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Good morning.

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton talks with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel and the Israeli delegation prior to their working lunch with President Barack Obama in the Cabinet Room of the White House, July 6, 2010. Photo by Pete Souza.
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Morning all good Dems,
Chairman Kaine is right on with his Republican Contract on America. He missed two of their talking points. The first is that only white people of means should be allowed to vote and we will do away with the Civil Rights Act of 1964 since President Obama is violating it every day by bringing up race in every speech and press conference.
If the repukes win congress in the next election, we will have another do nothing republican congress. They have no ideas whatsoever except to cut taxes and screw the working man. If that's what the American worker and seniors want then then more power to them. We would have utter chaos in government. Corporations would be free to defile our landscape and eliminate senior citizens. They will no doubt propose to make Soylent Green out of our seniors and sell it for dog food since cemeteries would be overflowing. After all, the average American is not good enough for a cemetery. Throw them to the dogs.
Blessing and have a good Liberal day that bring sunshine upon loving rays.
The alienation of large segments of the old Democratic Party is in need of some caressing from those upon the political pedestal. Time to set down and bring back the whole Party in action that can create a reaction of Real Change.
The pyramid of politics what a weave it ebbs.
Part of Pandora's Political Pyramid
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Too good to be true
The facts will make you so blue
Sent packing on the bridge to nowhere
Reigning blues
Overlooking BlackWater wardrobe stains
Scarlet Letter funds in Madoff remains
Great Depression
Washington graven coffin domain
Republican/Democrat Goodwill
Ambassadors of Subprime bankruptcy
America must fail Medusa leaders
Turning America stone cold.
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The Administration has tools it is not using. Have Michelle Obama start visiting colleges to talk and communicate. Ask the students what they can do to help and what roadblocks there are, not in blame, but in finding solutions. Ask them to help God Bless Made in America reach the next generation.
I have yet to see a Executive Order demanding a disclosure in those safety features that are in disrepair. That a county by county, city by city, state by state, and federal database be made that can be checked off periodically as secondary oversight. Officials and regulars need to record contacts with those officials they oversee, and demand that any offers be filed.
Good afternoon, DEMS!
Just announced a little while ago:
AP: Fired USDA employee Sherrod to sue conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart
AND, on a related note, FOX "News" is tearing up the road running away from Andrew (Not so bright) fart.
Bill O'Lieley (who "broke" that 'story' on FOX was making the rounds for the last week with a slew of mea culpas trying to save his own ass.
Earlier today FOX made a public announcement that they "screwed up" with that made up story.
They are ALL "lawyering up".
This could be the end of FOX as they now operate.
I like President Obama dressing down to America, not in wardrobe, but stature and reaching eye level communication with "We the people" that the visit to the View humanizes him not, villain(izes) him. I actually felt closer to him seeing the CNN story about it.
As much as I despise Fox news as racist, bigoted, and well disgusting, the feasibility of entering enemy territory needs to be discussed with finding the right (Liberal HeArt) person. Then find a place for an incision of precision communication.
The sad thing is that those that always say yes to him, probably hurt him. he needs a signal, where alternative views are presented.
President Obama in your stops collect the poems, paintings, and HeArt of American Artmosphere youth, and then send thank you letters. Find an empty wall around the White House and put these items for people to see. Why kids would go crazy, President Obama put my picture or poem on display in Washington. You could even have a web site called the HeArt of American Youth. Just a seed to blossom a bouquet with that could start a mental garden.
Blessing from a Liberal HeArt Blessed from above a President.
In using Free Speech some people learn to hate you and tell you to grow up that you are not contributing to the effort of cloning thought. Yet, they will read your posts, so they can find something to hate. Guess what, that is called communication! The sad fact is that I am left to those right, and right to those left that I need to go into a mirror and come out the other side, but that would make me a Politician, and personally, I find that a bit disgusting. But they the cheeks part down the middle of what comes out both sides. I little pun relieve there.
There was once a great orator, whose elocution wrote down the middle of road of conformity, until he reached a dead end. And found himself with no way out.
Politicians often create the problem, and cannot find a solution, for they are too busy blaming each other, that is Subprime failure political bankruptcy paradox that builds the pyramid upside down.
How do you tell a Republican? Look at their hair length the shorter the more Conservative. Look at their wardrobe is it K or WalMart or Rolex? Figure out how much plastic they have in them and around them. Do not ask them if they want a Liberal or Conservative portion at mealtime that only applies to the owners. But then Liberal and Conservative prices on airlines can bankrupt you. With the airline look at their Chamber of Commerce wardrobe. If they have Conglomerate suits on driving a Mercedes, well the car tells you what they are. While if they are laid back driving a ten year old Chevy that only makes them UnAmerican.
