Sean Hannity on President Obama last night

Hannity talked about Obama storming out of some conference with the Israelis in London yesterday, and mentioned that he had told us so in the campaign last year . . . Hannity then starts whining and waving that old flag of "Obama's gonna make the world beat us up!"

Instead of these Republicans complaining all the time, why don't they do something more constructive, like start a campaign of people writing TO the President to tell him that they want him to take a more active role in foreign affairs - instead of trying to pretend that he's the President of the Democratic Party Americans, we should ALL start talking to him for what he is - the President of ALL OF US!

So, if Hannity is going to spout that he's afraid that President Obama will do nothing if we found out that North Korea torpedoed a ship with perhaps some of our citizens on it, perhaps Mr. Hannity should encourage his listeners to write, email, call, Tweet, 'book, or even TELEGRAM the President to say that we want him to take a hard line.

Instead of complaining, let's get active: stop hating what he's doing, TELL him what you want him to do.

(Just try to keep it clean, OK?)


VG

French game show

Heard on NPR last night there was a French game show on which the contestants dealt electric shocks to a man strapped to the chair, and during the course of the game the players, egged on by the crowd, took great pleasure in giving more frequent and intense shocks.

Turns out that the man in the chair was just an actor, and was never really in any danger, nor received any pain. However, the reporter mentioned that the players, who delivered the "shocks" may have undergone stress, driven by guilt, over what they had thought they had done. This report insinuated that the game may not have been "fair" to the players.

I say that's a load of crap - I hope they feel bad. If they didn't feel bad, now THAT would worry me. These players knowingly gave pain to another human being. Just because they didn't actually give any pain does not let them off the hook. They CHOSE to inflict pain, that's what they thought they were doing, therefore that was the choice they were making. Any sort of negative emotional reaction they had after that incident isn't good enough - they should have had a negative emotional reaction BEFORE going on the show - then they would have suffered no pain whatsoever.

VG

Heard that the dems are being threatened with assassination

The Republican Right instigated the violence being hurled against Democratic lawmakers. However, they will never admit it. They are like the manipulative bully on the playground who gets his friends to beat up your child, partly in order to avoid blame, and partly because manipulation is so delicious.

What's sad is that we all know it is true; the Republicans have created an environment in which violence is acceptable, and retribution is becoming the norm.

What's also sad is that Americans, over time, will really like much of the legislation passed in this bill: they'll get coverage even with pre-existing conditions, they can't be dropped automatically if they get sick, etc.

I can only suggest that we hold on, continue forward, bring out the love and light and reason of Christ, and pray to Him to grace us with the wisdom to see His plan, and to adjust our will accordingly . . . and also, to pray that He gives us the patience to listen to others, and overall, the love to accept them.

I love you, my Republican brethren, I truly do. However, I hate what you're doing - the dissemination of lies and the fostering of mistrust, to the point where citizens threaten the lives of lawmakers who pass a bill that gives Americans health care. The absolute insanity of it makes my guts hurts.

But still, I love.


VG

Wonderful week - and it's only Wednesday!

What a wonderful week this has been!

The government actually voted in a health care package that promises to do horrible and terrible things to the American people, things like: give everybody access to doctors and hospitals, and which will make sure that my daughter will still be able to get her asthma medication from insurance companies who, last Saturday, would have refused to cover her for a "pre-existing medical condition." From now on, our local hospital will no longer be able to expel from their ER people dying of a ruptured appendix or suffering from severe gallstones simply because they lack coverage.

Also, those pesky Canadians did the unthinkable, the horrific, dirty lowdown thing of actually silencing the most evil strident voice of sheer hate that this side of the border has ever produced - Way to go U of Ottowa - you may not be my Alma Mater, but you're my new favourite!!!
(and just so you naysayers really understand it - silencing Ann Coulter is not silencing free speech, it's silencing HATE SPEECH. Hate is not free - it costs us in ways we can't calculate in cold hard cash.)

Lastly, and even though people deride him for a) not using more active verbs and b) not spanking Germany as well, the POPE at long last issued a proclomation at least acknowledging that Irish Catholic priests molest little boys, which is something that every male in Ireland under the age of 60 knows all too well. For what little other solace it might give, at the very least he spoke the words: which would only be surpassed by George Dubya Bush to admit verbally that he invaded Iraq and killed our economy with a 800 BILLION unwinnable war for no other reason than he had "daddy" issues.

If only we could get him to admit that . . . but hey , this week's gone so well already, maybe I'll hear the announcment on CNN by Friday.

Nice!

VG

Bunning - help me figure this out

OK OK, so

we have ONE senator, who has stopped payments to the unemployed (i.e. "poor") AND stopped highway construction (isn't that all the JOBS CREATION that the Republos are so desirous of?) because he SAYS that he doesn't want the deficit to increase.

YET!!! He basically has stated (and I think the others have caved to this demand, we'll know in a day or so) that he would stop his opposition to paying the unemployed and letting highways get built IF the government agrees to stop taxing estates over $7mil.

SO, if these American buggers can follow the logic, basically, Bunning is saying that he

will SPEND MORE

if the government TAKES LESS.

Let me spell this out for you - make it simple so you can understand it: you tell your family that you're not going to buy food for them until you start bringing home less money. And when that pay cut comes, then you'll go out and buy more things.

Wouldn't your spouse kick you out on your arse if you tried that?

Shouldn't we do the same to these guys.

I tell you this, pleebs, if you seriously vote for people who will only spend money to help the American workers ONLY when they get tax breaks for their rich buddies, AND WHEN THEY TRY TO SELL IT TO YOU IN A PACKAGE OF "I'M TRYING TO BE FISCALLY RESPONSIBLE" then you deserve the crud government you get.

Let me say it one more time, just so you get it right:

Bunning says he wants to be fiscally responsible.

Bunning stopped payouts.

Bunning will agree to payouts if estate taxes are cut.

Cut estate taxes = government gets less money.

That means less money for things like, oh, I dunno, UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS AND HIGHWAY CONSTRUCTION.

So, he's willing to contribute to a scenario that would decrease income and increase expenses, which is directly contradictory to his statement of wanting not to increase the deficit.

He's a liar - and the American people are buying the lie. I mean, you have to know you're being lied to.

Don't you?

Please, tell me you know.

I'm drowning here!

VG