Super consolation pills : Look at the bright side of things : How I avoid Suicide and Depression after the Great Republican Victory in the Elections - How I control my emotions and become fully operative after Great Fools win in the elections

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Trick 1 : 

Look at the INTRADE.COM prices for bets : you observe the "Last Price", the "Ask" and "Bid" prices for several candidates ( to win a bet of $100 ), this tells me that Meg Whitman, Carly Fiorina, Tom Tancredo, Carl Paladino and other repulsive and repellent figures are going to lose on November 2.


Also Christine O'Donnell and Joe Miller are  going to lose .... In the case of Miller, he is defeated by a less dangerous Republican.



Trick 2 : 

Read History, particularly the books about Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the New Deal .....  Great Men have been disrespected by the populace and the rabble ..... ( like Mr Barack Obama ) ..... Greatness is not recognized and acknowledged during the life of a Great Statestman.


Even the Great Winston Churchill was despised by the British after the Second World War and he lost the elections.


Trick 3 :


History and Politics is a pendulum : If Republicans take over then this is like when the Ayatollah Komeini took over in Iran, a Great Leap backwards .... History is filled with these regressions that are very similar to the regressions of the planets, when they seem to stop and advance backwards.



Trick 4 :


If everything fails and you are still depressed and suicidal then try some Good Magic, Astrology a Crystall Ball, a Tarot, some Divinations, etc ...




What to avoid :


Avoid Priests and Pastors, they are Great Exploiters and may lead you to the Tea Party or Republican Party in General. These priests and pastors are very dangerous for the good health of your wallet.


Avoid pacts with the Devil, changing History is not worth the loss of your soul.

Vicente Duque.

Washington Post : Dana Milbank : "The Republican Party could use some adults" - Republican Leaders have declared many times that after the Midterm Elections they will be dedicated to obstruction, to destroy the Obama Achievements, to being the Party of NO

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The Republican Party has a total lack of Seriousness and Maturity - They seem to be spoiled Children

Washington Post
The Republican Party could use some adults
Dana Milbank
October 31, 2010

The Republican Party could use some adults



Some excerpts :

In an interview last week with National Journal's Major Garrett, Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell was asked what his priority would be for Republicans after their expected gains in Tuesday's election.

The possibilities were many: Balance the budget and pay down the debt? Fight the terrorists and reform entitlements? Support and defend the Constitution?

No, McConnell's priorities were elsewhere. "The single most important thing we want to achieve," he said, "is for President Obama to be a one-term president."

The single most important thing?

This bit of truth-telling, reminiscent of McConnell's lament in August that "I wish we had been able to obstruct more" of Obama's agenda, underscored a problem that will come to the fore if Republicans succeed in winning a majority on Tuesday: The party is sorely in need of grown-ups.

When Republicans gained control of Congress 16 years ago, the revolutionaries were eventually convinced by their leaders to cut deals with President Bill Clinton, leading to milestone achievements on the budget and welfare reform.

But there is no Bob Dole in the Republican leadership today; there isn't even a Newt Gingrich. There is nobody with the clout to tell Tea Party-inspired backbenchers when it's time to put down the grenades and negotiate. Rather, there are weak leaders who, frightened by the Tea Party radicals, have become unquestioning followers of a radical approach.

"This is not a time for compromise," House Republican leader John Boehner informed Sean Hannity on the radio on Wednesday. When Hannity mentioned that retiring Sen. Judd Gregg (R-N.H.) called it unwise to attempt a repeal of health-care reform, Boehner replied: "I love Judd Gregg, but maybe he doesn't get it. . . . We're going to do everything - and I mean everything - we can do, to kill it, stop it, slow it down."

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Rep. Mike Pence (Ind.), the No. 3 House Republican, told radio host Hugh Hewitt recently. "There will be no compromise on repealing Obamacare. There will be no compromise on stopping Democrats from growing government and raising taxes. And if I haven't been clear enough yet, let me say again: no compromise."

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The difference now is that, particularly on the Republican side, there are no authority figures to say "no" to the angry, the rude and the violent. With a House leader determined not to compromise, and a Senate leader whose top national priority is the defeat of the president, things won't get any better after Tuesday.

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HuffPost : According to CBS News, 215,000 people showed up for the rally on Saturday. By comparison, CBS estimated that 87,000 -- just 40% of the Sanity Rally estimation -- attended Glenn Beck's "Restoring Honor" rally in August.

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This proves that Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin are just ridiculous clowns, using the power and money of Fox News to gather people. ( and the money of billionaires )



Huffington Post
Rally To Restore Sanity Attendance Estimated In Hundreds Of Thousands
October 30, 2010


Rally To Restore Sanity Attendance Estimated In Hundreds Of Thousands


Some excerpts :

Canada's CTV, meanwhile, wrote that 250,000 people were estimated to have partaken in the Rally to Restore Sanity.

Earlier on Saturday, Brian Stelter tweeted that the Parks Service approximated that "well over 200,000" attended Saturday's rally.

For full coverage of the rally, check out HuffPost's comprehensive live blog of the event, including videos, photos and more.

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VIDEOs : 200,000 people in the Rally to Restore Sanity - See the scenes of the crowds - The Rally for Sanity and against Prejudice, Hate, Fear and Racism

searcher7nine | October 30, 2010

This video was uploaded from an Android phone.

Crowd @ Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear

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Griffin47c | October 30, 2010

Just ones of 200000 perspectives on the rally

Rally to restore sanity crowd

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New York Times : Rally to Restore Sanity : Youthful Audience : The turn-out clogged traffic, and filled subways and buses to the point of overflow - A group of students from the University of Kentucky drove nine hours overnight to attend the rally - “We want to say, ‘We exist,’” said Jonathan Erwin, 20, an architecture student.

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People are tired of the Imbecility, Stupidity and Cretinism of the Tea Party that has taken over the Republican Party

The New York Times
At ‘Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear,’ Thousands — Billions? — Respond
By SABRINA TAVERNISE and BRIAN STELTER
October 30, 2010


At ‘Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear,’ Thousands — Billions? — Respond



Some excerpts :

The crowds flooded the National Mall for the “Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear,” an overwhelming response to a call by Jon Stewart, the political satirist whose comedy show commands a broad, youthful audience of politically engaged Americans. The turn-out clogged traffic, and filled subways and buses to the point of overflow.

And though it was billed as a gathering for civility — a party on a sunny Saturday for people to enjoy thoughtful conversation — for participants it was a serious political affair. Some were canvassing for votes. Others were searching for a message they felt had been lost by Democrats since President Obama was elected in 2008.

"We don’t have any place to turn," said Michelle Sabol, 41, a jewelry designer from Pittsburgh who was wearing a grey cap with a carpenter’s level sewn on top. "Why are these Democrats running away from Obama’s accomplishments? It’s a kick in the gut."

She said that Mr. Stewart and his compatriot, Stephen Colbert, whose show, “The Colbert Report,” airs after Mr. Stewart’s, voiced the bitterness and frustration she felt.

"We came because we feel like this is a safe place to be reasonable," she said.

The rally seemed to be channeling something deep — a craving to be heard and a frustration with the lack of leadership, less by Mr. Obama, some participants said, than by a Democratic party that they saw as timid, fearful, and failing to stand up for the president’s accomplishments.

