I don’t understand why this is newsworthy. Okay, the republicans are every bit as dumb and stupid as democrats… it’s not like half the frickin world hasn’t been aware of that for decades.

If you like the New World Order, then I’m sure you wouldn’t mind a little lithium
in your water? If Big Tit says its good for you? I’m sure the Big Tit has your best
interests at heart. Sound good? Fewer suicides? Less stress? Plus its n a t u r a
l… 

This is just the first few results on the first page.  Little baby girls and boys
need to grow up now and face the real world. Not in Kansas anymore. Many
places already drug their water, like Britain. So get out of your playpen and try
to stand and walk on your own two feet for a change. In otherwords, GROW UP
before its too late.

Search Results
BBC NEWS | Health | Lithium in water ‘curbs suicide’
Drinking water which contains the element lithium may reduce the risk of
suicide, a Japanese study suggests.
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8025454.stm - 56k - Cached
Short Sharp Science: Lithium in drinking water has ‘anti ...
In Japan’s Oita Prefecture, cities with higher levels of lithium in their drinking
water ... The amount of lithium in drinking water would seem far too low to ...
newscientist.com/.../05/lithium-in-drinking-water-has.html - 116k - Cached
Lithium in the Water Supply | Disinformation
The New York Times Magazine’s annual Year In Ideas issue is well worth
reviewing. ... subduing the population by putting lithium in public water
systems (as if fluoride wasn’t ...
http://www.disinfo.com/2009/12/lithium-in-the-water-supply - Cached
In which Sci gets Snarky: Lithium in the Water : Neurotopia
You can suppose Lithium in the drinking water. And this, my friends, is some
rank levels of crazy up in here. ... Like, you could put it in the water, and it’d be
fine? ...
scienceblogs.com/.../08/in_which_sci_gets_snarky_lithi.php - 86k - Cached
WTF: ‘Lithium In The Water’ Video
Kanaeta’s video about Lithium Water Supply drug Dr. Archelle Georgiou
documentary on Disclose.tv ... In the remarkable Fox News report posted
below, Dr. Archelle Georgiou, ...
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Lithium Levels in Drinking Water Help Reduce Suicide
It would seem there is a study for just about everything under the sun and a
new one in Japan has revealed that low levels of lithium added to drinking
water
weirdasianews.com/2009/05/23/lithium-levels-drinking-water…
Peter D. Kramer on putting lithium into drinking water.
Would putting the drug in drinking water make the brain healthier—but affect
personality?
http://www.doublex.com/section/health-science/listening-lithium - Cached
Orvis Hot Springs
There is a rock bench under the water, next to the Plunge (cool in summer, hot
in winter) ... Lithium is probably the most famous element in Orvis’s water. ...
http://www.orvishotsprings.com/waterfrom.htm - Cached
Mind Hacks: Lithium levels in drinking water linked to fewer ...
Lithium levels in drinking water linked to fewer suicides: ... Lithium is one of
the fundamental elements, but is also used by psychiatrists as one the most
effective drug ...
http://www.mindhacks.com/blog/2009/04/lithium_levels_in_dr.html - Cached
Lithium (Li) and water
In what way and in what form does lithium react with water? ... The exothermal
reactions lasts longer than the reaction of sodium and water, which is directly
below lithium ...
lenntech.com/periodic/water/lithium/lithium-and-water.htm - Cached

Tobysgirl: didn’t know they used condemned meat in school lunches, but nothing surprises me now-a-days. This may also be a cause in obesity rates to rise in children as we have seen in the last 10+ years, that and the dumbing down of the population.

Actually allowing the elected idiots to live in the same type of barracks our military does would be to good for them.I was thinking more on the line of pig stys-dirty of course, as they are all dirty, greedy hogs, wallowing in the slop of the lobbyists and special interest. Some just more than others. The dirtier they are, the more anti-American they are in their dealings with the lives of the American people, like holding up extended unemployment benefits, claiming they are unfunded. Nothing is further from the truth that that comment. Employees pay half of the unemployment in their taxes well before they ever receive their paychecks and the other half comes from employers, whether they have ever had one of their employees ever collect benefits from this fund. How John “Boner” the bonehead and the repukes claim it is unfunded I don’t know, but since they are that brain dead to the truth and facts, it is past time to fire them from the jobs they now hold, as they have proven that they are totally unqualified for public office and it becomes clearer every day.

purplewolf, I think our elected officials should live in barracks that are good enough for soldiers, eat school lunches for all their meals (condemned meat is often sent to the school lunch program), and have the same health care that the person with the least access to care has. And be subject to mandatory drug testing.

