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PALIN BLAMES OBAMA FOR TRAK'S PROBLEMS? PALIN IS SIMPLY UNAWARE THAT IT'S HISTORICALLY BEEN THE REPUBLICANS, BUSH, CHENEY, CONGRESSPEOPLE AND SENATORS, WHO'VE ASSURED THAT MOST VETERANS' BENEFITS WERE REDUCED AND/OR ELIMINATED. MEDICAL, EDUCATIONAL, MENTAL SERVICES, EMPLOYMENT AND MORE. PRIVATE, HUMANITARIAN ORGANIZATIONS HAVE STEPPED IN TO HELP DUE TO REPUBLICAN CUTS. REPUBLICANS COMPLAIN WHEN OBAMA SIGNS EXECUTIVE ORDERS, BUT, THEN THEY WANT HIM TO SIGN EXECUTIVE ORDERS IF IT SUITS THEIR PURPOSE AND NEEDS. Trump backer Sarah Palin charged Wednesday that President Obama didn’t do enough for troubled U.S. war veterans — and more specifically, her recently arrested son. The former Alaska governor lobbed her verbal grenade at the White House after Track Palin was busted on domestic abuse charges for allegedly holding an assault rifle near his head during a booze-fueled fight with his 22-year-old girlfriend. "My son, a combat veteran … was fighting for you al

PALIN BLAMES OBAMA FOR TRAK'S PROBLEMS? PALIN IS SIMPLY UNAWARE THAT IT'S HISTORICALLY BEEN THE REPUBLICANS, BUSH, CHENEY, CONGRESSPEOPLE AND SENATORS, WHO'VE ASSURED THAT MOST VETERANS' BENEFITS WERE REDUCED AND/OR ELIMINATED. MEDICAL, EDUCATIONAL, MENTAL SERVICES, EMPLOYMENT AND MORE. PRIVATE, HUMANITARIAN ORGANIZATIONS HAVE STEPPED IN TO HELP DUE TO REPUBLICAN CUTS. REPUBLICANS COMPLAIN WHEN OBAMA SIGNS EXECUTIVE ORDERS, BUT, THEN THEY WANT HIM TO SIGN EXECUTIVE ORDERS IF IT SUITS THEIR PURPOSE AND NEEDS. Trump backer Sarah Palin charged Wednesday that President Obama didn’t do enough for troubled U.S. war veterans — and more specifically, her recently arrested son. The former Alaska governor lobbed her verbal grenade at the White House after Track Palin was busted on domestic abuse charges for allegedly holding an assault rifle near his head during a booze-fueled fight with his 22-year-old girlfriend. "My son, a combat veteran … was fighting for you al

Why can't "those people" (OK I AM a bigot.... against ignorant white people who get their news and false history from FAUX TV 'NEWS?)," why can't they understand that what the Republicans want to do is take everything from the average American and give it to the wealthy. We are not looking for everything from the wealthy, just enough to make our way. If we stop buying their products because we have no money, they'll just raise their prices to make up for it. They can't lose. We need more people with money who truly feel for the American people, such as JFK and the whole Clan. Bill Clinton was NOT wealthy when he got into office. Didn't even have a home. He became wealthy. He cared for the middle class. SOMEONE, NAME A REPUBLICAN WHO IS TRULY UNDERSTANDING and SUPPORTIVE OF THE MIDDLE CLASS.

Strange. Most on the other side, who swore to support the Republican nominee (before they had an inkling of who it might be, are now wavering. They say things like, "We'll see," "I may not vote," or "Time will tell," or "Donald Trump will NOT BE the Nominee of the Republican Party." One VERY FAMOUS Republican just stated he "...may not vote." Doesn't sound like a lot of support. Especially since Trump said he would give Sarah Palin a position in his administration. "Any position she wanted." What about Education?

Republicans want  - demand - something done about crime. Everything the Democrats and Obama have proposed to slow down crime and mass shootings, the Republicans vote NO or tie it up. Then they say Obama and the Dems have done nothing to stop these mass shootings. They are simply and deliberately creating an agenda to further their own agenda. It's the same as if I sold you a car and didn't include the engine to make it run. Republicans give Obama and the Dems and opportunity to fix things, but they keep control of the engine to drive the ideas home.