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HuffPost : Don't Throw Out the Bums if You're Voting in Worse Bums : The Republican and Tea Party Anger is being fanned and supported by the richest people who are exploiting and impoverishing the middle class

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The author of this article Chris Durang expresses intelligent ideas with the most beautiful and perfect clarity


Huffington Post
Don't Throw Out the Bums if You're Voting in Worse Bums
October 29, 2010

By Chris Durang
Playwright and Actor

Don't Throw Out the Bums if You're Voting in Worse Bums


Some excerpts :

Yet the people in a fury are poised to vote back people who are peddling the same old/same old that gave us the lengthy Bush journey into hideous deficits, over borrowing, and the job losses.

The Republicans and tea partiers are all offering: tax cuts, tax cuts! Because we all saw how Bush's tax cuts made for more jobs, right? No, wrong.

The job loss happened in the last years of Bush, because of:

1) the cumulative strain of two wars with borrowed money from China and

2) because of corporations getting tax benefits for moving American jobs to foreign countries (partially because they don't like to pay for health care for their workers, or pay minimum wage) and

3) because Wall Street changed from an entity that invested in actual businesses, and became instead a bizarre gambling casino, where the money made was never anything real, it was Ivy League graduates creating derivatives and credit default swaps and "chopping up debt" and putting it into investments that no one knew they were even in and where the regulators claimed they were first rate investments when they were actually garbage..

These policies are what "mad as hell" people are about to vote back in.

The Republicans and tea partiers want to get rid of regulation! It was the lack of regulation that allowed all these nutty and inexplicable financial "instruments" to explode and almost cause another Depression.

People are furious with the bank bailout. Sure, me too. I'm also angry about the enormous bonuses given to CEO's who allowed their companies to fail in a spectacular way. The whole thing stinks.

But -- I don't know any sensible person or anyone with knowledge of finance who feels it would have been right to just let all the banks fail.

And sprinkle in that some of the tea party candidates are really extreme.

I guess I'm trying to talk to independents here (if any are reading), but just going on the "I'm mad as hell" impulse should not lead you to voting in candidates who want to outlaw all abortion, including rape and incest. Do you want your daughter forced to keep a baby caused by rape, so she can, as Sharon Angle running in Nevada says, "make lemonade out of lemons"?

Angle thinks unemployment insurance means people are lazy. She wants to privatize social security so that that money can participate and be at risk with all the derivatives and gambling apparatus still happening on Wall Street. (She used to talk about privatization, but now doesn't bring it up.)

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Most of the anger is about not having jobs. Understandable, it's awful.

But how do you actually create jobs? You really think tax cuts for the rich are the answer? We had that for about the last 6 years of the Bush presidency, and it didn't create jobs, did it? Well that's what you're voting back in. (The stimulus was not a failure, it just didn't fix it all. It helped. Doing nothing would have been much worse.)

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But again, the independents who voted for change with Obama -- I understand he hasn't solved it all in 18 months. But you think that's logical to assume he could have? (I was guilty of thinking he could have fixed more, and should have been bolder...but the Republicans' intransigence and the group of Obama haters have made functioning in Washington even harder than usual.)

You think the "tax cuts for billionaires" folks and the "no regulations, the market takes care of it all" snake salesmen are the right next step to take? Are you kidding?

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And weirdly that's also what's happening with the anger in our country right now. It's being fanned and supported by oil companies who want to keep us hooked on oil, by Wall Street people who don't want regulation but want things as usual... the anger is being used and manipulated by enormous corporations who are killing the middle class.

And the middle class is voting for these people; their anger is being played with, and they're being urged to support candidates who will make things worse for them.

Come on, independents. Be mad, I understand, I'm mad too. But don't vote for the people who are going to put us on track to do THE EXACT SAME THING AGAIN. With some weird Tea Party extras.

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VIDEO : Hilarious Funny Comedy Spoof : Adolf Hitler surrounded by Generals - German Language, fake translation in captions to English, Hitler furious against Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper ... Hitler, a racist, wants Tom Tancredo as Governor of Colorado and not Democrat Hickenlooper

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Adolf Hitler, being a wicked racist and evil man wants Tom Tancredo to be elected as Governor of Colorado. And he is furious before his generals and Eva Brown, because the people of Denver and Colorado love John Hickenlooper.

This is a fake translation from German to English in the false captions. 

If Tom Tancredo wins the Governorship of Colorado, then Latinos will be fried in the cheapest used dark stinking and stenching Palm Oil.


Here it is in YouTube.com ( I can not load this Video here ) :


Hitler Learns about Hickenlooper.m4v

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VIDEO, Keith Olbermann : a Parade of Idiots, Crackpots and Cretins that want to be elected by the Republican Party - Keith Olbermann exposes them in all their shining Imbecility - This is astonishing, this is the Government of Ignorant and Idiots.

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Republicans : The agents of Repression and Regression :

This Tea Party reactionaries, cretins and retrogrades want to take America one hundred or two hundred years back : To Lynchings, Racism, Jim Crow, Segregation, no Minimum Wage, no Social Security, no Health Care, and they want to rewrite the U. S. Constitution for Racist Reasons.

They want to repeal many articles and amendments of the constitution, because of crackpot reasons. They can not be more stupid. This is the most wonderful rant of a Great Journalist. These Republicans are the agents of the Richest and Wealthiest.
They can not be more stupid. This is the most wonderful rant of a Great Journalist.

PoliticsNewsNews | October 27, 2010

Keith Olbermann Special Comment: If The Tea Party Wins, America Loses (Part 1) - 10/27/10

Keith Olbermann Special Comment: If The Tea Party Wins, America Loses (Part 1)

PoliticsNewsNews | October 27, 2010


Keith Olbermann Special Comment: If The Tea Party Wins, America Loses (Part 2) - 10/27/10

Keith Olbermann Special Comment: If The Tea Party Wins, America Loses (Part 2)

VIDEO, Ed Schultz : Halloweenies : Greatest Halloween Scare : Glenn Beck promises us that Tom Tancredo will be elected Governor of Colorado - Witches are flying on brooms to vote for Tom Tancredo

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Laughter is the best medicine, and the best cure for the soul :

A Racist Idiot : Glenn Beck expects another Racist Idiot Tom Tancredo to win the Governorship of Colorado - This is extremely unlikely !

PoliticsNewsNews | October 27, 2010

MSNBC's Ed Schultz: Glenn Beck And Tom Tancredo Scary "Psycho Talk" - 10/27/10

VIDEO : Cenk Uygur ( Young Turks ) : More New Racist Ads of Sharron Angle - Getting elected only by Racist Ads that create Fear and Hate - And lots of lies and slander about Harry Reid

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Incredible and Outrageous Hate Politics, using Fear to be elected - This lady replaces Ideas with Lies and Slander.


No wonder that she does not want to talk to the press, she avoids journalists like if they were infected with the most horrible diseases.

TheYoungTurks | October 26, 2010

VIDEO, Keith Olbermann : Desperate Sharron Angle Stoops To An All New Race-Baiting Low - Racist Sharron Angles without the mask : Whites vs Non-Whites - Gabe Gonzalez, National Director of Campaign for Community Change

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There were many campaigns in the past against Blacks very similar to this one. Nevada has one million problems of Foreclosures, Joblessness, Budgets, and Sharron Promises that Racism will solve all the problems.

FixedNewsChannel | October 26, 2010


26 October, 2010 MSNBC

Sharron Angle Stoops To An All New Race-Baiting Low

CNN VIDEO : Joy Behar and Roy Sekoff : The Ugly Racism of Sharron Angle in Nevada Senate Election - Sharron is playing Fear and Hatred against Hispanics - A recent ad by Nevada GOP Senate candidate Sharron Angle depicts Hispanics as Scary Criminals and the Greatest Enemies of Americans.

