tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73207400945585643642024-03-20T07:28:55.462-04:00Supreme Commander PostingsHome of Fubduck SportsAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08399031949803866083noreply@blogger.comBlogger30125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7320740094558564364.post-19233431847275049102017-10-14T12:55:00.000-04:002017-10-14T12:55:02.248-04:00Brian Owens and his dad doing " A Change is Going to Come"<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
https://www.facebook.com/owen.bucknell/videos/10154981749851658/<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08399031949803866083noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7320740094558564364.post-66831708342853701752015-04-02T13:05:00.001-04:002015-04-02T13:05:25.128-04:00Killing Cancerhttp://www.cbsnews.com/news/polio-cancer-treatment-duke-university-60-minutes-scott-pelley/Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08399031949803866083noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7320740094558564364.post-67138860323160921452013-10-18T13:37:00.003-04:002013-10-18T13:37:59.889-04:00Social Media Explained<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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This is my understanding of social media sites:</div>
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Twitter = #I am eating a donut</div>
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Facebook = I
like donuts</div>
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Foursquare = This
is where I get donuts</div>
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Instagram = Here
is a picture of my donut</div>
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Linkedin = I'm
good at eating donuts</div>
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Pinterest = Here
is my recipe for donuts </div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08399031949803866083noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7320740094558564364.post-31318256890008894512013-10-17T15:59:00.004-04:002013-10-17T15:59:32.960-04:00Do You Know the History Behind the Name ‘Washington Redskins’?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Do
you know the history of the Washington Redskins? As the issue becomes
increasingly contentious — with many claiming the name is racist or
discriminatory and pushing for a change — Glenn Beck tackled the issue head-on
Friday.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">“Ninety
percent of Native Americans feel that the name isn’t offensive and shouldn’t be
changed,” Beck remarked, <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/letter-from-washington-redskins-owner-dan-snyder-to-fans/2013/10/09/e7670ba0-30fe-11e3-8627-c5d7de0a046b_story_1.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: windowtext;">echoing a letter written by the Redskins owner Dan Snyder to fans</span></a>.
“Students at primarily Native American schools all across America wear the name
with pride, and say now they’re afraid they might lose the name. At Kingston
Oklahoma high school, which is 58 percent Native American, the name ‘Redskins’
has been worn by its students for 104 years. In fact, ‘Redskins’ was a name <em>first</em>
used by Native Americans.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">In
1932, the NFL team moved to the historic Fenway Park and were left under the
leadership of George Preston Marshall. The very next year, Marshall changed the
name to ‘Redskins.’ Why?” Beck continued. “Well that’s a good question for the
president to ask … the name was changed to ‘Redskins’ to honor then-coach Lone
Star Dietz, an American Sioux. So the name actually pays <em>tribute</em>
to a great people.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Switching
to a deeply sarcastic voice, imitating those who want the name changed, Beck
remarked: “But the people it pays tribute to? Oh, I guess <em>they</em>
just don’t know any better. But Obama does. And Peter King does. And NFL
Commissioner Roger Goodell does. But the majority of the Indians <em>…</em>
don’t have a clue at all. The speech police using political correctness again
to take care of these helpless, hopeless people so they are never harmed again.
It’s for their own good…”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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And while we're at it what about the other NFL teams like the
"Cleveland Browns" I think every African American should be outraged
over that one, and how about the Miami Dolphins" and The Seattle
Seahawks" where is PETA when you need them?<o:p></o:p></div>
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I think we should re-name the "Washington Redskins" to
something more closely identified with DC like the "Washington
A-Holes" that's my vote.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08399031949803866083noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7320740094558564364.post-10817728437374579082013-10-03T14:47:00.001-04:002013-10-03T15:05:01.893-04:00The Ten Scariest Republicans in Congress<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Reaping the rewards of
anti-incumbent sentiment, Republicans made enormous gains in the House of
Representatives in the 2010 elections. While the majority of Americans agree
that the vote was <a href="http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2010/11/22/104152/poll-majority-of-americans-want.html"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">no mandate</span></a>
for the Republicans' agenda, the new GOP House leadership, empowered by the
most far-right Freshman Class since 1994, is nevertheless looking to impose a
radical agenda. The House GOP's Freshman Class provides an extreme far-right
backbone for the GOP's agenda—many newly-elected members based their campaigns
on propagating anti-government extremism, appealing to bizarre and debunked conspiracy
theories, denigrating gays, immigrants, and Muslims, and pledging to repeal
multiple amendments of the U.S. Constitution. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In this profile of the
"Ten Scariest Republicans Heading to Congress," People For the
American Way looks into newly elected members of the House, from Tea Party
all-star Allen West to anti-gay activist Vicky Hartzler to Bush-crony Tim
Griffin. The "Ten Scariest" include incoming congressmen who have
been clouded by ethics scandals, lied about health care reform, and have ties
to extremist groups. Among the ten, all share rapidly anti-choice and
anti-equality views, enthusiastic support from the Religious Right, and
reactionary economic ideas. </span><span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Now, as members of the
new GOP majority, the radical Freshman Class will have</span><span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> significant clout to
promote Tea Party economics, lend credibility to dangerous conspiracy theories,
and roll back the rights of women, immigrants, and gay people. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="ellmers"></a><span lang="EN" style="color: #cc0033; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Meet Renee Ellmers: Cracking down on
Monarchy and Mosques <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Tea Party activist Renee
Ellmers defeated Democratic Rep. Bob Etheridge by less than 1% of the vote in
North Carolina's second district.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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"product of the tea party," Ellmers ran on an anti-health care and</span><span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> anti-stimulus platform:
she <a href="http://www.reneeforcongress.com/blog/today-we-celebrate-the-constitution" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">compared </span></a>President Obama to "Louis XIV, the Sun
King" and <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrZfBcYAPFU&feature=player_embedded#%21" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">asserted </span></a>that his administration is establishing "a
socialistic form of government." She <a href="http://www.reneeforcongress.com/blog/today-we-celebrate-the-constitution" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">blasted </span></a>Democrats for their "imperial ruling class
attitude," and <a href="http://www.reneeforcongress.com/blog/today-we-celebrate-the-constitution" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">referred </span></a>to the economic stimulus plan as "massive
government takeovers of the economy."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Ellmers <a href="http://randysright.wordpress.com/2010/05/26/interview-renee-ellmers-republican-nominee-north-carolina-district-2/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">believes </span></a>that Obama puts the country at risk because he
supposedly refuses "to recognize – and tell the American people – [that]
he understands radical Islamic terrorism does exist." She also launched an
ugly and bigoted <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QvKOdiyFaw&feature=player_embedded" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">campaign ad</span></a> equating all Muslims with the 9/11 terrorists, []
arguing that the planned Islamic Community Center in Lower Manhattan is a
"victory mosque" and a symbol of Muslim conquest:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Narrator: "After the
Muslims conquered Jerusalem, and Cordoba and Constantinople, they built victory
mosques. And now, they want to build a mosque near Ground Zero. Where does Bob
Etheridge stand? He won't say, won't speak out, won't take a stand." <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Ellmers: "The
terrorists haven't won, and we should tell them in plain English, ‘No, there
will never be a mosque at Ground Zero.'" <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In an <a href="http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/09/anderson-coopers-takes-on-anti-mosque-gop-candidate-video.php" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">interview </span></a>with Anderson Cooper, she suggested that Obama's
foreign policy subtly shows support for terrorists by using foreign aid to
build mosques. Cooper, however, pointed out that she was referring to a program
started by President Bush that helps rebuild houses of worships including
churches and temples. When Cooper asked if the Roman Catholic Church built a
"victory church" in Rome over a Pagan temple, she took umbrage and
asked Cooper if he was "anti-religion" or "anti-Christian."
