Megyn Kelly Debunks Claim that Welfare Recipients are Drug Using Mooching Monsters

I don't usually cite anything from Fox News if I want to present factual information, but I will if that's what it take to get through to a right winger. I already detailed this absurd policy my current Florida governor Rick Scott thought would save money:

Drug Testing Welfare Recipients before they receive welfare benefits.

I was especially surprised when Fox News host Megyn Kelly did a report showing the so far failure of Rick Scott's welfare policy. I take my hat off to her on this one.

Media Research Center is Promoting Birther Website World Net Daily!!!!

A bombshell has been revealed exposing the Media Research Center (MRC) for the discredited organization that it is. The bombshell is pretty much something that's existed for two and a half years but I don't think anyone has noticed it.

While visiting MRC's website, I hovered my mouse over the resource section,

then clicked on "links", and it came up with this......

WHAT IS THAT?!?!? That looks likes a link to the birther central website WorldNetDaily. As a matter of fact it is.

"The MRC offers the following links as an additional resource for information on various organizations which help expose or counter liberal media bias in the mainstream press."

MRC recommends WorldNetDaily? Its bad enough they recommend the other kook conspiracy organization Accuracy in Media.

Just in case MRC panics and revises their website here's the earliest capture from the Internet Archive.

• Read Media Research Center's Intelligence File.

• Recommended Readings: 
• Media Research Center Refuses Debate With Media Matters 
• Sad Truth About Media Research Center and It's Difference with Media Matters
• Michele Bachmann Endorsed Birther Website WorldNetDaily 
• Which is Better? Media Research Center or Accuracy In Media?

Another WorldNetDaily Conspiracy Theory: This Time Between Muslims and Gays

Haj Amin al-Husseini (Islamic Fundamentalist) meeting with Adolf Hitler

The birther central website WorldNetDaily approved by presidential candidates Michelle Bachmann and Herman Cain is at it again. This time their owner Joseph Farah has decoded a long-term conspiracy between Muslims and gays. He's figured out that American Muslims are supporting gay marriage as part of a broader agenda. The long-term goal is to then open the door to one of scariest tenets of Islamic Law........

Anti-Gay Family Research Council Document: "Homosexual Activists Work To Normalize Sex With Boys"- Declassified:

You may have heard of these notable quotes from the Family Research Council. These are some of the many things that got FRC on the Southern Poverty Law Center's list of hate groups. What's is in the document that these quotes came from is Protocols of the Elders of Zion type of propaganda used to defame gays and lesbians as dangerous pedophiles. Antisemites cite the Protocols as their influence. Homophobes cite the Family Research Council.
To read more on the Protocols of the Elders of Zion visit Skeptoid.

"...one of the primary goals of the homosexual rights movement is to abolish all age of consent laws and to eventually recognize pedophiles as the 'prophets' of a new sexual order." —"Homosexual Behavior & Pedophilia," a FRC publication, July 1999, http://www.frc.org/misc/bl057.pdf

"Gaining access to children has been a long-term goal of the homosexual movement." —"Homosexual Behavior and Pedophilia," FRC publication, July 1999, http://www.frc.org/misc/bl057.pdf

The FRC has removed the document from their site. They must not realize that there's no delete button on the internet. I've been able to obtain the document through the Internet Archive.
Read It here: http://web.archive.org/web/20000918134102/http://frc.org/misc/bl057.pdf

Jon Stewart Will Interview Ron Paul Again September 26

The Ron Paul 2012 Committee has announced Congressman Ron Paul will interview with Jon Stewart-Daily Show Monday September 26 5:30pm Eastern Time

Don't Miss It!!!!!!!!!

Here's Ron Paul's last interview with Jon Stewart from the last presidential election.

The Daily Show
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Jon Stewart Mocks "Class Warfare" Claims

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George Will: Bachmann Shouldn't be Trusted with Nuclear Weapons

George Will first said this about Sarah Palin. Before Bachmann was even officially for president running, Will said Bachmann was not a serious contender.

