Obama Biden USA

Let me put it in financial terms for immoral wingnuts: We owe Haiti for the greatest legal real estate deal we ever made. Research it yourself. Napoleon sold New Orleans to us b/c he failed to re-enslave Haiti, essential to his imagined sugar empire & threw in the rest for free. Time to thank Haiti, w/it’s tiny band of courageous rebels, for defeating the mighty armies of Napoleon Bonaparte, who then gave up & ’sold’ us, @ $3/acre, the 14 states (12 of which are reliably red & redder) that unite the United States . Now shut up and donate $10. Text HAITI to 90999. You will receive a confirmation request from the Red Cross that you wish to donate $10 to Haiti Relief, and a link to a website.

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As the flames kiss your back door, would a firefighter refuse service, claiming you have a pre-existing condition (drought)? Never.

Pamela

Pasadena

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Where are the “tea baggers” now that we need them?

The bumbling government, once again, is launching another bound-to-fail program with the massing of firefighters to battle the Station fire. Why save someone else’s house from destruction; it’s not mine? The fire departments are just more of the socialist governmental programs designed to take away what little freedom we have left.

Why can’t we just burn in peace?

Ben

Monrovia

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First it is with great surprise and unintentional callousness that I post this glib assessment.  I haven’t found the time to post anything lately, and this is surely not a worthy comeback.  

But today, out of solipsistic curiosity, I clicked on the link about the death*, this weekend in Florida**, of the only product pitchman I recognize, Billy Mays (’Mr. OxiClean’ to me).  I had to share.  While really, really important events take place in the world, it has been horrifying, fascinating & (when needed) reassuring to watch the wingnuts unravel over the election  of Barack Obama, by the (smarter) people, for the (smarter) people.  Props for their partisan dedication to wingnut-ness at every level, for example, by their Big-Fat-Mouthed GOP-Boss Rush, who this week blamed  GOP Governor Sanford’s, um, fall from space, as excusably (of course - duh!) stemming from the actions of President Obama & his relentless tenure.

Back to it - yes, I began with a point.  The above-mentioned link I clicked on went to a Fox News site and I chose to ‘go there’.  Let me just yank out and repost here what struck me about the ‘article’. That is, how these people ‘make’ news with an emphasis on ’stories’ by empowering their avid base with all the tools needed to fly off to wing-nut land on their own libertarian terror-fueled power, calling for fascism at the same time they decry it.  Amazing.  See if you get there too.

From “‘Infomercial King’ Billy Mays Found Dead in Home”

“His ubiquitousness and thumbs-up, in-your-face pitches won Mays plenty of fans. People line up at his personal appearances for autographed color glossies, and strangers stop him in airports to chat about the products.

“I enjoy what I do,” Mays told The Associated Press in a 2002 interview. “I think it shows.”

Mays was on board a US Airways flight that blew out its front tires as it landed at a Tampa airport on Saturday, MyFOXTampa.com reported.

US Airways spokesman Jim Olson said that none of the 138 passengers and five crew members were injured in the incident, but several passengers reported having bumps and bruises, according to the station.

Authorities have not said whether Mays’ death was related to the incident.”

You make the call readers.  Fly or die? An OxiClean death or something more airporty?  Who were the strangers who stopped Mays ‘to chat about the products’?  Didn’t a few of the 9/11 hijackers attend flight schools in Florida?  And didn’t Florida allegedly vote for Obama in 2008?  I’m just saying…

*Next week, the hundreds of thousands of annual deaths. Yes, deaths.

**In Florida.

Barack Obama’s Natal Chart Proving his Birth in Honolulu 

How could you question this?  It’s right here on the Internets.  I have been learning the Googles,  and Ted Stevens assured me it arrived through the proper truth tubes his contractor installed.  You can’t make stuff like this up, and images can’t be altered on a computer for heaven’s sake.* 

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Just a tinsy bit more on Senator Richard Shelby’s recent hypocrisy:

In late 2008 he opposed a Federal government bridge loan for US-owned auto companies, saying:

“We don’t need government - governmental subsidies for manufacturing in this country. It’s the French model, it’s the wrong road. We will pay for it. The average American taxpayer is going to pay dearly for this, if I’m not wrong.”

However, foreign-owned auto manufacturers Mercedes-Benz, Honda, Toyota, and Hyundai received approximately $788 million in government subsidies in the cities of Vance, Lincoln, Huntsville, and Montgomery in Shelby’s home state of Alabama, according to analysis by Good Jobs First. Good Jobs First executive Director Greg LeRoy pointed out that “while proposed federal aid to the Big 3 would take the form of a loan, the vast majority of subsidies to foreign auto plants were taxpayer gifts such as property and sales tax exemptions, income tax credits, infrastructure aid, land discounts, and training grants.

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