The English language is so hallow cast inside words of love and so hollow caste in words of hate. Where the tear is tattered and torn fabric with tear drops meaning that ones like the desert taste and the dessert beauty that somehow ice cream melt with. (warning look at the spelling and the word's surrounding it)
Like the Tea Party, Fox News must now face racial harmony adjustments for the savage brand of reporting is like a BP spill that in unregulated reporting will break open with a Brietbart Coulter BlackWater smear spill. Time to put the screws to those who really control their news anchor O'reiley's and Hannity's.
While on the CNN side I hate Gavel in Gravel reporting, where reporter judges use gavels of prosecution and intimidation as prosecutors, who act like bullies targeting people in high school or Hollywood. That Lohan is an illegal alien denied the due process of a fair representation that she is labeled as if a Jew, a liberal, a Black, or even a Communist. Look at what McCarthy did to Hollywood in exiling Charlie Chapman.
The Gavel Gravel Voice Femininity
TV media reporting with a dynamic flowing look
Feminine sensual grace charm shares an elegant face
Choreographed wardrobe hair sharing stage presence
Desirable showbiz appearance in information delivery.
Nightmare reporting with a gavel judgment in hand
Sound decibel gravel rasp grasping shouting voice
Turn down the sound level and you still hear her echo
Pound those words so hard, as earth shattering news.
That news has become biased, bigoted and plain obnoxious
That like preacher on pulpits, they demonize the world news
Their personal opinions divide a nation into economic hollow castes
That “We the people” were not born equal
Because CNN and Fox News reporters are Supreme Court Judges
Reporting on who is wearing no underwear in news flashes.
When we need to know
Who is wearing America in regulating Washington
With the Sword point wanting Truth in that Free Press pressure
That pin point penetration of dissection in precision paper cut
Surgery that restored a crumpling foundation that “LIES” in Washington
Blackwater, and BlackWater cesspool quagmires in Subprime bankruptcy
Our our future generation, lost children in failure politics’ future blight hope.
The Vietnam Vet Rants the PTSD depression that weathers Washington
Inquisition of failed Politicians that say America must fail its civilians
Politicians like Fox News and CNN always attacking
But never doing any creative reconstruction
In what the United States of America is about
The ability to hold hands in communication
That its strength of unity that will never surrender
The American dream
That for poets
Is De-Terminated for Poetry Social Security
Somewhere in America
Not on company time
Not on Fox News
Hardly on CNN News
But watching the BBC
When in reality the gavel
Should point to Washington
Where gravel feminine voices
And those soft spoken males
Delivers a Free Speech broadside
From the USS Constitution
Proclamation in that individual
Declaration of Independence.
That God Bless Made in America
Is worth saving for our children.
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Top 5 Social Security Myths
Myth #1: Social Security is going broke.
Reality: There is no Social Security crisis. By 2023, Social Security will have a $4.6 trillion surplus (yes, trillion with a 'T'). It can pay out all scheduled benefits for the next quarter-century with no changes whatsoever.1 After 2037, it'll still be able to pay out 75% of scheduled benefits—and again, that's without any changes. The program started preparing for the Baby Boomers' retirement decades ago.2 Anyone who insists Social Security is broke probably wants to break it themselves.
Myth #2: We have to raise the retirement age because people are living longer.
Reality: This is a red-herring to trick you into agreeing to benefit cuts. Retirees are living about the same amount of time as they were in the 1930s. The reason average life expectancy is higher is mostly because many fewer people die as children than they did 70 years ago.3 What's more, what gains there have been are distributed very unevenly—since 1972, life expectancy increased by 6.5 years for workers in the top half of the income brackets, but by less than 2 years for those in the bottom half.4 But those intent on cutting Social Security love this argument because raising the retirement age is the same as an across-the-board benefit cut.
Myth #3: Benefit cuts are the only way to fix Social Security.
Reality: Social Security doesn't need to be fixed. But if we want to strengthen it, here's a better way: Make the rich pay their fair share. If the very rich paid taxes on all of their income, Social Security would be sustainable for decades to come.5 Right now, high earners only pay Social Security taxes on the first $106,000 of their income.6 But conservatives insist benefit cuts are the only way because they want to protect the super-rich from paying their fair share.
Myth #4: The Social Security Trust Fund has been raided and is full of IOUs
Reality: Not even close to true. The Social Security Trust Fund isn't full of IOUs, it's full of U.S. Treasury Bonds. And those bonds are backed by the full faith and credit of the United States.7 The reason Social Security holds only treasury bonds is the same reason many Americans do: The federal government has never missed a single interest payment on its debts. President Bush wanted to put Social Security funds in the stock market—which would have been disastrous—but luckily, he failed. So the trillions of dollars in the Social Security Trust Fund, which are separate from the regular budget, are as safe as can be.
Myth #5: Social Security adds to the deficit
Reality: It's not just wrong—it's impossible! By law, Social Security's funds are separate from the budget, and it must pay its own way. That means that Social Security can't add one penny to the deficit.8
Love to see a Bachmann lynching !
Tea party groups in Missouri are furious that national tea party icon, Rep. Michele Bachmann, endorsed the strong frontrunner for the Senate nomination Rep. Roy Blunt (R-MO). Bachmann will join Blunt for a fundraiser and to make campaign calls in his St. Louis headquarters Saturday.
