Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Climbing The Mountain

It’s been said that, “Women are like an apple, lovely without and rotten within”. The identity of women has been pondered from classical Greece until today. Men have described women as a necessary evil, a natural temptation, an inescapable punishment, an evil nature, a domestic danger and a beautiful evil. Women have been characterized as being a gift for men, empty vessels used for reproduction and the bearers of all evil. From Eve to Pandora these characterizations have shaped the perception of how women are looked at and validated the reasoning for their treatment in society. These perceived views have had a detrimental effect on the status of women and still do today.

On August 26, 1920, the 19th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States was ratified, enfranchising all women and declaring for the first time that they had earned and deserved the rights and responsibilities of citizenship. For nearly 100 years activists and reformers fought endlessly to win the right for women to vote and be acknowledged for their contributions to society. Women insisted they had proven by their work on behalf of the war effort, that they were just as patriotic and deserving of citizenship as men. On Election day in 1920 millions of American women exercised their right to vote for the first time. It was not a easy road, but a high mountain they climbed and how the landscape of America changed on that day in history. Today with the attacks on our rights we again have to climb that mountain.

In the last year the conservatives have introduced over 1,000 bills that would lessen and even take away the rights of women. We have seen them attempt to dictate and in some cases take away our health care. We have seen the legal term for victims of rape, stalking and domestic violence changed to “accuser”, leaving victims of other less gendered crimes like burglary remain as “victims”. South Dakota Republicans have proposed a bill that would make it LEGAL to murder a doctor who provides abortion care. In Virginia we saw a bill forcing women to have a “vagina probe” and forced to view the images, claiming this will make a women that wants an abortion change her mind. In Arizona they passed a bill that claims a women is pregnant 2 weeks before conception. In Washington there is currently a bill by Republicans that would allow a women to die rather than perform an abortion necessary to save her life. We have watched the Republicans vote for an amendment to cut all federal funding from Planned Parenthood health centers claiming the majority of what they do is abortions paid for by taxpayer money. Conservatives with the help of religious fanatics are fully aware that this blatant lie angers their fanatical followers that believe “God” has given them the right to tell others how to live their lives. In Texas Governor Perry took health care away from 130,000 women. As bad as the attack has been on our health care that’s not where it ends. The Republicans are now taking aim at the elderly, of which two-thirds of them are women. They have introduced a spending bill that would cut meals and housing for our seniors. They go after the children they claim to care so much about by pushing a bill that would cut nearly a billion dollars of food and other low-income programs for pregnant women, mothers, babies and kids. In Maryland Republicans ended all county money for low-income kids’ preschool programs. Why? They claim women should be home with the kids not out working. We have seen bills that go against a women’s right for sick leave, maternity leave and any other time needed to deal with family issues. In Wisconsin and in Washington DC we see bills that would discriminate against women on fair pay in the workplace with more Republican controlled states attempting the same. The Republicans state over and over they would love to be able to stop women from voting and overturn civil rights. Once again, this shows the mental patients have escaped the facility and for the good of all need to be rounded up and put back in.

There is not a day that goes by, that millions of women in America are not frightened of being a woman in America today. We are being forced to climb that mountain again, making a point to the men and a lot of women that they will not take our rights away and if they continue to push the issue they will lose. It is claimed by the Republicans that women will forget about all of these attacks by November when it is time to vote. They think wrong. Women have memories like elephants and it’s not over until we say it is...let the war begin. 

My dad always said to make a point, the punishment needed to be worse than the crime. Men need to be reminded we will not be legally abused and taken advantage of and the power of sex has worked in women’s favor since the beginning of time and still works well today. The days where we were thought of as a “raw material” have long been over, and we have no problem climbing up that mountain to make this point.

Saturday, February 25, 2012

The Repeat of History


I would like to first dedicate this to my Aunt Pearl that lives in Louisiana, is a devoted “Christian” and a Republican/Tea Partier.

I received a few days ago an email from my Aunt with an attachment that read “Guess Who”? In reading the attachment I knew immediately that who they were speaking of was Barack Obama. When I got to the end of the email where it answered the question of “Guess Who” it was not Barack Obama but Adolph Hitler. It also at the end stated that if you guessed it was Barack Obama we should be very, very scared because of the likeness of Obama to Hitler. I found myself saying we should indeed be very, very scared that intelligent people as my Aunt (she is a retired teacher) actually believed this propaganda. I felt at that moment that, if I had children and she was their teacher I would take them out of school immediately. If I belonged to the same church she belonged to I would never go back.