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Sharron Angles is trying to unseat Senator Harry Reid.

POLITICO.COM : Republican Takeover of the House of Representatives means the death of Immigration Reform and Great Immigration Battles in Congress and in the Media - Congress will be a cacophony of harsh emotions with few fruits in Immigration

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In General and not only for immigration I do not think that the Next U. S. Congress is going to be very productive of good laws. This new Congress is going to have a lot of Reactionary Retrogrades, and everybody will be strongly engaged in partisan politickering and focused on the Presidential Elections of year 2012.


The Republicans have been the Party of NO, of Filibuster and Obstruction in the last two years - But the Democrats in Congress can give the same medicine to the Republicans.


POLITICO.COM
Immigration hard-liners to lead Judiciary?
By SIMMI AUJLA
October 26, 2010

Immigration hard-liners to lead Judiciary?


Some excerpts :

Immigration reform would not only be dead in a Republican House; the policy debate would take a decidedly rightward turn in the House Judiciary Committee, which could become a hotbed of conservative activism on one of the most volatile issues in U.S. politics.

Chairman-in-waiting Lamar Smith (R-Texas) has been an advocate of national Arizona-type immigration laws, implementing a mandatory verification program and revisiting the birthright citizenship guaranteed by the 14th Amendment. Smith’s wingman on the Judiciary Committee would be Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa), one of the fiercest critics of illegal immigration, who would chair the immigration subcommittee.

Smith has been on the leading edge of conservative immigration policy since the mid-1990s, but he would have a much larger megaphone as chairman of Judiciary, even if his ideas never get a vote on the floor, because GOP leaders might hesitate to open the chamber to a full-blown immigration debate.

Reform advocates, frustrated by the inability of a Democratic Congress to push serious immigration reform, worry that the debate in the House may swing the opposite way.

Smith is “less interested in getting in the spotlight and more interested in driving immigrants out of the country,” said Frank Sharry, executive director of America’s Voice, a group that supports a path to citizenship for 12 million illegal immigrants. “That’s why I am not looking forward to Mr. Smith coming to Washington.”

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Conservative immigration groups believe even if Smith is stymied legislatively, his panel could become a national platform for the illegal immigration crackdown movement.

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“He does not have to depend on the Senate for that. He doesn’t have to depend on John Boehner,” Beck said.

Smith is not a newcomer to the immigration fight. Capitalizing on Republican enthusiasm in 1994, Smith was the driving force behind one of the most sweeping immigration laws on the books: the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996. The law created the label “unlawfully present” to define undocumented immigrants and expanded the number of illegal immigrants who could be deported. That law also created a precursor of this year’s controversial Arizona law, the so-called 287(g) program, which the Obama administration has not heavily promoted.

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[Smith’s would be wingman on the Judiciary Committee] Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) rattled off a list of legislation he’d like to push to the floor: a birthright citizenship bill, legislation to reaffirm states’ right to enact Arizona-like immigration laws, a bill to take away deductions from employers who pay illegal immigrants and legislation to crack down on cities that don’t go after illegal residents.

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FORBES MAG : America’s culture seems strong enough to resist the anti-immigrant hysteria emerging throughout Europe. This is one case where la difference between America and Europe may prove a very good thing indeed

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My Comment :

Excellent article, OK, America is more tolerant than Europe, but what are we going to do with Europe ??? .... or who is going to save Europe from herself ??

Because there are business and demographic forces in favor of immigrants in Europe.

There is strong pressure by European Industrialists and Entrepreneurs to have more Immigrant Youth, more foreign workers in their factories, offices, or locations. This is a great contradiction with the emotions of the populace at large.

Even inside the German Government of Angela Merkel there are many divisions and different opinions about immigrants, because some German cabinet ministers feel the pressure from Business to have more immigrant labor.


FORBES Magazine
Who’s Racist Now? Europe’s Increasing Intolerance
By Joel Kotkin
October 18, 2010


Who’s Racist Now? Europe’s Increasing Intolerance


Some excerpts :

With the rising tide of terrorist threats across Europe, one can somewhat understandably expect a surge in Islamophobia across the West. Yet in a contest to see which can be more racist, one would be safer to bet on Europe than on the traditional bogeyman, the United States.

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Muslim attitudes in Europe are not exactly helpful either. European Muslims often seem more interested in breaking the national mold than adding to its contours. More than 80% of British Muslims, for example, identify themselves as Muslims first before being British. This is true of nearly 70% of Muslims in Spain or Germany. Similarly, up to 40% of Britain’s Islamic population believe that terrorist attacks on both Americans and their fellow Britons are justified.

This alienation also reflects an appalling social and economic reality. In European countries immigrants can receive welfare more easily than join the workforce, and their job prospects are confined by education levels that lag those of immigrants in the United States, Canada and Australia. In France unemployment among immigrants–particularly those from Muslim countries–is often at least twice that of the native born; in Britain Muslims are far more likely to be out of the workforce than either Christians or Hindus.

Partly due to a less generous welfare state, American immigrant workers with lower educations have, for the most part, been more economically active than their nonimmigrant counterparts. The contrast is even more telling among Muslim immigrants. In America most Muslims are comfortably middle class, with income and education levels above the national average. They are more likely to be satisfied with the state of the country, their own community and their prospects for success than are other Americans—even in the face of the reaction to 9-ll.

More important still, more than half of Muslims identify themselves as Americans first, a far higher percentage than in the various countries of Western Europe. More than four in five are registered to vote, a sure sign of civic involvement. Almost three-quarters, according to a Pew study, say they have never been discriminated against–something that is definitely not the case in Europe where a majority, according to Pew, complain of discrimination.

Over time, these differences between Europe and America may become even more pronounced. America is becoming increasingly diverse, but it is also growing demographically, and Muslims make up a very small part of that. There’s little fear in America of the kind of Muslim envelopment that appears to threaten a rapidly aging, and soon to be depopulating, Europe.

Of course the U.S. still has its bigoted Islamophobes, just as it has its own small cadre of vicious Islamists. One law of history appears to be that morons will be morons. But America’s culture seems strong enough to resist the anti-immigrant hysteria emerging throughout Europe. This is one case where la difference between America and Europe may prove a very good thing indeed.

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Boston Globe : German Chancellor Angela Merkel : Her Racist Speech - The rising tides of Xenophobia in Europe and America - The American idea is at risk again, and the world once more awaits its vindication.

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Boston Globe
Boston.com
The rising tides of xenophobia
By James Carroll
October 25, 2010


The rising tides of xenophobia


Some excerpts :

‘THE APPROACH to build a multicultural society and to live side by side and to enjoy each other . . . has failed, utterly failed.’’ This statement at a political rally last week by German Chancellor Angela Merkel was greeted by a standing ovation from her listeners. She was speaking of how Germany’s immigrant population, mainly Turks, remains socially marginal. Using “we’’ to refer to the nation’s majority population, she continued, “We feel tied to Christian values. Those who don’t accept them don’t have a place here.’’

Hello? The 5 million Muslims living in Germany were on notice, but Merkel’s remarks reverberated across the continent — and the ocean. On both sides of the Atlantic, a rising tide of xenophobic hostility toward immigrants is threatening to swamp the foundation of liberal democracy. As if out of nowhere, American politics, too, shows this. Merkel’s overt affirmation of “Christian values’’ as a note of national identity, for example, has an echo in the sly deriding of the separation of church and state that came last week from Delaware Senate candidate Christine O’Donnell.

