Are Your Parents At Risk? … Have The Talk!

This site is awesome! It’s a parody of the talk to your kids about drugs or sex sites, but it’s a site asking kids to talk to their parents about their McCain/Palin addiction. http://www.mccainfreewhitehouse.org

McCain & Palin described in terms a child can comprehend

This is a fun animated short film explaining why not to vote for McCain/Palin:

Wassup, 8 years later?

Remember the young, happy Budweiser Wassup guys? See them after 8 years of Bush/Cheney:

Joe The Plumber, Inc.

I guess the point of this whole Joe The Plumber movement is that we should feel sorry for Joe, because once he makes it big and gets wealthy and becomes Joe The CEO of Plumbers Corporation International, Obama and the evil liberal Democrats who look out for the commoners like Joe used to be, are going to make more taxes on his exorbitant wealth and obscene profits that he gets by overcharging for goods and services and underpaying his employees and giving them no benefits or taking their benefits away.

McCain and the Republicans want you to feel sorry for the Joe Plumbers, Inc. of the nation, with their 7 houses and 15 cars. If we raise their taxes, they won’t be able to buy fancier clothes for their trophy wives, or go on as many exotic vacations, or eat at as many 5 star restaurants, or buy more houses and cars, or upgrade their helicopters, lear jets, and yachts. Why should the tax burden not be placed instead on their employees, who can’t save for emergencies or retirement, can’t afford to take time off work or go on vacations, and these days, can barely afford gas to get to work, electricity, groceries, and rent, let alone health care or any luxury purchases?

Yes, Obama does want to “spread the wealth”, by taking back some of the money that the rich have stolen more and more from the poor and middle class every year by raising prices and lowering wages and benefits.

What Republicans and other wealthy folks fail to realize that if they keep underpaying and overcharging the lower and middle classes worse each year, that eventually they will have an actual revolution on their hands. Just look at history. There is a breaking point where people must stand up for themselves and demand that they are given what they need. When things get bad enough, it will finally be worthwhile to the common man to actually rebel in ways much more violent and effective than writing and talking about change and hope, so maybe it would be in the best interests of the wealthy ruling class to make some concessions now, and show a little compassion and sympathy and basic human decency, so that later, their heads won’t have to roll.

Viva La Plumbers!

Republican Political Associations with Terrorists

McCain picks Presidential Transition Chief who lobbied for Saddam Hussein

The Wealthy and Christianity

I find it impossible, as a logical thinker, to reconcile the fact that many wealthy Americans, primarily Republicans, overwhelmingly claim to be Christians, and also overwhelmingly, no matter how massive their accumulated fortune, take such issue with spreading their wealth around, when it comes to ensuring the well-being of the working class who has made them rich by working for them for low wages and little or no benefits, while paying ever increasing amounts for their products and services.

The GOP, while professing Christianity almost to the total exclusion of other faiths, flying it as a banner like it is our national religion, do not represent many, if any at all, of the characteristics of the man that their supposed faith is allegedly based upon.

Jesus Christ of the Holy Bible was not greedy or stingy. He did not even believe in accumulating wealth beyond what one needed to survive and live in harmony with others and with God. He did not try to have more than he needed, nor would he have, especially at the expense of others. Jesus shared with his disciples, as well as the public at large. He wasn’t stingy with the loaves and fishes his father blessed him with. He never said “this is mine, I earned it, get your own you lazy bums!”.

Jesus Christ would be more accurately described as a Socialist Democrat than as a Capitalist Republican.

I am sure that this statement angers many people, but if any of them read on, perhaps some of them will be able to wrap their indoctrinated minds around the simple truth of what I am saying here…

I listen to John McCain and Sarah Palin and FoxNews and other Republicans in the media complain about how Barack Obama and the Democrats want to raise taxes on the stable, comfortable, wealthy instead of on the already struggling poor and middle classes. I hear them complain about how Obama wants to “spread the wealth” or “share the wealth” or “raise my taxes”, and how he is a “socialist”.

It’s more than a little hypocritical that I didn’t hear any of them complaining when the rich Republicans in charge of the government and the corporations decided that taxpayers should bail them out (SOCIALISM) with a trillion dollars.

I guess, to them, that the Christian way is socialism for the rich but capitalism for the poor?

