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GOD BLESS MID TERM NOVEMBER TURN OVER REVOLUTION
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Here are 10 of the weirdest, most extremist planks that have made their way into recent GOP state platforms -- a telling glimpse of Republican views unfiltered by media consultants and political calculations, in an election year hijacked by the Tea Partiers.

1. Brave Stand Against the New World Order

Shadowy global financial and political elites have a really unpatriotic plan in the works: dissolving America and ushering in a socialist, planetary government run by foreigners. Glenn Beck's meticulous reporting reveals that the so-called "New World Order" is swiftly approaching.

Like Beck, the Maine GOP is speaking out against the totalitarian menace in its 2010 platform, pledging to resist "efforts to create a one-world government." (In 2008, Maine Republicans, still blind to the truth, failed to enlist in the fight.)

Texas Republicans are also waging an existential battle to protect American sovereignty, declaring, "We oppose a one-world government in direct opposition to our basic principles and eroding our sovereignty." Also of concern in several platforms: the NAFTA superhighway from Mexico to Canada (an ongoing source of worry for Ron Paul libertarians and assorted conspiracy theorists) and the dreaded Amero, currency of the New World Order.

2. Get the UN Off Our Land!

Establishing a totalitarian one-world government will be easier if Americans have already been crushed into submission, which is where the UN comes in. Fortunately, state Republicans won't let that happen. The Texas GOP platform demands that the U.S. cut all financial and military ties to the UN, and rescind all treaties that allegedly conflict with the Constitution. Texas Republicans also want the UN off American land, urging Congress to "evict the United Nations from the United States and eliminate any further participation."

Maine is opposed to "any and all treaties with the UN or any other organization or country which surrenders U.S. sovereignty." These include the law of the Sea Treaty, and, because child soldiers are a small price to pay for freedom, the UN Treaty on Rights of the Child.

Iowa Republicans most definitely do not want UN diplomats invading the state to raise their children, writing "We support parental rights and oppose the recognition of the United Nations Convention on “The Rights of the Child.” (Needless to say, they really don't have to worry -- the Treaty, which prohibits things like child labor, trafficking and child soldiers, carries no mandates and cannot impose laws at odds with the Constitution.)

3. GOP Thinks Gays Should Have Fewer Rights

Like the world's children, gays and lesbians have way too many rights. Republicans in several states would like to remedy this problem. The Texas GOP, which actually has the gall to say that homosexuality "tears at the fabric of society, contributes to the breakdown of the family unit, and leads to the spread of dangerous, communicable diseases," opposes same-sex marriage, child custody rights for gays, and insurance and retirement benefits for same-sex couples.

Texas Republicans also think it's unfair that gays have the right to be gay, but that straight people don't have the right to stop them from being gay, so the platform has this ominous plank: "We oppose any criminal or civil penalties against those who oppose homosexuality out of faith, conviction, or belief in traditional values."

Meanwhile, Texas Republicans think civil officials who perform the perverse act of wedding people who love each other should be arrested and charged with a felony. Yes, the Texas GOP wants to jail anyone who performs a ceremony or issues a marriage license to a same-sex couple.

Montana Republicans would like for gay sex to be against the law, promoting legislation "to keep homosexual acts illegal."

4. The GOP Disapproves of Your Sex Life

Also relevant to the country's well-being is the kind of sex had by consenting adults. According to Texas Republicans, it definitely shouldn't be oral or anal. Their platform opposes the legalization of "sodomy," and demands that Congress "withhold jurisdiction from the federal courts from cases involving sodomy."

Alaska Republicans do not advocate for laws banning sexual behavior, but do put "promiscuity" and "porn" on the same list as suicide and domestic abuse, calling all four "social dysfunctions" they promise to continue "actively combating."

The South Carolina GOP has finally figured out why the rest of the country fails to live up to the high standards of sexual propriety set by the state's Republican politicians: It's because of President Obama, of course! The Palmetto State's GOP warns:

Citizens must recognize that the “pursuit of happiness” is not a license for all forms of hedonism, violence, and irresponsibility. We readily recognize that character counts, and private choices often have public consequences. Unfortunately, these points seem tragically lost on President Barack H. Obama and the Democratic Party (emphasis added).

