Great speech But

Great State of the Union Speech tonight, but Republicants would rather have America fail then have President Obama succeed.

Who is Liberal??

Why are the so-called "Liberal" news networks allowing a "Tea Party" response to the State of the Union tomorrow?? I never saw a "Tea Party" on the ballot just Democrats and Republicans. And all the "Tea Party" people ran under the Republican name. Not a separate "Tea Party". Sorry all tea partiers are are Republicans. There is no separate tea party.

Shooting Logic through the crazy

So I'm wondering if the sick psychopaths at the NRA who are calling for arming all teachers thought about this possibility....

Say a teacher, or even security guard or principal is not having a good day, which happens to every one of us. Say a student acts up, which happens every day, what is to stop that teacher, security guard, principal from shooting that student and every other student in that classroom or school?

Sorry NRA more guns ARE NOT THE ANSWSER

So

So with all the Sheriff's saying they won't enforce any new gun laws if enacted it's very simple...They are accessories to any crimes committed in their districts and they WILL be accountable for any violence

Question

How can someone claim to be "pro life" when they are pro gun?

Dream continues

The copy of the I have a dream speech by Dr. Martin Luther King. Rings true just as much on this historic day.

I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation.

Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity.

But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languishing in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land. So we have come here today to dramatize a shameful condition.

In a sense we have come to our nation's capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed the unalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked "insufficient funds." But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. So we have come to cash this check -- a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice. We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of now. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quick sands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God's children.

It would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment. This sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality. Nineteen sixty-three is not an end, but a beginning. Those who hope that the Negro needed to blow off steam and will now be content will have a rude awakening if the nation returns to business as usual. There will be neither rest nor tranquility in America until the Negro is granted his citizenship rights. The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges.

But there is something that I must say to my people who stand on the warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice. In the process of gaining our rightful place we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.

We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force. The marvelous new militancy which has engulfed the Negro community must not lead us to a distrust of all white people, for many of our white brothers, as evidenced by their presence here today, have come to realize that their destiny is tied up with our destiny. They have come to realize that their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom. We cannot walk alone.

As we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead. We cannot turn back. There are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights, "When will you be satisfied?" We can never be satisfied as long as the Negro is the victim of the unspeakable horrors of police brutality. We can never be satisfied, as long as our bodies, heavy with the fatigue of travel, cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways and the hotels of the cities. We cannot be satisfied as long as the Negro's basic mobility is from a smaller ghetto to a larger one. We can never be satisfied as long as our children are stripped of their selfhood and robbed of their dignity by signs stating "For Whites Only". We cannot be satisfied as long as a Negro in Mississippi cannot vote and a Negro in New York believes he has nothing for which to vote. No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream.

I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and tribulations. Some of you have come fresh from narrow jail cells. Some of you have come from areas where your quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution and staggered by the winds of police brutality. You have been the veterans of creative suffering. Continue to work with the faith that unearned suffering is redemptive.

Go back to Mississippi, go back to Alabama, go back to South Carolina, go back to Georgia, go back to Louisiana, go back to the slums and ghettos of our northern cities, knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed. Let us not wallow in the valley of despair.

I say to you today, my friends, so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal."

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.

I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

I have a dream today.

I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of interposition and nullification; one day right there in Alabama, little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.

I have a dream today.

I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight, and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together.

This is our hope. This is the faith that I go back to the South with. With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day.

This will be the day when all of God's children will be able to sing with a new meaning, "My country, 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died, land of the pilgrim's pride, from every mountainside, let freedom ring."

And if America is to be a great nation this must become true. So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire. Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York. Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania!

Let freedom ring from the snowcapped Rockies of Colorado!

Let freedom ring from the curvaceous slopes of California!

But not only that; let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia!

Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee!

Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi. From every mountainside, let freedom ring.

And when this happens, when we allow freedom to ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, "Free at last! free at last! thank God Almighty, we are free at last!"

Uh STUPID

Now let me get this straight... According to an add by the National Riffle Association... AKA a terrorist organization that they are.. the President is a hypocrite for having an armed guard at his children's school. THEY ARE CALLED THE SECRET SERVICE THAT IS THEIR JOB.

Also for those who are upset with the President for having children or, as drug addict Limbaugh called them "human shields" since he is vile and disgusting... I seem to recall when the 9/11 attacks happened and Bush had a statement SURROUNDED BY CHILDREN.. Silence about that.

Now those are sensible proposals.. Congress DO YOUR JOB.

ROund 2

I always find it funny how Republicants seem to think they have an edge on things like budget issues. Their ego's prevent meaningful acts to happen.

Everyone ready for round 2 on the budget?

YOUR FAULT

To ANY DEMOCRAT OR REPUBLICAN who complain about a deal with the "fiscal cliff" IT'S YOUR OWN FAULT! YOU CHOSE TO WAIT UNTIL THE LAST MINUTE! YOU could have done this months ago.