Cooper replied: "That's like the lowest response I have ever heard from a
candidate, I have got to tell you." <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Defending her ad to
right-wing radio talk show host Tammy Bruce, she <a href="http://tammybruce.com/2010/10/tammy-radio-guest-renee-ellmers-for-nc-cd2.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">said </span></a>,"It's time for elected officials to go to
Washington who are ready to stand up for America."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Ellmers <a href="http://randysright.wordpress.com/2010/05/26/interview-renee-ellmers-republican-nominee-north-carolina-district-2/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">says</span></a> she decided to run for Congress after she started
campaigning against health care reform with <a href="http://www.pfaw.org/media-center/publications/after-citizens-united-look-into-the-pro-corporate-players-american-politic#apapf" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Americans for Prosperity</span></a>, a corporate front group <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/08/30/100830fa_fact_mayer" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">tied to the Koch brothers</span></a>. She <a href="http://www.reneeforcongress.com/in-the-news/renee-appears-on-g-gordon-liddy-show" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">told </span></a>G. Gordon Liddy that the health care reform bill was
"put in place simply to control our lives," and <a href="http://www.redstate.com/snarkandboobs/2010/07/20/for-the-people-by-the-people-renee-ellmers-nc-2/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">maintained </span></a>that "physicians are not going to be able to
continue to practice" because of the reform law, which she said "is
just a monster."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">According to Ellmers,
insurance companies should be able to deny individuals coverage for
pre-existing conditions. "Private insurance companies [should] decide how
they're going to handle the pre-existing conditions situation," she said.
Ellmers also attacked a requirement that insurance companies to cover maternity
care and other health issues, <a href="http://voices.washingtonpost.com/plum-line/2010/09/sharron_angle_republicans.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">calling </span></a>such coverage "very costly."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In a <a href="http://www2.nbc17.com/news/2010/oct/23/district-2-congressional-debate-ar-492233/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">debate, </span></a>Ellmers came out against emergency funding to protect
the jobs of teachers, and suggested that diverting public funds towards private
school vouchers through "school choice" would help prevent job losses
among public school teachers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">She <a href="http://www2.nbc17.com/news/2010/oct/23/district-2-congressional-debate-ar-492233/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">said </span></a>that her plan to reduce the debt would be to cut taxes
and end foreign aid. As a <a href="http://ncfairtax.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/2010-NC-Congressional-_Scorecard_June-2010-1.pdf" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">proponent </span></a>of the "FairTax" she believes that the
progressive income tax should be scrapped and replaced with a regressive
national sales tax.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">An avowed opponent of
immigrant rights, Ellmers <a href="http://randysright.wordpress.com/2010/05/26/interview-renee-ellmers-republican-nominee-north-carolina-district-2/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">claimed </span></a>that Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer showed "the kind of
leadership we have not seen in a long time" when she signed SB 1070, and <a href="http://www.reneeforcongress.com/blog/ellmers-to-etheridge-defund-obamas-lawsuit" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">suggested</span></a> that Congress vote to defund the Department of
Justice over their lawsuit against the draconian immigration law.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Ellmers <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrZfBcYAPFU&feature=player_embedded#%21" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">told </span></a>the conservative RedState blog that she is fiercely
anti-choice and opposes the feminist movement. She was been endorsed by <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SH376lwCWpE" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Sarah Palin</span></a>,
<a href="http://www.reneeforcongress.com/campaign-announcements/concerned-women-pac-endorses-ellmers" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Concerned Women for America</span></a>, and <a href="http://www.christiannewswire.com/news/1467414385.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">the Susan B.
Anthony List</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A Tea Party activist who
smears minority groups for political gain and has no real plan to cut the
deficit or save jobs, Renee Ellmers appears to exemplify many of the ugliest
qualities of the Tea Party movement.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="marino"></a><span lang="EN" style="color: #cc0033; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Meet Tom Marino: Plagued by Corruption
Charges <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In 2007, Tom Marino
resigned from his position as U.S. Attorney in Pennsylvania after a corruption
scandal clouded his career and raised questions about his honesty. In 2005,
Marino had used his official title as U.S. Attorney to <a href="http://motherjones.com/politics/2010/10/tom-marino-little-ethics-problem" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">provide a reference</span></a> to his "close friend," convicted
felon Louis DeNaples, who was trying to win the state gaming commission's
approval to open slot machines at a resort he owned. When Marino's office began
an <a href="http://articles.mcall.com/2010-10-01/news/mc-marino-investigation-20101001_1_denaples-investigations-marino-democrat-chris-carney" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">investigation </span></a>into DeNaples for lying about his<a href="http://articles.mcall.com/2009-11-23/news/4480877_1_louis-denaples-william-d-elia-gaming-investigators" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"> ties to organized crime</span></a>, Marino's assistants uncovered the
reference and notified the Justice Department, which <a href="http://thetimes-tribune.com/news/marino-contradicts-in-denaples-discussions-1.1035429" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">transferred the investigation</span></a> out of Marino's office. But
questions about Marino's ties to DeNaples remained.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Defending his actions,
Marino said on a local radio show that the Department of Justice gave him
permission to be a reference for DeNaples. </span><span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">But
</span><span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://thetimes-tribune.com/news/doj-no-record-marino-had-permission-to-give-denaples-reference-1.1017508" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">the Justice Department says</span></a></span><span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
there is "no record of Marino having</span><span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> received the permission" to serve as
a reference for DeNaples and that Marino <a href="http://www.timesleader.com/news/Newspaper__Marino_was_investigated_10-03-2010.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">never informed</span></a> the General Counsel office. Although Marino
stands by his claim that he received written permission, he failed to produce
any letter from the Department.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">When the Justice
Department launched an investigation into Marino's actions, he <a href="http://articles.mcall.com/2010-10-01/news/mc-marino-investigation-20101001_1_denaples-investigations-marino-democrat-chris-carney" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">resigned </span></a>and <a href="http://motherjones.com/politics/2010/10/tom-marino-little-ethics-problem" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">promptly took</span></a> a <a href="http://www.timesleader.com/news/Newspaper__Marino_was_investigated_10-03-2010.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">$250,000-a-year job as</span></a> "DeNaples' in-house lawyer."
