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Remember sweet Sarah Palin and her charges that Obama was guilty by association and 'palled around with terrorists'? I wonder what she is saying now?

Apparently, Palin pals around with meth drug dealers (rumor has it that her son went into the army to escape drug charges) as Levi Johston's mom has been arrested on 6 FELONY COUNTS the day before Bristol is set to give birth to her 2nd...er..1st baby on Saturday.

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For those of you who whine if I don't put up the link since google is sooooo hard to operate.

I love the Palins!!! They are the new white trash family of America. Can't wait to see Bristol's new baby tomorrow.

Last week, some people, including Rick, became very upset that I proposed that Phoenix get a section for blogs about faith. While I am confused as to why Rick and Damoze are so against this, I still feel it is a valid question.

If one chooses to check out the multitude of 'MyFox' websites, one will find that EVERY state in the Bible Belt is afforded this luxury and this section is quite popular. Having noticed the many blogs written by Mayflower and even Rick regarding this subject as well as the many responses, it is more than apparent that the demand for a section dedicated to religious thought is there. In fact, there is an option for one to post in this section, so 'they' acknowledge that this may be necessary in the future; yet 'they' have not set this section up.

Website managers, I'd like to know if you feel this need exists. If you feel the demand is there, when can we count on the addition of this section? For those of you who are against this idea, I imagine you won't feel the need to post your opinion on this blog, however, I encourage you to do so as I'd like to know your opinion.

Looks like Christian Conservatives are on the attack (again) as hate crimes against gays and Latinos are steadily rising. In NY, a group of Christian Conservatives have taken a bat to a LEGAL immigrant (it's hard to tell them apart) and have beaten him to death while shouting anti-gay slurs. It's a real shame that Christians have fostered such disgust and hate towards a group of people who choose thier own path in life rather than allow Christians to tell them how to live (perhaps he shoudl have married one of their daughters and then broke her heart when he wasn't interested in her...parts).

Fortunately, however, LIBERALS have had enough of the hatred spewed by the Christians and have taken to the street in protest asking for an end to all of the hate that Christians cling to (especially Ken). If only Christian zealots like the pope, the mormon leaders and Joel, the leader of the Protestant 'army' would speak out against this type of violence and speak out in favor of harsh penalties for those who commit heinous crimes rather than side with the violent, these crimes may start to decline. Unfortunately, it does not appear that that is going to happen any time soon.

With apologies to azbob:

All that the radical right racists have done over the last few weeks was show their godlessness, their disrespect for others choices opinions and vote, they presented themselves in a childish manner. And acted in a criminal way. They disgraced and degraded themselves with their actions and response. It was nothing more then a major setback for their cause, they displayed their true colors, their lack of control. It was all disgraceful and distasteful. It was handled in a malicious and vengeful way. A very poor vision of self control. You have once again earned your place in society as a low grade of people. And to think your movement was going forward maybe at a slow pace but never the less you all shamed yourselves in an unforgiving way. In my blog, I write about  racist issues and stated that the racists were not all crazy and/or violent people or proposed a harm to society, damn was I wrong or what. Your display has earned you what you got ...no respect. and more disrespect.

Now, enough about this idiotic concocted birth cert. story and discriminatory Muslim accusation already. You've made America look stupid enough over the past 8 years. Now, please, just zip your lips while we try to save our reputation if you haven't tarnished beyond repair already.

Let's make sense of this for a moment. If you drive drunk, you lose your license for some time making it 'more difficult' to drive a car. Is driving the car really the problem? When we keep people from driving their car, we keep them from working which leads to a lot of free time to ... drink and some may lose their job making it possible for them to collect benefits provided by the govt. In other words, we punish the driver in order to 'reward' them later.

My solution...take their license and ID and issue them another one that does not permit them to buy alcohol. Make it difficult for the drunk to get a hold of alcohol; which is the problem we should be focusing on. Treat DUI offenders like teenagers. If anyone is caught buying for or selling alcohol to a covicted drunk driver during their probationary period should suffer HUGE fines.

Does this make sense to everyone else?

Once again, the pro-lifers prove that they are in fact, not pro-life. It's time they change their name to pro-fetus b.c once you are born, they are alright with you being killed.

