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Since the Dilly, Dally, Delay & Stall Law Firms are adding their billable hours, the Toyota U.S.A. and Route 44 Toyota posts have been separated here:

Route 44 Toyota Sold Me A Lemon



Saturday, April 26, 2014

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Bernie Sanders's photo.


Here are American jobs....

Climate Reality's photo.

Now that’s one byproduct of solar power that we want to see more of! http://bit.ly/1qFfaHl Thanks, Mosaic, for the image.
Now that’s one byproduct of solar power that we want to see more of! http://bit.ly/1qFfaHl
Thanks, Mosaic, for the image.



Join the Coffee Party Movement's photo.
 
After reagan
 
Any questions? ~Jeanene
Image thanks to Center for Responsive Politics via Free and Equal.


Defining our failures as a nation....

FRONTLINE's photo.
 
Meanwhile in America....
 

Can America kick its addiction to incarceration?
"Prison State" premieres Tuesday, 4/29 on FRONTLINE:
http://to.pbs.org/1mwCYLL


Cuttin Up Radio's photo.
 
Would you agree? ‪#‎HorsemansJingle





MOMS STANDING UP TO NRA LEADERSHIP IN INDY: Lucy McBath, mother of Jordan Davis and national spokesperson for Moms Demand Action, gave a rousing speech this wee...kend in Indianapolis, site of the NRA convention, asking Americans to vote with ‪#‎gunsense‬ in honor of her son. Read her words here: http://on.msnbc.com/1ioMbX8

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Institute of HeartMath's photo.



How do they limit it to ONE a day? 

This statement is an oxymoron.


Pete Kelly, Asshole of the Day for March 24, 2014
by TeaPartyCat ()
Do conservative men have any idea how birth control works? That sounds like a ridiculous question since birth control is taken by such a huge majority of the female population in their reproductive years. And yet I feel I have to ask, because they really don’t seem to sometimes.
Whether it’s Rush Limbaugh thinking that Sandra Fluke has to take one pill every time she has sex or Mike Huckabee saying women needing Uncle Sugar to pay for their birth control pills because “they can’t control their libido”, it’s like they really don’t know that most birth control is something you have to take every single day in order for it to be effective, and not just on the days you have sex.
And that leads to Alaska Sen. Pete Kelly saying this about birth control when discussing his plan to have pregnancy tests in bars:
Q. Would you support doing the same thing with birth control? Making free birth control available in the bars?
A. No. Because the thinking is a little opposite.
This assumes that if you know (you are pregnant) you’ll act responsibly. Birth control is for people who don’t necessarily want to act responsibly.
I’m not going to tell them what to do. Or help them do it. That’s their business. But if we have a pregnancy because someone just doesn’t know, that’s probably a way we can help.
Q. But isn’t the act of using birth control, in itself, acting responsibly?
A. Maybe, maybe not.
…That’s about a level of social engineering that we don’t want to get into. All we want to do is make sure people are informed. They’ll make the right decision.
While I’d love to hear what his theory about birth control being a “level of social engineering” is, the part I’m focusing on is his statement that “Birth control is for people who don’t necessarily want to act responsibly.” Birth control is FOR people who act responsibly— these are women who plan and take responsibility for when they get pregnant and by whom. Women who are taking action to avoid having a baby that they can’t afford or care for the way they would like to at the current moment. If that’s not responsibility, then what is?
But Sen. Kelly seems to think that taking birth control is an indication of irresponsible behavior. And so we can only conclude that he thinks a woman having sex for any other purpose than having a child is irresponsible. And for that, he is the Asshole of the Day.
It is Pete Kelly’s first time as Asshole of the Day.
Full story: Anchorage Daily News