I suspect we would get a much better quality of elected official if life weren’t so cozy in Washington, D.C. for SOME people.

Wish everyone complaining about gore not objecting to the
2000 election or the criminal jeb bush creating a false list of
supposed felons to keep them from voting would just stop,
take a deep breath and come to grips with the reality of the 5
ardent federalists(ultra conservatives) on the supreme court in
an ‘UNSIGNED’ decision STOPPED the recount that saturday to
keep gore from over taking little w in the vote count which
would have given gore the presidency. The supreme court of
this country stepped in, stopped a legitimate recount that in
essence was that same supreme court appointing w to the
presidency.

It technically created 5 criminals on the supreme court that
should have been arrested, tried, convicted and punished for
unduly effecting a national election which is about as
treasonous and traitorous thing to do with this country’s
electoral process that could ever be imagined and most of
those 5 still preside on that court. It is a wonder that the
whole electoral process wasn’t irreparably damaged by that
and it just may have been irreparably damaged because how
many people don’t vote just because the goddamn supreme
court extreme ultra conservatives will step in and ‘call’ the
winner in the next election.

No need to say this, but don’t look for any of the msm to help,
they are the biggest part of the problem.

Eugene Robinson is not exactly correct that the 14th Amendment guarantees birth citizenship, even to illegals. Actually, a close reading and study of the writings of those who wrote the amendment reveal otherwise.

The actual amendment says only that persons born in the United States, and “SUBJECT TO THE JURISDICTION THEREOF” are full citizens.

The intent, the writers explained, was to give full citizenship to former slaves. The intent was not, they further explained, to give full citizenship to children of foreigners. Thus, if a diplomat gave birth in the US, her child was not automatically a citizen. Why? Because the child was not “subject to the jurisdiction” of the United States.

Thus, if a person is here in the US legally, and gives birth, but the child is NOT automatically a US citizen, then certainly the same would be true for someone who is here ILLEGALLY.

The GOP is all about convincing dumb rednecks and yahoos that “real” men don’t vote for Democrats.

Look at the macho posturing of phony soldiers like Reagan and Bush 43.  And look how wimpy REAL soldiers and heroes like Bush 41, Kerry and Gore are made to look in comparison! McGovern and Carter BOTH served with honor and BOTH were portrayed as wimps!

So as long as American men are unable to separate their “manhood” from the good of the nation, we are going to see these Palin/Bachmann/Kyl dimwits arising.

“When are amerikans going to wake up”

It’s spelled with a “c”, pal. Get it right before you start criticizing.

“their two party duopoly creates a conformist and oppressive society”

It beats a king any day.

“most gay men and women don’t have an interest in [marriage]”

I don’t believe you.

“... whether amerika should be slaughtering millions of humans overseas ...”

I beg your pardon?

“Oblamblam”

The name of the President of the United States is Barack Hussein Obama. Get it right. And he was elected by a majority of Americans.

“Gore didn’t contest the 2000 result.”

In fact, he did.

“... adopt strong and similar legislation which would allow full participation in the process by citizens from outside the duopoly”

No one is stopping you. Take a look at the Tea Party or the Green Party to see what free citizens can accomplish.

“amerikans’ self deception extends to a belief they have a great political system”

Our political system is no worse than anybody else’s. If it was, you wouldn’t be bad-mouthing America—with a “c”.  Since you’re NOT singing the praises of your own country’s political purity, I suspect you have some other motive going on.

It would seem that your comment is insulting, devoid of facts, and politically biased.

Nothing personal.

Tropic girl:8-13 10:52am- Bush orchestrated this military style crack down on the American public including going after anyone who said anything he felt might hamper his success in winning the Iraqi War in his 2 terms in office. Also during the republican campaign for 2008, we witnessed that super troopers and military were often used to repress the public, this happened often and was reported in Truthdig while it was happening.It did not just start this year or this president, it started long ago.

Wildflower: AS for Boner’s comment about “the governments ability to provide basic services” would that include butt kissing service to the repukes? As they are incapable of providing the basic services the average America had worked for and paid for in this country like unemployment for instance.It is reported by Boehners fellow good old boys that he is in the bars by 5pm, 6pm at the latest, every night and it shows. He always looks like he just woke up, half closed eyes and he or just coming out of a stupor. Also what he says seems whacked much of the time. Any what’s up with that orange tan?

