Not sure if Serious: Senate Republicans Hate First Responders

CHURCH AND STATE ASSHOLE! SENATORS CHOSE STATE! YOU KEEP YOUR ASS IN THAT DAMN CHAIR AND GET THOSE BRAVE PEOPLE WHO RAN TO THOSE BUILDINGS WHEN EVEN THE FUcKING RATS WERE RUNNING AWAY AND YOU GET THEM SOME DAMN MEDICAL HELP! THEY ARE PAYING OUT THE ASS AND DYING FROM BULLSHIT WE ELECTED & PAID YOU TO PREVENT. DO YOU THINK IT DISRESPECTS THE FIREFIGHTERS AND COPS TO WORK ON CHRISTMAS? HELL NO! HOW DARE YOU REPUBLICANS EVEN THINK OF FILIBUSTERING THE 9/11 FIRST RESPONDERS BILL. DEATH IS DEFINED AS THE END OF THE HUMAN DISEASE. AS IN THE END OF EVERYTHING YOU CARE ABOUT. IF YOU STAND AGAINST THIS BILL, I HOPE THEY BUILD THE DEEPEST DARKEST MOST PAINFUL LEVEL OF HELL AND YOU ARE SENT THERE WITHOUT PASSING GO AND NOT COLLECTING $200.






AND I'M OUT!

Man Shoots up School Board Meeting because Wife fired from Budget Cuts

So yes, I blame the Republicans on this for the lack of funding and continuing cuts of Public Education.

Meet David

By Leaflet

David is a Veteran of the Vietnam war

While I was doing some holiday browsing I had just left a gaming store parallel to a Walmart parking lot, where David asked me for change. He said that he was hungry and like most people, I wasn't carrying any cash with me. I told him I didn't have any loose bills and that it's a grim place where people don't carry cash on them anymore. Instead I asked if he would like me to drive him to the Taco Bell nearby to get him some food. He was set back when I offered, seemingly hopeful but apprehensive.

"Are you sure? Maybe I shouldn't ride in your car," He said.

I could see that he thought it would be conspicuous on his part to get in a young woman's vehicle. I convinced him I was perfectly ok taking him not a single minute up the street to get him some food and he agreed, noting that he wasn't dangerous because he was a veteran. He probably thanked me half a dozen times before we started walking.

On the way to my car I realized he wasn't keeping up; Looking back I saw that he was limping with a hand pressed to his knee. He told me that his leg wasn't very reliable and we took a good five minute walk to my car which might have been less than a hundred feet away. I couldn't imagine how he got around anywhere.

Once he sat down in the passengers seat he apologized for being drunk and said that he promised me he wasn't diseased or anything. I was shocked he had to assure me he wasn't some kind of infectious vessel; Diseased - is that how homeless people are made to feel? I replied that he wasn't the only person that would be drinking that evening. Most people drink with less reason to, anyway.

On the drive he told me how difficult it was for him to find a job and that he cleaned up better but all he had right now were the clothes on his back. By the time we pulled up to the restaurant he had begun sobbing and when I said he could order anything he wanted, he cried even harder. He didn't ask for anything in particular, he said whatever I ordered would be more than enough. When someone is that grateful to eat what could be described as a food-like meal, it makes you wonder what went wrong.

David said that a friend stole $10k from him, he was recently divorced and that his favorite hobby is riding motorcycles although he no longer has one anymore. He apologized again, this time for venting his life's story. Few people probably talk to David and even fewer probably want to know about his life's events, given that he was homeless. It didn't bother me, it was good for him to talk about what was on his mind. I offered David a ride into town but he said he would rather stay in his spot for the evening and when I left he incessantly thanked me for the help.

David was grateful for a favor which we wouldn't even think twice about had a friend picked up the check for us. A small act of humanity can give someone just enough hope to make it through the day or at least remind them what its like not to feel alienated, dangerous or "diseased." People need to see they have worth and that they're not alone. Instead of passively observing, try reaching out - what you might dismiss as a small courtesy might make someone else's day.

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Sarah Palin: Less a rogue, more a thief

By Leaflet

Just because something is time-tested doesn't mean the test wasn't a failure. Former Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin claims in her blog post that all tax cuts should be extended because conservatives have "articulated" that said cuts for the wealthiest of Americans have spurred economic growth. Is it a coincidence that I remember even conservatives "articulating" the very opposite?

It's easy to persuade that progressives, Democrats and liberals likely contemplate the possibility that Palin is a Stepford wife droid bot created in Matell's basement, however - conservative figures that Palin has before referenced have also admitted tax deductions don't boost revenues.