This is not only very obvious revisionist history, which is unethical, and makes them seem very irrational, not standing up to literary investigation of their proclaimed beliefs, but is morally shameful according to their own bible, which states at the end that it is the word of God and should be altered by no man, which I would assume also means that Jesus and other characters from the books should not be misrepresented.

If Republicans want to be taken seriously when calling themselves Christians, then they should act more as Jesus Christ would.

A popular slogan of modern Christians is W.W.J.D.?, meaning “What Would Jesus Do?”

If Jesus, were a small business owner, or even a corporate executive or share-holder, what would he do?

Would Jesus keep lowering his workers wages and benefits until many of them couldn’t afford their rents and mortgages, their cars, the gas to get to work, food for their families, and health care, while he enjoyed the luxuries of multiple mansions, sports/luxury cars, the finest cuisine, and practically any health care he could possibly ever need?

Would Jesus want the poor to pay the majority of taxes, while his tax attorneys and bank manager buddies figured out loopholes in the law so that he could make millions and billions but only pay tiny percentages while his workers paid 15, 25, 30% of their income to support an infrastructure that they themselves are too impoverished to fully benefit from?

Jesus would not do any of the things listed above. Most Republicans who claim to be Christian would. This means that they either don’t understand what it means to be a Christian, or they do and don’t care and are lying when they say that they are Christians.

Jesus was a brown skinned man with curly brown hair who lived in the middle east, and spread a message of peace, love, understanding, humility, and simple living.

Would Jesus be happy to learn that rich white men with blonde hair and blue eyes had redesigned him as the poster child of rich white people who view poor people and brown people as problems, illegal immigrants, and terrorists?

What Would Jesus Not Do?

Jesus would not vote for a Republican.

Obama and McCain's health plans @ L.A. Times

from the article:

” The Tax Policy Center projected that by 2018 the uninsured would number 66.8 million without any reform. The McCain plan would reduce that figure by 2 million, while Obama’s would cut the number by nearly 34 million, the center said. “

” The analysis concluded that the costs of both plans over 10 years were similar: $1.6 trillion for Obama’s and $1.3 trillion for McCain’s. But the benefits were distributed differently. The center found that Obama’s plan would provide relatively greater benefits to low- and middle-income families, while McCain’s would deliver larger financial incentives to high-income families, at least in its early years. “

from me:

As the gulf between the struggling poor and middle class and the exorbitantly wealthy continues to widen, I ask, do high-income families really need more financial incentives? If you own a company and your workers are sick and injured and dying and can’t get health care and still pay for their rent, electric, and groceries, do you really need a break or a refund on your health care? Can’t you wait a week to buy the newest HDTV or iMac or luxury car or leather toilet seat?

Obama and McCain’s health plans @ L.A. Times

from the article:

” The Tax Policy Center projected that by 2018 the uninsured would number 66.8 million without any reform. The McCain plan would reduce that figure by 2 million, while Obama’s would cut the number by nearly 34 million, the center said. “

” The analysis concluded that the costs of both plans over 10 years were similar: $1.6 trillion for Obama’s and $1.3 trillion for McCain’s. But the benefits were distributed differently. The center found that Obama’s plan would provide relatively greater benefits to low- and middle-income families, while McCain’s would deliver larger financial incentives to high-income families, at least in its early years. “

from me:

As the gulf between the struggling poor and middle class and the exorbitantly wealthy continues to widen, I ask, do high-income families really need more financial incentives? If you own a company and your workers are sick and injured and dying and can’t get health care and still pay for their rent, electric, and groceries, do you really need a break or a refund on your health care? Can’t you wait a week to buy the newest HDTV or iMac or luxury car or leather toilet seat?

Early Voting drawing big numbers in Dallas, TX

http://frontburner.dmagazine.com/2008/10/20/early-voting-on-pace-to-set-a-first-day-record/

Country Fourth

I have found the bold claim of “Country First” on the McCain/Palin campaign signs a little hard to believe since I first saw them. I decided to do a little research. Country is not First, at least not nationally. Perhaps they only mean to say that Country is First in the Real America, The Pro America, The Small Town Values America.

Country Fourth Chart, by Mark Baland

To make COUNTRY FIRST, we need more songs about people sitting on their front porches, drinking cheap domestic beer, while their cheating spouses steal their trucks, and their dogs run away…