Frank Lynch hereby calls upon President Barack Obama to make it illegal to wear burkas in America.

We must immediately stop issuing drivers licenses, passports, immigration papers of any sort, or any government identification or registration instruments to any person who even partially covers their face.

Further, under the hate crime laws, it should be a felony punishable by five years imprisonment at hard labor to refuse to shake hands because a person is a woman.

It is time for our government to stop all this ridiculous political correctness of not wanting to offend muslims. We must grow a spine and stand up to extremists. All people are equal, and we cannot and must not tolerate any practices that demean women in any way.

I am disappointed in our President that European countries are taking action to recognize the sanctity of womanhood before our own President does.

President Obama, please exercise leadership in banning the burka, banning the refusal to shake hands with women, and all other extremist traditions that demean women.

Further, all non-profits must be required to ban burkas from their officers, employees, Boards of Directors or Trustees.

Eveery educational institution, from preschool through graduate school, must ban burkas from their premises.

President Nicolas Sarkozydeclared Monday that the Islamic burqa is not welcome in France, branding the face-covering, body-length gown as a symbol of subservience that suppresses women's identities and turns them into "prisoners behind a screen."

But there was a mixed message in the tough words: an admission that the country's long-held principle of ethnic assimilation -- which insists that newcomers shed their traditions and adapt to French culture -- is failing because it doesn't give immigrants and their French-born children a fair chance.

In a high-profile speech to lawmakers in the historic chateau at Versailles, Sarkozy said the head-to-toe Muslim body coverings were in disaccord with French values -- some of the strongest language against burqas from a European leader at a time when some Western officials have been seeking to ease tensions with the Muslim world.

"In our country, we cannot accept that women be prisoners behind a screen, cut off from all social life, deprived of all identity," Sarkozy said to extended applause of the lawmakers gathered where French kings once held court.

"The burqa is not a religious sign, it's a sign of subservience, a sign of debasement -- I want to say it solemnly," he said. "It will not be welcome on the territory of the French Republic."

The Netherlands is about to ban burkas. The country's hardline Integration Minister, Rita Verdonk, known as the Iron Lady for her series of tough anti-immigration measures, told Parliament that she was going to investigate where and when the burka should be banned. The burka, traditional clothing in some Islamic societies, covers a woman's face and body, leaving only a strip of gauze for the eyes.

Mrs Verdonk gave warning that the "time of cosy tea-drinking" with Muslim groups had passed and that natives and immigrants should have the courage to be critical of each other.

She recently cancelled a meeting with Muslim leaders who refused to shake her hand because she was a woman. Great lady!

Although Netherlands has the same inane freedom of expression laws passed in America, she plans to make it a matter of public safety.

President Obama advised citizens not be seduced into becoming bankers because of the level of compensation, but to be productive in sectors that add real GDP and will be disinflationary (adding supply and adequate income) rather than deflationary (reducing income, or demand, to conserve supply).

The rhetoric incorrectly suggests a non-structural, non-organizational problem.

Citizens, of course, seek employment to maximize income in most cases independent of the structural dimension of the economy, largely out of their hands. The high compensation is available through organizational means that accumulates the capital to pay the high compensation, limiting the incentive to entrepreneurially compete for the profit and innovate quickly to market so that the means to disinflate the economy becomes the means to deflate the economy and reconsolidate the compensation paid, or the crisis we are in now.

The structural, organizational variable largely determines the decision to be a banker, i.e., organizing to accumulate and consolidate the capital causes the inefficiency that the president refers to.

Deconsolidate the capital and pluralize the marketplace. Both the efficiency and the freedom to pursue it will naturally appear as the fundament of a healthy economy with minimal volatility, less speculative risk and non-market distortions.

Deconsolidating the capital begins with a more progressive tax code, which not only satifies the sense of equity, but provides the means (the capital) to maximally innovate to add supply with an adequacy of income that renders catastrophic cyclical crisis an obsolete relic of the past.

We will see the oversized financial firms being compensated by the public sector for wrecking the economy bargain to have it all their way with the threat of not participating in the government programs, or threatening to wreck it even more. That is what organizing to be too big to fail is for--to have it all your way. To be a tyrant.

Considering that "too big to fail" means they are indispensable, it is nothing but extortion. The fraud and abuse we have come to expect from these unexpendable economic entities is apparently not enough to demonstrate the extent of corporate hegemony.

According to Geitner's plan, "The Public-Private Investment Program," The People's dollar only has a fraction of the value a hedge-fund, private-equity dollar of the private sector.