UreKismet: Unfortunately, the average person, who should be the ones running for elected office as they are the ones who know what it is like to live in the “real world” rather than the fantasy world of the rich who run(ruin) things here in America and around the world as they deem their right to do don’t have the funding or sources it takes to run for elected office today. A friend of mine said they need to find people who do not want to run for the presidency and V.P. position and take the top 2 winners and appoint them into these positions as they would probably do a better job of running this country that the rich spoiled elite we have today.

Has anyone ever thought of demanding that all of those running for and in elected office be tested for drug use and abuse? That may explain some of the totally irrational things coming out of their mouths and aren’t they the very same ones demanding that the “little people” be drug tested to receive benefits that they have paid for in their taxes like unemployment, disability, social security. It has been suggested in my local newspaper that the poor be drug tested to rent apartments in my city now, glad I own my house.

We need to hold these “elected service people” to the same standards that regular people are made to do, minimum wage only(and in the case of Mitch McConnell less than $2 per hour, as this is a tip job-lobbyists), no benefits, no life time retirement and medical plus perks packages for 6 years of elected service, no 401K, etc…perhaps if and when they really got to the level of reality that is everyday life in America they could truly represent the real American public and not only the richest less than 2% of the population.

I must be mad, for every time I hear a Republication they sound as loony as a march hare! Also they seem cloned like the Stepford Wives or my computer, so when they tout some silly thought or opinion in lock step word for word agreement with each other, on what is good for the nation, the world and of course foremost it seems to me, their own pocket books, I feel so much integrity and compassion every time!

It’s not just the tea party crazies, Eugene. Many Republican mainstreamers have also gone off the deep end. State of Ohio Representative John Boehner is a fine example.  When it comes to the so called “counterinsurgency campaign,” Republicans like Boehner ramble on and on saying stuff like:

“. . . An effective counterinsurgency campaign is based on demonstrating to FRIENDS and foes a strong political commitment to improving both the security environment and the government’s ability to provide basic services.” [Quote: Ohio’s Rep John Boehner]

YET, when it comes to an something like building a Muslim community center a few blocks away from “Ground Zero” Republican speeches change and they’re spewing out rhetoric implying that ANY AND ALL Muslims - including U.S. citizens who just happen to be of the Muslim faith - are responsible for 9/11:

“. . . The decision to build this mosque so close to Ground Zero is deeply troubling, as is the president’s decision to endorse it . . .  “We can never forget that terrible day, and the heroes who lost their lives - often in the hope that others might live. We honor their memory and their sacrifice, always.” [Quote: Ohio’s Rep. John Boehner]

The point is not only are Republican mainstreamers like Ohio’s Representative Boehner racists, bigots, and Constitutional hypocrites but they’re also DUMB. Is it any wonder that the “war” in Afghanistan continues to go on and on.  Who in their right mind would ever trust stupid blatant hypocrites like Boehner?

Every voter knows the system is broken, but nobody seems to know how to fix it.  Since our politicians, who look like decent, normal people on the surface, don’t act like something is wrong there must be hidden reasons the problems don’t get solved.

Hence the frenzied, strained search for the hidden “truth”, and the wacko pandering.

Truth is the problems are all known and fixable.  Trouble is one of the problems is that weak/bought politicians are the root of the problem.

Someone on the left needs to harness this energy and direct it for constructive change.  It is, and is going to, find an outlet, currently that’s Gohmert-style (or any of these others) lunacy.

Has the median IQ become lower? I would like to see the statistics confirming that. 

Let’s remember that high intelligence is not the only quality necessary for a person to combat ignorance.  Sometimes ‘stupidity’ is not low IQ, but just ‘ignorance’.

Conservative Republicans, of which they all are, do not care one iota about how stupid their candidate is, it doesn’t matter, all that matters is whether or not their candidate will do as they are told, memorize their scripts and stay with the script.  When their candidate gets to thinking they know something, they get into trouble, like what has happened here, but even that will be covered up, if the candidate will agree not to do it again and will obey their puppet masters to the nth degree, because good puppet people are hard to find.

So sad!  When are amerikans going to wake up and realise that their two party duopoly creates a conformist and oppressive society as bad as any other police state.
Three years out of four amerikans articulate a wide ranging discussion on all manner of pertinent issues, then in the fourth year the population splits into to rigid segments each segment ‘getting behind’ a cliche of a human being who mouths truisms, idiocies and lies like there was no tommorow.

