http://billmoyers.com/episode/.....cy-rising/

and obviously my power didn’t fail after all :)

Though I personally would steer clear of the Romney homes because, besides the gates and guard dogs trying to keep the needy from getting close to the domicile, there is an ever present risk of accidental gun violence when some paranoid right winger sees people in costumes at their door.

Of course, given the average intelligence level of the Republican base (which Michael so perfectly represents) you’ll probably see copies of Chick Tracts being distributed to children on Halloween by people with Romney signs in their yard. So i would also be wary of going to houses with Romney signs since there would definitely be a fair Chick Tract risk there.

Houses with Obama signs represent no Chick Tract risk and houses with no signs at all indicate a slight Chick Tract risk by my estimation since its quite possible that those houses are opposed to Obama because he is a Moozlim* and Romney because he is a member of the Moran* Church.

An additional warning sign of possible Chick Tract distribution is having Confederate battleflags or the Rattlesnake Flag of Teabagistan.

There is considered to be absolutely no Chick Tract distribution risk from houses which are flying Notre Dame flags.

My only regret is that thanks to Sandy and Dominion Power’s money grubbing ways which sometimes result in massive power outages following light showers let alone a hurricane, i likely won’t get to hear about Chick Tract distributions on Halloween this year.

* spellings courtesy of the local Tea Party.

And yet, amid the screaming from the right over this gesture (which also occured in Japan, when Obama met with the Emperor), somehow the meaning of the tradition, i.e., that we operate on the basis of egalitarian principles, has been utterly loss.

America has become a government by corporation, and it is easy to see how the top 1-2% economic strata would be mortified by a President who suggests that the plutocrats should be called on to pay as much in taxes, proportionately, as the common citizen.

So, it is ironic that we are supposed to kow-tow to American plutocrats in numerous ways (mainly by subsidizing their wealth with our poverty), but when our leader shows respect after 8 years of slapping the world in the face, suddenly that is supposed to be interpreted as a sign of weakness.

And yet, we continue to ratchet up the military machine and rain death and destruction down upon any and all who stand in our way. Barack Obama’s Presidency may be interpreted in many ways, but “weakening” of U.S. hegemony is not a claim that stands up to the facts.

So, the only logical question is, why are Obama’s opponents so bereft of argument that they must concoct phantom notions about bucking tradition, instead of concrete and real solutions to America’s troubles? Obviously it is because they don’t have a leg to stand on.

I think what “Major” (or whatever sock puppet name it’s adopted today) fails to understand is an important fact about United States foreign policy.

For a treaty to have any effect in our system, it must be ratified by Congress. Even if the executive signs a treaty with a foreign government that has full effect in that government’s system, it still has to be ratified by Congress to have any legal effect. A treaty is the highest of three forms of executive agreements.

This is why American Presidents are very careful to stay close to Congress before negotiating any treaties with foreign powers because no matter what agreement they come up with, it is the Senate (through supermajority) that has the power to enact it or not. No matter what the executive agrees to in a treaty, she or he must come back to the Senate to argue for ratification. The Senate, not the Executive, is empowered.

Look at Article II, section 2, clause 2 of the U.S. Constitution for a better understanding of the treaty process. There are thousands of agreements between the U.S. government and foreign powers but relatively few have treaty status. Treaties by the way can be easily broken, which is why the strongest international agreements are undertaken as joint legislative actions, not by executive agreement.

I’d support Virgil Goode too, if it wasn’t for the fact that NOTHING is more important than throwing Obama out on his ass this time around – to the point that I will even vote for a Moderate Mormon. Imagine that!

See ya after the election, scumbags!

Wow, so many ridiculous claims, so little time. Ok, I’ll break down your post and explain to you why you’re wrong….

“I find it interesting when the SPLC shows either its ignorance or disdain for the Constitution. Sharia law can be imposed on the US thru a treaty. Please educate yourselves and read Article 6 Paragraph 2 of the Constitution, and then look up the Bill of Rights and familiarize yourself with Second and the Tenth Amendments.”

Do you even know what a treaty is? And no, Sharia Law most certainly can NOT be imposed here, by treaty or any other means, short of amending the Constitution.

And why did you choose the Second and Tenth amendments to illustrate your claim about Sharia Law? The Second Amendment deals with guns and the Tenth Amendment deals with delegation of powers to the states. I don’t see anything in there that says, “Oh, and all this stuff is null and void if a treaty is signed that contradicts it.”

“In as much as the federal government is misusing the Establishment [Clause]….”

How, exactly?! The Establishment Clause is the part of the First Amendment that deals with the seperation of church and state. If anything, the government has failed to adequately abide by that clause. They most certainly haven’t “misused” it, whatever that means.