Obama will never learn, but that doesn't mean that the sex lives of American adults don't demand immediate action by the federal government -- the favored instrument of change for state Republicans when it comes to sex. Says the South Carolina GOP, "We also support federal efforts to scientifically challenge the (Alfred) Kinseyan model of American Human sexuality, which, since 1948, has propagated as 'normal' an indiscriminate and promiscuous view of human sexual behavior." They'd also like "the abolition of Pornography in our society."

Wyoming Republicans feel so strongly about supporting the "vigorous enforcement of laws which are against pornography" they've listed the item twice in their platform.

5. No Taxes

Several platforms call for the abolition of the IRS, the Sixteenth Amendment and all federal taxes.

The Montana GOP would like to do away with the income tax: "We support the repeal of the 16th amendment of the U.S. Constitution which authorizes a national income tax." Texas offers up the following bold (and totally practical) reforms to our tax system: "We recommend a national sales tax (which does not include a Value Added Tax) to replace all other Federal taxes once the I.R.S. is abolished and the Sixteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is repealed."

The IRS is not the only government agency whose yoke Americans must shake off. Also targeted by several GOP platforms are the Department of Energy, the Department of Education, the Bureau of Tobacco and Firearms, the EPA, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, and the Department of Health and Human Services.

6. Nullification

Cutting a few totally nonessential government agencies will hardly curb the government's usurption of our liberties; not if democratically elected federal officials still have the authority to pass laws that have to be followed. Several state platforms have a solution to this unacceptable breach of state and individual rights: nullification!

Based on an imaginative reading of the Tenth Amendment of the Constitution, which states that laws outside the purview of the federal government fall to the states, so-called 10thers contend that the (mild) reform of our horrific health system represents a drastic infringement on states rights. The solution, embraced by a number of GOP platforms, is for states and individuals to ignore laws they deem unconstitutional. A sampling, from Montana: " ... the States not only have the right, but also the duty to nullify unconstitutional laws in order to protect their citizens."

7. Gold Standard

Like the federal government, paper money can't be trusted. Tea Party visionaries Glenn Beck and Ron Paul have a better idea though: gold. Several GOP platforms have embraced the sound economic plan to return to the gold standard. Montana advocates "a return to a gold and silver-based monetary system ... "

Wisconsin's GOP, worried about the "eminent" [sic] danger of a collapse in the value of the dollar" wants an audit of the Fed to support "sound money."

8. Birth Certificates

Montana and Texas are not about to let any agents of the New World Order who were born in Kenya and smuggled into Hawaii with really realistic forgeries of their birth certificates become president. At least not again. To that end, Montana has included the following preventative measure:

We vigorously encourage passage of legislation requiring candidates for U.S. Representative, U.S. Senator, Vice President of the United States, and President of the United States provide documentation of their eligibility for the office sought as defined in the United States Constitution. This documentation shall be filed with the Montana Secretary of State. This filing is to be required as a precondition to being placed on the ballot in Montana. SB474 of the 2009 Session of the Montana Legislature provides model language for such legislation.

Texas also demands that presidential candidates supply their birth certificates for inclusion on the ballot, "bearing names and signatures

of parents, attendant(s), as well as date, time and location of birth."

9. Science Is Scary

Though less of a threat than foreign interlopers, scientists are also up to something, and it's not good. The Maine GOP would like to find out what it is, calling for an investigation of "collusion between government and industry in the global warming myth, and prosecute any illegal collusion."

Several state platforms are also behind the totally non-embarrassing quest to teach Creationism in schools, so that kids' brains aren't too filled up with all the untrustworthy science.

Minnesota: "We should continue to encourage the voluntary expression of religious beliefs and traditions of students. Specifically, educators who discuss creation science should be protected from disciplinary action and science standards should recognize that there is controversy pertaining to the theory of evolution."

Open-minded Texas supports "objective teaching and equal treatment of all sides of scientific theories, including evolution, Intelligent Design, global warming, political philosophies, and others."