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In Europe, the pressure comes from Muslim populations, and though American anti-Islamic prejudice has been sparked by the war on terror (and fueled by Fox News), the real point of contention here is the burgeoning Latino population. This year, in fact, marks a demographic tipping point, with more US children born to minorities than to whites. It won’t be until about 2050 that the national percentage of whites will fall below half, but many already feel as though the privilege and power of being part of the dominant group are being ripped away. The political hysteria, including rampant hatred of the black president, that has seized the Republican Party is a result.

We have been here before. Know-Nothing bigotry is nothing new. Chinese, Irish, Jews, Italians, Slavs, and others have had their turns on this hot seat, with African-Americans perennially warned that they “don’t have a place here.’’ Now Latinos, who make up more than 15 percent of the US population (expected to grow to a quarter by 2050), are all but explicitly told that they can never be real Americans.

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New York Times : Frank Rich : Obama averted another Great Depression, saved 3.3 million jobs with stimulus spending, salvaged GM and Chrysler from the junkyard. Only 8 percent of Americans know that he gave 95 percent of American taxpayers a tax cut.

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New York Times
What Happened to Change We Can Believe In?
By FRANK RICH
October 23, 2010


What Happened to Change We Can Believe In?


Some excerpts :

PRESIDENT Obama, the Rodney Dangerfield of 2010, gets no respect for averting another Great Depression, for saving 3.3 million jobs with stimulus spending, or for salvaging GM and Chrysler from the junkyard. And none of these good deeds, no matter how substantial, will go unpunished if the projected Democratic bloodbath materializes on Election Day. Some are even going unremembered. For Obama, the ultimate indignity is the Times/CBS News poll in September showing that only 8 percent of Americans know that he gave 95 percent of American taxpayers a tax cut.

The reasons for his failure to reap credit for any economic accomplishments are a catechism by now: the dark cloud cast by undiminished unemployment, the relentless disinformation campaign of his political opponents, and the White House’s surprising ineptitude at selling its own achievements. But the most relentless drag on a chief executive who promised change we can believe in is even more ominous. It’s the country’s fatalistic sense that the stacked economic order that gave us the Great Recession remains not just in place but more entrenched and powerful than ever.

No matter how much Obama talks about his “tough” new financial regulatory reforms or offers rote condemnations of Wall Street greed, few believe there’s been real change. That’s not just because so many have lost their jobs, their savings and their homes. It’s also because so many know that the loftiest perpetrators of this national devastation got get-out-of-jail-free cards, that too-big-to-fail banks have grown bigger and that the rich are still the only Americans getting richer.

This intractable status quo is being rubbed in our faces daily during the pre-election sprint by revelations of the latest banking industry outrage, its disregard for the rule of law as it cut every corner to process an avalanche of foreclosures. Clearly, these financial institutions have learned nothing in the few years since their contempt for fiscal and legal niceties led them to peddle these predatory mortgages (and the reckless financial “products” concocted from them) in the first place. And why should they have learned anything? They’ve often been rewarded, not punished, for bad behavior.

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Even as the G.O.P. benefits from unlimited corporate campaign money, it’s pulling off the remarkable feat of persuading a large swath of anxious voters that it will lead a populist charge against the rulers of our economic pyramid — the banks, energy companies, insurance giants and other special interests underwriting its own candidates. Should those forces prevail, an America that still hasn’t remotely recovered from the worst hard times in 70 years will end up handing over even more power to those who greased the skids.

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NEWSWEEK : the latest NEWSWEEK Poll (full results) shows that Democrats remain in a close race with Republicans 12 days before Election Day, while the president’s approval ratings have climbed sharply

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NEWSWEEK
NEWSWEEK Poll: Obama Approval Rating Jumps, Democrats Close ‘Enthusiasm Gap’
As the president’s numbers climb sharply, results suggest that Democrats may be succeeding in firing up their base.
by David A. Graham
October 22, 2010



NEWSWEEK Poll: Obama Approval Rating Jumps, Democrats Close ‘Enthusiasm Gap’



Some excerpts :

Despite doom-saying about Democrats’ chances in the midterms, the latest NEWSWEEK Poll (full results) shows that they remain in a close race with Republicans 12 days before Election Day, while the president’s approval ratings have climbed sharply. The poll finds that 48 percent of registered voters would be more likely to vote for Democrats, compared with 42 percent who lean Republican (those numbers are similar to those in the last NEWSWEEK Poll, which found Democrats favored 48 percent to 43 percent). President Obama’s approval ratings have jumped substantially, crossing the magic halfway threshold to 54 percent, up from 48 percent in late September, while the portion of respondents who disapprove of the president dropped to 40 percent, the lowest disapproval rating in a NEWSWEEK Poll since February 2010. However, his approval rating, which is notably higher than many recent polls of the president’s popularity, may be evidence of a closing “enthusiasm gap” more than a sea change in voter attitudes, and may not substantially affect Democrats’ fortunes come Election Day. In 1994, NEWSWEEK Polls showed a similar steep climb in President Clinton’s approval between late September and late October, but Democrats still suffered a rout in the midterms.

While two thirds (69 percent) of self-identified Republican voters say they’ve given a lot or some thought to the election, 62 percent of Democrats say they have. This result indicates that the difference in enthusiasm between Democratic and Republican voters may be less stark than some other polls have suggested. A small plurality of registered voters—48 to 43 percent—would prefer that Democrats keep control of Congress. (The poll’s margin of error is 4.3 percent.) The new survey also offers a morsel of evidence that Democrats’ strategy of gaining an edge among early voters might be succeeding. They hold a 10-point lead among those who have already voted, 52 points to 42, but because the sample only represents 92 voters out of the 1,005 polled, Hugick says more polling is necessary for a conclusive picture. Early voting—which has steadily gained popularity in recent years—is expected to have an impact on the election, with three in 10 voters expected to cast ballots before Nov. 2.

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Immigration Change Organization : Florida’s SB 1070: All Immigrants Must Carry Papers, Except Canadians and Europeans - We’ve come to the point where it’s not necessary to even feign non-racism any longer.

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Immigration Change Organization
Immigrant's Rights
Florida’s SB 1070: All Immigrants Must Carry Papers, Except Canadians and Europeans
October 20, 2010

by Gabriela Garcia 

Gabriela Garcia  of Miami, FL is a freelance writer who has written for Latina, the Miami New Times, National Geographic Traveler blog, and Matador Network blogs, amongst other publications.

Florida’s SB 1070: All Immigrants Must Carry Papers, Except Canadians and Europeans


Some excerpts :

Well, folks, it appears we’ve come to the point where it’s not necessary to even feign non-racism any longer. You've seen the ads. Now, witness the draft of an immigration law modeled after Arizona’s SB 1070 “papers, please” law that takes the controversial tied-up-in-court-because-it’s-ridiculous law even further.

Tim Elfrink at Miami New Times (full disclosure: I work for the paper) reports that the law drafted by Florida state representative William Snyder, and supported by GOP gubernatorial candidate Rick Scott, includes a clause that "Even if an officer has 'reasonable suspicions' over a person's immigration status … a person will be ‘presumed to be legally in the United States’ if he or she provides ‘a Canadian passport’ or a passport from any 'visa waiver country.'" Elfrink points out that aside from four Asian countries, all other visa waiver countries are located in Western Europe.

What the…? Yep, that’s right. The Florida law in a nutshell: If you’re a white non-Hispanic, you’re presumed to be in the country legally and don’t need to show any proof. If you belong in the “all others” category, better carry your papers.

Of course, there’s an explanation for such blatant racism, as Snyder told a radio host: "What we're doing there is trying to be sensitive to Canadians. We have an enormous amount of ... Canadians wintering here in Florida … That language is comfort language."