She was correct in stating that Adolph Hitler and Barack Obama has a lot of likenesses. They both have 2 eyes, 1 nose, 2 ears, 2 arms, 2 hands, 2 legs, both lead and leads empires and both admitted they were “Christian”. Sadly the propaganda I received from my Aunt reflects the Republican/Tea Party’s view of Barack Obama and comes from total lack of knowledge of history, facts and reality hidden by extreme hate. Daily I can’t believe in listening to the heated rhetoric coming from the movement of the Republicans/Tea Partiers who would possibly believe such blatant garbage, that can be easily proven to be total lies. I listen when they talk with hate about not only Obama but the “liberals” of America and how the masses of the common man rally around them believing their lies as reality. In America we put the extreme mentally ill in facilities to help them, but what I see each and everyday is the mentally ill have somehow escaped the facility and joined the Republican/Tea Party movement.

Let’s not forget that Hitler killed 50 million people. We learn by history that Hitler showed no mercy and lived with a lack of reality, paranoia and massive hate. We should never forget the fact that Hitler claimed he was Catholic and Christian up to the point when he took his own life. The main Christian churches (Catholic & Protestant) looked the other way while Hitler murdered 50 million people. How was he able to gain the trust of the masses? One word “Propaganda”. The czar under Hitler to take on the propaganda campaign was Joseph Goebbels.

America has their own Joseph Goebbels and his name is not Barack Obama and he doesn’t work for the Democratic party but he is involved in the political realm can you “Guess Who”? Don’t know? I’ll give you some more hints. He shows up on Fox News, has taught the right how to twist words and lives by the motto same as history shows Joseph Goebbels did…”Repeat, repeat and repeat and they shall believe”.

Frank Luntz makes Joseph Goebbels look like a lightweight and he belongs to the Republican party. His full time job is teaching and learning the art of the misuse of words to make people react in the way they want them to. We see him on Fox monitoring people to learn how they react to certain words. This helps in enabling him to know which way to twist the words to get the best desired reaction. His doublespeak seems to play well mostly with what is known as “low information voters”. Voters that live by sound bites and refuse to deal with facts and reality.

Frank Luntz teaches the Republican/Tea Party leaders how to use words as “death tax” instead of “estate tax” and “government-run” rather than “public option”. He’s replaced the word “capitalism” with “economic freedom and free market”. Out with sayings as “tax the rich” to “take from the rich”, “middle-class” out and “hardworking taxpayers” are now being used. We don’t have a lack of “jobs” it is “careers”. “Government spending” now is “government waste”, not “sacrifice” but “in this together” and last but certainly not the last “entrepreneur” out and “job creator” is in. Words he teaches are “keys to the emotions”. No one knows how to use the peoples emotions as “fear” better than the Republican/Tea Partiers except Hitler and Joseph Goebbels.

Frank Luntz has been helping the Republicans for decades in distorting language. Dishonest phrases used consistently that replaces accurate descriptions of social and political issues goes on daily catering to the “low information voters”. We see his ideas getting adopted without a bat of an eye by conservative politicians, radio heads like Russ Limbaugh and Glen Beck, and the right-wing media all helping to brainwash their followers. In plotting how to disguise the slashing of the common man’s throat while making it seem he’s taking them out for ice cream takes a mind no less sick than the one Joseph Goebbels had.

In Mein Kampf it was written: “The function of “propaganda” does not lie in the scientific training of the individual, but in calling the masses’ attention to certain facts, processes, necessities, etc., who significance is thus for the first time placed within their field of vision. The whole art of “propaganda” is doing this so skillfully that everyone will be convinced that the fact is real, the process necessary, the necessity correct, etc….its effect for the most part must be aimed at the emotions and only to a very limited degree at the so-called intellect. The art of “propaganda” lies in understanding the emotional ideas of the great masses and finding, through a psychologically correct form, the way to the attention and thence to the heart of the broad masses. The fact that our bright boys do not understand this merely shows how mentally lazy and conceited they are. Once we understand how necessary it is for “propaganda” to be adjusted to the broad mass, the follow rule results: “It is a mistake to make “propaganda” many-sided, like scientific instruction, for instance; the receptivity of the great masses is very limited, their intelligence is small, but their power of forgetting is enormous. In consequence of these facts, all effective “propaganda” must be limited to a very few points and must harp on these in slogans until the last member of the public understands what you want him to understand. By Frank Luntz’ own words and logic there is NO difference between his approach and Hitler’s in getting the masses to accept what the Republican/Tea Party wants the masses to believe and accept as truth.