Marino later <a href="http://articles.mcall.com/2010-04-13/news/all-a9_5marino.7236844apr13_1_louis-denaples-gaming-application-thomas-marino" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">under-reported</span></a> his income on his financial disclosure forms,
reporting that he only received $25,000 from DeNaples. Even Zack Oldham of the
conservative blog RedState <a href="http://www.redstate.com/redhk/2010/03/26/the-gops-giannoulias/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">said of Marino's actions</span></a>: "The reality is just as bad
as–if not worse than–the optics of this scandal."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The DeNaples affair
wasn't even the first time Marino had run into corruption accusations. When
Marino was District Attorney in Lycoming County, he tried to get a friend out
of a drug charge by going behind the back of the county judge who had refused
to toss out his friend's conviction. According to the Luzeme County <a href="http://citizensvoice.com/news/candidate-remains-quiet-in-face-of-questions-1.1042144" target="_blank"><i><span style="color: #006699; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Citizens Voice</span></i></a>, Marino
"approached another judge and won the expungement, but the plan backfired
when the second judge learned of the first judge's involvement in the
case."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Marino continued to
struggle with the truth in his campaign for Congress. He criticized his
opponent, Rep. Chris Carney, for leaving Washington as an anti-abortion rights
bill was being circulated during the health care reform debate. Carney was <a href="http://www.pa2010.com/2010/08/carney-marino-is-bereft-of-human-decency/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">not in Washington</span></a> at the time because his wife was undergoing
surgery for breast cancer.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">He later <a href="http://www.pa2010.com/2010/08/fact-check-marino-recycles-debunked-abortion-attack/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">alleged </span></a>that Carney "has no problem spending taxpayers'
money for abortions" and that Pennsylvania women were receiving taxpayer-subsidized
abortions under the new health care law, even though nonpartisan fact-checkers
have <a href="http://www.politifact.com/ohio/statements/2010/jul/23/john-boehner/john-boehner-gop-claims-federal-taxpayers-will-fun/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">confirmed</span></a>, <a href="http://politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2010/jul/16/national-right-life-committee/abortions-pennsylvania-paid-federal-dollars-not-so/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">repeatedly</span></a>, that the law <a href="http://politifact.com/texas/statements/2010/mar/28/john-carter/rep-john-carter-says-health-care-law-provides-full/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">prohibits taxpayer funding</span></a> for abortion.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Marino also <a href="http://www.vetvoice.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=4310" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">berated </span></a>his
opponent for refusing to take questions from the press on political matters
after Carney, a Navy Reservist, was called for active duty and was<a href="http://www.vetvoice.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=4310" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"> barred by law </span></a>from
making "statements to or answer questions from the news media regarding
political issues or regarding government policies."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">But Marino's ethical
challenges have not kept the Far Right from embracing him. In fact, his
right-wing politics have earned him the endorsements of Phyllis Schlafly's <a href="http://www.marinoforuscongress.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=1&Itemid=66" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Eagle Forum</span></a>, Rick Santorum's <a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/contrib.php?cid=N00031777&cycle=2010&type=I&newMem=Y&recs=100" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">America's Foundation</span></a>, Mike Huckabee's <a href="http://www.huckpac.com/?Blog_id=3212&Fuseaction=Blogs.View" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">HuckPAC</span></a>, the <a href="http://www.frcactionpac.org/20in10" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Family Research Council</span></a>, and the<a href="http://www.gingpac.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=145&Itemid=42" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"> Government Is Not God PAC</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">On the issue of
immigration, Marino <a href="http://www.votesmart.org/npat.php?can_id=119478#20750" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">opposes </span></a>a
pathway for citizenship for illegal immigrants, and <a href="http://www.marinoforuscongress.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=1&Itemid=66" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">touts his endorsement</span></a> from Americans for Legal Immigration [],
which has been <a href="http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/2007/spring/shoot-shovel-shut-up/the-groups-a-lis" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">called </span></a>a "nativist extremist organization" by the
Southern Poverty Law Center. In his Americans for Legal Immigration [] <a href="http://www.alipac.us/ftopict-208234.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">survey</span></a>,
Marino says he strongly favors Arizona's severe SB 1070 law, would refuse to
support comprehensive immigration reform, and would consider impeaching the
president over immigration policy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Marino said he would <a href="http://dailyitem.com/0100_news/x1079908637/Marino-splits-with-Carney-over-benefits" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">vote against extending</span></a> unemployment benefits, maintaining that
some of the people on unemployment simply don't "want to go get work
because they are being paid to stay home." He said that non-senior
citizens should face cuts in Social Security benefits if not the elimination of
the program altogether, <a href="http://www.politicspa.com/politicspa-marino-says-social-security-benefits-should-be-cut-for-future-generations/15479/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">saying</span></a>, "My generation and probably the generation that
follows me, we are going to have to step up to the plate and say, ‘We are not
going to get Social Security.'" The 60 Plus Association, a <a href="http://www.pfaw.org/media-center/publications/after-citizens-united-look-into-the-pro-corporate-players-american-politic#plus" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">front group</span></a> for the health care and pharmaceutical industries
that supports privatizing Social Security, aired <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Em3w_36F7W4" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">TV ads</span></a>
on Marino's behalf.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In a radio interview in
August, Marino <a href="http://thedailyreview.com/news/marino-denaples-connection-an-issue-1.1042453" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">reportedly </span></a>suggested eliminating the IRS and the Departments
of Education and Energy and replacing them with new agencies, saying,
"There's got to be a total revolution there."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Despite the ethical cloud
surrounding Marino, his hard-line conservative views and support from the
Radical Right helped him win election to Congress. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="walberg"></a><span lang="EN" style="color: #cc0033; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Meet Tim Walberg: A Birther Goes to
Washington <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Tim Walberg, who is
returning to the House next year after representing Michigan's 7th district for
one term from 2007-2009, brags that he "was a Tea Partier before there was
a Tea Party." Indeed, Walberg enthusiastically embraces the most extreme
aspects of the Tea Party—from corporate pandering and vowing to cut social
safety-net programs to far-right views on social issues and a predilection for
conspiracy theories.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Walberg is perhaps most
famous for his unabashed embrace of "birther" theories. Asked by a
radio show caller if he thinks President Obama is an American citizen or a
Muslim, Walberg <a href="http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/09/ex-rep-running-for-old-seat-i-dont-know-if-obama-is-muslim-or-born-in-us-audio.php" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">responded</span></a>:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">"You know, I don't
know, I really don't know. [] We don't have enough information about this
President. He was never given a job interview that was complete.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">"But that's not the
issue now. [] He is President. Right now, we need to make sure that he doesn't
remain as President. Whether he's American, a Muslim, a Christian, you name
it."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">While other candidates
have tried to tiptoe away from their own birther claims, Walberg later <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/2010/10/13/tim-walberg-impeachment-certificate/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">doubled down</span></a>, saying that he would "take [Obama] at his
word that he's an American citizen"…and then suggested that Congress
impeach Obama in order to obtain a copy of his birth certificate.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">But birtherism isn't the
only right-wing conspiracy theory that Walberg backs. He has <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oW2qwVfnRSw&feature=related" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">repeated</span></a> the bizarre—and completely <a href="http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/06/oil_and_cuba.php" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">debunked</span></a>—theory that the Chinese are drilling for oil off the
coast of Florida. And he continues to repeat discredited ideas about the
origins of the Iraq war. He <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsHiy3P3i14&NR=1" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">said</span></a>
that Saddam Hussein funded the Al Qaeda terrorists behind the 9/11 attacks, and
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eanuSIMAyLs&feature=player_embedded" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">insisted </span></a>in a debate last month that Iraq
"absolutely" had weapons of mass destruction before the American
invasion—something that even George W. Bush now <a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=131187064" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">admits</span></a> is not true.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Walberg backs an extreme
pro-corporate economic agenda. When Walberg first won election in 2006, the
ultra-conservative <a href="https://www.pfaw.org/media-center/publications/after-citizens-united-look-into-the-pro-corporate-players-american-politic#club4growth" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Club For Growth</span></a> counted his victory as its own,<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Club_for_Growth#Republican_primaries" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"> bragging</span></a> that its PAC "scored its first-ever knock-out
of an incumbent" when Walberg defeat a moderate incumbent in the
Republican primary. The Club for Grouth had <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/7/15/753654/-MI-07:-REMATCH%21-Fundamentalist-Walberg-vs.-Schauer-in-2010" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">poured </span></a>millions of dollars into Walberg's 2006 campaign,
spending $1 million in the primary, and then producing vicious attack adds
against his Democratic opponent in the general election. This year, <a href="https://www.pfaw.org/media-center/publications/after-citizens-united-look-into-the-pro-corporate-players-american-politic#futurefund" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">American Future Fund</span></a>, an especially shadowy group with ties to
Big Agriculture, spent over $500,000 to run an <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2YPuI8b5xg" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">ad</span></a>
attacking Walberg's opponent with false claims about health care reform and
clean energy legislation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And, it seems, Walberg's
big business backers will get what they paid for. The League of Conservation
Voters<a href="http://www.lcv.org/newsroom/press-releases/lcv-names-tim-walberg-to-dirty-dozen-list-for-a-second-time.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"> named</span></a> him to their 2010 Dirty Dozen, the second time he had
made that list. During his one previous term in Congress, LCV said,
"Walberg opposed every major clean energy reform…earning a 0% LCV
score." LCV continued, "During his two years in office, he was on the
wrong side of conservation and clean energy on 32 out of 33 votes. He even
voted against the No Child Left Inside Act, designed to help educate children
about the natural environment." Indeed, no clean energy effort is too
small to earn Walberg's disdain: on the campaign trail, he <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAMv3CvoDjc" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">slammed </span></a>Michigan
Governor Jennifer Granholm for riding her bicycle to work.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Walberg wants to
dramatically cut social safety net programs, and directs much of his scorn on
Social Security. He's <a href="http://blog.mlive.com/jackson-politics/2010/08/post_15.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">advocated</span></a> for privatizing the program, and <a href="http://michiganmessenger.com/41102/walberg-wants-to-privatize-social-security" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">agreed</span></a> with a supporter at a Tea Party event who said Social
Security is unconstitutional and "a Ponzi scheme." In 2006, he <a href="http://blog.mlive.com/getting_in_your_business/2008/10/social_security_and_socialism.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">called</span></a> Social Security "socialism at its finest,"
adding, "That's defined as socialism when the government is required to
take care of us all."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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credentials are also stellar. He <a href="http://www.rnclife.org/pac/2010_Primary_PAC_Report.html#1" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">opposes</span></a>
abortion rights, including in cases of rape or incest. As a member of the
House, he cosponsored two <a href="http://www.prochoiceamerica.org/elections/pro-choice-voter-guide/race/mi-07.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">bills</span></a> that, according to NARAL, "would end all legal
abortion, most common forms of birth control, stem cell research, and </span><i><span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">in
vitro </span></i><span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">fertilization".
