April 2012

People in power screw up

A priest plays a porn slideshow while the FDA silences Americans…so what else is new?

Sometimes it’s a lot of fun when people in power screw up. The Bush II years provided comic fodder for many years to come, after all, despite the devastation, general chaos and catastrophe his presence in the Oval Office caused. Speaking of that… sometimes when people in power mess up, it reflects badly on everyone—and can even mess up lives as a results. The following are examples of just these occurrences…

FDA Silences Americans

In a spiteful enforcement  of a narrowly defined signature rule that they pretty much made up on the spot, the FDA recently erased a million American signatures permanently from a petition demanding that they label foods that have been genetically modified—a practice that Americans have been demanding since at least 2001 when I joined “The Campaign” to get these foods labeled. Essentially, the jerks just don’t want to let us know which foods we eat are modified—which, many of us think, are often more than not.

GOP "pissing off" fastest growing voter groups

According to Robert Reich, the Republican party can't seem to help but piss off Hispanic-Americans, women, and young people.

In 2010 the Republicans enjoyed a brief rally of support in the form of the Tea Party movement. That movement sported a flag, a strange throwback to the “Don’t Tread On Me” snake of the American Revolution. Rather than a coiled snake, a more appropriate one for the Republicans in the 2012 elections would be one devouring its own tail. At every turn the GOP leadership has pursued an agenda that actually serves to further isolate and alienate the largest voting demographics; Hispanics, women, and young people. A recent blog article from Robert Reich, former Secretary of Labor under the Clinton administration, discusses why.

According to Reich, “Republicans can’t help pissing off Hispanics, women, and young people.” In fact, falling in line with the GOP political agenda means actively pursuing policies that hurt or hinder these groups of voters. Reich elaborates on some of the more specific examples.

We're Excited About Romney...No, Really

Republican leadership tries trumping up somewhat tepid support of their nominee-in-waiting.

“I’m not as excited as I am desperate,” Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) told The Huffington Post. After a divisive primary campaign season, Republican leaders seem tepid about their presumed nominee, Mitt Romney. Romney struggled throughout the primary season to galvanize conservative voters, even going so far as to abandon his more moderate Republican base. It was only after every other Republican candidate had a taste of the frontrunner status that Romney eventually secured his position as nominee-in-waiting. Still, many GOP leaders are trying to put on a happy face in gearing up for the general election.

Romney is endorsed by...

Endorsement Oddity

As Mitt Romney moves to the presumptive Republican presidential nomination, a number of people are backing him and giving their endorsements.  Besides the regular cast of characters – former presidents (Bush 1), Governors (Christie, Rubio) and Congressman (Bohner, et al) it seems that there are quite a variety of eclectic personalities also throwing their weight behind Romney.  Some of those include Donald Trump, Gene Simmons, Herman Cain, Ted Nugent, and Kid Rock.  Which one will make the biggest difference?

Your Pathetic Disclaimers Aren’t Enough for Me

I’m going to do more than delete your message, thanks.

 

I subscribe to several Yahoo groups as a homeschooling parent. I expect these messages to deal with—you guessed it!—homeschooling. Sometimes it’s about meetups and field trips; more rarely it is about issues affecting us via legislation or even local laws, such as the newest curfew laws being debated in Kansas City. But once in a while we get religious materials that really piss me off.

If I wanted to get religious notification in my email, I would sign up for them. Contrary to popular belief, many homeschoolers are not religious. My daughter is attending the local homeschool kindergarten graduation ceremony—because she wants to and I don’t want her to miss it if that’s what she wants—and it’s through a fairly religious homeschooling organization, and I knew that before going in; the group has a disclaimer when you join that’s very honest and that’s fine.

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