Bachmann Supported Collective Bargaining Rights of Public Unions

2012 Republican presidential hopeful Michele Bachmann co-sponsored a bill to help the collective bargaining rights of policeman and firefighters. Cenk Uygur shares her response the GOP primary field response.

Rules of Engagement for 2012 Presidential Election

This will my second and probably my last time voting in the Presidential Election as a Republican. I've been a Republican for three years since I voted foolishly for John McCain in 2008. That was before I actually cared about and understood politics. I'll post in the future why I left the Republican Party. Here's a brief preview and reason: "The Republican Party and it's electorate have have lost their mind". My full "letter of resignation" will be detailed and lengthy.

Still being a Republican, I figured I might as well vote one last time in the 2012 Presidential Election. As many of you know Republican voters say they are not happy with the current GOP field. My personal favorites are Ron Paul and Gary Johnson. Both guys I disagree with on some issues particularly some economic issues. Gary Johnson is my first choice, but since he's not recognized enough I'm going with Ron Paul. If Paul doesn't win the primary or drops out latter I might go with Huntsman or not vote at all in the GOP primary. I'd be going with Huntsman just to give the GOP some credibility but not support him in the general election.


When it comes to the general election if any of these candidates get the GOP nomination, I'm pulling it for Obama and I'm switching to the Democratic Party. If this is what the Republican electorate is made up of now: Newts, Bachmanns, and Romneys/ Bigots, Christian Fundamentalists, and useful idiots pandering to corporate candidates, I can't be a Republican anymore.

Jon Huntsman
Michele Bachmann
Herman Cain
Newt Gingrich
Tim Pawlenty
Mitt Romney
Rick Santorum

Non-Intervention Benefits

Michael Scheuer

Michael Scheuer's Non-Intervention

August 13, 2011

In a world rife with examples of the damage done to the U.S. economy and our national security by Washington’s relentless and bipartisan overseas interventionism, two current situations can be cited to demonstrate the high cost of intervention, on the one hand, and the wisdom of national-interest-protecting non-intervention on the other.
The first deals with the growing likelihood of frequent and widespread attacks in the United States by Islamist militants, and the second deals with recent events in Syria and Somalia. The coming Islamist attacks in America will be the direct result of our interventionist foreign policy, while our failure to intervene — so far — in Syria and Somalia provides clears evidence that disasters, insurrections, and wars can occur in many areas of the world, have no impact on U.S. national security, and will cost us nothing in terms of lives, funds, or security if we simply refrain from intervening.
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Fact Checking the Republican 2012 Debate in Iowa

FactCheck.org has put together an analysis of claims made in the 2012 Republican Iowa debate.


Some you might remember or catch.
From Factcheck.org

• Herman Cain denied ever saying that communities have the right to ban mosques. But he did, in fact, say that.
• Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney made the misleading claim that his state's "unemployment was below the federal level three of the four years I was in office." Yes, but the state rate was lower than the national rate before he took office and higher when he left.
• Romney also falsely suggested President Obama has never held a job, saying: "I think in order to create jobs, it's helpful to have had a job."
• Michele Bachmann wrongly said that raising the debt ceiling gave Obama a "blank check." But the set amount of money will be used to pay obligations Congress has authorized.
• Ron Paul said the CIA told him that there is "no evidence" Iran is "working on" a nuclear weapon. There's no solid proof, but the International Atomic Energy Agency says there are "possible military dimensions" to Iran's nuclear program.
• Bachmann also said that Tim Pawlenty "wanted" to institute an individual mandate requiring people to buy insurance in Minnesota. Pawlenty said he was "open to" the idea, but that's not the same as wanting to do it.
• Newt Gingrich said that one of the moderators was "handpicking" quotes "that fit your premise." But the Fox News anchor quoted Gingrich's comments on Libya accurately.
• Rick Santorum exaggerated a bit in saying the U.S. borrows "42 cents of every dollar." The figure is currently 37 cents.

Mitt Romney: "Corporations are People"

Just play this soundbite over and over again and he will lose for sure.

Then again 54% of those who voted in the 2004 election said they believed Bush pays more attention to large corporations rather than ordinary Americans yet they voted him in. I think by now Americans have learned not to favor their oppressors.

