people do? Wait to find out if CNN or Ashton Kutcher can arrive more quickly to a million Tweeters. Instead of meeting outrage head on, we let the haters slide.

These may be the last, desperate days of reactionary, anti-American Conservatism. But in the manner of a rabid animal backed against a wall, these are its most dangerous as well.

For more perspective, please visit That Minority Thing.com

• Michael Steele

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Saw this posted somewhere

America can be proud that it has inaugurated its first Black President,
but more importantly, thankful that it has inaugurated a SMART President!

Reagan's Legacy

I saw this on Yahoo Answers.. I copied and pasted this.
I reluctantly agree with this..I feel Reagan had good intentions but Reaganomics resulted in a false boom in our economy and has doomed us to a depression era that will last for decades..


Has the Ronald Reagan's Legacy come back to bite us in the A**?
asked by abfabinri

Seems that the Reagan revolution was a failure and the cause of todays crisis can be traced to Reagan and his deregulation of near everything. His Government is the problem speech was actually referring to his Govt. policies. What do you think?

• 1 day ago

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I understand that the truth might be a bit upsetting for Conservatives, it usually is.

1 day ago

by justgood...

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Absolutely yes, good insight.
by justgoodfolk
"Trickle Down" economics was a "Trojan Horse"
The truth is that "Trickle-Down" was never intended to help middle income and poor Americans; it was intended to help the wealthy and Corporate America
The issue is that the economic policies of the Reagan administration were designed to primarily benefit wealthy Americans. At the time a lot of smoke and mirrors were used to convince average Americans that these policies would help them as well. A similar set of lies has been used by those, like Steve Forbes, who promote a flat tax system.
What the "Trickle-Down"/Supply Side policies of the Reagan administration were designed to do was to increase the amount of money available to wealthy Americans for investing and developing businesses. This was intended to create an increase in production of products and services and hence and increase in new jobs. The reason that the policy is called Supply Side, is because the supply of goods increases before there is a demand for goods. So, in that case, the supply of goods is intended to then spark demand, resulting in economic growth.
This use of Supply Side policy led to a huge increase in consumerism and the use of credit. An environment of consumerism was created in American society through the media via advertisements, movies, and television shows, etc. that promoted consumerism. Consumers though, did not have the money to fulfill the desires created by society so debt was used to participate in the economy. Restrictions on credit were loosened under the Reagan administration making it easier for individuals to gain credit lines because the use of credit was essential to growing the economy because real wages were not going up for the average American, yet it was essential that the average American increase spending in order to fuel the economy.
http://www.rationalrevolution.net/war/tr...
Conservative policies failed America, it was deliberate and yes they still try to sell the same nonsense
http://arran.wordpress.com/2007/04/13/tr...


Other Answers by Bob O's



Absolutely! The failure of Reagan's "trickle down" economics as practiced by every administration since (yes this includes Bill Clinton) is that it did not keep middle class wages (you remember the middle class.They used to be consumers) high enough to support a REAL economy, and soooo credit was loosened in order to falsely prop up the economy. Greenspan the bubble-maker just could not create any more bubbles. Just like in real life deficit spending cannot go on forever and the bill came due.Couple this failure to unfair trade agreements, and the exodus of American manufacturing jobs outsourced to cheap labor overseas, and you have the recipe for disaster cooked up by Reagan conservatism that has brought us to our present crises.

Edit: For those of you that revere Ronald Reagan, here are a few facts that A.M. radio and the right-wing thinks DON'T tell you.

Before Ronald Reagan the United States of America was the largest lender nation and the largest exporter of manufactured goods in the world.
After Ronald Reagan The United States of America is the worlds largest debtor nation and the largest importer of manufactured goods. The only thing that we are succesfully exporting is raw materials, much like third world nations.

Most people do not know that Ronald Reagan borrowed more money than all previous administrations combined. G W Bush topped his feat by doing likewise.

To the questioner that wanted to know which industries Ronald Reagan deregulated;
Health care, airlines, trucking, and finance are a few that come to mind immediatly.

I believe the reason that conservatives are fighting back at accepting the truth about Ronald Reagan is because there is NO modern Republican president for them to point to as a man of accomplishment.

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Rush Limbaugh is a Great American!

I saw that Rush Limbaugh has said he hopes President Obama Fails
My Question to the Village Idiot aka Rush Limbaugh) is,

Do you want America to fail?
Do you hope that there are 100’s of millions of people out of work and homeless?
Do you hope that there are terrorist acts in this country that results in hundreds of thousands or millions of people killed?

Rush your are a “Great American” Thanks to you The Democrats will gain at least 100 more seats in the House and at least 10 more senate Seats!

Thank you Rush for your service to the United Stares of America!

Staggering Numbers

I just saw this on the Rachael Maddow Show on MSNBC and then proceeded to look this up.
We are burying ourselves as a country to a debt level that will push us into a permanent depression. Some How we need to find a solution fast. We cannot wait till Jan 20 2009. The way Bush and hank paulson are going this country will end as we know it before Christmas..
Read a portion of this Blog..
here is the link to the blog

http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2008/11/big-bailouts-bigger-bucks/


From "The Big Picture"



Big Bailouts, Bigger Bucks
By Barry Ritholtz - November 25th, 2008, 7:19AM





Whenever I discussed the current bailout situation with people, I find they have a hard time comprehending the actual numbers involved. That became a problem while doing the research for the Bailout Nation book. I needed some way to put this into proper historical perspective.

If we add in the Citi bailout, the total cost now exceeds $4.6165 trillion dollars. People have a hard time conceptualizing very large numbers, so let’s give this some context. The current Credit Crisis bailout is now the largest outlay In American history.

Jim Bianco of Bianco Research crunched the inflation adjusted numbers. The bailout has cost more than all of these big budget government expenditures – combined:

• Marshall Plan: Cost: $12.7 billion, Inflation Adjusted Cost: $115.3 billion
• Louisiana Purchase: Cost: $15 million, Inflation Adjusted Cost: $217 billion
• Race to the Moon: Cost: $36.4 billion, Inflation Adjusted Cost: $237 billion
• S&L Crisis: Cost: $153 billion, Inflation Adjusted Cost: $256 billion
• Korean War: Cost: $54 billion, Inflation Adjusted Cost: $454 billion
• The New Deal: Cost: $32 billion (Est), Inflation Adjusted Cost: $500 billion (Est)
• Invasion of Iraq: Cost: $551b, Inflation Adjusted Cost: $597 billion
• Vietnam War: Cost: $111 billion, Inflation Adjusted Cost: $698 billion
• NASA: Cost: $416.7 billion, Inflation Adjusted Cost: $851.2 billion

TOTAL: $3.92 trillion

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data courtesy of Bianco Research

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That is $686 billion less than the cost of the credit crisis thus far.

The only single American event in history that even comes close to matching the cost of the credit crisis is World War II: Original Cost: $288 billion, Inflation Adjusted Cost: $3.6 trillion

The $4.6165 trillion dollars committed so far is about a trillion dollars ($979 billion dollars) greater than the entire cost of World War II borne by the United States: $3.6 trillion, adjusted for inflation (original cost was $288 billion).

Go figure: WWII was a relative bargain.

I estimate that by the time we get through 2010, the final bill may scale up to as much as $10 trillion dollars…