The acceptance of this chilling likeness is accepted widely by those that support the Republican/Tea Party. The using of coercive psychological manipulation to feed those that follow them need to realize that lies are always coercive and coercion is “evil”. One only needs to pay close attention to what is being said and how they are saying it to understand their true intent. One needs to only grasp onto reality and common sense to see that nothing the Republican/Tea Party does is no less than “evil” and shows Satan is alive and well and using religion as one of his main tools. The Republican/Tea Party with the help of “propaganda” aimed at the “low information level” of people have taught people as my Aunt that claims to be a “Christian” how to claim that title while ignoring they aren’t practicing what they preach on how to ignore facts and reality all for their good and how to ignore the art of hypocrisy. They are able to convince the poorest and less fortunate in our society to give up their way of life to benefit the “job creators”…”the wealthy”. They claim Obama’s policies is what they hate when in reality the hate is not at all about his policies, but the fear instilled that he is “not one of them”, he is black and a “muslim”. They are able to bring out extreme hate in their followers and instill a non-tolerance attitude of others. The ability to convince their followers their neighbor is their enemy, while teaching the fear of a terrorist around every corner and everyone not a Republican/Tea Partier are not Americans and not Christians is disgusting, chilling, untrue and dangerous to society.

In the attachment I received it stated that Obama was like Hitler in trival ways: their fathers had many children and wives, was born in one country and lived in another, they both wrote books, their mothers died of cancer and many, many other absurd, stupid comparisons that has nothing to do with affecting the way this country is run or determines who Obama is. What we do see is the ramifications of what “propaganda” can accomplish when used as Hitler did that affected the masses and not for the good. The way he was able to get the masses to see things his way, we see used today by the Republican/Tea Party. So……

Can you Guess Who?

Has learned the art and power of “propaganda”.

Has learned how to control their followers and their minds.

Shows contempt of their fellow man.

Strives to control the world.

Lives in a paranoid state 24/7.

Claims they are “Christians”.

Wants to take the workers rights away, do away with unions.

Wants to take the rights of women away.

Wants to suppress the peoples vote.

Forced the people to live by their rules while favoring the elite.

Practices the “love of war”.

Tortured people with no remorse.

Hates those of other colors.

Steals other countries wealth.

Made the wealthy more wealthy while increasing poverty of the masses.

Uses the brainwashing technique of “repeat, repeat, repeat and they shall believe”.

Forces their beliefs on everyone in society.

Hate of social programs and education.

Claims to care about the military while using them as pawns.

Hates the poor, the elderly, the disabled.

Teaches hate of others…..us (vs.) them.

Doesn’t care if their people have healthcare.

Strives for inequality.

Are masters of the art of hypocrisy and…

Uses pledges.………….



These are just a few sentiments and beliefs of Adolph Hitler but, the answer is NOT Adolph Hitler it is the Republican/Tea Party movement of America today. An America where the masses are ignoring the repeat of history while the fear of “socialism” is preached to take the attention away from their leaders implement of a “fascist” agenda. Their masterful use of lies disguised as truth. The art of condoning extreme hate behind religion. There is indeed a really, really scary thing going on in America and it is how many people refuse to acknowledge the facts and reality of the work of Satan in the name of “God” as they call themselves Republicans/Tea Partiers.

Sunday, January 22, 2012

The Big Lie

When Newt Gingrich won the South Carolina primary it once again showed the hypocrisy within the Republican party, but most of all the Tea Bagger party. It showed once again the power of the devil working in the name of “God”. It showed how Satan works in creating a manipulation of people’s minds and souls in the name of “God”.

As the Republican and Tea Bagger parties whine about what they call the bailouts of the banks and the auto industry their souls know the truth that they would of done the same thing. The Republican party has shown itself since the late 1800’s to be a party that supports “corporate welfare” while calling it “capitalism”. We have seen people as Frank Luntz the propaganda czar of the Republican/Tea Bagger’s teach them how to twist the English language to suit their agenda. We saw the power of twisted words in controlling the masses during World War II under Hitler by Joseph Goebbels and it is nothing to be taken lightly. The Republican/Tea Baggers lie so consistently and so audaciously they believe their lies to be truth. We have heard the wording “mainstream media” and “liberal biased media”, while ignoring the propaganda spewed by the likes of Fox, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Laura Ingram, Bill O’Reilly and Glen Beck to name only a very few hatemongers from the “radical right-wing media”. The lies told by the Republican/Tea Bagger parties has to be able to blanket the population in order to control the masses. The way the right can take lies and turn them into the truth is by their philosophy of “repeat, repeat, repeat and they shall believe”. Repeating something often enough they believe becomes the truth. The unfortunate truth is it has worked.