The most annoying part of that is the differences of opinion between the two points of view being expressed by the ‘party platform’ are confined to tiny areas of concern that don’t impinge on any of the big issues of interest to citizens.
“Gay Marriage” is a classic example of this.  I know plenty of gay people none of whom have any desire to emulate bourgois mediocrity yet gay marriage is a burning issue despite the fact most gay men and women don’t have an interest in it.  Those who stand on the other side of the issue barely know any gay people so the odds are this issue won’t effect them either.

Meanwhile both parties run away from the issues that amerikans are interested in but which divide them.  That is whether amerika should be slaughtering millions of humans overseas with money that could be used to feed, house, educate, and care for citizens at home.  Or, when are politicians going to be made to sever all ties with the rich who fund both sides of these meaningless ‘debates’.
Even though amerikans elected an unwhite human as prez last time, a great many unwhite citizens were subjected to the same denial of the right to vote that their parents and grandparents thought they had defeated in 1964.  Oblamblam was elected by white voters because in too many polling booths unwhite citizens were unjustly denied their political rights because they were wrongly accused of being a felon.  No one addresses that for the same reason Gore didn’t contest the 2000 result. 

Both parties have many voting iregularity scams which neither party wants to air.

Why has politics become the purview of the rich in amerika?  There are no normal humans, that is those on average incomes, anywhere near national political positions, yet no one seems to question this.

A good first step would be for people to force states to adopt strong and similar legislation which would allow full participation in the process by citizens from outside the duopoly of dems and rethugs.

Until then, politics in amerika will remain a minority interest followed by the gullible or the complicit.

To think amerikans’ self deception extends to a belief they have a great political system.

People of your intelligence, would be punching additional holes in the hull of the Titanic, and attempting to recruit the passengers to aid you in your endeavors.
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That’s to let the water run out! :rolleyes:

Hey hollywoods, these right wing wackos should have their own tv show-it would
rival the classic monty python flying circus in comedic value.
contact me though if you are going to use my idea, as I want the royalties for it.

JDmysticDJ hit the nail on the head with his comments. I was trying to figure out what is threatening about ‘sustainability’, which is a goal my under-served community is striving for. I had no idea it was a Commie Plot by the UN and the ‘New World Order’. Of course, the ‘Defense’ Department [correct that to ‘Offensive’] is threatening to bring in another 1000 Marines, and their twin-roter Vertical Take-off Helicopters, for combat training on our Island. Now, I view that as a much bigger threat than a bunch of farmers growing their own seed crops, or even building a few bike paths.

Then, there is the mass paranoia and the ever growing spying by the government and private companies for their own gain. I am getting pretty damned tired of being treated like a criminal by my own Government. Surveillance Cameras [donated by the State Tourist Agency], x-rays at the airport, and my new favorite: photo ID and a written Prescription EVERY time I refill my pain meds. Why? because according to my doctor, tens of thousands of people are cheating and/or selling their meds.

I wonder what that little FDA requirement is going to do for the bottom line of the Big Pharma and the Insurance Companies? Remember when Reagan said that the reason for high medical costs was all the little old ladies running to see their Doctor when they got lonely? Now, it is mandated, lonely or not!

The Republican Party may be the more obviously insane of the two major Parties, but the whole country seems to be on some kind of a bad acid trip…

Why not laugh about it” somebody asks.

It seems downright ghoulish to laugh about the potential for nuclear holocause and do nothing to try to prevent it.  Especially since an 88 year old friend of mine stepped over the line and went to jail this week for the fourth or fifth time to try to help people become aware of the risks posed by Trident missiles near Seattle where more nuclear stuff is stored than at any other place in the country.

The median IQ of this country has become so low, I would not be surprised if the Reps. actually did better than expected.
Why not laugh about it? Does anyone really expect a vote to change anything?

P.S.—There’s also about a 50% chance that the Democrats won’t be able to find anyone better.  Argh!

Kerryrose:  Yes I’m sure that is true.  I’m just feeling over-serious.  Some days are funnier than others.Most days I spend praying for the return from the dead of Gilbert and Sullivan.

There has to be something to this floride thing,

there is no other explanation now.  The whole nation

has gone beserk..