Pro-fetus people would like the govt. to allow 5 year olds to die. Pro-fetus people are against welfare programs and universal health care and they are the ones who would like to see the 8 year old charged as an adult so that the death penalty is an acceptable punishment. Isn't it more than obvious that they are not pro-life at all?

Quit lying about your views. Quit lying about who you are. Quit pretending that you are so much better than Obama who you accuse of being a fetus killer while you are a baby/child/adult killer.

The REAL pro-lifers need to take back the title from the liars.

No more sex. That's right, the GOP don't want Americans to have sex anymore. Perhaps I should clarify this. Baby making is alright; sex for pleasure, even with your spouse, isn't.

Bush has gone on a rampage against contraceptives. The religious right does not believe in any sort of contraceptive. Therefore, a pharmacist, a religious right wing pharmacist, can refuse to fill an Rx for birth control pills. A sales clerk, a religious right sales clerk, can refuse to sell condoms. Perhaps this is why I gave up the Christian God. He isn't much fun.

Having said that...one has to wonder if this means that Walgreens, etc. can ask what the religious affiliation of someone applying to be a pharmacist at their store. If that pharmacist is a Christian, Walgreens should be permitted not to hire them. Therefore, it seems that religious discrimination is now acceptable (made even more obvious by the gay marriage ban).

What do you guys think? Is it time to have signs that say "Christians Only" in store fronts?

It's amazing to me that the Republican Party and News Media are ignoring a few very important 'accomplishments' of the Bush administration. Therefore, I thought that I would list them for you...

1. Bush helped raise HIV levels in Africa to what they were before Clinton, during his daddy's administration, by changing strategies from Clinton's safe sex campaign to Bush's abstinance program. Well done.

2. Bush helped raise unemployment levels to what they were before Clinton, during his daddy's admin, by reducing taxes of the rich rather than the middle class who are the consurmers in the USA.

3. Bush made a bunch of money for the rich CEOs by giving them a bones of $30,000 for every million they make.

4. Bush made a bunch of money for his oil buddies.

5. Bush helped Al Queda recruit many more sympathizers who would want to destroy America which is why AQ supported his presidency.

6. Bush raised the debt to unbelievable numbers fighting a war while lowering taxes.

7. Bush put our country up for sale making it possible for foreign interests (Arabs mostly) to buy America.

8. Bush made a bunch of money for his buddy, Cheney, by starting a war in Iraq.

9. Bush funded the 'renaissance' in the ME by choosing companies like Haliburton who have now decided to move their operations to the ME.

10. Bush lowered capital gains taxes making it less likely that companies would hire people and invest in machinery etc. rather than be hit by taxes at the end of the year.

11. Bush grew the govt. more than any other President in my lifetime.

So...I have to ask...why are there still Republicans?

Up until now, I have thought it may be possible to come out of the Bush administration without too many scars, apparently, I was wrong. He has managed to DESTROY all the work Clinton did.

Unemployment soared .4% in just one month!!! The unemployment rate is at 6.5% which is a 14 year high. Guess what was going on 14 years ago? Clinton was fixing the unemployment mess Bush's dad made and the rate was on its way down. If unemployment increases by just 1.3%, Bush would have put us exactly where we were when his daddy left office. As I learned in the past 24 hours of 800 jobs being eliminated in AZ alone, I think Bush will have an easy time making that happen. Why aren't Republicans pissed off about this!?!?!?!!?!

To those of you who are not 'volunteering' to participate in the recession, it appears more and more that you may just be drafted. Let's hope that Obama can do what Clinton did and save us from economic disaster. Here's to hope.

While watching the election results, my bf asked me why it was such a big deal to have a 60-40 split in the Senate. Today, I read a post saying that Democrats have had 'control' of Congress and therefore should have already enacted change. Therefore, I thought it may be a good idea to review how they system of checks and balances work.

All branches, Executive, Lesgislative and Judicial are equal. None is more powerful than the other. To keep this balance in check, the forefather gave the Judicial branch lifelong appointments. This way they couldn't be voted out for upholding the Constitution. THey coulodn't be removed from office by the Pres for upholding the Constitution. The Legislative branch has the power to make laws and over rule the President. However, to keep that power in check, they must have a TWO THIRDS MAJORITY in favor of the override of all vetos. The Executive branch has the 'final review' on all bills and shapes foreign policy, to keep that in check, the Pres. vetos can be overruled and the other branches can declare things like the Patriot Act as unconstiutional, etc.