“You denigrate a decorated officer who protected and saved his people under his command….”

To whom are you referring?

“….yet you say nothing about those who show utter dereliction of duty in protecting our diplomatic personnel resulting in their deaths and then lie about it even after facts are released.”

Come again?! There’s no evidence that anybody in the U.S. government lied about the deaths in the embassy bombing. And no, conspiracy websites don’t count.

“You fail to mention about a president who started a war without consulting anyone in Congress, a clear violation of the Constitution.”

You’re talking about George W. Bush, right?

“You fail to mention a president who had the DOJ say that the voter protection laws don’t protect whites so therefore physical threats against whites attempting to vote is OK.”

Would you care to cite your source on that, or at least provide a quote? I couldn’t find anything to even loosely corroborate your claim. You’ll need to back up your BS with details.

Voter protection laws protect all vulnerable voters. Neither the DOJ nor the Obama administration has ever stated that it would ignore voter intimidation complaints from white people. Please take your ignorant race-baiting elsewhere.

“You fail to reveal that a president has said he’s the commander-in-chief of the nation and has a right to declare a US citizen an enemy of the stated and have him killed without due process.”

Again, are you referring to Bush or Obama? Regarding the commander-in-chief statement, you are correct in that this label only applies to the military and not to the nation as a whole. However, virtually every single president in modern history has made this minor verbal error at least once. When you people criticize Obama for such stupid stuff like this, it just makes you look desperate.

As far as killing citizens without due process, I agree that it’s absolutely deplorable and I’m extremely disappointed that President Obama has chosen to continue this policy that was started under the Bush administration. That being said, I was complaining about this back when Bush was doing it as well. Were you? Or did you only start to find it offensive when Obama was the one doing it?

You and people like you are just a bunch of hypocrites. You scream about the deficit now but stayed silent when Dick Cheney said, “Deficits don’t matter.” You’re outraged about undeclared wars now but you didn’t have any problem with the invasion of Iraq. You’re just a pretender, leeching off of any criticisms you can find to justify your hatred for this president. If you truly gave a damn about these principles and causes you’re attempting to hijack, you and your comerades would not have stayed silent when your guy was engaged in the same activities that you now claim to abhor.

“You don’t like a conservative Christian but you see nothing wrong with someone bowing to a Muslim potentate, making his first address as president to Muslims outside the US, denigrating Bible owning Christians, refusing initially to hold Christian holiday gatherings in the White House but celebrating Muslim ones.”

Ok, we get it. You’re a Christian and you don’t like Muslims.

President Obama bowed to a foreign leader of a Muslim country on his very first overseas trip. He wasn’t bowing to express subservience. He was bowing because he incorrectly thought that that was the proper way to greet a foreign leader with respect. That’s because, for just about anyone else, that IS the proper way. But the rules are different for foreign leaders like the President. American presidents frequently make gaffes like this on their first foreign trips. It’s a rite of passage. Obama learned from that error and did not repeat it a second time.

It’s also worth noting that Bush held hands and kissed the prince (now king) of Saudi Arabia (another “Muslim potentate,” as you put it). Where was your Christian outrage then?

President Obama wisely made his first overseas address to Muslims because they’re the ones with whom we had the worst relations. It was the beginning of his effort to reach out to the Muslim world and tell them that America does not wish to be their enemy. And you know what? It worked! Terrorist groups have seen a dramatic decline in recruitment under this administration. Al Qaeda has been thrown into chaos and disarray. Oh yes, and President Obama also had Osama bin Laden shot in the face and dumped at sea.

President Obama has never “denigrat[ed] Bible-owning Christians.” He IS a Bible-owning Christian himself! And what Christian holidays has President Obama cancelled at the White House, exactly?! Looks to me like he’s doing all the same ones that every other president did. The fact that they’re recognizing Muslim holidays now as well is a good thing. This is a secular government, not a Christian theocracy.

“You denigrate a Democrat who realizes that the US can’t tax its way out of this recession, who believes that an open border policy would be an unmitigated disaster for this sovereign country and who believes the Bill of Rights says what it means.”

A Democrat who also believes in crazy conspiracy theories, supports discrimination based on sexual orientation, and has called for the execution of all gay people.

“So who is the extremist?”

You are. =)

You have emotion, but no critical thinking. Your “facts” are essentially meaningless factoids that have no contextualization or fullness of argument to substantiate their merits.