Given that Bachmann has emerged as a tea party hero and formed the brand-new Tea Party Caucus in Congress, the groups said "we were shocked" that she is backing Blunt since he voted for the TARP bailout funds and "Cash for Clunkers."
"We believe she has been grossly misled if she understands him to be a Missouri Tea Party candidate," read a statement issued by 38 groups from the Show Me state, claiming to represent more than 8,660 activists. The statement came with a list of the groups, noting they have "NOT" endorsed Blunt.
Don't know if you guys are blogging elsewhere too, but you see the Rightie easily led sheeple always saying SS is dying!
Here is something to park and use when you see the Lies
Social Security is under attack and we need to fight back against the lies.
Have you heard that Social Security is going bankrupt? Driving up the deficit? In crisis?
Well none of that is true. These are all myths that opponents of Social Security have been spreading to scare people into accepting benefit cuts this fall. But the myths are taking hold—so we have to fight back with the facts.
So we've put together a list of the top five myths about Social Security, along with the real story. Can you check out the list and then share it with your friends, family, and coworkers?
Share the list by going to http://pol.moveon.org/ssmyths?id=22140-3347291-ZdoZr1x&t=1 If you're on Facebook, share it by clicking here. If you're on Twitter, tweet it here.
Top 5 Social Security Myths
Myth #1: Social Security is going broke.
Reality: There is no Social Security crisis. By 2023, Social Security will have a $4.6 trillion surplus (yes, trillion with a 'T'). It can pay out all scheduled benefits for the next quarter-century with no changes whatsoever.1 After 2037, it'll still be able to pay out 75% of scheduled benefits—and again, that's without any changes. The program started preparing for the Baby Boomers' retirement decades ago.2 Anyone who insists Social Security is broke probably wants to break it themselves.
Myth #2: We have to raise the retirement age because people are living longer.
Reality: This is a red-herring to trick you into agreeing to benefit cuts. Retirees are living about the same amount of time as they were in the 1930s. The reason average life expectancy is higher is mostly because many fewer people die as children than they did 70 years ago.3 What's more, what gains there have been are distributed very unevenly—since 1972, life expectancy increased by 6.5 years for workers in the top half of the income brackets, but by less than 2 years for those in the bottom half.4 But those intent on cutting Social Security love this argument because raising the retirement age is the same as an across-the-board benefit cut.
Myth #3: Benefit cuts are the only way to fix Social Security.
Reality: Social Security doesn't need to be fixed. But if we want to strengthen it, here's a better way: Make the rich pay their fair share. If the very rich paid taxes on all of their income, Social Security would be sustainable for decades to come.5 Right now, high earners only pay Social Security taxes on the first $106,000 of their income.6 But conservatives insist benefit cuts are the only way because they want to protect the super-rich from paying their fair share.
Myth #4: The Social Security Trust Fund has been raided and is full of IOUs
Reality: Not even close to true. The Social Security Trust Fund isn't full of IOUs, it's full of U.S. Treasury Bonds. And those bonds are backed by the full faith and credit of the United States.7 The reason Social Security holds only treasury bonds is the same reason many Americans do: The federal government has never missed a single interest payment on its debts. President Bush wanted to put Social Security funds in the stock market—which would have been disastrous—but luckily, he failed. So the trillions of dollars in the Social Security Trust Fund, which are separate from the regular budget, are as safe as can be.
Myth #5: Social Security adds to the deficit
Reality: It's not just wrong—it's impossible! By law, Social Security's funds are separate from the budget, and it must pay its own way. That means that Social Security can't add one penny to the deficit.8
Here's the source if you need to back it up:
."To Deficit Hawks: We the People Know Best on Social Security," New Deal 2.0, June 14, 2010
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=89703&id=22140-3347291-ZdoZr1x&t=4
2. "The Straight Facts on Social Security," Economic Opportunity Institute, September 2009
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=89704&id=22140-3347291-ZdoZr1x&t=5
3. "Social Security and the Age of Retirement," Center for Economic and Policy Research, June 2010
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=89705&id=22140-3347291-ZdoZr1x&t=6
4. "More on raising the retirement age," Washington Post, July 8, 2010
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=89706&id=22140-3347291-ZdoZr1x&t=7
5. "Social Security is sustainable," Economic and Policy Institute, May 27, 2010
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=89707&id=22140-3347291-ZdoZr1x&t=8
6. "Maximum wage contribution and the amount for a credit in 2010," Social Security Administration, April 23, 2010
http://ssa-custhelp.ssa.gov/app/answers/detail/a_id/240
7. "Trust Fund FAQs," Social Security Administration, February 18, 2010
http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/ProgData/fundFAQ.html
8."To Deficit Hawks: We the People Know Best on Social Security," New Deal 2.0, June 14, 2010
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=89703&id=22140-3347291-ZdoZr1x&t=9
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