He voted <a href="http://www.votesmart.org/issue_keyvote_detail.php?cs_id=13351&can_id=8618" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">against</span></a> a bill that would have provided for stem cell
research.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In 2008, Walberg was the
only member of the House education committee to vote "no" on
extending funding for the Head Start program. He <a href="http://blog.mlive.com/getting_in_your_business/2008/07/walberg_explains_head_start_vo.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">objected</span></a> to a provision in the bill that prohibited Head Start
preschools from discriminating based on religion, warning that a Christian
parochial school might have to hire a Muslim or "a Wiccan from a coven in
Ann Arbor."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In the House, Walberg
voted against the Employment Non-Discrimination </span><span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Act
and against expanding </span><span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://www.votesmart.org/issue_keyvote_detail.php?cs_id=12684&can_id=8618" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">hate crimes</span></a></span><span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
legislation to include gender identity and</span><span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> sexual orientation, and<a href="http://www.votesmart.org/issue_keyvote_detail.php?cs_id=16184&can_id=8618" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"> against</span></a> the Employment Non-Discrimination Act. He also
opposed <a href="http://www.votesmart.org/issue_keyvote_detail.php?cs_id=18839&can_id=8618" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">equal pay</span></a> legislation and the 2008 <a href="http://www.votesmart.org/issue_keyvote_detail.php?cs_id=21420&can_id=8618" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Paycheck Fairness Act</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="hartzler"></a><span lang="EN" style="color: #cc0033; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Meet Vicky Hartzler: Missouri's Anti-Gay
Zealot <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Although Ike Skelton, the
long-time representative in Missouri's fourth congressional district, was far
from a supporter of LGBT equality, Vicky Hartzler, the Republican who defeated
him in this year's election, has based her political career on supporting
discrimination against gays and lesbians.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A former state
legislator, she was the <a href="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/external/pre-election/bios/29019.html?SITE=NPRELN&SECTION=PREELECTION&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">spokeswoman </span></a>and public face of the Coalition to Protect
Marriage in Missouri, which successfully amended the state Constitution to
include a ban same-sex marriage (which was already banned by statute) in 2004.
The </span><i><span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">New York Times</span></i><span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/04/us/missourians-back-amendment-barring-gay-marriage.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">writes</span></a> that her group used "church functions, yard signs
and a ‘marriage chain' of rallies across the state," and Hartzler
"said she hoped that the outcome would send a loud message to the rest of
the country: ‘Here in the heartland we have a heart for families, and this is
how deeply we feel about marriage.'"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Her work helped her
receive praise from Religious Right leaders like <a href="http://www.huckpac.com/?Fuseaction=Blogs.View&Blog_id=3256" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Mike Huckabee</span></a>, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/04/us/missourians-back-amendment-barring-gay-marriage.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Tony Perkins</span></a> of the Family Research Council, and<a href="http://www.cwpac.org/a7152a4d-e4d6-412f-a1e0-db92e17cae69.aspx" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"> Penny Nance </span></a>of Concerned Women PAC.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Mother
Jones</span></i><span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <a href="http://motherjones.com/politics/2010/10/vicky-hartzler-most-anti-gay-candidate-america" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">posited </span></a>that Hartzler might be the "most anti-gay
candidate in America"-- she believes that repealing Don't Ask Don't Tell
will "put us at risk," maintains that sexual orientation is a choice
and therefore gay people aren't entitled to civil rights, and dubbed hate
crimes legislation one of the "the extreme agenda items of the gay
movement."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Paul Guequierre of the
Human Rights Campaign told </span><i><span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Mother Jones</span></i><span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> that while "Ike
Skelton has not been a friend of the LGBT community," unlike Hartzler,
"he does not wake up in the morning thinking about what he can do to harm
the LGBT community."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A staunch anti-choice
activist, Hartzler <a href="http://motherjones.com/politics/2010/10/vicky-hartzler-most-anti-gay-candidate-america" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">supported legislation</span></a> which "would have allowed for
prosecutors to charge women who obtained late-term abortions with murder"
and "also have permitted second-degree murder charges to be filed against
doctors who performed such procedures." She was also the chief sponsor of
a <a href="http://www.house.mo.gov/content.aspx?info=/bills00/bills00/HB1556.htm" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">bill </span></a>that would pressure women seeking an abortion to view
their sonograms. Throughout her career in the State House, she consistently
received<a href="http://votesmart.org/issue_rating_category.php?can_id=8783&type=category&category=31&go.x=8&go.y=11" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"> perfect ratings</span></a> from the right-wing<a href="http://missourifamilynetwork.net/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"> Missouri Family
Network</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Hartzler wrote a book for
Christian activists running for office called "<a href="http://www.runninggodsway.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Running God's Way: Step by Step to a
Successful Political Campaign</span></a>," which "<a href="http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/280284-4" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">discusses </span></a>how
to run a political campaign by using events and stories in the Bible as a
guide." Phyllis Schlafly gave her a<a href="http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/280284-4" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"> laudatory
introduction</span></a> at an Eagle Forum event, calling her book "a
manual for action."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In a <a href="http://www.runninggodsway.com/articles/afa.pdf" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">profile </span></a>by
the <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/american-family-association"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">American Family
Association</span></a>, Hartzler said that she found inspiration from God to
run for public office at the age of nine, and her book maintains that
"Christians must become more active in politics if they are to have the
impact God calls them to have." Hartzler said that her book provides
Christian candidates with "the tools and inspiration they need to bring
God's light in a darkening world."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">According to one <a href="http://www.pulaskicountydaily.com/news.php?viewStory=2210" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">sympathetic
review </span></a>in a local newspaper, Hartzler's book "praises Absalom —
a rebellious son of King David, God's anointed leader for Israel and according
to Christian theology an early example of divinely ordained rule prefiguring
that of Jesus Christ — as being the ‘first politician' and an example for
modern political leaders. In Hartzler's words, ‘Absalom won over the hearts of
the people of Israel using time-tested campaign strategies. We, too, can
campaign successfully following these same guidelines.'"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A climate change denier,
Hartzler <a href="http://monewshorizonblog.org/2010/10/vicky-hartzler/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">asserted </span></a>that she does not believe in climate change since she
read "some articles that [said] it's actually decreasing, that we have
climates getting colder…and certainly, I don't believe that if there is a
climate change that man has a very significant role in that."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Hartzler ran an ugly <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tXSjS2kDe4&feature=player_embedded" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">anti-immigrant ad </span></a>against Ike Skelton, in which she claimed
that by voting to <a href="http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/111/bills/h_r_2/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">reauthorize </span></a>the Children's Health Insurance Program Skelton
supported "welfare benefits" for "illegal immigrants," and
criticized him for opposing a measure that would prohibit illegal immigrants
from attending public schools as "giving illegal immigrants free
education."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">She appealed to Tea
Partiers by slamming government spending, as she <a href="http://vickyhartzler.com/issues/3/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">blasted </span></a>Congress's
spending plans and said that "we just want the government to leave us
alone here in Missouri's 4th." However, according to the Kansas City Star,
<a href="http://www.kansascity.com/2010/10/16/2320807/former-home-ec-teachers-campaign.html#ixzz155js3sve" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Hartzler's </span></a>"farm has received $774,325 in federal
subsidies from 1995 to 2009." She defended the government farm subsidies
as a "<a href="http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/republican-hypocrisy-watch/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">national defense issue</span></a>," and claimed that she would not
support cuts to Social Security, Medicare, or defense.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In an editorial board
interview, she <a href="http://voices.kansascity.com/entries/vicky-hartzler-keep-your-promise/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">couldn't name any programs</span></a> she would cut funding to other than
"the Lady Bird Highway Beautification projects. She indicated that garden
clubs could do some of this work along the highways, saving public funds."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">However, Hartzler does
appear to support spending money to expand the role of the Navy in Missouri--
she <a href="http://blogs.pitch.com/plog/2010/08/vicky_hartzler_4th_district_ca.php" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">argued </span></a>that under Skelton's watch the landlocked state has
"the smallest Navy here that we have had since the early 1960s."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Hartzler blended her Tea
Party lip service and Religious Right advocacy to topple one of the most
powerful members of the House, and will now bring her years of experience in
anti-equality and anti-choice activism to become a prominent voice of the Far
Right in the GOP-led House.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="barletta"></a><span lang="EN" style="color: #cc0033; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Meet Lou Barletta: America's Anti-Immigrant
Mayor Heads to Congress <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Those disappointed to see
anti-immigrant zealot Tom Tancredo off the national political stage will find a
similar one-issue firebrand in Pennsylvania Congressman-Elect Lou Barletta.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Barletta rose to national
prominence as the mayor of Hazleton, Pennsylvania, a small working class city
that in 2006 enacted some of the most draconian anti-immigrant measures in the
country. Hazleton's <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/21/AR2006082101484.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">law</span></a> put tough penalties on individuals and businesses who
knowingly or unknowingly did business with undocumented immigrants—it revoked
for five years the business license of any business caught employing an
undocumented immigrant, and slapped landlords caught renting to undocumented
immigrants with a $1,000-a-day fine. The law also declared English the official
language of Hazleton, and prohibited city officials from translating documents
without permission.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">When the law passed,
Barletta<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/21/AR2006082101484.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"> told</span></a> the Washington Post, "I will get rid of the illegal
people. It's this simple: </span><i><span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">They must leave</span></i><span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">." On the day the
city passed the measure, Barletta wore a bulletproof vest to illustrate his
concern over crimes he said were being committed by undocumented immigrants. <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/hazleton-mayor-has-trouble-backing-claims-immigrant-crime-wave-people-my-city-dont-need-numb"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Statistics</span></a>,
however, showed that undocumented immigrants were hardly responsible for a crime
wave in Hazelton: the city's data showed that of 8,575 felonies committed in
the city between 2000 and 2007, 20 had been linked to undocumented immigrants.