10. Women

Finally, in a move that, sadly, actually dovetails quite nicely with national GOP politics, most Republican state platforms would really like the vessels that carry children to stop getting abortions or using contraception, so they've introduced several measures to curb these practices. Minnesota wants this weird thing to happen: "Members of the Minnesota House and Senate should introduce and support legislation defining conception as: “when the DNA (Deoxyribonucleic Acid) of Mankind is joined.”

South Carolina wants Roe v. Wade reversed, by way of a "Constitutional Human Life Amendment."

Texas opposes the use and sale of the morning-after pill. More than one platform demands that women be required to view sonograms of their pregnancies.

Republicans at all levels already support many of the anti-women policies embraced by the extremist state platforms. But how long until John Boehner and Eric Cantor succumb to pressure from the Tea Party right and start spouting off about a New World Order?
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A biased retelling of already biased opinions. I give it one out of four stars. How that guy could actually preface that with the word "unfiltered" is completely beyond me. Basically what you have here is some far left extremist nut ridiculing a bunch of far right extremist nuts. And in the end, both sides look like garbage.

This kind of bullshit is why retarded stuff like the Tea Party movement exists. The two parties are so busy going at each other that most of the time, when they oppose or approve of any given bill or action, it's because they're simply acting in opposition to whatever the guys across the isle are trying to do. Is it really that surprising that people are looking to a third party when neither of the two we've got are actually doing anything constructive?

Obama campaigned on a platform of ending the partisan divide, but by no measure has he done anything but make it wider. Have you read any of the nonsense surrounding the Unemployment Extension? It's ridiculous. Dems are ninjaing in a senator so they can get their minimum 60 votes. Like, seriously ninjaing this guy in. Mere minutes after they swore this temporary guy in, they're re-voting for the fucking fifth time about extending unemployment. Like, is there not a limit to how many times you can try for something, or do you just keep going at it until you get what you want? How many times do you have to get told no, before you're like, "Hmmm... Maybe we should move on?"

Meanwhile, Obama (remember, campaigned on ending bipartisanship) is saying that Republicans are "holding workers laid off in this recession hostage". And Reid is spewing garbage like, "They look at a crisis for families' budgets and see an opportunity for their political fortunes." Like we're supposed to believe that the Republicans are happy about the recession and are working to make it as long and as bad as possible. I mean, c'mon. It's the same kind of overexageration and demonizing as the bullshit in Jack's post. It's insulting to my intelligence.

Not that the Republicans are doing a great job or anything. Through it all, these retards are grasping at straws for a reason why they oppose the extension. Finally they dug up the excuse that they don't like the fact that the spending will increase the deficit when the real reason that they don't want to do it is simply because the Dems do. And never mind the fact that the Republicans are largely responsible for how huge the deficit is at the moment in the first place.

The whole thing is absurd. Bipartisanship and extremists on both sides are ruining this country. Well, "ruining" may be too extreme of a word. But none of it makes for a stronger or better America.

Fuck the vocal minority. Fuck 'em right in the ass.
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jack is a left wing extremist
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#14
Go Israel!
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Firecrest Wrote:Fuck the vocal minority. Fuck 'em right in the ass.
Honestly this entire thread is for me to exploit the vocal minority of the right, not actually debate politics. 8-)
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Government’s most essential obligation is to protect the people. Thomas Paine, who by any standard was no fan of government (he called it a “necessary evil”) understood this when he advocated a system of social programs by the English government on behalf of the poor and needy.

Glenn Beck dislikes government. He also dislikes social programs – such as Social Security, Medicaid and Medicare. Those who advocate such programs are, for Beck, “cockroaches.”

Beck, a radical conservative, thinks he channels Paine, an interesting feat considering Paine was a radical liberal. Doubly interesting since Paine has been called, rightly, the “real father of social security” and is therefore by Beck’s definition, a cockroach.

Yes, Beck thinks Thomas Paine was a cockroach.

If you are truly interested in what Paine said, read Paine. Do not read Beck. You don’t see Beck discussing Paine’s view of Christianity and you won’t see him discussing what I am about to discuss here.

Paine’s views on government are not the whole picture: read The Age of Reason (1794) or The Rights of Man (1791-92) for starters.