I am so glad that the Senate approved
by 100 -  0 the   $600,000,000 to militerize the
Mexican border…
Those people, for their own good, need to stay down
there and not catch whatever virus Americans have.
Besides, we need all the hedge trimming jobs we can get.

There has to be something to this floride thing,

there is no other explanation now.  The whole nation

has gone beserk..

I am so glad that the Senate approved
by 100 -  0 the   $600,000,000 to militerize the
Mexican border…
Those people, for their own good, need to stay down
there and not catch whatever virus Americans have.
Besides, we need all the hedge trimming jobs we can get.

I think we’d better laugh. Better than banging your head against the wall in frustration.

Robinson should have included our sterling character running for governor of Maine, Paul LePage.

Full text of question posed by Maine Public Radio’s Jennifer Rooks: “Do you believe in creationism, and do you think it should be taught in Maine public schools?”

Full text of answer by Paul LePage: “I would say intelligence, uh, the more education you have the more knowledge you have the better person you are and I believe yes and yes.”

And he is now in full denial that he recommended the teaching of creationism in schools. I can’t decide if I’ll die of embarrassment if this guy wins (and we get national attention) or it will be four years of fun watching him take the usual potshots aimed at a sitting governor when he can’t even take criticism for his own statements. He, unlike Robinson’s examples, now wants to avoid the press and will only answer questions in written form.

By the way, his experience consists of running a salvage store and being the figurehead mayor for a city of 16,000.

gerard

Perhaps the wackiness in indicative of the state of the country.  After all, these are the people who are running it.

We’re talking national politics here, and upcoming elections that will determine life-threatening issues for millions of fellow-citizens, for better or for worse. 

Our problems are more than “wackiness” or “bizarre views.”  Our problems involve vast waste of money and blood on continuing wars, huge economic injustices resulting in unnecessary pain and suffering, poor information services and a dying democracy. 

It is easy to portray our problems using farce, but, though a sense of humor is important to prevent mass insanity, farce alone will not rescue our country.
That is going to take the intelligent action of tens of thousands of ordinary people who refuse to tolerate a government of corporate domination and social irresponsibility.

What Samo said,  plus whatever Gibbs is handing out.

tropicgirl

You ask,

“What business does an international agency have making laws for local governments, I ask?”

That is a distortion, and misleading. This United Nations agency only makes recommendations, not laws. Personally, I like the word “United” it indicates inclusiveness, rather than exclusiveness.

There are many agencies and organizations that are more exclusive and more effective at turning their policies into laws, and international agreements. The World Bank, WTO, Federal Reserve, multi-million dollar lobbying firms, well funded think tanks, the Trilateral Commission, the Bilderberg Group/Society, are all very exclusive, and influential in terms of creating laws and international agreements.

Focusing on a relatively small United Nations Agency, and its recommended bike paths, strikes me as being paranoid, and a person who does so appears to be somewhat Looney, to me.

Who is it that first publically spoke of the New World Order, what was his exclusive background, and what were his exclusive affiliations? John R. Bolton, who was an Under Secretary of State for President George H. W. Bush, and a member of the Project for a New American Century (New World Order?) “Was a Strong critic of the United Nations for much of his career. In a 1994 Global Structures Convocation hosted by the World Federalist Association (now Citizens for Global Solutions), he stated, “There is no such thing as the United Nations. There is only the international community, which can only be led by the only remaining superpower, which is the United States.” Oddly, Bolton was a “Recess appointment” to be the U.S. Representative to the United Nations in 2005.

I think that your fears of a New World Order are misplaced, and wrong headed.

I wonder why people such as you fear “Our Government” while serving the interests of those who are the real threat to participatory Democracy, and real freedom.

You say of Eugene Robinson,

“Gene wouldn’t have the intelligence to warn the passengers on the titanic if it were halfway in the water!”

People of your intelligence, would be punching additional holes in the hull of the Titanic, and attempting to recruit the passengers to aid you in your endeavors.

I love the cartoon where the dems and the gops are busy flinging mud at each
other while all the voters register as independents.

Enough already with the hate!

I can’t wait for another Republican to take to the
political trail proclaiming that water fluoridation is
a communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all our
precious bodily fluids - Jack D. Ripper anyone?

Oh yes lots of Republicans are idiots, but then they still keep getting elected..

So what difference does it make?

How frustrating for progressives, when a lunatic gets elected, and they have to endure, the politics they provide. But then, condescension doesn’t usually bring in too many votes either.