Trump is not AMERICA.The actions and words of the crazy right is not America It is one faction of it. Anarchism is the basis of the New Republicans. They are not Republicans. They are ANARCHISTS. Take a look at their agenda. Listen to their bigoted diatribes. They want a FREE, WHITE, CHRISTIAN, NO-GOVERNMENT AMERICA. Guns for anyone who wants one, cut back on police, cut back on services to the elderly and disabled. "Let them fend for themselves. Why should I help the old p eople? What did they ever do for me? They forget, those old people who worked their asses off and built the country into what it is, or rather WAS, before they got involved. Those "Old people," paid into the system for the building of the America they wish to bring back to 1910.  We need to create, for the benefit of these bigoted, sanctimonious louts, a new party. The NEW ANARCHIST PARTY. Or, the New ANARCHIST/FASCIST PARTY. The old Republican Party will become theNEW REPUBLICAN PARTY, which, in

Several Republicans in Congress, 8 from the House and 2 Senators, said that many of their votes against Obamas programs may not have happened if Obama had come to them. They actually agreed some of the legislation presented. Things "may have gone the other way if he just came to (them). . SO, IT WAS POLITICAL. Not their responsibility to the American citizens, and not the policies that would have affected millions of Americans positively. They blame their votes on Obama for " not coming to them." His fault they voted no. Not, of course, McConnell's vow to make Obama a one-term president by voting down anything he proposed.  I am so tired of Republicans saying Obama did nothing to interact with The Republicans in Congress. On January 31, 2010, Obama asked to meet with the Republican Caucus to present his ideas and get feed back and open communications. Instead, Jeb Hensarling and a young Paul Ryan, stood and yelled and argued with the president about his economi

I refuse to spend my time discussing or debating politics with someone who does not vote. Many of the biggest mouths and complainers of Obama, Hillary, Bernie, Bill Clinton, and others, made it possible for us to have elected and re-elected George W. Bush. If you don't vote, you do not have the right to complain.  I just heard from a FB friend who has many political op[inions, but says he doesn't vote. This is my response for all those who don't vote or feel as though their vote matters not....to see. At least you have a choice. If you feel you have the choice of only evil vs. evil...opt for the lesser evil. The one who will do the least damage. George W. wanted war in Iraq. He stated as much when campaigning. Gore did not. The people felt Gore would win anyway (he did, actually), so t hey stayed home. He had an economic program that every economist said was superior to Bush's. This is what ended up in the loss of 5,000 American lives and created the problem of ISI

A few years ago, John McCain said, in an interview with Bob Schieffer, that, “I’m ashamed of my country. I’m ashamed of my president and I’m ashamed of myself..… It is really, really heartbreaking.” He was praised, over and over by Republicans. Compare what McCain said with what Michelle Obama said that sent Republicans into a tizzy, “For the first time in my adult lifetime, I’m really proud of my country, and not just because Barack has done well, but because I think people  are hungry for change.” She was highly ridiculed and insulted. The hypocrisy is that McCain openly says that he is ashamed of his country and gets praised. Michelle Obama said that she was really proud of her country, and her words were twisted into a claim that she hates America.  Today’s Republican Candidates, led by Donald Trump and Ted Cruz, try to tear down the United States and are lauded by the extremists and other Republicans and their candidates. Democrats Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton and M

This is an education. Today's Republicans are the US's version of ISIS, trying to bully and scare people into submission. VOTING COUNTS. BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR. AS IS HAPPENING IN SYRIA AND IRAQ, NEXT, THEY'LL COME FOR YOU, THEIR SUPPORTERS, AND NO ONE WILL BE LEFT TO HELP YOU... (with apologies to Rev. Martin Niemoller and  Stephen Rohde), First They Came For ...... . First they came for the Communists, and I didn’t speak up, because I wasn’t a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn’t speak up, because I wasn’t a Jew. Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn’t speak up, Then they came for the Protestants, and I didn’t speak up, because I wasn't a Protestant. Then they came for the Muslims,  and I didn't speak up  because I wasn't a Muslim. Then they came for the poor, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't poor. Then they came for the Libertarians, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't Libertarian.

I KNOW MY FRIENDS ON THE RIGHT (THEY'RE STILL FRIENDS), WON'T EVEN READ THIS IF I POST IOT, BUT, MAYBE SOME INTELLIGENT DEMOCRAT OR INDEPENDENT WILL READ IT TO THEM.  Ted Cruz's blueprint for destroying America By Joan McCarter  Ted Cruz is doing his damnedest to perfectly embody the Freedom Caucus/tea party nihilism. It's all about destroying things they hate, which is pretty much everything that makes our society work. No. Really. In fact the Washington Post Politics page counts the ways he wants to destroy our government or aspects of it. Here's their list of what "he'd get rid of or change." • The U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv would be moved to Jerusalem. • He'd axe the Commerce Department, and with it millions in grants and small and minority-owned business assistance. SBA GONE! • Being a 10ther, a proponent of the theory that ignores the history of the constitutional convention and says all power should devolve to the states, Cruz wants to ab