Jim DeMint, Asshole of the Day for April 9, 2014 by TeaPartyCat (Follow @TeaPartyCat) Jim DeMint, whether as senator or head of the Heritage Foundation, espouses conservative and libertarian positions. Almost every argument he makes equates big government to a loss of freedom and it’s never worth the tradeoff. And to make his point about how big government is always bad and always the problem, he claims that big government didn’t free the slaves: DeMint: Well the reason that the slaves were eventually freed was the Constitution, it was like the conscience of the American people. Unfortunately there were some court decisions like Dred Scott and others that defined some people as property, but the Constitution kept calling us back to ‘all men are created equal and we have inalienable rights’ in the minds of God. But a lot of the move to free the slaves came from the people, it did not come from the federal government. It came from a growing movement among the people, particularly people of faith, that this was wrong. People like Wilberforce who persisted for years because of his faith and because of his love for people. So no liberal is going to win a debate that big government freed the slaves. In fact, it was Abraham Lincoln, the very first Republican, who took this on as a cause and a lot of it was based on a love in his heart that comes from God. Look, people express their will through government in collective action. That’s part of what democracy is. And sometimes only big government can solve a problem. Slavery was just such a problem. Slavery didn’t go away because of wishful thinking. Slavery didn’t go away because a group of good Christian libertarians had it in their hearts to end it. Slavery ended because the big government fought a war against its own people to end it. Not all soldiers in the Civil War were volunteers, many were drafted. The war would not have been won without the government drafting soldiers to fight. And if the government drafting people and telling them when to fight and die and where isn’t big government, then nothing is. Today we fight wars with all volunteer armies, so really, if anything, in that narrow regard government is smaller than it was when slavery was abolished. And most of all DeMint attributes the end of slavery to Lincoln but not government. Abraham Lincoln was the president. You can’t get any more government than that. So for pretending that “big government” played no role in the ending of slavery, Jim DeMint is the Asshole of the Day. It’s even more surprising that Jim DeMint claimed this after Jon Stewart very publicly discredited Andrew Napolitano’s claim that the free market could have freed the slaves instead of the unnecessary war that Lincoln waged. Especially the part where Napolitano claimed that Lincoln could have bought the slaves’ freedom for less than the war cost. It is Jim Demint's second time as Asshole of the Day. His first win was for saying women want to be forced to have ultrasounds. Full story: Right Wing Watch



Pat Robertson, Asshole of the Day for March 29, 2014 by TeaPartyCat (Follow @TeaPartyCat) Pat Robertson hates many things, but gay people might be the top on his list. And when I say Pat Robertson hates them, of course I mean that Pat will claim that he’s a nice guy and that God hates these things. And for Pat’s latest discussion of gays, he pulls a real doozy by bringing Jesus into it. Now there isn’t one instance where Jesus condemns or even mentions gays. Not one. But Pat has an answer for this— all the gay couples of Jesus’ time would have been stoned to death, so he wouldn’t have to: “I think you got to remember from the Bible, if you look carefully at the Bible what would have happened in Jesus’ time if two men decided they wanted to cohabit together, they would have been stoned to death,” Robertson said. “So Jesus would not have baked them a wedding cake nor would he have made them a bed to sleep in because they wouldn’t have been there. But we don’t have that in this country here so that’s the way it is.” (Robertson’s claim that Jesus would never have encountered a same-sex couple is a matter of debate.) Robertson added: “Ladies and gentlemen, I think we have to recognize what I said a few years ago, at that point homosexual marriage was condemned, homosexuality itself was considered a pathology and now those that are practicing that activity have turned and become the oppressors of those who hold deeply-held religious points of view, the tables have turned.” “What is it about gays? What is it about abortion? Have you ever thought why they’re on the forefront right now? Both of them deny the reproduction of human species,” Robertson said, adding that homosexuality is “a meaningless exercise because it doesn’t go anywhere.” “The Devil is trying to say, ‘I’m going to destroy your progeny any way I can. If you will kill your babies, that’s fine, I’m with you; if you will deny the chance of having babies, that’s fine too; but I want to destroy your opportunities to reproduce,’” he said. “It’s a very serious thing and we’re not talking about it, and we need to as a society, we have to realize where the attack is coming because it is definitely an attack.” If it seems like Pat Robertson is saying that things were better when gays were stoned to death, you’re not alone. It sure sounds like that. Now he doesn’t come right out and say we should be putting gays to death today, but then he goes and lumps them in as part of the Devil’s plan to try to destroy man’s progeny. And the idea that Jesus would have been OK with stoning gay couples to death? So Jesus would stop the stoning of a woman for adultery but let a gay couple be put to death? Does that sound like Jesus? Not to me. And I’m guessing that many Christians today don’t think Jesus would allow that. Pat Robertson has a very low opinion of God. The God of Pat Robertson claims to be loving, but is petty and vindictive and mean and homophobic and sexist. The God of Pat Robertson will send earthquakes and hurricanes and terrorists because he’s upset about two gay men having sex, even though there will be hundreds and even thousands of straight victims. The God of Pat Robertson will condemn nice people because they would not persecute and oppress gay people. So, for making God out to be every bit as hateful and mean as he is, Pat Robertson is the Asshole of the Day. It is Pat Robertson's sixth time as Asshole of the Day. Previous wins were for telling a woman she was praying wrong since her son was still deaf claiming gays are spreading AIDS using special sharp rings that they use to cut people they shake hands with saying that seeing two men kiss would make him vomit saying the only reason Justice Kennedy would rule in favor of allowing gays equal rights was if he had a gay clerk telling a woman her husband cheated because she doesn’t keep a nice house Full story: Right Wing Watch



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