What accounts for the difference in valuation?

more at griffithlighton.blogspot.com

Conservatives want a progressive tax code to be considered "punitive" like the taxation being levied on the executive compensation of TARP recipients to suggest it is a temporary change. Otherwise, it is the means for switching to a more pluralistic operational model of power, or the change we need.

read more at griffithlighton.blogspot.com

When it was decided that tax money would be used to bail out financial firms too big to fail, I asked the question: what is the probability the money will be used to continue the practices that caused the financial crisis considering that causing the crisis is profitable?

The probability turns out to be, of course, 100 percent.   Read More »

Warren Buffet, billionaire investor, says tending to the economic crisis is job one.

That it is, and for the most part, that is where taking advice from billionaires should end.

If we are to prioritize the action to be taken by the new administration and congress, with the economy being job one, progressing the tax code is the very first step to take in priority.   Read More »

The MBA executives that devised and administered the hedge fund division of AIG without fear of government regulation did their job with superior expertise. They executed what they were hired to do with superior performance.

They are being compensated for a job well done. So, what's wrong with that?

If we think that the AIG, MBA hedge fund executives were not hired to wreck the economy, we would be wrong. They produced huge value put away into the private property--the personal wealth--of the upper class, creating the largest accumulation of income in the upper class since before The Great Depression; deflated and consolidated the economic expansion--the more pluralistic expansion and equitable distribution of the wealth--that occured in the 90's when we had a more progressive tax code; created a huge budget deficit to be paid with a regressive tax burden while increasing the demand (the need) for government (including the TARP); and a convergence of what is public and what is private into a practical, organizational technology that ensures private ownership of the benefit, and public ownership of the detriment. This is a macro-economic model of economic entities too large to fail, antithetical to a free-market economics, that operationalizes neo-classical, Keynesian, capitalism into a low-risk, high-return business model, designed and executed by the best and brightest our educational institutions can produce and that money can buy.   Read More »

-http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29493093/

Hey you all get voting-- The Repulsicans have already voted... Now it is our turn!!! Unfortunately there is is only an "A" not A+, so I had to settle for just an A...

Send this on,
Gretchen

Within the classical model of capitalism, unemployment readjusts the cost structure. Labor costs are adjusted to maximize the available capital for reinvestment to expand the pie. This classical modeling was the centerpiece of Reaganomics and the Reagan era. That we are now experiencing a level of unemployment (a deprivation of income to finance the capital for growth) since the 1980's is no coincidence. Arguing that deprivation of income (deflation--negative growth) yields economic expansion was an absurd argument then, it is an absurd argument now!   Read More »

What has happend to the DNC main blog?Who is in charge of maintaining it?There has been no new thread since friday!!!It seems no one cares about our blog anymore,trolls run wild,you can't see your posts half the time and it freezes up.

The current state of our economy is liquidity crisis. The capital has been allowed to become so accumulated, consolidated, that the economy can neither be sustained or expanded. The result is negative growth, massive unemployment and the declining rate of profit (falling prices following the stagflationary phase of the post-monetarist, Keynesian business cycle).

The profit (the pricing) that creates capital can no longer be sustained (the deflationary phase of the cycle) because that value has been accumulated and not pluralistically, systematically, redistributed by economic means of a free and unconsolidated marketplace. In order to return to profitability (for your 401k to gain rather than lose value to the accumulation of capital into the private property, the ownership, of a few plutocrats) the capital must be redistributed--recycled.   Read More »

There are many things that have been screwed up over the last eight years by Cheney, Bush and their storm-troopers. Of this there can be doubt. The list would be long and unnecessary to write.

But the biggest problem that has to be addressed right now is to get this economy moving! The ONLY problems that I am having with the stimulus bills is EVERYTHING that has nothing to do with stimulating the economy! There will be other days for other fights over education, and condoms, and the like. THIS ISN'T THE TIME!

Our Democratic leaders are giving......again......the Republicans the exact ammuntion that they need to pound us with in 2010. Not that I call 'pork' what the Republicans do. BUT to the MILLIONS that wanted change and NEEDED help......PERCEPTION is the key. If it isn't going to help them KEEP THEIR HOME, or help THEM keep THEIR JOB....it is going to be seen as PORK....at least in THIS bill!!

Pelosi and Reid need to step up and realize that we CANNOT fix everything in ONE BILL!

Pick your fights, Congressional Dems......pick them carefully and you shall be successful! Pick them poorly...like this....and you shall be looking for jobs before long and you will dooming President Obama's presidency to a single term.

