Saturday, September 1, 2012
Do you think they treat people differently?
He said he went to Peoria one summer to visit friends at Bradley University. They got “drunk out of their minds” and he “didn't know why” one of the other men had killed the dog, and that he was in “no position to stop it.”
He just watched.
How insane are we?
GOP Platform Endorses High-Capacity Clips Used In Aurora and Tuscon Mass Shootings
Last month, James Eagan Holmes allegedly stood up in a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado and opened fire on the audience, killing 12 people and wounding 58 others. A year and a half earlier, a different gunman opened fire in a Safeway parking lot in Tuscon, Arizona, wounding then-Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ), killing federal Judge John Roll, and wounding or killing sixteen others. Both shooters used high-capacity magazines to maximize their ability to kill as many people in as short of a time as possible.
In the wake of these two high-profile mass killings, the Republican Party nonetheless decided to include a line in their party platform demanding that access to high-capacity magazines be protected:
Gun ownership is responsible citizenship, enabling Americans to defend their homes and communities. We condemn frivolous lawsuits against gun manufacturers and oppose federal licensing or registration of law-abiding gun owners. We oppose legislation that is intended to restrict our Second Amendment rights by limiting the capacity of clips or magazines or otherwise restoring the ill-considered Clinton gun ban.The GOP’s interpretation of the Second Amendment is questionable at best. Even Justice Scalia acknowledged in DC v. Heller that bans on “dangerous and unusual weapons” are permissible, and high-capacity magazines almost certainly qualify as such. Unlike regular capacity handguns, which can be used for personal self-defense in the home, massive magazines like the 100 round drum used in the Aurora shooting serve little purpose other than to rain bullets on many, many victims. As one gun show attendee told ThinkProgress, “If ten rounds of ammunition can’t do the job you probably shouldn’t own a gun. I don’t want to live next to that guy.”
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/08/31/783141/gop-platform-endorses-high-capacity-clips-used-in-aurora-and-tuscon-mass-shootings/
The High Cost of the Uninsured
We all know the high costs of not having health insurance and no American should be without it.
We know that thousands of hard-working Americans are destroyed financially, file for bankruptcy and lose everything they own because of health care costs.
Decades ago, Medicare should have been expanded to provide universal coverage.
Decades ago, the US should have adopted single-payer health care.
And it would have been done except for the obstruction of the Party of Big Corporations.
The US is the only industrialized nation that does not provide universal coverage.
That's part of what this election is about.
Why would anyone deny Americans health care?
The propaganda has been carefully worded to make you think it's something it isn't.
Maybe it's time to THINK for yourself.
10 States With The Most Uninsured Residents
Share of uninsured: 20.7 percent
Number uninsured: 170,509
State population: 823,852
8. Mississippi Share of uninsured: 21 percent
Number uninsured: 525,570
State population: 2,504,200 7. Alaska
Share of uninsured: 21.4 percent
Number uninsured: 138,777
State population: 647,241
7. Alaska
Share of uninsured: 21.4 percent
Number uninsured: 138,777
State population: 647,241
Number uninsured: 138,777
State population: 647,241
6. Oklahoma
Share of uninsured: 21.9 percent
Number uninsured: 691,408
State population: 3,163,465
5. Georgia
Share of uninsured: 21.9 percent
Number uninsured: 1,848,505
State population: 8,435,908
4. New Mexico Share of uninsured: 22.6 percent
Number uninsured: 397,890
State population: 1,756,794
Number uninsured: 589,059
State population: 2,346,884
2. Florida Share of uninsured: 25.3 percent
Number uninsured: 3,853,392
State population: 15,210,949
1. Texas Share of uninsured: 26.3 percent
Number uninsured: 5,820,793
State population: 22,098,206
Click on link for slide show:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/30/states-uninsured-residents_n_1844346.html
A Human Being Who Bult That
Maybe we gasped when Akin made his ignorant comment
about rape and many of the other Regressive Party candidates
who have outdone themselves in their own ignorance, but
this video includes a level of ignorance, racism and misinformation
that is truly breathtaking! Worth watching in its entirety to see
how pathetic we have become as a nation when we
believe this crap!
Since
2007, the GOP and the Right Wing Media, Fox News, Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, et
al, have been propagating a campaign of irrational fear and hate against
President Barak Obama. These devious and dishonest attacks are designed to
delegitimize the Presidency of Barak Obama, and to characterize him as; the
other, foreign, un-American, non-Christian, and alien. He has been called
socialist, communist, fascist, The New Hitler, Marxist, Stalinist, Muslim,
African Anti- Colonialist, Anti-Christ, baby killer, gay lover, uppity, The Food
Stamp President, and nigger. The base of the GOP is clearly without any
morality, their claim to Jesus and God rings hallow as they practice Anti-Christ
in the name of Jesus. This constituency has been duped with fear, into a
position of unfounded distrust and hate. In their zealotry, they express a
fanatical willingness to vote against their own self interest. The Conservatives
have been conquered, their party has been taken over by the Corporatist in a
pact with the Theocrats and the Objectivist. Watch this video and tell me how
anyone with a modicum of intelligence, or any degree of honesty, could vote for
a Republican.
Republican Delegate And Wife Are Offended By A Mexican Working At Epcot Center
Prior to National Republican Convention we visited Disney for three days. During our time at Epcot we visited the different countries. It was neat seeing each country and the employees were from that individual country. Then we visited America . . . one would think you would find American employees. We were offended to find a person from Mexico working in America. Mark spoke up and told them he was highly offended after visiting the other countries and seeing employees from that country and then come to America and find a Mexican. He was very civil but his point was well made.
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There are 50.7 million uninsured Americans as of the 2010 census, and in some states, over a quarter of the population is uninsured.
States in the South and Southwest make up the majority those with the highest share of residents with no health insurance, according to the recently released Small Area Health Insurance Estimates by the U.S. Census Bureau. The study was based on demographic population estimates, federal tax returns and Medicare and Medicaid participation records, as well as other sources.
While Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell recently called the tens of millions of uninsured Americans “not the issue,” not having health insurance can prove both tragic and fatal. A 2009 study showed that uninsured patients are twice as likely to die during emergency room visits.
The plight of uninsured Americans also was brought into sharp relief this summer following the shooting massacre in Aurora, Colo., when it was estimated that uninsured victim Caleb Medley faced $2 million worth of medical costs.
But with the Supreme Court's upholding of the Affordable Care Act in June, millions more Americans will gain access to health insurance once the law is fully implemented. Already, it's estimated that 6.6 million young adults now have health care coverage due to the law.
Here are the states with the most uninsured residents:
10. California
Share of uninsured: 20.7 percent
Number uninsured: 6,720,279
State population: 32.504,288