Ah, yes tons of Canadians wintering here in Florida … along with MILLIONS of South Americans. In the biggest tourism destination in the state, Miami, people from South America comprise 52% of the visitors alone. That’s not even counting tourists from Central America and the Caribbean. These are people with plenty of disposable income, and plenty of tourism options. If Florida became a state suspicious of Latinos, they would just take their billions of dollars elsewhere. For a state whose economy relies so heavily on tourism, especially from Latin America, you’d think politicians would be a little bit more worried about making everyone feel comfortable. But that’s what makes it obvious this little clause isn’t about tourism at all. It’s about using every thin veil and pretense possible to try to legalize racial profiling.

Representative Bill Snyder and wannabe governor Rick Scott, you might want to cover up. Your xenophobia is showing.

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VIDEO Rachel Maddow : Several cuts of the new Renewed Energized Obama rescuing his friends and pretty princesses from Horrible Monsters, Ogres and the most Wicked Witches of the land, all of them filled with extremism and bigotry

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Everybody loves a President that is combative, youthful, energetic and a master of Great Oratory. Obama is a Great President and Man, but he is also a brave knight, never to flee from a fight with a good dragon, big ogre or wicked witch.

StartLoving3 | October 22, 2010


Rachel Maddow- Obama_ now an asset_ comes to Reids aid

Video : Obama in California, University of Southern CA : "The Republican whole campaign strategy is amnesia", "This election is a choice between moving forward and going backward", Mayor Villaraigosa : "The Pundits are wrong" ( in their predictions )

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Video is in this page under the text of "Neon Tommy".

Obama in California asking for the Young Votes :

Neon Tommy
Callie Schweitzer, Paresh Dave, Andrew Khouri, Alexandra Tilsley
Editor-in-Chief, Executive Producer, Staff Reporter, Senior News Editor
Friday, October 22, 2010

Obama Takes The Stage At USC Rally


Some excerpts :

"We need all of you to fight on, we need all of you fired up," he said.

He encouraged young voters to do exactly what they did in 2008--get out and vote.  "This is going to be a difficult election," Obama said.

"Their whole campaign strategy is amnesia," he said of the Republicans. "This election is a choice between moving forward and going backward, and I don't know about you, Trojans, but I wanna go forward."

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Obama is on a speaking tour of the country's universities to energize the youth vote that helped sweep him into office in 2008.

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“If you have not voted yet, you’ve got to get that ballot and put it in the mail,” the President said. “Don't delay. Do it right after this rally. You’ve got to then talk to your friends. You’ve got to talk to your neighbors. You’ve got to make phone calls. You’ve got to knock on doors. You have to make sure that you are as fired up and as excited now as you were two years ago - because the work is not yet done.”

Obama may be right to try to focus on younger voters. Polls show that the President is losing support among those who once voted for him, and young people in particular are lacking enthusiasm.

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President Obama's Speach at USC Campus - Near Leatherup.com Fulfillment Center October 22, 2010

Republicans are running ads that show menacing looking Latino men, they can scare people into voting Republican. GOP candidates in Nevada and Louisiana have the most explicitly race-baiting ads in American politics in a decade. Even Pete Wilson and Jessie Helms were more subtle in their day. The scary brown-people motif in English ads is being combined with ads in Spanish actually encouraging people not to vote at all.

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Huffington Post
On Immigration, Are You a Lamar Smith-John Boehner-Steve King Republican?
October 22, 2010


By Representative Luis Gutierrez
Luis V. Gutierrez is a Democrat who represents the Fourth District of Illinois in Chicago and has done so since he was first elected to the House in 1992. He is the Chairman of the House Financial Services Sub-Committee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit and is also Chairman of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Task Force on Immigration Reform. He is the principal author of the Comprehensive Immigration Reform for America's Security and Prosperity Act (CIR-ASAP, H.R. 4321), a bill with 103 co-sponsors introduced by Rep. Solomon Ortiz (D-TX) in December 2009 that has the backing of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus.

On Immigration, Are You a Lamar Smith-John Boehner-Steve King Republican?



Some excerpts :

Republicans are making a pretty straightforward wager. They are betting that if they run ads that show menacing looking Latino men, they can scare people into voting Republican. Ads airing by GOP candidates in Nevada and Louisiana are the most explicitly race-baiting ads in American politics in a decade. Even Pete Wilson and Jessie Helms were more subtle in their day. The scary brown-people motif in English ads is being combined with ads in Spanish actually encouraging people not to vote at all.

What is at stake is clear: the future of our immigration system and the welcome that immigrants and Latinos feel in this country. Will we have a system that encourages orderliness, legality, assimilation and basic rights or will we continue to maintain the current system of arbitrary restrictions, limited legality, unfair competition, diminished rights, and massive deportation?

On immigration, the question is not whether you are a Pelosi-Obama Democrat, but whether you are a Lamar Smith-John Boehner-Steve King Republican. When it comes down to it, putting people like Smith-Boehner-King at the helm of national immigration policy is a guarantee of more gridlock and chaos. Rep. Steve King of Iowa -- who makes Jim Sensenbrenner look like Dolores Huerta by comparison -- has called for electrified fencing on the border because he has found it effective for controlling "livestock." And if the recent past is any indication, we can expect any number of anti-Latino voter intimidation dirty tricks in the coming weeks in addition to the ads telling Latinos not to vote. We need to make it crystal clear to voters who favor a fair and humane immigration system that a vote for any GOP House or Senate candidate is a vote for the status quo on immigration or worse.

Latino voters, immigrants, Asian-Americans, younger people, pro-union and pro-faith voters -- and anyone who cares about civil rights, human rights, and labor rights -- have a duty to vote this November on behalf of those who do not have the right to vote and who, if the GOP takes over, may not be able to for many, many years to come.

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TMZ.COM : Nicky Diaz hearing was mysteriously continued until November 17 ... two weeks after the election. Gloria Allred : " I have been sandbagged by Meg Whitman", "I Smell a Meg Whitman Rat"

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TMZ.COM
Gloria Allred : "I Smell a Meg Whitman Rat"
October 20, 2010

Gloria Allred: I Smell a Meg Whitman Rat


Some excerpts :

Gloria Allred says she's been sandbagged by Meg Whitman -- in a crass attempt to win the election in spite of the undocumented housekeeper scandal.
 
Gloria and her client, Nicky Diaz Santillan, Whitman's former housekeeper, were supposed to appear today before the California Labor Commission ... to formally protest Whitman's refusal to pay Santillan for work she did.

But the hearing was mysteriously continued until November 17 ... two weeks after the election. A rep from the state agency tells TMZ ... the hearing was continued because Gloria wanted to amend the legal papers she filed with the Labor Commission.

But Gloria is calling BS, claiming she never asked for a continuance and believes this is a power play to get Meg elected Governor. Gloria says, "If this is how she treats her Latina housekeeper, it does not bode well for how she may treat working people if heaven forbid she is elected."

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Huffington Post : The Tea Party brand of right-of-the-GOP conservatism is particularly unsympathetic to the African-American, the poor and the immigrant. More than half surveyed by the New York Times think the government favors blacks over whites, a rate five times higher than that of the general public.

