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Empirical Evidence That Proves Conservatism is Destroying America

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Empirical Evidence That Proves Conservatism is Destroying America

Luke Kelly - Kelly The Boy From Killane

Sure, and he was the best Irish singer, Luke Kelly;
He sings this with the Dubliners


AND A GRAND ST. PATRICK'S DAY TO YOU!

Iowa Woman Jailed for Thinking about an Abortion

Iowa Woman Jailed for Thinking about an Abortion - these Fascists Fools 'claim' to want limited government. Well, to me, limited government means just that. Stay the hell away from my bedroom and my body!!!
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Snippet from article:

Sounds far-fetched, right? Well it isn't. The anti-choice zealots aren't content to limiting a woman's access to safe and legal abortion, they're now thought police:

Ms. Taylor became light-headed and fell down a flight of stairs in her home. Paramedics rushed to the scene and ultimately declared her healthy. However, since she was pregnant with her third child at the time, Taylor thought it would be best to be seen at the local ER to make sure her fetus was unharmed.

That's when things got really bad and really crazy. Alone, distraught, and frightened, Taylor confided in the nurse treating her that she hadn't always been sure she'd wanted this baby, now that she was single and unemployed. She'd considered both adoption and abortion before ultimately deciding to keep the child. The nurse then summoned a doctor, who questioned her further about her thoughts on ending the pregnancy. Next thing Taylor knew, she was being arrested for attempted feticide. Apparently the nurse and doctor thought that Taylor threw herself down the stairs on purpose.

Yes, as if Ms. Taylor's existing problems weren't enough, the anti-choice zealots got her jailed for 2 days for thinking of having an abortion, even though she voluntarily went to the ER to assure the health of her fetus. Funny how "pro-lifers" have never met a victim they don't want to punish. After three weeks, the District Attorney declined to prosecute, but not because of the obvious encroachment on a woman's right to choose (similar laws for which this woman was held exist in 37 states), but because she was only in her second trimester, and not third when she fell. No I'm not making this up, and unfortunately Ms. Taylor isn't alone:

Last March, Florida resident Samantha Burton was in week 25 of her pregnancy when she paid a visit to her doctor. Burton was showing signs of potential miscarriage, so her physician ordered bed rest. Burton explained that, as a working mother of two toddlers, bed rest simply wasn't a viable option and then proceeded to ask for a second medical opinion. Seems reasonable, right?

Her doctor, however, was having none of that. Rather than refer Burton for the desired second opinion, he instead felt it necessary to contact state authorities, who then proceeded to force Burton to be admitted to Tallahassee Memorial Hospital against her will and undergo any procedure the doctor felt like prescribing. When Burton had the audacity to request a change in the hospital in which she was being treated, the court denied her request. Three days into her forced hospitalization, Burton miscarried.

Flashpoint in Salt Lake City: One Man Takes a Stand

Flashpoint in Salt Lake City: One Man Takes a Stand

A snippet from the article:

I met Tim DeChristopher at the Pricing Carbon Conference in Middletown, CT, last November. I was on a shuttle bus, waiting to head over to the Wesleyan campus for the morning session, when he walked on. He was just 28 years old–but I was awed.

I had seen Tim on Democracy Now and had been so inspired by his courage and clarity of purpose. In the waning days of the Bush administration, Tim, a University of Utah economics major and former wilderness guide, bid on and won nearly $1.8 million worth of federal oil and gas leases before confessing to federal agents that he had no intention of or ability to pay for them. Tim was charged with two felonies—interfering with an auction and making false statements on bidding forms. He faces a maximum of 10 years in prison and $750,000 in fines if convicted.

Tim prevented the sale of thousands of acres of pristine Utah land that were being auctioned off by the Bureau of Land Management at bargain bin prices as a gift from the Bush administration to the oil industry. The defense is scheduled to rest this afternoon and place the case in the jury’s hands, just three days after the trial began.

Thom Hartmann: Scott Walker is the face now - but the first culprit was ...

GOP candidate wants Hispanic farmworkers deported & replaced with Inner City Blacks bused in to do the work

http://motherjones.com/authors/suzy-khimm

A Republican candidate running for Rep. Chris "Craigslist" Lee's seat in upstate New York isn't doing his scandalized party any favors. Jack Davis, a local businessman vying for the seat, shocked local GOP leaders by suggesting that the area's Hispanic farmworkers should be deported, and that inner city blacks should be bused in to pick the crops instead, as The Buffalo News reports.
Davis made the comments during a February 20 endorsement interview with local Republican Party leaders—and it's not the first time he's floated the idea.

Walk like Egyptians and Wisconsinites: EASY-We can help the Libyan protesters One little 'thing' at a time, all together. Whoa!

I'm calling on the U.S. government/state to put out a special PO Box (or whatever) so that
WE the PEOPLE
can say to the LIBYAN PROTESTORS:  WE STAND WITH YOU.

We stand with you in a place where we can each
send just One Thing that will help them.
And in doing so...
In Being so...
In Truth We the People are helping our Selves.