Later, forced to admit that he had no proof of an illegal immigrant-caused
crime wave, or proof that illegal immigrants were crowding Hazleton's schools
and hospitals, or even any idea how many illegal immigrants were in Hazelton,
Barletta <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/hazleton-mayor-has-trouble-backing-claims-immigrant-crime-wave-people-my-city-dont-need-numb"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">responded</span></a>,
"The people in my city don't need numbers."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">After the law took
effect, businesses catering to Latino residents that had revitalized Hazleton's
downtown area saw a <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/11/17/60minutes/main2195789_page3.shtml?tag=contentMain;contentBody" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">sharp drop</span></a> in business, and Latino residents reported
increased hostility from white residents.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A federal judge struck
down Barletta's law in 2007, <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/hazletons-anti-immigrant-ordinance-struck-down"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">writing</span></a>,
"The genius of our Constitution is that it provides rights even to those
who evoke the least sympathy from the general public. Hazleton, in its zeal to
control the presence of a group deemed undesirable, violated the rights of such
people, as well as others within the community." An appeals court this
year <a href="http://www.philly.com/inquirer/local/pa/20100910_Federal_appeals_court_strikes_down_Hazleton_s_immigration_ordinances.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">upheld</span></a> the ruling.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Although Barletta claimed
to be defending "the legal taxpayer of any race," he admitted that he
<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/hazleton-mayor-has-trouble-backing-claims-immigrant-crime-wave-people-my-city-dont-need-numbhttp:/www.rightwingwatch.org/content/hazleton-mayor-has-trouble-backing-claims-immigrant-crime-wave-people-my-city-dont-need-numb"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">found
inspiration</span></a> for the law from the website of self-described
"proud nationalist" Jim Turner, who pushed a similar measure in San
Bernardino, California to prevent the state from becoming, as he put it, a
"<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/2006/09/wsj_small_group.html"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Third World
Cesspool</span></a>."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">As copy-cat laws started
to pop up in towns around the country, Barletta became a hero to anti-immigrant
and nativist groups. When he ran for Congress in 2008, Barletta's campaign <a href="http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/2009/spring/money-the-minutemen" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">received</span></a> $10,920 from the Minuteman PAC, the political
spending arm of the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps, a vigilante border-patrol
group that the Southern Poverty Law Center<a href="http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/2009/spring/money-the-minutemen" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"> calls</span></a> "nativist extremist." It was the largest
donation the Minuteman PAC made to a candidate that year.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In 2009, Barletta drew
fire for speaking at a conference hosted by The American Cause, a group that
had earlier that year released a<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/01/opinion/01sun1.html?_r=3" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"> report</span></a> urging the Republican Party to not "pander to
pro-amnesty Hispanics and swing voters," and instead to put anti-immigrant
policies at the forefront of the party's strategy. The report was authored by
several anti-immigrant advocates, many who had clear records of dabbling in
white supremacy. The executive director of the group, and main author of the report,
had even been <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/02/marcus-epsteins-racist-as_n_210163.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">charged</span></a> with a hate crime against an African American woman.
The immigrants' rights group America's Voice<a href="http://americasvoiceonline.org/pages/background_briefing_the_american_cause_conferenc" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"> described</span></a> the 2009 conference as "a forum for white
nationalists to forge ties with ‘mainstream' media commentators and
conservative leaders."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Although Barletta frames
most of his politics through the lens of illegal immigration, he has also
embraced Tea Party talking points on social issues, the environment, and the
scope of government. In a candidates' debate, he<a href="http://www.poconorecord.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20101028/NEWS/101029733" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"> said</span></a> his first action as a member of Congress would be to
vote to repeal health care reform. He<a href="http://loubarletta.com/issues#health-care" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"> says</span></a>
the Affordable Care Act brought about "nationalized health care" and
said it would put "life-affecting health decisions in the hands of
bureaucrats," and echoed the <a href="http://www.pfaw.org/media-center/publications/after-citizens-united-look-into-the-pro-corporate-players-american-politic#common" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">false claim</span></a> raised by many in the Tea Party that health care
reform "will take $500 billion out of Medicare." He<a href="http://www.poconorecord.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20101020/NEWS/10200328" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"> told</span></a> a forum in Pocono, "We're afraid of our government.