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Huffington Post
The Grave Danger of Conservative Blindness
October 21, 2010


By Trey Ellis
Trey Ellis is a novelist, screenwriter, essayist and professor at Columbia University. He is theauthor of Bedtime Stories: Adventures in the Land of Single-Fatherhood (Rodale). His acclaimed first novel, Platitudes, was reissued by Northeastern University Press along with his influential essay, "The New Black Aesthetic." He is also the author of Home Repairs and Right Here, Right Now which was a recipient of the American Book Award. His work for the screen includes the Emmy nominated Tuskegee Airmen, and Good Fences starring Danny Glover and Whoopi Goldberg which was shortlisted for the PEN award for Best Teleplay of the year. His essays have appeared in The New York Times, Vanity Fair, GQ, Playboy, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, among others and he has contributed audio commentary to NPR's All Things Considered. His first play, Fly, was produced and performed at the Lincoln Center Institute. He lives in Manhattan with his wife and three children where he is an Assistant Professor of Film at Columbia University.


The Grave Danger of Conservative Blindness



Some excerpts :

What the conservative elite conveniently forgets is that indisputably what made it such catnip to the news media were the controversial placards, many, many, many of which spouted the most unabashedly racist sloganeering this nation has seen outside of a Klan rally. Hyperbole Mr. Douthat? Remember the president gussied up as a coal-black African witch doctor with a bone in his nose? David Duke was more subtle.

Obviously not everyone, not even a majority of Tea Partiers is racist; however there is unquestionably a racist strain in that movement to which the Tea Party, the GOP and intellectual conservatives feign ignorance. The Tea Party brand of right-of-the-GOP conservatism is particularly unsympathetic to the African-American, the poor and the immigrant. More than half surveyed by the New York Times think the government favors blacks over whites, a rate five times higher than that of the general public. From former Tea Party Express spokesman Mark Williams, to former national coordinator of the Tea Party movement Amy Kremer, to white nationalist Billy Roper, to Wood County Tea Party leader and "official supporter" of the KKK Karen Pack, to New York gubernatorial tea partier Carl Paladino, Tea Party leaders have a nasty habit of disseminating nasty, racist emails. (If you'd like to read the report's exhaustive list click here.)

And what about the coincident resurgence of the militia movement? Both fancy themselves hyper-patriots, infused with the Spirit of '76, and amateur constitutional scholars. Intellectual conservatives parse the "good" tea partiers locked and loaded at their rallies just for show, from the "bad" militia members locked and loaded for real, at their peril and ours.

I understand intellectual conservatives' hesitancy to call a spade a spade. Instead of a "no tolerance" policy toward racist speech Tea Party leaders and conservatives shrug and dissemble. They hope to tame the Tea Party dragon, harness its popular anger all the way back into power and then somehow jettison the most dangerous and extreme elements. History is littered with the tragedies of smart people outsmarted by their angry, fanatical allies.

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POLITICO.COM : Republican bag of dirty tricks to conquer those that "cling to guns or religion" : Trick Nr 137 : say that "Obama is an intellectual snob and elitist", paint Obama as someone that thinks that he is smarter than you "The Average Joe"

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Obama is accused of "Uppity" :

 
Definition of "Uppity" in the "Free Dictionary" :

Taking liberties or assuming airs beyond one's station; presumptuous: "was getting a little uppity and needed to be slapped down" (New York Times).

So you should vote for an idiot to drink beer with you in a sordid bar, vote for an "Average Joe" and not for Obamas from Harvard and Princeton.


POLITICO.COM
Do people really want a stupid president?
By MICHAEL KINSLEY
October 20, 2010

Do people really want a stupid president?



Some excerpts :

It’s been hard, though, to figure out how to use this strategy against the first black president, especially one with Barack Obama’s amazing life story. But Michael Gerson — formerly George II’s speechwriter and now a Washington Post columnist — has found a way. In a column Tuesday, he picks up on a few words Obama uttered recently to a group of Democratic donors and calls the president an “intellectual snob.”

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Obama said that “facts and science and argument [do] not seem to be winning the day” at the moment “because we’re hard-wired not to always think clearly when we’re scared. And the country is scared.” Gerson riffs on this: “Obama views himself as the neocortical leader —  the defender … of cognitive reasoning. His critics rely on their lizard brains — the location of reptilian ritual and aggression.” In short, he takes this single sentence from the president, deconstructs it thoroughly enough to qualify for tenure in many an English department and calls the result “some of the most arrogant words ever uttered by an American president.” Then he goes to town. Obama’s snobbery “destroys the possibility of political dialogue” (with all those eager Republicans, I guess). He is “abandoning American ideals.” He is “in the throes of pseudo-science.” It’s his fault if “reactionary populism ... targets minorities, immigrants and intellectuals.”

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If an intellectual snob is someone who secretly thinks he’s smarter than the average Joe, we’ve probably never had a president — even Harry Truman — who wasn’t one. It’s true, I think, that Obama hides it worse than most. But having a president who thinks he’s smart, and shows it, is a small price to pay for having a president who really is smart. Or would people really rather have a stupid president?

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VIDEO : Barack and Michelle Obama, in informal and casual attire, asking your vote - They are trying to fire up the voters - Good advice was given to look friendly, approchable and not "elitist"

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Barack Obama has been criticized for not connecting well to White Workers, Old Whites, Whites in small towns - So he has to look more folksy and friendly, relaxed and not formal..- Visiting the areas where these people live would help the Democrats a lot on November 2, midterm elections

It is highly possible that Barack Obama is more disliked for appearing "elitist" and distant than for having a dark color of skin. So he should try to seduce White People in the two weeks previous to the elections.



BarackObamadotcom | October 18, 2010


President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama are asking you to vote—and to help get out the vote—this November

Get in the Game

Obama needs those that "cling to guns and religion" : Obama should go out on a listening tour –a let-them-yell-at-you tour– to relate to White Workers and Old White Folks. Drink a beer with "rednecks" and read the Bible with Evangelicals

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Obama should ride in a pick-up truck with horns and a shotgun in the back windshield, with those that "cling to guns and Religion" as he once famously said.

OK, Mr Obama does not like beer, beer bars and bowling alleys ( I understand him perfectly and identify with him 100% in those dislikes ) but as long as Obama receives only rotten eggs and tomatoes and not bullets or bombs that would be good for the Electoral Prospects of the Democratic Party.

Obama is not connecting to the Poor Whites, Working Whites, Evangelical Whites ( and other non-White Evangelicals ).

Many people probably do not know who is John Maynard Keynes and do not understand the importance of Deficit Spending, they are ignorant of Economic History, and know nothing about the "Decade of Stagnation" in Japan but they understand a visit of Mr Obama and the drinking of a beer with some "rednecks" while listening to blue-grass music.

It is useless to talk to people about Franklin Roosevelt, the "New Deal" and Economic Recovery, if they have never read a single book, article or page about that mysteryous guy FDR.

You won't find those precious rednecks in the best Universities and the most culturally advanced cities.

Politics is more superficial and emotional than rational and profound. Perhaps Obama is rejected more for his "elitism" than for the color of his skin.


Put on your baseball cap and roll up your sleeves Mr Obama !



Vicente Duque
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VIDEOs : Republican Dirty Trick : GOP Operatives are targeting Latinos in Nevada with a "Don't Vote" message in English and Spanish, directed to harm the Democratic Party.

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What the Republicans are telling to a Latino Audience in Nevada :

After attacking Obama and the Democrats the Republican ads say :

"Don't vote this November. This is the only way to send them a clear message, you can no longer take us for granted, don't vote."

"That message has to be denounced, its got to be thrown out," President of the Hispanics in Politics organization, Fernando Romero, says.

"To ask a community, any community to silence their voice as a way to resolve or react during a time when their voice is most needed, is what makes all this reprehensible," Luis Valera of UNLV's Government Relations says.