I believe the danger of Washington and the control by the States in people’s freedoms are scary, but what is even more scary are those Americans that vote these people in office and those people that are fearful of speaking up against the abuse of 99% of America or just choose to ignore facts. It is frightful when the Republican/Tea Bagger parties are able to convince the middle class, the poor and the elderly of America to give up the little bit they have to the wealthy, and be able to convince Americans it is their duty and for their own good. The dangerous fact being they have mastered how to do this and use “God” to do so. The campaigns of lies in 2012 need to be shown for what they are. The claim from the Republican/Tea Bagger parties that they care about the middle class, the poor and the elderly in America is where we need to begin. History will dispute this fact time and time again but is conveniently ignored. The Republican party has never been a party of the middle class, poor or the elderly. They have always been a party of the wealthy at the expense of the middle class, the poor and the elderly. The policies they attempt to pass and have passed show blatantly they only look out for the wealthy, yet a lot of the middle class, the poor and the elderly especially vote Republican. A lot of them vote with the Republican party because of religion. There is no better way for Satan to work his hate than thru claiming he is a Christian.
 
 
  

Sunday, November 13, 2011

The Question Not Being Asked...

As we move closer to the Republican party nominating their candidate to run against Barack Obama, America seems to be leaving out a very important question. “Can any of these candidates run the United States of America”? The question heard over and over again is “can they beat Obama”. Hopefully we really don’t believe that the first qualification to be president of the United States in 2012 is if they can beat Obama.

We have had the opportunity in last couple of months to learn who the candidates are and what they stand for. The problem…most Americans do not take it upon themselves to learn about who they vote for. They learn about how the government works and who the politicians are from sound bites, lies and gossip of the media, ex-politicians, pundits and contributors. The rest comes from the lying politicians themselves. A recent in your face example is what we have witnessed from the Tea Bagger movement, a self proclaimed grassroots movement that is run by a lobbyist (Dick Armey), funded by corporate pigs (the Koch brothers) and supported by a sleazebag politician (Jim DeMint). We have seen Trump, Bachmann, Perry and now Cain as their perfect candidate. If the time had been taken to educate themselves about who these candidates are and what they stand for and believe in, then we would not be witnessing the rollercoaster ride in choosing their golden boy for 2012.

The word pathetic does not do justice to the Republican candidates running for president in 2012. There is Mitt Romney, who not only the Republicans but the Tea Baggers don’t like.  They feel he is not conservative enough nor is he a "Christian".  He is felt worse about than in 2008 when the party got stuck with running Grandpa Moses (John McCain) and Caribou Barbie (Sarah Palin). Then there is New Gingrich, which has no morals, values or ethics about him and is just a political asshole with a neo-con attitude. The next great asshole running is Hermain Cain who refuses to acknowledge he is black, is a old time male chauvinistic pig who’s only exposure to foreign policy is the boxes made in china used at his pizza place. Then out of Texas rides in Rick Perry on a donkey thinking it was a horse, and he is still confused. Behind Perry, and his confusion comes in Michelle Bachmann, an absolute disgrace to women, their intelligence and the decades of work that has allowed women a voice. Along with Michelle Bachmann is Rick Santorum that claims the founding fathers insisted that the role of “Religion” was to be part of politics, which they did not. Santorum feels he is part of the “religion police” in America, and that gives him the right to enter into Americans bedrooms as well as a woman’s uterus, while claiming God intended for this to be his role. If this is true he should be so busy, he would no way have time to run the United States. Just as the extreme views as Michelle Bachmann and Rick Santorum have with being the “religion police” of America, Ron Paul could care less if Americans have any values, morals or ethics. His stance being look out for yourself and only yourself, it’s not your civic duty to help those less fortunate. That leaves the last candidate which is Jon Huntsman. Jon Huntsman gives the Republican party a new face. He leaves out the extreme ideological ideas that has been so ingrained in the Republican party created by fear and paranoia for decades and brings a common sense and rational face to the party, a face that is being ignored at their own peril. He shows that it is time for the party to come into the 21st century, instead of wanting to take America back to the 1930’s before the New Deal.

With all the differences between the Republican candidates, it can be acknowledged with confidence that the Republican party will continue to push the “us” vs. “them” agenda. They will continue to claim they are the “true Americans”, they are the “Christian” party, they are the party that will keep America safe from terrorist, they are the “fiscally responsible” party, small government party and the party of morals. Knowledge is power and history is fact. By gaining knowledge of history it is a fact that none of these claims are true, yet many Americans continue to believe a lie, while asking themselves what has happened to America.