We're afraid of what our government is going to do" and <a href="http://loubarletta.com/issues#spending" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">claimed</span></a>
on his campaign website that President Obama and Democrats in Congress are
"spending our country into servitude."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In terms of government
spending, Barletta<a href="http://loubarletta.com/issues#spending" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"> took particular issue</span></a> with the comparatively miniscule $1.1
million that was spent to send members of Congress and their staffers to last
year's climate summit in Copenhagen. He <a href="http://citizensvoice.com/news/despite-varying-views-kanjorski-barletta-agree-a-lot-on-energy-issues-1.1050145" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">claims</span></a> to be a climate change skeptic, saying, "You know
there's arguments on both sides. I'm not convinced that there's scientific
evidence that proves that. I believe there's some that can also argue the
opposite."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">When Obama created a
panel to distribute recovery funds from BP's $20 billion escrow account after
the Gulf oil spill, Barletta<a href="http://www.loubarletta.com/blog/the-gulf-needs-relief-not-government" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"> said</span></a>, "It's exactly what the people of the Gulf don't
need – more bureaucracy."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Barletta's record as
mayor of Hazleton doesn't speak well, however, for his future as a fiscal
problem solver: his <a href="http://www.timesleader.com/news/2010_Barletta_budget_prposal_includes_layoffs_tax_and_fee_hikes.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">budget</span></a> for Hazleton last year hikes taxes and fees, and called
for laying off government workers—including a number of police officers. As
Barletta leaves office, Hazleton has the <a href="http://citizensvoice.com/news/hazleton-s-unemployment-highest-in-pa-1.879835" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">highest </span></a>rate of unemployment in Pennsylvania. Despite raising
taxes as Mayor of Hazleton, Barletta has <a href="http://www.atr.org/current-list-taxpayer-protection-pledge-signers-a5597" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">signed </span></a>Americans for Tax Reform's pledge to never raise taxes
in Washington.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Barletta <a href="http://www.poconorecord.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20101020/NEWS/10200328" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">opposes</span></a> marriage equality, Don't Ask, Don't Tell repeal, and
abortion rights. He has also embraced right-wing conspiracy theories about
government-run "death panels" and the imminent risk of human cloning,
<a href="http://loubarletta.com/issues#right-to-life" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">stating</span></a>
on his website, "I will oppose the efforts of some to increase or expand
the protection or establishment of legal euthanasia, abortion, and human
cloning. As Congress begins to tackle the issues of Medicare and health care
reform, I will never support a program that results in rationing of life-saving
procedures to those covered under those programs."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In his predictably
hostile <a href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:kHFWWO9xYLkJ:www.loubarletta.com/news/Lou_Strongly_Opposes_Ground_Zero_Mosque+lou+barletta+ground+zero+mosque&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-a" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">response</span></a> to the planned Islamic community center in lower
Manhattan, he advanced the popular right-wing pseudo-historical theory of
Muslim "victory mosques."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">While Barletta, it seems,
will be a reliable vote for the Republican Party's far-right wing, he's already
emerging as a leader on anti-immigrant zealotry. Two days after the election,
he went on Fox News to <a href="http://politicalcorrection.org/video/201011040007" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">accuse</span></a>
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of attempting to buy Hispanic votes by
introducing the widely popular DREAM Act, which provides a path to citizenship
for those who entered the country illegally as children and who go on to
college or military service.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="griffin"></a><span lang="EN" style="color: #cc0033; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Meet Tim Griffin: Karl Rove's Man in
Congress <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Running for an open
Democratic seat, Tim Griffin defeated progressive champion <a href="http://downwithtyranny.blogspot.com/2010/05/values-based-leadership-from.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Joyce Elliott </span></a>to win the election to represent Arkansas's
second district.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Tim Griffin worked on the
two George W. Bush presidential campaigns and was the RNC's chief opposition
researcher during John McCain's 2008 campaign . In 2000, he <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/issues/2004/06/green.htm" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">said </span></a>of his opposition research department: "We think of
ourselves as the creators of the ammunition in a war…. We make the
bullets." Conservative columnist Robert Novak <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/21/AR2008052102425.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">called </span></a>Griffin "a protégé of Karl Rove, who is a leading
practitioner of opposition research — the digging up of derogatory information
about political opponents."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">He<a href="http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/782315/tim_griffin_karl_roves_protege_possible.html?cat=7" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"> received notoriety</span></a> in 2004 for his work to advance the <a href="http://mediamatters.org/research/200711090008" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">false</span></a>
<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21239-2004Aug21.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">smears</span></a> propagated by the discredited group Swift Boat Veterans
for Truth.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Griffin again came into
controversy when President Bush appointed him U.S. Attorney as part of his
ongoing efforts to politicize the Department of Justice. "In December
2006, U.S. Attorney Bud Cummings was fired from his district in Northeast
Arkansas and replaced with Tim Griffin," writes investigative journalist
Shannyn Moore. In hiring Griffin and other U.S. Attorneys, the Bush
Administration used <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGcNKhmYlhA" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">a little known provision</span></a> of the USA Patriot Act to avoid
confirmation hearings and votes by the U.S. Senate. Deputy Attorney General
Paul McNaulty later testified that "Cummings was fired to make a place for
Griffin at the urging of Karl Rove and </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="OLE_LINK4"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="OLE_LINK5"></a><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK4;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #006699; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Harriet Miers</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK4;"></span><span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">," the former White House Counsel.
Kyle Sampson, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales's Chief of Staff, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGcNKhmYlhA" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">wrote in an
email</span></a> that "getting him appointed was important to Harriet,
Karl, etc."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Paul Charlton, who was
also ousted in the <a href="http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/usa-timeline.php" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Bush Administration's purge of U.S. Attorneys</span></a>, <a href="http://www.arktimes.com/ArkansasBlog/archives/2010/09/20/more-on-griffin" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">said</span></a> that Griffin "spread the rumors around the White
House that Bud Cummings was not a good U.S. Attorney" in order to get him
fired. Another U.S. Attorney who was pushed out during the purge, David
Iglesias, <a href="http://vimeo.com/16301230" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">maintains </span></a>that
Tim Griffin "never should have been U.S. Attorney, he was fundamentally
unqualified."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">When defending Griffin's
nomination, the Bush Administration used <a href="http://www.consortiumnews.com/2007/041707a.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">misleading
talking points</span></a> that significantly exaggerated his experience as a
prosecutor.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Griffin continued his
deeply political work while serving as a U.S. Attorney, but was forced to
resign in 2007 when he was caught in a "vote caging" operation to
prevent minorities from voting. The<a href="http://www.gregpalast.com/rove-pick-for-us-attorney-resigns-following-conyers%E2%80%99-request-for-bbc-documents/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"> BBC uncovered emails</span></a> sent by Griffin during the 2004 campaign
which included ‘<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/2007/03/02/griffin-voter-suppression/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">caging lists</span></a>' to bar typically marginalized groups voting, and
Griffin's "caging lists were heavily weighted with minority voters
including homeless individuals, students and soldiers sent overseas."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Iglesias said that
Griffin's management of the vote caging maneuvers <a href="http://vimeo.com/16301230" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">represented</span></a>
"reprehensible conduct and it may be illegal." As a result of his
disreputable background, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington
(CREW) rated him one of the "<a href="http://www.citizensforethics.org/crookedcandidates2010#Griffin" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">most corrupt</span></a>" candidates for Congress.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">When he was not working
in the Bush Administration or for GOP campaigns, Griffin was a high-paid
consultant and <a href="http://www.arktimes.com/ArkansasBlog/archives/2010/09/30/if-it-smells-like-a-lobbyist" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">earned hundreds of thousands of dollars</span></a> while working for
"lobbying and consulting firms on shadowy causes," including the <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/shannyn-moore/karl-rove-sarah-palin-tim_b_175557.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">corporate astro-turf campaign</span></a> that was fighting Alaska's Clean
Water Initiative.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Throughout his
congressional campaign, Griffin closely followed the Karl Rove-playbook of
appealing to both corporate interests and the Religious Right. Griffin wants to
<a href="http://www.clubforgrowth.org/endorsedcandidates/?subsec=0&id=761" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">repeal </span></a>health care reform and once <a href="http://www.arktimes.com/ArkansasBlog/archives/2010/09/23/which-tim-griffin-do-you-believe" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">supported </span></a>the elimination of corporate taxes in favor of a
regressive national sales tax. At a candidate forum, he even <a href="http://arkansasnews.com/2010/06/22/a-rare-spontaneous-moment/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">went out of his way</span></a> to laud the state's relatively low wages
for workers and anti-union laws.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">An opponent of equal
rights and a woman's right to choose, Griffin <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5pragn7VpU&feature=player_embedded" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">supports </span></a>a constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage,<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N87LwBonrOQ&feature=player_embedded" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"> believes</span></a> that employers should be allowed to fire their employees
due to their sexual orientation, and has <a href="http://www.timgriffinforcongress.com/issues.php#life_family" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">pledged to protect</span></a> the discriminatory Defense Of Marriage Act
(DOMA). The fervently anti-choice group Americans United for Life Action <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkSm1HS-mCY" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">ran ads</span></a>
boosting Griffin and criticizing his opponent, saying that she does not care
about "the life of an innocent child."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">After a long career of
dirty tricks, corporate astro-turfing, and Rovian politics, Griffin is a <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpqDA6lc0xw" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">darling</span></a>
of the Republican leadership and set to become a star member of the GOP's
freshman class.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="west"></a><span lang="EN" style="color: #cc0033; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Meet Allen West: Fanatical Opponent of
Muslims, Immigrants, Progressives & Obama <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In one of the Tea Party's
biggest victories, Florida's Allen West <a href="http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/11/03/1905791/west-leads-comfortably-claims.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">defeated </span></a>incumbent Democrat Ron Klein in a rematch of their
2008 race. West, an Army veteran, became a <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VP2p91dvm6M" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">YouTube
sensation</span></a> by criticizing "this tyrannical government" and
crying out: "if you're here to stand up to get your musket, to fix your
bayonet, and to charge into the ranks, you are my brother and sister in this
fight." He said that the country was engaging in "class warfare"
between "a producing class and an entitlement class," which is
composed of Obama supporters.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">While serving in Iraq, he
was forced out of the Army for his violent handling of an investigation of a
police officer. During the interrogation, <a href="http://www.tnr.com/article/recruiting-scandal" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">West dragged</span></a>
"him outside, pushed his head into the sand, and fired a gun next to his
face to get him to sing." According to West: "It wasn't torture.