StartLoving3 | October 19, 2010

GOP-Linked Group Urges Latinos Not to Vote in Nov. Election

In Nevada, a group with close ties to the Republican Party has begun running ads on Spanish-language stations urging people not to vote in the upcoming election. The narrator in the ad says, "Don't vote this November. This is the only way to send them a clear message. You can no longer take us for granted." The ad was paid for by a group called Latinos for Reform headed by Robert Deposada, the former director of Hispanic affairs for the Republican National Committee.

DN! GOP-Linked Group Urges Latinos Not to Vote in Nov. Election

DZapaMedia | October 18, 2010

Latinos for Reform announced today the launch of a national ad campaign in targeted states urging Latino voters not to vote for Members of Congress that have failed to deliver on their immigration reform promises. The ads, in both English and Spanish, are available at www.LatinosForReform.com Please send your comments and concerns to:

Don't Vote

Foreign Policy Magazine : The GAGA BOMB : The Tsunami of Old People : Senility, Wheel Chairs, sick people permanently in beds - Last Japanese Baby - Empty World : Less traffic, more room at the beach

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Do you want less people ??

Be careful with what you wish

Your dreams may come true !

Foreign Policy Magazine
Think Again: Global Aging
A gray tsunami is sweeping the planet -- and not just in the places you expect. How did the world get so old, so fast?
BY PHILLIP LONGMAN
NOVEMBER 2010


Think Again: Global Aging


Some excerpts :

It's true that the world's population overall will increase by roughly one-third over the next 40 years, from 6.9 to 9.1 billion, according to the U.N. Population Division. But this will be a very different kind of population growth than ever before -- driven not by birth rates, which have plummeted around the world, but primarily by an increase in the number of elderly people. Indeed, the global population of children under 5 is expected to fall by 49 million as of midcentury, while the number of people over 60 will grow by 1.2 billion. How did the world grow so gray, so quickly?

One reason is that more people are living to advanced old age. But just as significant is the enormous bulge of people born in the first few decades after World War II. Both the United States and Western Europe saw particularly dramatic increases in birth rates during the late 1940s and 1950s, as returning veterans made up for lost time. In the 1960s and 1970s, much of the developing world also experienced a baby boom, but for a different reason: striking declines in infant and child mortality. As these global baby boomers age, they will create a population explosion of seniors. Today in the West, we are seeing a sharp uptick in people turning 60; in another 20 years, we'll see an explosion in the numbers turning 80. Most of the rest of the world will follow the same course in the next few decades.

The Grayest Generation

Eventually, the last echoes of the global baby boomers will fade away. Then, because of the continuing fall in birth rates, humans will face the very real prospect that our numbers will fall as fast -- if not faster -- than the rate at which they once grew. Russia's population is already 7 million below what it was in 1991. As for Japan, one expert has calculated that the very last Japanese baby will be born in the year 2959, assuming the country's low fertility rate of 1.25 children per woman continues unchanged. Young Austrian women now tell pollsters their ideal family size is less than two children, enough to replace themselves but not their partners. Worldwide, there is a 50 percent chance that the population will be falling by 2070, according to a recent study published in Nature. By 2150, according to one U.N. projection, the global population could be half what it is today.

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The Combative Obama that we love ! - Obama in Command ! - The Rolling Stone Interview - Obama is fired up by Political Passion ! - This is the Obama that we like !

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Wow Wow Wow !


Rolling Stone Magazine
Obama in Command
The Rolling Stone Interview
In an Oval Office interview, the president discusses the Tea Party, the war, the economy and what’s at stake this November

By  Jann S. Wenner

Sep 28, 2010 7:00 AM EDT

The is an article from the October 15, 2010 issue of Rolling Stone


Obama in Command - The Rolling Stone Interview


Some excerpts :

Did you cry?

Whenever I think about my wife, she can choke me up. My wife and my kids, they'll get to me.

[Signaled by his aides, the president brings the interview to a close and leaves the Oval Office. A moment later, however, he returns to the office and says that he has one more thing to add. He speaks with intensity and passion, repeatedly stabbing the air with his finger.]

One closing remark that I want to make: It is inexcusable for any Democrat or progressive right now to stand on the sidelines in this midterm election. There may be complaints about us not having gotten certain things done, not fast enough, making certain legislative compromises. But right now, we've got a choice between a Republican Party that has moved to the right of George Bush and is looking to lock in the same policies that got us into these disasters in the first place, versus an administration that, with some admitted warts, has been the most successful administration in a generation in moving progressive agendas forward.

The idea that we've got a lack of enthusiasm in the Democratic base, that people are sitting on their hands complaining, is just irresponsible.

Everybody out there has to be thinking about what's at stake in this election and if they want to move forward over the next two years or six years or 10 years on key issues like climate change, key issues like how we restore a sense of equity and optimism to middle-class families who have seen their incomes decline by five percent over the last decade. If we want the kind of country that respects civil rights and civil liberties, we'd better fight in this election. And right now, we are getting outspent eight to one by these 527s that the Roberts court says can spend with impunity without disclosing where their money's coming from. In every single one of these congressional districts, you are seeing these independent organizations outspend political parties and the candidates by, as I said, factors of four to one, five to one, eight to one, 10 to one.

We have to get folks off the sidelines. People need to shake off this lethargy, people need to buck up. Bringing about change is hard — that's what I said during the campaign. It has been hard, and we've got some lumps to show for it. But if people now want to take their ball and go home, that tells me folks weren't serious in the first place.

If you're serious, now's exactly the time that people have to step up.

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Tucson Citizen : Investigative Journalist John Dougherty suggests the possibility that Jan Brewer has thyroid cancer - Evidence is emerging of something serious in her health. - Why such physical and mental deterioration ??

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Jan Brewer refuses to deny direct claims of her health status despite the evidence emerging (VIDEO)

by Three Sonorans on Oct. 16, 2010, under Election 2010, Headline news, political news



Jan Brewer refuses to deny direct claims of her health status despite the evidence emerging (VIDEO)

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Los Angeles Times : President Franklin D. Roosevelt's coalition survived because Democrats didn't discuss race. The civil rights movement made that silent, and shabby, accommodation impossible, and the coalition shattered - Same for Tea Party

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Why the Tea Party can not last :

It is extremist, fundamentalist and not homogeneous
It has too many contradictions inside.

And I can add that the Tea Party is financed by billionaires and fueled by Hypocrite Demagogues of the Media that perhaps do not believe in its tenets and foolish dogmas, but are very shrewd to make money with fools that vote against their own economic interests.


Los Angeles Times
This brew just can't last
In this crazy election year, the tea partyers have shown surprising strength. But the internal contradictions are so numerous, it's hard to see how their influence will last.
October 16, 2010


By Tim Rutten
Tim Rutten’s career as a journalist spans more than 30 years at The Times.

This brew just can't last


Some excerpts :

On Friday, the New York Times reported that its pre-election analysis has 33 tea party-backed candidates running in congressional districts that are either leaning Republican or too close to call. Eight "stand a good or better chance of winning Senate seats," the paper says.

If that's correct, the next Congress is going to contain a significant tea party caucus, and that may bring social issue tensions back to the fore.

The problem, as political analyst and George Mason University professor Bill Schneider has pointed out, is that it's "not just that tea partyers are anti-government.... They are anti-politics. They believe that politics is essentially corrupt — that deal-making and compromise are an abandonment of principle. The tea party is a political fundamentalist movement. Like religious fundamentalists, its members do not tolerate waverers (like Sen. Bob Bennett of Utah). They drive out heretics (like Gov. Charlie Crist of Florida). They punish unbelievers (like Rep. Mike Castle of Delaware). And they believe in the total inerrancy of scripture — in this case, the U.S. Constitution as originally written in 1787."