BUSH PAYS MORE ATTENTION TO...	BUSH			KERRY		NADER
TOTAL	2004	2000	2004		2004
Ordinary Americans (41%)	94%	n/a	6%		0%
Large Corporations (54%)	16%	n/a	82%		1%

How Corporations became people.

Romney Will Lose to Obama in a Debate and in 2012

Fox News' Bigoted Bias in 2012 Presidential Republican Debate Exposed

Mediaite

Frances Martel 

August 9th, 2011

To Rick Santorum, gay and straight marriage are as different as paper towels and napkins, according to an analogy he employed at a campaign stop in Iowa. In his “Rewrite” segment tonight, Lawrence O’Donnell found this comparison to be “the American politician at his worst,” trying to relate to real Americans who probably, like O’Donnell, use napkins and paper towels interchangeably all the time.
The context for this extensive close reading of Santorum’s somewhat confusing analogy is the Fox News Republican debate on Thursday night, in which Santorum will participate, but not gay Republican candidate Fred Karger, despite the former polling 50% lower than the latter. O’Donnell notes that Karger is neck in neck with another candidate that will attend the debate, Tim Pawlenty, but argues that “Fox News knows that Fred Karger is openly gay, and Fox News is not about to allow an openly gay candidate in a Republican debate.”
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Michele Bachmann Endorsed Birther Website WorldNetDaily

Lunatics are taking over the asylum. Now they are taking over the Republican Party. At the 2010 CPAC convention, Michele Bachmann gave a speech and said something that may come back to bite her in the 2012 presidential election. 

Gallup Poll: American Muslims say Targeting and Killing Civilians is NEVER Ok

We Agnostics came in second. That's good enough for me.

The Atlantic
Conor Friedersdorf 
Aug 3 2011

An arm of the Gallup organization based in the United Arab Emirates has just published, in partnership with their U.S. based colleagues, the results of a major polling that compares the attitudes of Muslim Americans to Americans of other faiths. Its title is "Examining U.S. Muslims' Political, Social, and Spiritual Engagement 10 Years After September 11," and its most attention grabbing finding is the fact that Muslim Americans are more likely than Christians or Jews to believe that targeting and killing civilians is never justified, whether it is done by the military or an individual. Put another way, Christians and Jews are more comfortable with civilians being targeted and killed by a wide margin.

Here is the distribution of opinion when the military is doing the killing:



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Just Say NO to Mitt Romney For President



There isn't much honesty, principle, or even sanity within the GOP 2012 field. With the exception of Ron Paul, Gary Johnson, and John Huntsman . One candidate GOP voters better make sure makes it no where near the White House is former governor Mitt Romney. Romney has got the hair, money, experience, and is in the the top four most supported GOP candidates among Republicans. But what exactly does this man have to bring upon our country? Much of it should be brought attention to and the rest is unclear giving Romney's flip flopping. Factors affecting him are of course the health care program in Massachusetts and President Obama's federal plan, abortion, gun control, immigration, gay rights, and yes... his Mormonism.

Chris Christie Slams Muslim Bigots as Ignorant and Calls Sharia Law Threat Crap, Crazy, and Baloney

Chris Christie is defending his appointment of a Muslim judge. The Republican’s appointment of Muslim-American Sohail Mohammed to a state judge ruffled some fears among some who believe in the mythical threat of Sharia Law.

Ron Paul vs Gary Johnson

Gary Johnson is my choice in the GOP primary btw. Ron Paul is my second. This will be my last election voting as a Republican before I switch to the Democratic Party. If neither of them get the nomination, I'm pulling it for Obama.

Ron Paul Left, Gary Johnson Right

The American Conservative
W James Antle III
August 3, 2011

In 2008, Texas Rep. Ron Paul was alone among GOP presidential hopefuls in his unstinting defense of free markets, sound money, civil liberties, and a noninterventionist foreign policy. This time he has company. Former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson, who endorsed Paul four years ago, is running for president himself.
Paul and Johnson are arguably the country’s two most successful libertarian-leaning politicians. Paul has been elected to Congress 12 times—three of them as a non-incumbent—emphasizing liberty and less government. He boasts of never voting for legislation unless it is expressly authorized by the Constitution. Every year, he sponsors countless bills eliminating government programs, reducing spending, cutting taxes, and eradicating regulations. Paul has used his office as a platform for spreading libertarian ideas, entering the works of obscure free-market economists and anti-statist philosophers into the Congressional Record.