Again

I always post this letter. Hope everyone has a Merry Christmas and be safe

"DEAR EDITOR: I am 8 years old. "Some of my little friends say there is no Santa Claus. "Papa says, 'If you see it in THE SUN it's so.' "Please tell me the truth; is there a Santa Claus? "VIRGINIA O'HANLON. "115 WEST NINETY-FIFTH STREET." VIRGINIA, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age. They do not believe except they see. They think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible by their little minds. All minds, Virginia, whether they be men's or children's, are little. In this great universe of ours man is a mere insect, an ant, in his intellect, as compared with the boundless world about him, as measured by the intelligence capable of grasping the whole of truth and knowledge. Yes, VIRGINIA, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! how dreary would be the world if there were no Santa Claus. It would be as dreary as if there were no VIRGINIAS. There would be no childlike faith then, no poetry, no romance to make tolerable this existence. We should have no enjoyment, except in sense and sight. The eternal light with which childhood fills the world would be extinguished. Not believe in Santa Claus! You might as well not believe in fairies! You might get your papa to hire men to watch in all the chimneys on Christmas Eve to catch Santa Claus, but even if they did not see Santa Claus coming down, what would that prove? Nobody sees Santa Claus, but that is no sign that there is no Santa Claus. The most real things in the world are those that neither children nor men can see. Did you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn? Of course not, but that's no proof that they are not there. Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world. You may tear apart the baby's rattle and see what makes the noise inside, but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not the strongest man, nor even the united strength of all the strongest men that ever lived, could tear apart. Only faith, fancy, poetry, love, romance, can push aside that curtain and view and picture the supernal beauty and glory beyond. Is it all real? Ah, VIRGINIA, in all this world there is nothing else real and abiding. No Santa Claus! Thank God! he lives, and he lives forever. A thousand years from now, Virginia, nay, ten times ten thousand years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood.

They don't get it

They NRA do not get it. In wake of the tragedy in Newtown they just don't get it. Their response is having more guns. They are sick. They need mental help.

Yet again

So for those sick assholes on the right who insist guns don't kill people I present a school stabbing in China. Number of dead 0. Take that vs the tragedy in Ct. yesterday and the mall shooting in Oregon.

FUCK YOU ASSHOLES

How many more have to die? HOW FUCKING MANY MORE CHILDREN HAVE TO DIE

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2248054/China-stabbing-22-children-elderly-woman-stabbed-outside-primary-school-Chinese-knifeman.html

Tragic

So I want to talk about the murder suicide involving Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher.

Now before everyone gets into everything we will probably never know exactly what happened. The two people who could tell the most are dead.
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/jovan-belcher-long-concussion-history-team/story?id=17857167#.UL0t2IM0h4s

I give this link cause a couple weeks prior he was knocked out of a  game after a hit to the head and suffered amnesia. Now if this has anything to do with what happened we won't know. But there have been several players who have had concussions who have killed themselves.

What are the solutions.

Normally you look at players who suffer injuries and they are given their jobs back once they are healed. Lately, that has changed. If you look at both Alex Smith and Michael Vick, both qb's weren't given their jobs back after suffering injuries. That will have players worrying and not identifying when they are seriously hurt. That is a mistake.

What is the NFL's and NFLPA's responsibility? It is both of their responsibilities to make sure their players are safe. Safe and healthy. Problem is you obviously can't take hitting out of the game. If there is any question the players should be examined immediately BY INDEPENDENT DOCTORS. Not team employed doctors.

The NFL has let this go on for too long. Unless stricter measures are taken to protect the players, we might have to (I know how the right will feel) have a Government come in. The NFL is fully capable with the billions of dollars that come in to hire independent people, but to this point they are choosing not to.

It begins again

I'm not a religious person. If you think religion is the answer for you I say go for it. It's not for me. No one chooses a path for me I am responsible for my own actions.

Every year I get amused by the phony outrage by conservatives who claim there is a "war" on Christmas. There isn't. It's simply a choice by stores and people who choose to be all inclusive because, last I checked, there are several holidays in December.

Just people who are trying to start something and if you don't like it, I suggest you go to a country like the Vatican or someplace.

Happy Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving to all. Be safe have fun and I'll talk to you soon.

Just SHUT UP

It's funny how Republicants insane John McCain and Lindsey Graham are attacking Susan Rice about lack of intelligence about the attacks in Bengazzi YET were silent when Bush CHOSE TO DO NOTHING when he was told Bin Laden determined to attack the United States a month before 9/11

We Won

Despite Republicants best efforts to not get people to vote PRESIDENT OBAMA WON

Today

Today, no matter what side of the isle you fall on, VOTE.

Bottom Line

Bottom Line ladies and gentlemen is this: VOTE

If you like where the United States is headed, vote for President Obama

If you want a return to the policies that put us in the shape we are in, vote for Romney.

Hypocrites

I often say those who attack President Obama are usually the first who come to him when disaster strikes. The latest hypocrite is Chris Christie of New Jersey. All he does is attack the President yet when Sandy strikes all you hear from him is how helpful (rightly) the President is.

Yet another Repubicant hypocrite