THIS IS THE SELF-DECLARED "BRILLIANT STRATEGIST" WHO KNOWS NOTHING AND SUPPORTED BY MANY WHO HAVE NO DESIRE TO KNOW ANYTHING. This is NOT some left-wing post. This was Chris Wallace! Fox News carpet bombs Ted Cruz's 'carpet bomb' statement to his face By Egberto Willies  Sunday Jan 17, 2016 3:17 PM MST Fox News' Chris Wallace pretty much ridiculed Ted Cruz's irresponsible statement about carpet bombing ISIS in Syria using a general's words. Wallace started out by playing Cruz's comments. We will have a president who would make clear we will utterly destroy ISIS. ... We will carpet bomb them into oblivion. release4c823f18abd00aebf705d13f213c61083852085b31ff255716f9be4ec3bc1576 by General Robert Scales. The general was the former head of the U.S. War College. He was quoted in a New York Times editorial titled "Ted ‘Carpet-Bomb’ Cruz" that said the following: Mr. Cruz is a lawyer and a foreign-policy neophyte. Anyone with any un

Every voter needs to know this about Ted Cruz Given how closely I follow politics and the news, I can’t believe this is the first time I’m hearing this story about Ted Cruz. Kudos to David Brooks for bringing it to light: In 1997, Michael Wayne Haley was arrested after stealing a calculator from Walmart. This was a crime that merited a maximum two-year prison term. But prosecutors incorrectly applied a habitual offender law. Neither the judge nor the defense lawyer caught the  error and Haley was sentenced to 16 years. Eventually, the mistake came to light and Haley tried to fix it. Ted Cruz was solicitor general of Texas at the time. Instead of just letting Haley go for time served, Cruz took the case to the Supreme Court to keep Haley in prison for the full 16 years. The case reveals something interesting about Cruz’s character. Ted Cruz is now running strongly among evangelical voters, especially in Iowa. But in his career and public presentation Cruz is a stranger to most of

From Today's DAILY STAR. Haley's startling ignorance may not be her own fault Nikki Haley's 44th birthday is this week. You would think her a little old for fairy tales.But a bizarre, little-reported remark the South Carolina governor made last week suggests that, age notwithstanding, Haley lives in Fantasyland, at least insofar as American history is concerned.The comment in question came the day after her Tuesday night speech in response to President Obama's State of the Union address, in which she cuffed Donald Trump for his strident anti-Muslim, anti-immigrant bigotry. Haley told reporters, 'When you've got immigrants who are coming here legally, we've never in the history of this country passed any laws or done anything based on race or religion.'Some observers found that an astonishing thing for her to say as chief executive of the first state to secede from the Union in defense of slavery, a state that embraced segregation until forced

What can go wrong here? I am worried for friends and relatives in Texas. What could possibly go wrong here? The Texas state bird is the LOON!~ Before the state’s new open carry law went into effect, guns were banned at those state facilities. No one — visitors, deliverymen and the like — could bring firearms anywhere on campus. Even local law enforcement officers, who were already allowed to bring their weapons into the facilities, regularly lock up their guns before entering Austin State Hospital o ut of an abundance of caution. Now visitors can bring guns into the buildings where patients live. Employees are still prohibited from bringing them on campus. All my life, working in mental health and psychiatry, guns are never allowed in the hospital or on the psychiatric floor. Just not allowed. The potential for tragedy is ridiculous. “While licensed visitors are legally permitted to carry on our hospital campuses, our patients are being actively treated for psychiatric

THIS IS NO LONGER FUNNY....WAKE UP. I REALIZE THE EXTREME RIGHT DOES NOTR BELIEVE ANY OF THIS HAPPENED. IT DID. EVEN WHEN IT'S SHOWN, LIVE, ON TV, IT'S DISCOUNTED AS LIBERAL PROPAGANDA. They live in Denial. for the very few sane people, actually, the silent-majority, please pay attention. Some object to political crap on FB, but, THIS IS YOUR LIFE TOO. This is actually from Donald Adolf Trump.... "Throw them out into the cold," Trump ordered security, as protesters shouted "B ernie! Bernie!" during his rally Thursday night in Burlington, Vt. "Don't give them their coats," Trump added. "No coats! Confiscate their coats." The Sanders supporters had planned to infiltrate the Trump rally but many were thwarted as Trump security screened attendees and ejected those who didn't declare allegiance to the billionaire.  Donald Trump makes people swear allegiance to him before they can enter a rally? Umm … that’s weird. And more th

WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU TRUMP FOLLOWERS TRYING TO DO TO THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, FREEDOM, RELIGIOUS TOLERANCE. BE ASHAMED....VERY ASHAMED OF CREATING THIS MONSTER. HE HAS LOST HIS MIND, AS DID HITLER. BE VERY CAREFUL OF THIS FASCIST. NO LONGER A WORD, BUT A TRUE DESCRIPTION. PLEASE SHARE THIS WITH EVERYONE WHO YOU KNOW WHO IS STILL SANE., "The kind of blind, senseless hatred many of our grandparents and great-grandparents fought in World War II to eradicate has found a new home in the “current political climate” brought to us courtesy of Donald Trump and the Republican Party: A Muslim woman wearing a hijab was escorted out of Donald Trump's campaign event on Friday by police after she stood up in silent protest during Trump's speech. Rose Hamid, a 56-year-old flight attendant sitting in the stands directly behind Trump, stood up Friday during Trump's speech when the Republican front-runner suggested that Syrian refugees fleeing war in Syria were affiliated wi

In 2015, is this what you God-fearing American conservatives truly want?  Republican Misogynist, Ted Cruz, Recommended Spanking Just when you thought no one could possibly out do Donald Trump’s misogynistic ways, here we have Ted "Calgary” Cruz campaigning in Iowa. When comparing all of these clowns, there are really no discernible differences. Notice the chuckling among his male supporters, It’s obvious they heartily agree with Cruz’s way of dealing with Hillary and his daughter. It's despicable. Do you condone this, Deborah? .@tedcruz: Voters should spank Hillary Clinton like I spank my five-year old daughter.  "You know I'll tell you, in my house, if my daughter Cather, the five-year-old, says something she knows to be false, she gets a spanking," he said. "Well, in America, the voters have a way of administering a spanking."  Actor Wil Wheaton and Matthew Dowd had something to say about Cruz spanking his kids on Twitter. Pretty strai

 While decrying the American manufacturing industries have gone abroad, due to Obama (They actually began when G. W. Bush offered great tax advantages for them to do so), he often screams that he "...will bring these jobs back to America." Next time you are in a store that still sells his merchandise, or if you get a premium from his campaign, check to see where it was made. Trump manufacturers his clothes and campaign premiums in China and Mexico, NOT HERE

In the last five presidential elections, Republicans constantly have talked about had bad America is and it needs to be fixed. The have coined the phrase, "take back our country." Then, they say they are true patriots. AMERICA IS NOT BROKEN, NOR HAS IT BEEN TAKEN OVER BY SOME GANG OF OGRES.  The country is GREAT! It just needs some newer ideas every few years to keep it up do date. Those opportunities are called elections. TRUE PATRIOTS KNOW THE COUNTRY IS GREAT! False profits declare it's lost and adrift. BEWARE OF FALSE PROFITS AND REPUBLICANS! VOTE BLUE

Donald Trump's divorces all came after he had affairs with the new mistresses he ended up marrying, except Malania.  Bible-thumping supporters are truly hypocrites, objecting when others in office doing this and then supporting this slime who tried to "buy" Princess Diana as a mistress.  He actually had FIVE deferments during the Viet Nam War. four were school deferments, and, miraculously, just after he graduated, a medical deferment for a "bone spur," but he "can't remember" which f oot.  He had a high draft number, but so did I. And I had a ruptured disc when I volunteered for the draft. Took me to Ft. Ord anyway. Yet, his number WAS DRAWN in 1969.  While married to Ivana, Trump began an affair with Marla Maples in 1985, when she was 22. This went on until Ivana divorced Trump in 1991(six years for the affair) Tiffany Trump was born to Trump and Marla Maples on Oct. 13, 1993 and they married in Dec. 1993 and separated in 1997. He immedia

This took a lot of research. Re: Ted Cruz citizenship If the child’s parents are both U.S. citizens, a foreign-born child would be a U.S. citizen if at least one of the parents resided in the United States or a U.S. possession prior to the child's birth. If one parent is not a U.S. citizen, the U.S. citizen parent must have lived in the United States for a specific period of time (until 1978, that was sometime within five years prior to the birth. After 1978, that was in the  year prior to birth) ,before the child was born to transmit citizenship. For children born on or after November 14, 1986, the U.S. citizen parent must have lived in the United States or an outlying possession for five years, of which two years had to be after the age of 14, prior to the birth of the child.  A change in the law in 1994 enabled a U.S. citizen parent to apply for “expeditious naturalization” for a child, but it was not retroactive. If one parent is a U.S. citizen, the U.S. citizen par