Look at it this way, the Republican and Democratic parties are symbiotic.

The Republicans, turn people into victims, and then the Democrats create programs that help give-away money to those that suffer because of Republican policies.

What the Democrats don’t do is prevent those Republican policies from happening in the first place, so people never become victims, but instead they can work and support themselves without the help of a government give-away.

What Democrats don’t understand, is that people don’t want to be turned into victims by anyone.

People prefer freedom.

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Must be too many people eating and drinking from bpa laden
plastics on either ‘side of the aisle’.

kerryrose, August 13 at 10:39 am Link to this comment

Loony anyone? (People voted for Bachmann, remember this).
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Yeah, Maxine Waters has been a touchstone for abuse by the right forever, just like Barney Frank.  She may not even actually have committed an offense, but is being hung out to dry anyway.

No, if you want a Dim loony to match up with Michelle Bachmann, you gotta go with Eric Massa, the “Tickle King”...HE stands up to MB for weirdness.

Democratic politicians do that—timocratic politicians would never do that if we would have any.

And a democratic collumnist is surprised about ‘unexpected’ behavior of a democratic politician.

As if a democratic politician [and the only kind we have in US, canada, india..]ever strays from the old-beaten path!!

Well, i don’t know of any democratic priest or politician, ‘educator’ in US and many other lands who ever changed his/her mind.

Mother teresa did that, but she wasn’t a politician, priest, nor democrat[ic].
She, as we know, came and saw god no more, no more, no more…

Democratic and godful politicians do exterminate indigenes, kill chidlren, a-bomb people, etc., but a democratic MSM hackaway-never backaway could not make that up.

I couldn’t make up that godless communists did not hack away khazaks, uzbeks, tajiks, armenians, kirghizians, turkmen, et al nor a-bombed anyone!

This must be surprise to lots of americans. Would they say a bohunk made this up? We’ll see! tnx

PS. I undrstand that bohunk derives from the word “bohemian”; i.e., a czech artist.

suave:

I’m not trying to be obtuse, but in what way do you see Waters as nuts?  I haven’t heard of her pulling any ridiculous stunts, or making bizarre pronouncements like fruity Bachmann.  My Irish mother calls her ‘with the fairies.’

What you have to keep in mind is the Republicans sacred belief that government is the problem.  So when a Republican gets elected, it’s his solemn duty to screw up as much as he can so people will see how bad the government is.  When they’re out of power, they work to derail any democratic effort to show government in a good light.  Why do you think they hate Clinton so much.  But the really sad truth is that this Demo vs Repub stuff is simply theater.  Your government has been hijacked by the wealthy, and dire straits are ahead.

kerryrose:

Exactly the point- these people who “represent” us are nuts! And didn’t people also vote for Waters?

This is the sponsoring organization for the bikes—

““CLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability is an international association of
local governments and national and regional local government organizations
that have made a commitment to sustainable development. More than 1000
cities, towns, counties, and their associations in 68 countries comprise ICLEI’s
growing membership. ICLEI works with these and hundreds of other local
governments through international performance-based, results-oriented
campaigns and programs. It provides technical consulting, training, and
information services to build capacity, share knowledge, and support local
government in the implementation of sustainable development at the local
level. ICLEI’s basic premise is that locally designed initiatives can provide an
effective and cost-efficient way to achieve local, national,

and global sustainability objectives.”“

THE CANDIDATE IS ABSOLUTELY RIGHT IN THIS POSITION. Gene wouldn’t have
the intelligence to warn the passengers on the titanic if it were halfway in the
water!

What business does an international agency have making laws for local
governments, I ask? I would suggest looking at the rest of these initiatives and
see if the social engineering involved agrees with your personal morals and
ethics.

When people talk about the dangers of the New World Odor, this is exactly
what is feared. Point is, they won’t stop at providing bikes. Do you really need
the government to provide your every need? And who decided on what the
“results” should be and whether its ok to hurt someone to achieve those
“results”?

Just a cursory investigation of this group shows some their current main
objectives, recommendations to local governments on how to deal with Climate
Change, formerly known as Global Warming, including using state and local
FUNDING. Specifically, using local governments to spread the theory of Climate
Change, including in the school system, add more government restrictions to
buy certain products, and USE of LOCAL TAX MONEY to do this. Its in their
literature.

And besides, Denver is well on its way to becoming a “police-state”. Most
people were surprised at how easily they were put on lockdown during the
recent Democratic Convention…. what if you say anything bad about the
“international recommendations” now? ... they’ve already been pegged.