In the latter, Paine speaks of “practical relief” (p. 335): “To pay as a remission of taxes to every poor family, out of the surplus taxes, and in room of poor-rates, four pounds a year for every child under fourteen years of age; enjoining the parents of such children to send them to school, to learn reading, writing, and common arithmetic…”

“Accepting this method,” he tells us, “not only the poverty of the parents will be relieved but ignorance will be banished from the rising generation, and the numbers of poor will hereafter become less, because their abilities, by the aid of education, will be greater.”

For the purposes of education Paine proposes (p. 338) “To allow for each of these children ten shillings a year for the expense of schooling, for six years each.”

Is Beck pro-education? No, Beck has taken the Pink Floyd song to heart; he says, “We don’t need no education.” He wants to abolish the Department of Education.

Conservatives like Beck see education as an example of “big government excess.” Clearly, Beck is not channeling Paine.

To deal with the problem of the aged, who were often worked to death, Paine argues that at 60 “his labour ought to be over.” Beck has never voiced his opposition to people being worked to death. In fact, he thinks the current retirement age should be raised.

Of course, Paine died penniless and was never rich. According to celebritynetworth.com, Beck made $32 million dollars in 2009.
Beck may not need retirement benefits (or care that others do) but Paine understood that common people were in need (p. 336) and suggests that every person from age 50-60 receive six pounds per year and every person over sixty, ten pounds per year. Paine also feels (p. 339) that newly married couples should receive 20 shillings and 20 more upon birth of a child to “relieve a great deal of instant distress.”

Contrast this Beck’s proposal to do away with Social Security. As well as Medicaid. And Medicare.

This support, Paine says, “is not of the nature of charity, but of a right (p. 337).

Beck shares the current Republican view that the poor and unemployed are poor and unemployed because they are undeserving, not because they are victims of social or economic injustices, or flawed Republican policy during the eight years of the Bush Administration.

Beck does not see Paine’s system of relief as a right at all, but a socialist plot to undermine America.

In Agrarian Justice (1795) Paine further developed the ideas put forward the Rights of Man and puts forward ideas of land redistribution!

Significantly, he states, “[T]he first principle of civilization ought to have been, and ought still to be, that the condition of every person born into the world, after a state of civilization commences, ought not to be worse than if he had been born before that period” (p. 475).

In words that must sting those conservatives who today attempt to co-opt Paine, he states:

“It is not a charity but a right, not bounty but justice, that I am pleading for. The present state of civilization is as odious as it is unjust. It is absolutely the opposite of what it should be, and it is necessary that a revolution should be made in it. The contrast of affluence and wretchedness continually meeting and offending the eye, is like dead and living bodies chained together” (p. 482).

It is no wonder that Thomas Paine argued that the burden of taxation falls unfairly on the poor (Rights of Man, 360). How different from the cry raised by the Tea Partiers and GOP, who claim that the burden of taxation falls unfairly on the rich!

“Government,” Paine said, “even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.” Thomas Paine wanted better government. He understood that government is necessary.

But conservatives like Beck seem to interpret Paine as saying that government is not necessary. The Tea Party is not the party of limited government but rather the party of no government. And Beck, who calls “progressivism” a disease, and a “cancer,” who says that progressives must be hunted down, fails to see that Paine himself, whom he claims to be channeling, was a progressive, one of the most progressive men of his time.

Paine cared about social and economic justice. Beck does not: “I beg you, look for the words ‘social justice’ or ‘economic justice’ on your church Web site. If you find it, run as fast as you can. Social justice and economic justice, they are code words.”

Beck does not channel Thomas Paine; he doesn’t understand Thomas Paine. As Bob Cesca writes, “Beck’s wicked awesome plan for saving the economy is to throw poor people and senior citizens over a ledge.”
As you can see, that was not Thomas Paine’s plan at all. He actually cared about the common man. Paine would have pulled them from the ledge, not pushed them over it.

All Paine quotes taken from The Thomas Paine Reader, ed. By Michael Foot and Isaac Kramnick (Penguin Books, 1987).
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Like buttah.
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Enough Right Wing Propaganda
By E.J. Dionne Jr.
Monday, July 26, 2010

The smearing of Shirley Sherrod ought to be a turning point in American politics. This is not, as the now-trivialized phrase has it, a "teachable moment." It is a time for action.