And whilst We the People here in (put in a country) are challenged/are wealthy/are poor/wherever and whatever ever our circumstance...

We the PEOPLE CAN

*Send a can of food
*Send a blanket
*Send a pair of trousers or jeans
*Send Socks
*a pair of eyeglasses you might not use anymore.
*Send one thing or pair of whatever we KNOW as HUMANS as ONE, in a fragile time of

FREEDOM AND POTENTIAL

As to those of us who hold whatever religious belief - or no belief - and the full spectrum:  This is a Moment like none other.
Leave the evangelizing, radicalizing, demonizing, deifying, etc., etc., in a loving spot in the corner of your heart, for We the People are helping survival in this moment - it would not serve This Very Important Moment.

LET'S TELL OUR GOVERNMENTS: NOW, DUDES; THIS IS YOUR MOMENT TO ASSIST WE THE PEOPLE AS WE SHARE WITH YOU HOW TO PEACEFULLY ASSIST OUR BROTHERS AND SISTERS WHO ARE WANTING/BEING ACTIVISTS TO BE FREE.

SEND ONE OF SOMETHING FROM OUR HIGHEST SELF

AND HELP ANOTHER BE THEIR HIGHEST SELF. Yep.

Let's Rock.
BluesVues

Cost of War - no money for education, helping living little ones, not allowing

( http://costofwar.com/en/  -  use the drop down box, also, to see how much it's costing your state, your county, perhaps even your town/city.)

our wisdom elders to live the last session of their life experience with some independence and 100% dignity; and so much more.  The only reason our (We the People) resources are 'scarce' is that they are being used up - our loved ones, as well, being used up as one of those 'resources' - expendables - sacrifices on the Altar of Greed.

We are spun, lied to, mis and dis informationed, as pablum is served up on the TV from Talking Heads and Reality Shows hosts/players; looking just like little bobbin'-headed dolls in the back of the car, looking out the window at the masses who hang on their every word and smilin' - because the only difference between them and the expendables is that they know they're being spun. It's like double-think. You carry a set of contradictory beliefs at the same time, in order to maintain your rung on the ladder

Of what?

Watched a bio on Johnny Cash tonight.  Oh man, Kris Kristofferson is aging in a way that still makes me go, 'Oooh yes...'  And then Willie...and Waylon.  Steve Earle, a new favorite... and sure, Merle Haggard.  Say it like it is, bros.

Commonalities:

a/ they know they're in a human experience.  That means, by default, not perfect - by any stretch of the imagination.  No one is. Fact.  Anyone says different, they're hidin' something.  These guys lived it.  I'd rather be like and around these kinds of guys than anyone who goes around judging other humans, as if he were something gifted by his god to bring benefit to the rest of us.

b/ they have/had fun - they enjoyed Life. (nothing else to say to that.)

c/ they stood up.  Watch the bio if you don't know what any of them stand/stood for. Snoop Dog is a fan of Cash's, and he's cool too...you gotta realize no one's perfect.

All of the above men (and there are plenty of women and other men who are this - everyday people being/doing extraordinary things) understood what the Spirit of being fully Human is.

It is the realization, awareness, and action emanating from We are All One - one with the God/Force of our understanding, and

ONE
WITH
EACH
OTHER. (special for severe Christians, bless your hearts: Jesus said.)

Yep. Outlaws; they didn't have much time for the State, but they love/d their country. They spoke their mind.  Let each of us speak ours - even when our voice shakes.

And bring back the old songs and create new ones in a new way. Bring food. Let's dance.
C'mon Sing. The Universe hears you in key, man.
Food and Conversation.
Don't even have to talk to each other. Until you want to say how good the food is

Point of conversation.

There's a way.
If there's not, then get to co-creating one.
Because
We are being used to keep growing an unsustainable worldwide war and arms economy
We are Consumers and the health and survival of this brave, red/white and blue nation
Depends on us SPENDING.
not SAVING?
Get outta Dodge with that padoodah poop.

So for whom are We the People, We the Consumer, We the Expendables
(because remember, know any great jobs much left here, except lower-level and whatever jobs it takes to maintain the entities comprising the 6-6-6 Greed Group?)
SPENDING?  If 'Consumer Spending' is necessary to keep our system going, then

a/ it's stupid and a lie a psych a spin a patriotic myth; and
b/ we are in deep doo doo.
C/ But the 6-6-6 Greed Group Antichrists will benefit and laugh at the Expendable, Interchangeable, One-Size-Fits-All, patriotic-spun-son, as they continue to make and market arms to sell to the world  (can you say Qhadaffi?), then work themselves like the guy on TV with the shakin' weigh as they watch others play their Warrior Game die from it - or worse.

It's  time to co-create Peace.
Definitely not for Wusses.
Blessed are the PeaceMAKERS for THEY shall be called the Children of God/Force/Life.
Let's rock.

That's it - from the For What it's Worth department. Don't have to agree, although you can. Don't even have to understand it, and you can dismiss it. Unless you don't :-)

Peace-Paz-Mir. Stand up. Grab a hand. And let's rock.