I n 2009, John Boehner and the Republicans said they had an alternative Health Care bill to counter the ACA. THEY LIED. It would be ready in a few weeks. In 2010, Republicans said their Republican Health Care bill would be available so people could have a choice. THEY LIED. In their numerous attempt to over throw the ACA, Republicans have continued to lie about their Health Care Plan. Voting Republicans still believe this lie. Can any right-winger or Republican tell me WHY YOU CONTINUE TO BELIEVE THIS LIE? THEY DO NOT HAVE A PLAN, after all these years. If so, WHERE IS IT? The so-called "Obamacare," IS BASED UPON THE REPUBLICAN proposed Health insurance plan, originally created by the Heritage Foundation.  What we now call Obamacare was conceived at the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, and birthed in Massachusetts by Mitt Romney, then the governor. The president took Romneycare, a program designed to keep the private insurance industry intact, and just impr

Republicans answer to every pronblem is, "We need more metal health services. Get those in need off the streets." Some still use the title of the "mentally retarded." Guns, Crime, Mass killings, it's all mental health issues, NOT GUNS.  But, wait...They say they're in favor of that.   They say they're in favor of getting rid of the potential terrorism threats here, yet the voted DOWN the chance to keep potential terrorist from getting guns.    They say they are for benefits for Veterans and Obama has done nothing for those who served our country, but they voted down the last four measures to raise veteran's benefits. In the past three years, they have ELIMINATED $4.3 Billion" from mental health  services. They just hope you didn't know that.  They say they want crime enforcement to improve, But, they voted down hundreds of millions for  crime prevention. They wanted the Ebola outbreak contained and said it was Obama's fault. But, th

Look what is happening to the country. The extremists want everyone to believe as they do. Only they have the correct interpretation of the Constitution, the Bible, Federal Laws, and more. No one else's opinion matter. They rile up people of like-mindedness and tell them lies to anger and upset their equilibrium and join the "fight." Against who? Well, the United States of America, who else is responsible for their being out of work because they have little or no education. They blame the United States of America because they have tattoos up and down their body. Tattoos of the Devil, or Betty Boop, or Marilyn Monroe, or ??? They blame the United States of America for their crop failures or hunger or war or whatever and anything in which they may feel deficient. or inadequate.  These "patriots," as they like to call themselves have nothing to do with patriotism. It's all ego and self-aggrandizement. They are not defending America. They are defending their

Republicans want guns "out of the hands of the bad guys." Yet, they voted DOWN the proposal to keep guns OUT OF THE HANDS OF those on the DO NOT FLY LIST. Now, when Obama does something to keep guns out of the hands of the bad guys, they object to his keeping the guns out of the hands of bad guys. ERGO (look it up Republicans. It mean therefore), they really WANT bad guys to have guns. Right? 

The Second Amendment was Ratified to Preserve Slavery The real reason the Second Amendment was ratified, and why it says "State" instead of "Country" (the Framers knew the difference - see the 10th Amendment), was to preserve the slave patrol militias in the southern states, which was necessary to get Virginia's vote. Founders Patrick Henry, George Mason, and James Madison were totally clear on that . . . and we all should be too. In the beginning, there were the militias. In the South, they were also called the "slave patrols," and they were regulated by the states. In Georgia, for example, a generation before the American Revolution, laws were passed in 1755 and 1757 that required all plantation owners or their male white employees to be members of the Georgia Militia, and for those armed militia members to make monthly inspections of the quarters of all slaves in the state. The law defined which counties had which armed militias and even required

A Lot of Research provides this bit of history..... FUNDING FATHERS' WORDS REVEAL 2ND AMENDMENT WAS....TO PRESERVE SLAVERY by Michael Downs We’ve all heard the arguments from the gun manufacturers lobby: “The 2nd Amendment was about freedom!” “The 2nd Amendment was to ensure that men could stand against their government” or other similarly absurd thoughts. But, what did the Founding Fathers think of the 2nd Amendment? It turns out, thanks to research done by Thom Hartmann, the 2nd Amendment was about slavery. What is ignored in the NRA’s arguments is that, at the time the U.S. Constitution was written, the militia in the south was known by another name: the slave patrol, and virtually all men of age served in its ranks at one point or another. As far back as 1680 in Virginia, the militias were organized to prevent: “…the frequent meetings of considerable numbers of negroe slaves, under pretence of feasts and burialls is judged [to be] of dangerous consequence.” (sic) In ot