Palin was a guest speaker at this past RNC rally in Orlando, which I hesitantly attended to make these interviews. If I drank every time I heard her say, "Reagan" I would have probably ralphed on the nearest "LISTEN TO ME!" picket sign. She used the same "time-tested" argument for Reagan's trickle down economic policy as she does in her blog post - So, surely that means that Reagan's right hand men would agree, am I right?

As it turns out David Stockman, director of OMB for President Reagan says otherwise. Stockman explains in a recent NY Times Op-Ed:  

"The second unhappy change in the American economy has been the extraordinary growth of our public debt. In 1970 it was just 40 percent of gross domestic product, or about $425 billion. When it reaches $18 trillion, it will be 40 times greater than in 1970. This debt explosion has resulted not from big spending by the Democrats, but instead the Republican Party’s embrace, about three decades ago, of the insidious doctrine that deficits don’t matter if they result from tax cuts." Read more

In the same Orlando speech Palin tagged senate Republican candidate Marco Rubio as a maverick-y rogue character such as herself. In this ThinkProgress article Marco Rubio admits a similar but brief comment, saying that “The tax cuts don’t pay for themselves..." It's evidently too good to be true that they would.

TPM covered Republican House minority whip Eric Cantor on his reluctant statement following the support of the Bush tax cuts, who said: 

"[I]f you have less revenues coming into the federal government, and more expenditures, what does that add up to? Certainly you're gonna dig the hole deeper. But you also have to understand, if the priority is to get people back to work, is to start growing this economy again, uh, then you don't wanna make it more expensive for job creators."

Democrats aren't entirely against tax cuts, they want everyone to pay proportionate taxes; Progressives and myself just don't find it economically viable to give the wealthiest two percent of Americans a tax break which they will indefinitely lob into their bank accounts. It seems that when this Moody's study came out (a must read), the US must have thought it was national opposite day; instead of noting objective data congress cut taxes and nixed unemployment extensions.

Haven't corporations reached their highest quarter of profits yet? The GOP are Jedi mind tricking the collective you to portray that giving CEO's more money, they will create jobs rather then add to their bottom line. Near the end of the post, Sarah Palin then went to label her view as "common sense."

Maybe she meant the sixth sense

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Storm Enterprise on Location!

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So It would seem that I am going to be in Jacksonville on Saturday Dec 11th, helping the Jacksonville needy. "Storm Enterprise" is a sponsor so come on out, we will talk politics &/or Wrestling!

HERE IS YOUR OFFICIAL INVITE

"The Ache" as reposted from Cogent Concepts

Mint Medley tea steeps as I bundle in bed sheets with propped pillows perching me, a humming laptop lightly illuminating my cheeks, and Mos Def whispering to my soul. Vicks Vapor Rub sits on the night-stand next to an unlit candle.

Had a sobering day relearning old life lessons: Don't take things personal.

Let a couple of people get me heated. Noses turned up. Under the breath comments. Thinking they know me. Thinking they know my situation better than I do. Judgmental, arrogant simple-minded surface dwellers who know nothing about me - they barely know themselves. Honestly. Those who concentrate on them and theirs - do they have time, energy, or interest to concern themselves with you and yours?

So, I had to take a step back. Press the rewind button on life. I've been here before. Who hasn't? Kind of hard not to. The mentality is so common place. The co-worker who shoots down your ideas because they didn't think of it. The cashier that got an attitude because they got your order wrong. The cousin who likes to argue at family get-togethers.

Life lesson revisited: Everybody has their own mountain to climb, their own road to travel, their own battles to pick and choose, and sometimes the battle they pick is you. Right or wrong. Big or small. Makes it easy to forget that the reality of the situation is beyond the surface. Past the surface is misinformation, confusion - sometimes, insecurities based on a deep abyss of fears. So, who am I to judge though I may be judged? Who am I that I should take things personally and be afflicted with the same aliment that infects their spirits? Should I be one to let my soul be consumed?

So, here I am. Curled up with a low-grade fever, runny nose, and aching body. Mint Medley tea still steeping. Vick's salve soothing me softly. Nursing myself. Concentrating on me. Letting this flu run its course. Letting this ache leave my system.

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Seems certain people don't know what the term "Hot Mic" means. By "Certain People" I mean Sen. Michael Bennet, D-Colo.,& by "Hot Mic" I mean HOT MIC!



When you are a Senator and don't have 100% fact on something, please don't blow off steam on the Senate floor, MAKES THE ENTIRE PARTY LOOK BAD. KTHXBYE