Johnson was twice elected governor of New Mexico. During that time, he vetoed over 750 bills, more than all the other governors combined, and ruthlessly slashed state spending. Johnson cut taxes 14 times and never approved a tax increase, yet when he left office New Mexico was one of just four states with a balanced budget. Almost alone among state-level officials, Johnson emerged as an outspoken critic of state and federal drug laws. Read Entire Article

Should We be Fracking?- Dylan Ratigan

Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy

See my last post on fracking.

Is this an anti-vaccine scare hoax or another tobacco cancer bombshell?

Frank Gaffney is a 9/11 Truther of a New Kind and Michele Bachmann's Advisor

A "false flag Sharia operation". You can't write this stuff. You think even WorldNetDaily will go along with this or invite Gaffney back to write for them? Gaffney has also advised presidential candidate Michele Bachmann on the House Intelligence Committee.

Bachmann 2012!!!




From Think Progress

Soon after the horrific terror act in Norway last month, it was revealed that the killer was neither a jihadist nor Muslim, but rather a right-wing Christian Norwegian named Anders Breivik.
Breivik’s 12-minute video manifesto outlined the killer’s conservative beliefs, including that President Obama is a Marxist and that “Christian soldiers” and “cultural conservatives” should rise up against “multiculturalism” and Muslims. ThinkProgress examined the sources Breivik used in his manifesto and found, unsurprisingly, a glut of Islamophobic bloggers and pundits among the citations.  [Think Progress 8/3/11]

Is Santorum Blowing It On Homosexuality?

No pun intended. Dan Savage has warned presidential candidate Rick Santorum that he will redefine the word "Rick" as he did with "Santorum" if the candidate does any gay bashing BS.

I don't think he's off to a good start.

SANTORUM: If the Supreme Court gives the right to consensual sexual activity then you have the right to incest, you have the right to polygamy, you have the right to all sorts of — you have the right to anything if it’s consent. When I said that, the gay community went ballistic and they came after me. The mainstream media called for me to resign because I was comparing homosexuality to incest and other things. No I wasn’t, I was saying if the standard is consent than how do you rationally draw to the line, you can’t. And they aren’t. And subsequent to that the Massachusetts decision and others came down and I stood for marriage. [...]
It is not fine with me that New York has destroyed marriage. It is not fine with me that New York has set a template that can cause great division in this country. There is not 50 definitions of marriage.

As Think Progress noted:

Lawrence, the Court did draw a line, noting that the right to consent has its limits. “The present case does not involve minors,” the majority ruled. “It does not involve persons who might be injured or coerced or who are situated in relationships where consent might not easily be refused. It does not involve public conduct or prostitution. It does not involve whether the government must give formal recognition to any relationship that homosexual persons seek to enter. The case does involve two adults who, with full and mutual consent from each other, engaged in sexual practices common to a homosexual lifestyle.”

Read more on the overturning of the sodomy laws.

Which is Better? Media Research Center or Accuracy In Media?

In my last post I showed the difference between  Media Research Center and what could be considered it's liberal counterparts. "Media Matters For America" and "Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting" (FAIR) are the most infamous. The difference is simple: MRC is about bias not accuracy. The blog Left Hook explained this further. Is there a conservative media watchdog organization that cares about accuracy in journalism? Well... one has accuracy in it's name anyway: Accuracy in Media or (AIM). Is it a true counterpart to MMFA and FAIR unlike MRC? No, in fact its as far from them as MRC is.
AIM mainstreams and pushes a conspiratorial mindset engaging in speculation, distorted half-truths, and unproved assertions of fact. In their world facts are NOT irrefutable.

Since it's founding and especially in the election of Obama its legitimized the craziest conspiracy theories and has said the craziest things such as:.