It is clear you take your information from partisan sources such as AM talk radio, and have been so saturated with lies and half-truths that you have begun to believe the. Yours is a symptom of how easy it is to dupe the American people: all one must do is play to your fears, arouse your sentiments of national pride, and interject no small amount of cynical disinformation, and voila, you have the typical right wing citizen: disgruntled, disingenuous, and ignorant. Because other disgruntled and ignorant people have been similarly misled, you feel that the collective ignorance is proof of something but it merely shows your ignorance is contageous.

Your grievances are essentially emotional statements, and without political value, except as emotional statements. They can’t be used to guide policy because they show a total ignorance of the issues facing our country, and get lost in such muddled logic that I believe no amount of factual information will penetrate your befuddled consciousness.

A pefect example of your line of thinking is that spending $1 trillion on the Affordable Health Care Act, which will bring down premiums over time and take the burden off taxpayers who are stuck with medicare payments to indigents in the emergency room, is cause for revolution.

But, spending $3 trillion beyond the already bloated military budget, which is 6 times what China spends and larger than the next 20 nations combined, on things the military hasn’t even asked for, is a good way to lower our federal deficit.

If you cannot see how stupid that is, I pity you. Unfortunately people who are so ignorant are driving our coutry into ruin, and the people in the list above are the ones leading you around with a ring in your nose.

In fact, you are so bonkers as to be almost completely incomprehensible.

Although being a curious sort, i do wonder exactl what you think the right to bear arms has to do with treaties.

Based upon your complete lack of understanding of even the most basic legal concepts i’m sure it will be extremely entertaining.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFB6LQ1-WKU

Enjoy!

–LG

You denigrate a decorated officer who protected and saved his people under his command yet you say nothing about those who show utter dereliction of duty in protecting our diplomatic personnel resulting in their deaths and then lie about it even after facts are released.

You fail to mention about a president who started a war without consulting anyone in Congress, a clear violation of the Constitution. You fail to mention a president who had the DOJ say that the voter protection laws don’t protect whites so therefore physical threats against whites attempting to vote is OK. You fail to reveal that a president has said he’s the commander-in-chief of the nation and has a right to declare a US citizen an enemy of the stated and have him killed without due process.

You don’t like a conservative Christian but you see nothing wrong with someone bowing to a Muslim potentate, making his first address as president to Muslims outside the US, denigrating Bible owning Christians, refusing initially to hold Christian holiday gatherings in the White House but celebrating Muslim ones.

You denigrate a Democrat who realizes that the US can’t tax its way out of this recession, who believes that an open border policy would be an unmitigated disaster for this sovereign country and who believes the Bill of Rights says what it means.

So who is the extremist?

Mr. NWO, your comments in particular really made me laugh, especially the part where you said, “discounting 9/11…. number of americans killed on US soil by any Al Qaeda terrorist is zero.”

First of all, this 9/11 conspiracy nonsense has already been disproven repeatedly. Though I think the Bush Administration certainly did a lot of horrible and dishonest things, they weren’t the ones behind 9/11. They were way too incompetent to pull something like that off. This has been independently investigated ad nauseum and there’s simply no evidence to support that wild assertion.

Besides, even if you were able to get away with “discounting” 9/11 (which you weren’t), your statement would still be wrong. Six people were killed in the 1993 attack on the World Trade Center. This attack was also carried out by Al-Qaeda operatives.

As far as your paranoid rant about the SPLC goes, there’s no evidence to support your claim that they’re conspiring with the government. Furthermore, I would dispute your ridiculous claim that the government somehow qualifies as a “hate group.”

There are members of hate groups within our government and the SPLC is doing its best to expose them. But this is a represenative democracy. Though the system is horribly flawed, at the end of the day, we are the ones who decide what people will be working in the government. The government does not institutionally support race-hatred and bigotry like the groups mentioned above do. Instead, the government is defined by the people who govern. Sometimes they’re good, sometimes they’re not.

I suggest you wrap some more tin foil around your head. Some of the alien mind control rays seem to be getting through and interfering with your ability to form rational opinions.

We also need to understand that our economy has for a very long time been undergoing as great a change as was experienced furing the Industrial Revolution. All this was compounded by fighting two wars but not paying for ithem, having far to many people buying into the concept that greed is good and whatever one does in business or politics or daily life ,ii is OK since it is JUST business or politics or daily life as though it doesn’t matter. It does matter. It matters each one of us, separately and together. I have seen all this before and it doesn’t ever really seem to change.. I feel as though I could weep an ocean of tears, but what good would that do? So I support as much as possible people and groups like SPLC.

As awareness rises it is critical information such as this is provided to the public. We need to make educated decisions and this definitely helps. Thanks.

Ron Paul wasn’t on the list because his career will now consist of spending time on the golf course (which, if George Soros has any joy, will be abolished in due course by the U.N.)