Seeing Rosie O'Donnell naked would be torture."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">West also has close ties
to the Outlaws motorcycle gang, which an <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/10/18/allen-west-outlaws-motorcycle-gang_n_766204.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">NBC News report</span></a> found had criminal ties and a website that
features a page honoring members who are in prison, extolling "members
convicted of violent crimes, including murder." In a letter, <a href="http://miamiherald.typepad.com/nakedpolitics/2010/10/west-spat-with-media-and-dems-over-motorcycle-gang-continues.html#ixzz14nn8k5ah" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">West wrote</span></a>: "Please, no more references to ‘criminal'
because I can tell you, they have the utmost respect for me and that which I
seek to achieve. I was never more amazed at how members of the Outlaws guarded
me during a one hour cell phone radio interview."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">West has addressed events
sponsored by Outlaws-linked organizations, used Outlaws members to <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdNDMV11UrA" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">harass </span></a>his
rival's campaign workers, and <a href="http://www.miaminewtimes.com/2010-11-04/news/allen-west-s-fellow-wheels-on-the-road-columnists-make-an-excellent-brain-trust/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">writes a column </span></a>for the group's magazine. The magazine,
"Wheels on the Road," has published<a href="http://www.miaminewtimes.com/2010-11-04/news/allen-west-s-fellow-wheels-on-the-road-columnists-make-an-excellent-brain-trust/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"> anti-Semitic</span></a>, <a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/house-races/124541-florida-republican-denies-hes-connected-to-motorcycle-gang-" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">racist and sexist</span></a> material, and once <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/margie-omero/whats-at-stake-for-women_b_772269.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">called women</span></a> "oral relief stations."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">West <a href="http://crooksandliars.com/john-amato/gop-congressional-candidate-allen-west" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">encouraged </span></a>his supporters to use violence in suppressing the
votes of opponents, saying, "You've got to make the fellow scared to come
out of his house."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">He <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVQ14IgCDE8&feature=player_embedded" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">maintains </span></a>that it is "unfortunate" that gays and
lesbians are serving in the military, and compared homosexuality to adultery.
He is also radically anti-choice. On abortion rights, he has <a href="http://politicalcorrection.org/factcheck/201008190002" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">said, </span></a>"I
believe all future discussion on this issue should move us toward the
elimination of abortion except in the most extraordinary of
circumstances," and accused pro-choice groups of "promot[ing]
abortion as a means of birth control."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">West wants to <a href="http://politicalcorrection.org/factcheck/201008190002" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">eliminate </span></a>the
progressive tax system, <a href="http://www.therealallenwest.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">supports </span></a>tax cuts for the rich, and calls Wall Street reform a
"sham." He's <a href="http://www.therealallenwest.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">advocated </span></a>for eliminating the Departments of Energy and
Education.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">On immigration, West
claims that illegal immigrants <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nmn0mFV7xFs&feature=player_embedded#%21" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">should not have access</span></a> to care in emergency rooms, and that
Muslim terrorists are coming through the border with Mexico. West's first decision
as Representative-elect was to choose as his <a href="http://weblogs.sun-sentinel.com/news/politics/broward/blog/2010/11/conservative_radio_talk_show_h.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">chief of staff</span></a> right-wing radio talk show host <a href="http://www.miaminewtimes.com/2007-10-25/news/joyce-kaufman-hates-immigrants/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Joyce Kaufman</span></a>, who called for illegal immigrants to be "<a href="http://www.page2live.com/2010/11/09/exclusive-allen-west-dials-radio-talker-joyce-kaufman-for-chief-of-staff/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">hung on the central square</span></a>."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A Republican partisan, <a href="http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/12/gop-house-candidate-i-hate-big-tent-i-hate-inclusiveness-and-i-hate-outreach.php" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">West said</span></a>: "I hate big-tent. I hate inclusiveness. And I
hate outreach." West uses extreme rhetoric against Democrats and liberals.
He <a href="http://www.therealallenwest.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">said </span></a>that
liberals resented the fact that he saved the lives of American soldiers. On the
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/10/nyregion/10geller.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">anti-Islam blog</span></a> Atlas Shrugs, <a href="http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2010/06/lt-colonel-allen-west-of-lambs-and-lions.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">he wrote that progressives</span></a> "detest anyone who has the
courage of conviction and love of America, something which they find
unconscionable." In the same post, he wrote, "Liberals seek to
destroy any institution of intrinsic value: God, country, family, honor, valor,
courage, VIRTUE... Why? Because if such things exist, then they must be
defended, which brings them back to their fear of action." He has also <a href="http://miamiherald.typepad.com/nakedpolitics/broward_politics/page/3/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">claimed </span></a>that Democratic combat veterans Joe Sestak and Patrick
Murphy "hate the military."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">West <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVEFjStgSGI&feature=related" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">says </span></a>that Obama does not "care for this country" and
wants to "make it like some type of third world socialist cesspool,"
and is not an American since he grew up in Indonesia and "never played
little league baseball." He <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nmn0mFV7xFs&feature=player_embedded#%21" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">compared </span></a>Obama and his "tyrannical government" to
the rise of Adolph Hitler and the Nazi party in Germany, and <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vej_LqzraNE&feature=related" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">dubbed </span></a>the Obama Administration a "thugocracy."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Militantly anti-Muslim,
West consistently criticizes Arabs and Muslims. He<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVEFjStgSGI&feature=related" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"> told Atlas Shrugs' Pamela Geller</span></a> that the Bible is evidence
the Arabs are a "wild" people: "the Angel of the Lord said to
[Hagar]: ‘Behold you are with child, and you shall bear a son, you shall call
his name Ishmael, because the Lord has heard your affliction. He shall be a
wild man; His hand shall be against everyman, and every man's hand against him.