DON'T GET GREEDY!! GET TO WORK FOR AMERICA!!!

That IS why you were put there, you know.

Attorney General Eric Holder, on his first day on the job, signaled a clean break with past policies of the Bush administration and promised to hold Wall Street accountable if any major financial institutions engaged in fraud that contributed to the global financial crisis.

Let this nation not forget the people who's voice just spoke, the clock now ticks and still they ponder, have they forgot what the people just spoke, it is a wonder why we find ourselvs in this dilema, I believe that maybe this nation and its people suffer from forgettfullness, have we forgotten the sick, unemployed, job losses, the wars, the right thinks it must fight, the left thinks it must win, and together we the the people just want it fixed. I shall speak until know one listens, for you must stand up once again and say to all those whom we have entrusted, if you cannot handle the heat please get out of the kithchen. For this is not the time for petty play, but work of the wise.

Many struggles will come in the next couple of months, but we will persevere. Our president will need all the help he can get. our country will need all the help it can get. And yes say a prayer for the republicans too. May they see the error of their ways and may they search their hearts and find the truth that we are doing the best thing for this country and them.

Bless you all
-Micheal

Nice to hear from you guys, I've checked in from time to time but the Dem's site seemed to be dead. I am just back to remind you to get involved and talk to the people. This is how we will continue to make strides in our communities and county.

Thank you and have a wonderful day!
-Micheal

Other contenders for titles of this blog were......

"Is That Your Inside voice or Your Outside Voice?"

and

"Let's Trade Lessor Teachers for Better Teachers!"

It is ironic how preoccupied American teachers are with professionalism within their peer relations, while at the same time exhibiting a variable scale of unprofessionalism with their students. Let's just say I have been around the block, met and seen dozens of teachers in action, and I have to give the cake to a couple I am working with now.

Today I think I lost some hearing in my right ear. I was standing only a few feet away from a "colleague" who was screaming at the top of her lungs (which I abhor). She was down the hall from some students near her classroom, which she wasn't near, alas, her need to engage in blood curdling screaming.

Isn't it about time, someone speaks up? Is yelling and screaming an acceptable method of discipline to employ on students? Is verbally accosting and berating students the most effective means of getting results? I have seen enough to answer that. No, it only makes things worse.

Hearing this teacher scream so loud it hurt my ears, is getting old, really old. Then as if by some remarkable stroke of ignorance, she turned around to the group of teachers I was standing with, smiled, and said, "yelling works." The only thing worse than the lack of common human respect she shows to students (6th graders) is the way she speaks of them to her "colleagues"

I am awe-struck at what I hear when teachers talk to each other. Evidently it perfectly acceptable to bad mouth a student openly to other teachers. "So and so is lazy", "he's just lazy', "she's just lazy", it's about as distasteful for me to hear as if I were watching them say it to the child's face. Excuse me, but aren't we teachers supposed to say "lacks motivation", instead of lazy? By the way, isn't it up to teachers to take the responsibility for motivating students if they lack it?

If yelling, has not accomplished improved achievement, and it apparently has not, then it is time to stop, even if it does effectively quiet the classroom. Some of the less favored kids have gone from bad to worse, and a couple of these teachers seem to just get angrier and angrier. That doesn't help.

It is as though we are caught in a rut. The kids don't listen, when teachers scream they tune out. They stop caring or doing their work, and the teachers get mad, yell, and berate, and the kids continue to withdraw and do worse. This cycle can repeat itself until the child ages out of the public system. It's like these yellers and irate teachers don't have the intellectual and emotional tools, to be optimistic and encouraging, when it's needed most.

Listening to the way these teachers talk to the students is such a turn off, but listening to them talk about the students is absolutely sickening. It is quite easy to sympathize with the student and understand why he/she doesn't listen, I have even found myself wanting to hide under something on several occasions when watching a teacher berate one of students. Yet, speaking out against teachers who obviously do not model appropriate behavior is strongly discouraged. It's kind of like how medical doctors stick together during malpractice suits.

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Let us also rely on each other, for it took only a few people to forget its people, it will now take sometime for this leader to walk his talk, he must try to uncover all the greed to correct this problem, it will take time, we can wait, for in the end, we only have hope and dreams that we made the right choice.

YIPPY-- Have waited 8 YEARS for this!!!
YIPPY!!

Emily's List endorsed Sara Feigenholtz for Rahm Emanuel's congressional seat.  She has entered the race for a vote in March.  She is a SCHIP supporter and advocate for family, women, and children's issues.  Here's a photo from her grassroots campaign.