The administration's response to the doctored video pushed by right-wing hit man Andrew Breitbart was shameful. The obsession with "protecting" the president turned out to be the least protective approach of all.

The Obama team did not question, let alone challenge, the video. Instead, it assumed that whatever narrative Fox News might create mattered more than anything else, including the possible innocence of a human being outside the president's inner circle.

Obama complained on ABC's "Good Morning America" that Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack "jumped the gun, partly because we now live in this media culture where something goes up on YouTube or a blog and everybody scrambles." But it's his own apparatus that turned "this media culture" into a false god.

Yet the Obama team was reacting to a reality: the bludgeoning of mainstream journalism into looking timorously over its right shoulder and believing that "balance" demands taking seriously whatever sludge the far right is pumping into the political waters.

This goes way back. Al Gore never actually said he "invented the Internet," but you could be forgiven for not knowing this because the mainstream media kept reporting he had.

There were no "death panels" in the Democratic health-care bills. But this false charge got so much coverage that an NBC News-Wall Street Journal poll last August found that 45 percent of Americans thought the reform proposals would likely allow "the government to make decisions about when to stop providing medical care to the elderly." That was the summer when support for reform was dropping precipitously. A straight-out lie influenced the course of one of our most important debates.

The traditional media are so petrified of being called "liberal" that they are prepared to allow the Breitbarts of the world to become their assignment editors. Mainstream journalists regularly criticize themselves for not jumping fast enough or high enough when the Fox crowd demands coverage of one of their attack lines.

Thus did Post ombudsman Andrew Alexander ask this month why the paper had been slow to report on "the Justice Department's decision to scale down a voter-intimidation case against members of the New Black Panther Party." Never mind that this is a story about a tiny group of crackpots who stopped no one from voting. It was aimed at doing what the doctored video Breitbart posted set out to do: convince Americans that the Obama administration favors blacks over whites.

And never mind that, to her great credit, Abigail Thernstrom, a conservative George W. Bush appointee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, dismissed the case and those pushing it. "This doesn't have to do with the Black Panthers," she told Politico's Ben Smith. "This has to do with their fantasies about how they could use this issue to topple the [Obama] administration." Instead, the media are supposed to take seriously the charges of J. Christian Adams, who served in the Bush Justice Department. He's a Republican activist going back to the Bill Clinton era. His party services included time as a Bush poll watcher in Florida in 2004, when on one occasion he was involved in a controversy over whether a black couple could cast a regular ballot.

Now, Adams is accusing the Obama Justice Department of being "motivated by a lawless hostility toward equal enforcement of the law." This is racially inflammatory, politically motivated nonsense -- and it's nonsense even if Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh talk about it a thousand times a day. When an outlandish charge for which there is no evidence is treated as an on-the-one-hand-and-on-the-other-hand issue, the liars win.

The Sherrod case should be the end of the line. If Obama hates the current media climate, he should stop overreacting to it. And the mainstream media should stop being afraid of insisting on the difference between news and propaganda.
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Force women to bear rapists’ babies, say multiple GOP candidates

Rachel Maddow asks why Democrats aren't making GOP extremism a national issue

MSNBC's Rachel Maddow has been researching the positions on abortion held by current Republican candidates and believes that, overall, they are far more extreme than in any previous election year. She also wonders why the Democratic Party hasn't made an issue of this extremism.

"The Republican Party is, without actually talking about it, this year nominating a group of candidates for top-of-the-ticket races that are more extreme on the issue of abortion than any other slate of top-of-the-ticket candidates in any other year," Maddow stated on Thursday.

She pointed to several GOP Senatorial candidates or front-runners who have declared that they oppose a right to abortion even in cases of rape or incest, including Nevada's Sharron Angle, Kentucky's Rand Paul, and Colorado's Ken Buck.

According to Maddow, these three "small government conservatives" all believe "that government should be big enough that it can monitor every pregnancy in the country to ensure that every single woman who becomes pregnant is forced by the government to carry that pregnancy to term. ... This is a position that was beyond the pale even in fringe anti-abortion politics not very many years ago, but apparently those days are over."
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you are being watched
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