President Franklin D. Roosevelt's epoch-changing New Deal coalition survived only so long as its constituent groups agreed not to discuss the one difference between them they could not reconcile — race. When the civil rights movement made that silent, and shabby, accommodation impossible, the coalition shattered.

The tea party's internal contradictions are so numerous, it's difficult to see its coalition of discontent surviving a single Congress.

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VIDEO : Sheriff Joe Arpaio to Lou Dobbs : "It's an honor to be compared to the Ku Klux Klan" - Lou is very satisfied with that answer and does not correct this guy - Welcome to Modern Reality !

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The goons of Sheriff Joe Arpaio carry stuffed teddy bears and toys to calm down Children whose parents are kidnapped by this madman.

TheMexicaMovement | November 17, 2007
White Supremacist Sheriff Joe Arpaio was on Lou Dobbs 11/12/2997.

He describes his comparison to the Ku Klux Klan as "an honor."

DOBBS...how do you react to that?

ARPAIO: Well you know, they call you KKK. They did me. I think it's an honor. It means we're doing something.

DOBBS: Just so the right people are doing it. Right.

Sheriff Joe Arpaio says it's an HONOR to be compared to KKK

Thanks Dee for your Great Efforts and Work in this case so that Justice can shine and the scoundrels go to jail - I think that the Invention of Internet and Blogs has made things more difficult for Criminals, Murderers and all Scoundrels

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Letter to "Dee, a Grandmother living in Texas" :


Dear Dee :

Thanks for your Great Efforts and Work in this case so that Justice can shine and the scoundrels go to jail.


You deserve Thanks but also "Congratulations" because you are "crowning" this task with success.


I think that the Invention of Internet and Blogs has made things more difficult for Criminals, Murderers and all Scoundrels.


Because victims of such Heinous and Coward Crimes are not easily forgotten.
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Luis Ramirez, a small man, was killed by Six Football Players, in Shenandoah Pennsylvania in July 2008. He did not provoke them, it was a racist murder.


"While the men yelled racial epithets at Ramirez, they punched and kicked his head and body so severely that he lay foaming at the mouth with two skull fractures.


Once Ramirez was on the ground he was continually kicked until brain matter leaked from his skull."


The victim had been previously threatened and insulted in many ocasions by the perpetrators of the Coward Murder.


In a local Corrupt Racist Court their crime was considered less serious than killing a dog and they were almost acquitted. Only thing missing was "congratulations" for their cowardice and bastardy.

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This is Dee's Blog that has worked incessantly to punish the scoundrels that killed Luis Ramirez in Shenandoah Pennsylvania in July 2008 :

Immigration Talk with a Mexican American



Vicente Duque

CNN.COM : Federal Court : Racist Criminals found guilty and face up to life in prison - Previously acquitted by Racist Trial and Racist Court of the most Coward and Heinous murder - Police cover-up, conspiracy and corruption in Shenandoah Pennsylvania

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Luis Ramirez, a small man, was killed by Six Football Players, in Shenandoah Pennsylvania in July 2008. He did not provoke them, it was a racist murder.

"While the men yelled racial epithets at Ramirez, they punched and kicked his head and body so severely that he lay foaming at the mouth with two skull fractures.

Once Ramirez was on the ground he was continually kicked until brain matter leaked from his skull."

The victim had been previously threatened and insulted in many ocasions by the perpetrators of the Coward Murder.

In a local Corrupt Racist Court their crime was considered less serious than killing a dog and they were almost acquitted. Only thing missing was "congratulations" for their cowardice and bastardy.



CNN.COM
2 found guilty of hate crimes related to death of immigrant
By the CNN Wire Staff
October 15, 2010

2 found guilty of hate crimes related to death of immigrant



Some excerpts :

Scranton, Pennsylvania (CNN) -- Two men on trial in a Pennsylvania federal court in connection with the beating death of an undocumented Mexican immigrant have been found guilty on all counts, including hate crimes.

Derrick M. Donchak, 20, of Shenandoah, and Brandon J. Piekarsky, 18, of Shenandoah Heights, had previously been acquitted of murder charges in state court and convicted of simple assault.

But Donchak and Piekarsky were charged in federal court with hate crimes and depriving Luis Ramirez of his civil rights. Donchak also was accused of trying to cover up the July 12, 2008, crime.

"Four people attacked one person because of his race and because they didn't want people like him living in their town," prosecutor Myesha K. Braden said during her closing argument.

Witnesses testified that racist language was used before and during the attack and that Ramirez was kicked in the head repeatedly after falling down. The defendants, they said, didn't want immigrants in their neighborhood and repeatedly ordered Ramirez to leave.

Regarding the cover up, Braden said, "They hatched a plan to leave out the kick, to leave out the race and even to leave out the drinking."

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Shenandoah police officer Jason Hayes, who was identified as Tammy Piekarsky's boyfriend at the trial, faces federal obstructing justice charges in the investigation, as do former Shenandoah Police Chief Matthew R. Nestor and police Lt. William Moyer.

Nestor, Moyer and Hayes are scheduled to go to trial in January. Nestor, who faces charges in an unrelated extortion case, has resigned.

U.S. District Judge Richard Caputo, who presided over the Donchak/Piekarsky trial in Scranton, is slated to preside over the officers' trials in Wilkes-Barre.

Crystal Dillman, the mother of Ramirez' two children, said she was "ecstatic" with the verdict.

"It's nice to know that there is some justice for Luis," she said.

"I won't completely move on until the federal trial of the police officers is done," she said, "until it is proven that there was a conspiracy to stop justice."

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VIDEO : Oprah Winfrey : "We need more Sanity - I want to show my support for you Jon Stewart and your audience" - Oprah appears on the Daily Show, October 14, 2010 with Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert

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"Rally to Support Sanity", October 30, National Mall, Lincoln Memorial, with Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert and Oprah Winfrey

folksinger87 | October 14, 2010

Stephen Colbert appeared on the Daily Show to announce that his March would be merging with the Rally to Restore Sanity, before Oprah Winfrey pops up and tells the audience that she'll be paying for their trips to DC.

Oprah and Colbert on the Daily Show 14/10/2010

VIDEO : Ed Schultz, Al Sharpton, Jonathan Alter : Republicans want to kill Health Care Reform, Minimum wage, and everything that benefits the Poor - Jonathan Alter ( Newsweek ) : "There are better days ahead for the Economy with President Obama"

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Al Sharpton : "Republicans are promoting the unthinkable" :


Jonathan Alter of Newsweek : "these republicans want to destroy all the advances of American History, many of them made by Republican Presidents. They want to kill the "New Deal" of president Franklin Roosevelt".

Jonathan Alter of Newsweek : "There are better days ahead for the Economy with President Obama", "The Economy is getting better than people realize, look at the Wall Street Data"

The people should avoid being scammed by Republicans on Health Care, they want to help the Big Corporations and Insurance Companies against the people.




Al Sharpton : "According to Republicans Americans deserve less that Seven Dollars per hour".

Al Sharpton : "Republicans want to harm the poor and discriminate against them and against Minorities"

Ed Schultz is amazing - He has one of the clearest minds - The other two gentlemen are also wonderful, intelligent and clear.

PoliticsNewsNews | October 13, 2010

Ed Schultz: Say "Hell No" To a Future Of GOP Rule - 10/13/10