As Denver’s Rocky Mountain News reported, ““Hundreds of heavily armed
officers, some clad in riot gear or hanging off SUVs, are saturating Denver’s
streets in unprecedented numbers, quickly isolating any hint of trouble that
could tarnish the city’s reputation under the limelight of the Democratic
National Convention.

To deal with potential mass arrests, the city has opened a temporary detention
center—a warehouse divided into chain-link cells. Critics of the security
crackdown have dubbed the site “Gitmo on the Platte,” after Denver’s South
Platte River.

The authorities have also attempted to restrict protesters to a so-called “free
speech zone,” the Orwellian term they have given to an isolated patch of a
parking lot ringed by two layers of black steel security fencing, giving it the
appearance of a detention camp.

The force of 1,500 officers brought in from 52 police agencies in nearby areas
does not include a huge federal contingent that has been mobilized for the
event.”“

Nice city.

suave

I would put Michelle Bachmann up against Maxine Waters anyday.

Loony anyone? (People voted for Bachmann, remember this).

Perhaps this is how it ends.

The US has become so anti-intellectual that we have elected the likes of Carter, Reagan, Bush I, Clinton, BushII, and Obama (not to mention the never ending train of idiot frat boys in the senate and house) Since Nixon, we have been afraid to vote for anyone deemed smarter than us (keep in mind, carter and clinton were smart men, they just spoke with a southern accent, so we mistook them for morons)Because smart people, like Nixon, would rip us off, betray our trust.

Fast forward to today, we have become a nation built on the Peter Principal. The USA has been sold to the highest corporate bidder by meatheads that we the people gleefully elected. And we will continue to do it, because as Hunter Thompson once said, we are caught in a downward spiral of dumbness.

Makes me SO glad I abandoned the Repubs more than a decade ago. “All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies”, said John Arbuthnot about three hundred years ago—one hopes the Repubs will soon be on life-support, Perdition take them!

As long as Maxine Waters stays in the House, no Republican has to worry about being given the loony mantle.

A clash between “bedrock conservatism and utter nonsense”? I’d make it “fractured bedrock conservatism.” Breakage resulting from unquestioning fealty to George W. Bush.

  Conservatives in the bedrock Barry Goldwater mold support (1) limited government, (2) controlled spending, (3) low taxes, (4) individual liberty, (5) the rule of law, (6) decentralization, (7) restrained executive authority and (8) cautious foreign intervention.

Of the eight conservative standards just listed, Bush adhered to just one: low taxes, notably in cutting taxes in topmost income brackets. Even that proved disastrous mainly because Bush insisted on making war without paying for it. It is called living in the moment.

By taking a sledgehammer to their bedrock principles, Republicans left themselves vulnerable to further shattering, courtesy of the extremists and wackos cited here by Eugene Robinson.  It indeed could become the big political story of 2010.

The WORST thing Democrats can do is not take these maniacs seriously.  Who ACTUALLY took Ronald Reagan seriously at the start of the campaign season in 1980?  Look at Michelle Bachmann or James Imhofe.  How could ignorant lunatics like this EVER be elected in American?

Yet they are.

But as long as myopic tunnel vision fools like Bob Menendez (On of my two senators, both lousy) keep spouting mind-numbing drivel that only party hacks appreciate, the loonies that Gene speaks of have a chance.

There’s no way the GOP loons can win, unless the deaf and blind Dim morons give it to them.

Who are these people? If you don’t watch Fox you won’t see them. It’s a strange world when politicians don’t even bother to pretend to represent the people of the U.S. Come out in favor of looting the treasury even more to give our tax dollars to their well-heeled cronies. The extreme positions comming out over a community center in NY shows their hand. They would like to be in total control over which Constitutional protections people are entitled to.

The would like for our Country to become a theocracy where they will be held up as heroes. They’ve said as much by suggesting that the Constitution should be governed by the bible. Well we fought a revolutionary war for the right to worship however we choose and no one can usurp that right.

All this balderdash simply reflects an ineptitude to get a handle on the the pile of hokum left in the wake of their laissez-faire economic venture and the concommitant foray to nation-build Iraq.

They haven’t a clue and so do what they do best which is to break out the five gallon can of whitewash, bait and switch, and play pin the tail on the donkey who has great dentures, but spends time wondering who is controlling the wag of its tail.