Since our focus is the Democratically controlled Congress, let's focus on their strenghts and weaknesses. The Democrats had a majority with 51 Senators beginning in JANUARY OF 2007. Unfortunately, in just 1 year and 10 months, they have not been able to get enough Republicans on their side to make up the 16 Senator deficit they have in order to overrule the President, a Republican, when he vetos their bills. The same is true in the House. Sure, the Democrats had a majority, but not enough Republicans are in favor of change, so they did not have the votes there either.

So, you can see that the Democrats have not had the ABILITY to inflict change until 2009 when they have a much more commanding majority and a President who agrees with them (hence the 'blank check' charge by Republicans). Keep in mind, though, that the REPUBLICANS had the MAJORITY AND THE PRESIDENT FROM 2001--2006 which means they had complete control of the direction of the country. And, I'd like to know why you guys either 1. think they did such a great job or 2. why aren't you mad that your party did such a poop job?

What happened to the Republican party? I thought that Republicans were for less regulation and govt while protecting the people and more national security and autonomy. Am I wrong? I thought the Republicans were made mostly from the religious right meaning that they held themselves to standards given by their God and Jesus. Was I wrong about that, too? I thought Republicans were pro-life. Was this another misconception? I thought Republicans were conservatives. What are they conserving?

Ironically, democrats, by definition, are all of the things the Republican party is supposed to be. The Democrats would rather we had more freedoms and less regulation by the govt. thereby decreasing the size of the un-necessary govt. Let people smoke pot, but please regulate companies so they can't come up with cancer sticks that kill and cost us millions. Just think about how much govt. we waste on the drug war the Democrats are ready to end. Democrats would rather not go to wars that are unnecessary at all. In fact, when terrorists attack the US under a Democratic PRes., we bomb the terrorists instead of starting a war with another country. This protects our national security by keeping our good name and making friends instead of enemies. And, this also frees up money to invest in checking all boats importing goods to our country and other things that should have been done post 9-11. Democrats seem to be the party that agrees with Jesus/God that war is bad and that all people should do what they can to make sure all are fed and alive. Democrats want to feed and provide health care to the poor so obviously we are holding ourselves to the standards set forth by your Messiah. Democrats are against the death penalty, war, cheap guns and bullets, abortion and killing the mother when a baby is in distress which is the very definition of being pro-life. Finally, the Democrats balance budgets and look out for the environment by conserving so doesn't that make the Democrats the conservatives?

The Republican Party need to reform and return to their roots. It's time they quit discriminating against people and allowing big companies to screw the little guys over. They need to start representing the people of the USA so that taking campaign contributions is a reflection of how the people feel and not just big corporations. Republicans must conserve and limit the govt. Heck, just last month, Palin increased the size of the AK govt. and they only have 600,000 people. They need to quit being pro-war and start making pre-emptive strikes while lowering taxes so that they don't have to pay for it. Republicans need to quit selling this country and their companies to foreigners. Republicans need to start looking out for Americans and not just their pocketbooks. Republicans need to start a push to conserve resources rather than expoit them. REpublicans need to start acting like Christians and start caring about the poor. The Republicans need to look up what their charter says and become that party.

But, if I am wrong about who Republicans are supposed to be and what they need to make that happen, then I must just be a lifelong Democrat who has no idea what the Republicans stand for (other than hating gays and anti-abortion. But, hey, that may be all they stand for and there is just no negotiating that.).

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I would like the following explained (hopefully in your own blog so that it can be put up for everyone to read on the community pages):

1. Why are you guys are so against giving all citizens access to health care when they lose their job (especially if you claim pro-life)? 

2. Why is it ok that insurance companies are making huge profits while they short change doctors and patients?

3. Why employers making millions should not be responsible to keep their employees healthy instead of just firing them if they ever get sick?

Thanks,

Jen Deranger lol

Well, well, well, it turns out that Palin is just as un-intelligent as we thought. According to a Fox News Reporter (you know, the ones who are fair and balanced and therefore reports only the truth), Palin had no idea that Africa was a continent made up of many nations. Yikes. She actually thought that South Africa was part of the bigger country of Africa. While I must admit that this once confused me too, I had it all straightened out by the end of high school.

