Day: August 15, 2013

These Numbers Prove We’re Heading For A More Progressive America | ThinkProgress

For too long us on the Left, and I am talking about the real Left, have been waiting for something to happen that would help make the people see the necessity for a more progressive government………and could there be a future quickly approaching?

If you listen closely…..we can hear their butts slamming shut!

These Numbers Prove We’re Heading For A More Progressive America | ThinkProgress.

Where Are The Solutions Hiding?

Ever wish that our elected officials would just shut the Hell up?  I got it!  You GOPers do not like Obamacare……..but voting endlessly to repeal and having no other chopice but to vote again and again and……is NOT gonna repeal Obamacare.  Sorry it is just that simple…..so please stop wasting time and money on an untenable position and formulate some solutions for pressing problems….just a thought!

All that was wishful thinking….I know….and here is why……..

Here’s the latest news on Republicans’ long, hot August:

  • GOP can’t turn off the climate science crazy: Salon’s Brian Beutler writes, “Going into August recess, GOP leaders were really hoping its members of Congress wouldn’t yield to a shared tendency to talk about climate science…To no one’s surprise, though, that’s a bit like hoping the scorpion won’t sting the frog. Already this month, several House Republicans have given in to their nature.”
  • GOP Congressman calls for government shutdown unless Congress ‘defunds Obamacare this year’:
    During a town hall meeting in a tony suburb outside Sacramento on Tuesday, McClintock brought up the upcoming continuing resolution, which is necessary to keep government open but which many conservatives are targeting as a venue for another showdown over Obamacare. McClintock told the audience that he will vote against the continuing resolution — and thus for a government shutdown — unless the bill “defunds Obamacare this year.”
  • Rand Paul: ‘I don’t think there is any particular evidence’ of black voters being prevented from voting: Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), a tea party senator with a long history of opposition to civil rights laws, told an audience in Louisville, Kentucky on Wednesday that there is no evidence of black voters being excluded from the franchise.
  • GOP Congressman argues against multiculturalism: ‘There’s only one race here, it’s the American race’: Rep. Tom McClintock (R-CA) took a strong stand against multiculturalism at a town hall meeting, arguing that immigrants need to shed their culture, become “the American race,” and if they’re unwilling to do so, “reevaluate” whether they want to be in this country in the first place. Fielding questions about immigration reform, McClintock told the audience on Tuesday evening that he worries current generations of immigrants aren’t assimilating like in the past but instead retaining the culture from their native land. “There’s only one race here, it’s the American race,” he implored to constituents.
  • Rep. Steve King says Latino immigrants are from a ‘violent civilization,’ will bring ‘more violence’ to America:
    Rep. Steve King (R-IA) launched a vicious tirade against individuals from Latin America, claiming that the population gets more violent as one moves further south in Latin America
  • Huge crowd turns out to pressure House GOP leader to back pathway to earned citizenship: A crowd of at least 1,000 people turned out today at a town hall meeting in the district of Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), the third-ranking GOP leader in the House of Representatives.
  • Almost nobody shows up at Steve King’s anti-immigration reform “rally”: Rep. Steve King (R-IA) held a rally on Monday to oppose the immigration reform effort taking place on Capitol Hill, but no one, it seems, felt like going.

    CREDIT: Politico’s @seungminkim

    Washington is sans clowns, for now, but the hot air continues to drive the direction of political winds…..

One Conspiracy Deserves Another

You know that there is a site that will give you any conspiracy you would like…..about 9/11 or Boston bombing or health care or …..well you see where I am going with this….conspiracies are everywhere…..I found one when reading the other night……

Newser) – It’s pretty easy to make meth at home, and Big Pharma seems intent on keeping it that way, Mother Jones reports. The so-called “one pot” method of meth production relies on pseudoephedrine, a common ingredient in medicines like Sudafed and Claritin D. So two states—Oregon and Mississippi—made pseudoephedrine a harder-to-obtain prescription drug, and saw meth-lab numbers fall by 96% and 74%, respectively. But other states that tried passing a similar law ran into Big Pharma’s lobbying juggernaut.

Legislators in two dozen states have tried passing bills since 2009, and were deluged by angry phone calls, ad campaigns, and robocalls to constituents. “They’ll outspend us 100-to-1,” says an Alabama state senator. Lobbyists argue that most US meth comes from Mexico, and Americans need easy access to medicine. True, but meth is cutting a scary path of addiction, burn victims, and ruined homes through America. Big Pharma’s “pull in Congress is so strong,” says an aide in Washington, that “every time we would schedule a meeting … anybody who got wind of it would have a meeting with someone from the pharmaceutical industry. They got scared of it.”

Drug companies would rather see their product used in the making of an illegal substances than cooperate with the enforcement people…..see…..profits are more important than anything in big business.