The question in America not being asked is a simple one. Can any of these Republican candidates run this country and if we so unlucky to have a Republican as president in 2012, what then….
 
 

Monday, November 7, 2011

The Flat Tax...Good for who?

We need to remember the old saying, if it sounds too good to be true, than it must be. This includes what is about to be sold to Americans known as the “flat tax”. In 2012 the Republican/Tea Bagger party will begin a major campaign to distract Americans from the real issues happening in America, by making the issue of the “flat tax” a priority. The Republicans for decades have used the issue of national security against the Democratic party, but in 2012 things will be different, which leaves them with the dilemma of needing an issue that they feel taps into the fear, stupidity, anger and anxiety of Americans. Their bet is that the “flat tax” fight will distract Americans from the real issues like unemployment, cost of health care, stagnant wages, wars and the destruction of social programs like Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. The selling of the “flat tax” to Americans should not be hard for the Republican/Tea Bagger party to pull off. We will see the work of both men and women that have long ago sold their souls to the devil, in the name of greed and power that will succeed with a long used message of give to the wealthy, if it were not for them, we would not live the way we do. If they like the way 99% of Americans live, then they should have no problem with being one of them, but there is a problem, they are convinced they are above how 99% of Americans live. These politicians are your politician, the one that election after election you keeping voting back in office. What the Republican/Tea Bagger party calls a “flat tax” is actually the equivalent of winning the lottery for the wealthy, and getting run over by a car for the rest of America.


One distinct difference in the political parties is the Republican/Tea Bagger party knows how to stay on message, while the Democratic party gets confused easily which creates a party that is always questioning their actions. The Republican/Tea Bagger party believes that if you repeat something over and over again, they will believe. This is the same mentality we witnessed under Hitler in Nazi Germany and will witness thru out the 2012 campaign. Propaganda is powerful, and no one uses it better than the Republican/Tea Bagger party, as they distract the stupid by claiming the Democratic party is reigning in “Socialism”, a word that they don’t even understand the meaning of. They will continue to convince Americans that you can’t punish the rich by raising their taxes, the job creators that look at their employees as liabilities and not assets. All people are created equal we’re told as the society we live in shows us that all dollars are not created equal. The working poor in America now works solely for survival. The wages they make barely covers survival items as food, shelter and clothing, with nothing left to pay for healthcare costs or a long deserved vacation with their families, every dollar being critical for their survival. The so-called job creators that the Republican/Tea Bagger party feel loyal to, treat the worker as if the job they were given is an act of charity while paying the worker the wages of charity. We see an increase in social unrest in America, while the wealthy with the help of elected officials convince Americans they are out of line, and have no good reason to be discontent. This deepening discontent is spreading fast and wide and the wealthy can’t outrun or hide to escape reality. In 2012 we will see how many politicians will be allowed to escape reality by being re-elected back into office.

The “flat tax” will seem the simple answer to many Americans, while knowing nothing about it. They will make their decision from untrue sound bites and debates because it eliminates the need to know all the facts that will allow a sound decision to be made. This attitude comes from Americans that are upset at the broken system, while ignoring the fact they are part of the problem by not taking time to educate themselves about the facts of what it would mean for America to become a “flat tax” nation. There is no denying that the “flat tax” serves as a tax break for the wealthy shifting the burden to the middle-class, the poor and the elderly. The “flat tax” lowers the rate for higher income earners and widens the base to include more lower income earners. The “flat tax” is nothing more than a repeat of a trick Ronald Reagan in the 1980’s tried, by claiming to cut taxes, when in fact he actually redistributed them to bear more heavily on “income” than on “wealth”, which created the “idle rich” that was rewarded for sitting on their asses, and claiming their wealth as everything other than “income”, while the working class was punished for their hard work.

As Americans our decisions affect so many people, especially our families, we need to not act after the fact, and learn the hard way that the lies we are being told over and over again about a “flat tax“ is truly a lie that will once again benefit the rich at the expense of everyone else. We need to remember that the rich will NEVER understand the plight of the middle-class or the poor nor do they care to. America seems to confuse the rich with being smart, when in fact money does not buy intelligence and one needs to look no further than the way the rich are hanging their own asses in our society. The “idle rich” aren’t smart enough to see that their lifeline to their way of life is about to catch up with them, and even their bought off political friends won’t be able to help. The reality that Americans are educating themselves and are in increasing numbers rejecting the lies that has been sold and perfected for decades as the truth, are being seen in the light God intended, instead of the darkness the devil prefers. In 2012 we as Americans need to stop the insanity of the “idle rich” and remind them that one way we will do that is not allowing the “flat tax”.