How many of you know which countries participate in NAFTA? Here is a hint: NAFTA stands for the North Amererican Free Trade Agreement. Still confused? Just name the North Amercian countries. Although Palin lives in one of the three countries and next door to another one, she has no idea which countries make up North America. Seriously? It would be surprising, except it seems that almost everyone drops out of school in AK making it safe to assume Civics Class in Wassilla may not be all that important to a bunch of people who will just go on welfare once they turn 18 (they get at least $1,500 per year even though they can't afford programs to combat domestic violence which they suffer from more than any other state in the USA).  Therefore, I guess there just wasn't any motivation to learn.

This brings up my entire point. The GOP saw country second, not first. McCain and his advisors chose Palin for three reasons and neither of them involved the good of the country. He chose her to 1. electrify the base, Christian Jihadists (there is a diff btwn Xian Jihadists and Christians), 2. to capture the women who supported Clinton b.c they are sexist and 3. b.c she is a MILF. Choosing a VP who needs to catch up on what she should have learned in high school and college (or while she was a stay at home mom for 20 years) is irresponsible. WIth so much to learn, how would she be able to sharpen skills in order to negotiate with world leaders and make chioces that affect countries she doesn't even realize is a country?

Funny that so many are chanting Palin 2012. Just goes to show that some don't think that intelligence is a necessity when dealing with world and domestic problems that can lead to the growth or destruction of the USA. Let's hope that those people are the minority once again in 2012. Here's to hope. Oh, and Yeah Pres. Obama!!!!!!

If you insist that a person considered black is a 'worse race' so that you can insult him.

If you compare someone of a mixed race to the type of dog most likely to be killed in an animal shelter.

If you compare someone of any race to a dog.

If you think that someone is going to 'black up' or 'Arab up' the White House even though the President is an American before anything else.

If you find it incredibly important to state the 'true' race of people to make a point.

If you have no problem making fun of females for being female and gays for being gay (because it isn't out of character).

If you think all illegal immigrants (Mexicans) are drunks, rapists and murderers.

If you tell jokes that make fun of a group of people using an 'accepted' stereotype.

If you think someone is less of you due to their gender, sex, and sexual orientation (none of those are choices).

If you think you aren't a racist, yet you participate in any of the above, I hate to break it to you, but you are a racist. Fortunately, being a racist is a choice. Therefore, you can choose to mend your ways and quit making racist comments and behaving in this deplorable way. It's never to late to improve yourself. Get started now. There is no time to waste.

Let's say I decide to start a business. Whatever I choose to sell, I must price it strategically. If I price it too high, no one will buy my product. If I price it too low, I won't maximize my profit and will end up doing more work than I need to. Therefore, I decide on a price that makes sense and see what happens. After some time, I may adjust my prices to best maximize my profit and minimize the work.

After running my business for a while, I want to increase my profit. If I simply raise my prices, my customer base will shrink. If I have less customers paying more, I maintain my profit, I don't increase it. My other strategy would be to hire someone to help me sell more products thereby increasing my profit. However, if I just hire someone without an increase in demand, I will end up decreasing my profits by paying them a decent wage.

Now, let's add taxes into the equation. If the govt gives me an extra $10,000-60,000 per year, what is my motivation to hire more people? The govt. has given me the increase in profit that I wanted without me needing to do anything to get it. B.c the govt. gave a huge amount to one person and not a small amount to a lot of people, they have not increased my customer base. Without an increase in customer base, I don't have an increase in demand. WIthout an increase in demand, why should I invest my money in an employee?

On the other hand, I could lower my prices b.c the govt. gave me a raise. However, if I lower my prices, I am now maximizing my work load. What is my motivation to work longer hours and decrease my hourly average?

Now, let's say I have to pay an extra amount in taxes which I benefit from the most in that my employees are using the streets to come to work for me, my kids' schools are better equipped, etc., the only way I am going to increase my profit is to sell more products. And the only way I can do that is an increase in demand. I need an increase in customers. I may need to lower my prices myself ,without govt. investment, to gain more customers which will lead to me hiring another employee. The govt. is still charging me an appropriate amount to have the streets, schools, parks, etc. that I use to make all my money. And, my employees have a better life making them better workers and more able (obviously universal health care plays a big role in this as well. Health workers = healthy profit).

That is the beleif system of the liberals and why we don't agree with REaganomic/Trickle down economics. It isn't socialism, it's business.