And he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.' Ishmael of course
became the beginning of the Arab people....and God's word is immutable
truth."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">He has <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nmn0mFV7xFs&feature=player_embedded#%21" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">suggested </span></a>that there are "thirty-six training camps"
run by terrorists inside the US, and that <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/06/allen-west-gop-candidate_n_348248.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">soldiers </span></a>are becoming "brainwashed" by terrorists
who "infiltrated the military." According to West, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYbaln3Uqfc&feature=youtu.be&a" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Islam </span></a>is "not a religion" but a "theo-political
belief system and construct" that must be destroyed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Member of Congress is on a "Crusade to Save America" <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Mississippi Democrat
Travis Childers was a prime target for the GOP the moment he took office after
a special election in May, 2008 in a seat that Republicans had held for <a href="http://articles.cnn.com/2008-05-13/politics/miss.election_1_republican-greg-davis-democrat-travis-childers-special-election?_s=PM:POLITICS" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">14 years</span></a>. One of the most conservative Democrats in the House,
Childers opposed health care reform and abortion rights, supported gun rights,
and voted with his party <a href="http://blogs.cqrollcall.com/eyeon2010/2010/01/eight-democrats-had-a-lower-pa.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">less often</span></a> than almost any other House member.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">But despite his conservative
bona fides, Childers couldn't hold onto his seat against the challenge of
far-right state senator Alan Nunnelee. Nunnelee <a href="http://www.cdispatch.com/news/article.asp?aid=8299" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">describes</span></a>
himself as on a "crusade to save America." Although Childers voted
against almost all of the Democrats' major pieces of legislation, Nunnelee
criticized him for not being conservative enough. In a speech before his
primary victory, Nunnelee <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/2010/06/02/nunnelee-911-democrats/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">declared</span></a> that Democratic policies are "more
dangerous" than Pearl Harbor or 9/11: "What I see in Washington over
the last 16 months is a more dangerous attack because it's an attack on our
freedom that's coming from the inside."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In an <a href="http://www.teapartyoxford.com/id64.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">interview </span></a>with
a local Tea Party group, Nunnelee questioned whether the Obama Administration
has a national security policy, saying "the administration has been so
preoccupied with their domestic agenda that they have ignored our national
defense."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In a <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Le-AiJwqhQ" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">speech</span></a>
before the Byhalia Chamber of Commerce in August, Nunnelee dipped his toes in
conspiracy theory, announcing that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was planning to
investigate American citizens who oppose the so-called "Ground Zero
Mosque": "Just yesterday, the Speaker of the House said that those
people that were opposed to building a mosque at the site of Ground Zero need
to be investigated. So if you had a conversation at work, if you picked up your
cell phone and called your brother in law, if you sent an email to your
children, and you expressed concern about that, you need to watch out, because
the Speaker of the House thinks you should be investigated."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A state senator since
1994, Nunnelee has been a leader in far-right initiatives including hard-line
anti-choice laws, opposition to gay rights, reducing environmental oversight,
and making it more difficult to obtain Medicaid.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Nunnelee was at the
forefront of Mississippi's efforts to all but eliminate abortion services in
the state. He was <a href="http://www.nunneleeforcongress.com/Accomplishments.aspx" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">instrumental </span></a>in
the effort to pass Mississippi's ban on late term abortion and led the effort
to create a law directly challenging </span><i><span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Roe v. Wade</span></i><span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">, which he <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4792428.stm" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">called</span></a>
"the worst kind of law." Nunnelee's <a href="http://votesmart.org/issue_keyvote_detail.php?cs_id=13827&can_id=8326" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">law</span></a> set up tough parental consent requirements and provided
that, in the event that</span><i><span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Roe v. Wade</span></i><span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> was overturned, doctors
performing abortions could be sentenced to up to 10 years in prison. Nunnelee
also <a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/clinic/etc/script.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">wrote</span></a> an "informed consent" law requiring women to
look at a picture book of fetal development before agreeing to an abortion
procedure. He worked with anti-choice groups to <a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/clinic/etc/script.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">write</span></a> a law requiring abortion clinics in Mississippi to meet
"ambulatory surgical facility" standards, intended to put abortion
clinics out of business by requiring them to follow onerous and precise
standards including having hallways over six feet wide and "an attractive
setting." This year, Nunnelee <a href="http://www.memphisdailynews.com/editorial/Article.aspx?id=49642" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">sponsored</span></a> a bill requiring Mississippi to "opt-out"
of using federal health care funds for abortion—although the state already has
such a ban and the federal health care bill involves no such funding. He called
it the "Federal Abortion-Mandate Opt-Out Act."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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abortion clinic in Mississippi.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">On the issue of marriage,
Nunnelee <a href="http://www.teapartyoxford.com/id64.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">brags</span></a>
of having pushed Mississippi's anti-marriage equality constitutional amendment,
and of working to prevent gay couples in the state from adopting children,
saying: "I am proud to have pushed the statutory language prohibiting same
sex couples from adopting as well as the Constitutional Amendment prohibiting
same sex marriage in Mississippi." He also<a href="http://votesmart.org/voting_category.php?can_id=8326" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"> voted</span></a>
to allow an option for covenant marriage, a marriage agreement under which it
is very difficult to get a divorce.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Nunnelee was<a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/clinic/etc/script.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"> behind </span></a>the successful push to make the DMV print "Choose
Life" license plates, with the proceeds going to benefit anti-choice groups,
and also<a href="http://www.nunneleeforcongress.com/Accomplishments.aspx" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"> boasts</span></a> that he "led the efforts to place our national
motto, In God we Trust, on the classroom wall of every school classroom in the
state."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Nunnelee also boasts of
his roll in a 2004 <a href="http://www.pbs.org/now/transcript/transcript329_full.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">plan</span></a>
that cut 65,000 Mississippians from the state's Medicaid rolls. His suggestion
for those who lost coverage was to call drug companies to find out about free
or reduced price prescriptions. The Mississippi Human Services Coalition gave
him a<a href="http://www.votesmart.org/issue_rating_category.php?can_id=8326" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"> 0 percen</span></a>t ranking for his abysmal voting record.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">He has consistently <a href="http://votesmart.org/voting_category.php?can_id=8326" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">voted</span></a>
for Voter ID laws, which often work to prevent low-income people from voting.
He has said he supports Arizona's draconian anti-immigrant law, <a href="http://www.teapartyoxford.com/id64.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">saying, </span></a>"unless
the federal government is willing to enforce existing laws, states must protect
themselves as Arizona has." In a GOP candidates' debate, he s<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uusa249SD3o" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">tated</span></a>,
"I would be absolutely opposed to granting any kind of amnesty to any man
or woman who is in this country illegally," and also <a href="http://www.numbersusa.com/content/nusablog/beckr/november-5-2010/number-true-reformers-doubled-next-us-house-tigers-who-will-lead-othe" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">supports </span></a>ending the 14th Amendment's guarantee of birthright
citizenship.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Finally, after he was
elected, Nunnelee <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6lzukOpo3g" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">went on the radio</span></a> with <a href="http://www.pfaw.org/press-releases/2010/09/will-gop-leaders-share-stage-with-one-of-the-most-anti-muslim-anti-gay-men-am" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">notorious bigot </span></a>Bryan Fischer to discuss the GOP's policies in
the new Congress, repeatedly agreeing that health care reform should be
repealed at all costs, even if it takes a government shut-down.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="labrador"></a><span lang="EN" style="color: #cc0033; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Meet Raul Labrador: Bryan Fischer's
Favorite Tea Partier <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In the Republican primary
to see who would face off against Democratic Rep. Walt Minnick, Raul Labrador
ran to the right of his very conservative opponent, who was endorsed by <a href="http://www.ktvb.com/news/Why-is-Sarah-Palin-in-Boise--Vaughn-Ward-defends-campaign-94596129.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Sarah Palin</span></a> and the NRCC. Labrador rallied support from <a href="http://www.idahoreporter.com/2010/labrador-accepts-pro-life-groups-endorsement/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Religious Right</span></a> and <a href="http://www.idahostatesman.com/2010/10/21/1387026/labradortea-party-will-seal-his.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Tea Party groups</span></a> in order to upset Republican Vaughn Ward,
whose campaign <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/25/vaughn-ward-tea-party-bac_n_588635.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">imploded</span></a>, and he went on to defeat Rep. Minnick.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Labrador made his
right-wing views clear when he <a href="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/external/pre-election/bios/60527.html?SITE=NPRELN&SECTION=PREELECTION&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">announced his campaign</span></a> in an email "to a former Idaho
blogger known for his extreme conservative views." He supports <a href="http://www.teapartyboise.com/labrador_endorsement.pdf" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">withdrawing the
US</span></a> from the United Nations, <a href="http://www.teapartyboise.com/labrador_endorsement.pdf" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">returning </span></a>to
the Gold Standard, and <a href="http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2010/may/18/raul-labrador-stresses-cost-cutting-energy-economi/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">eliminating </span></a>the Department of Education. Labrador even wants
to<a href="http://boiseguardian.com/2010/05/02/let-the-legislature-have-your-senate-vote/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"> repeal the 17th Amendment</span></a> and end the right of voters to
elect their Senators, bizarrely <a href="http://video.idahoptv.org/video/1482062642/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">saying </span></a>that
it is "the constitutional position to take" and the only way to make
sure "that U.S. Senators are actually beholden to the people."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In the State House,
Labrador <a href="http://www.idahostatesman.com/2010/10/24/1390652/walt-minnick-represents-a-failed.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">said </span></a>he will work "tirelessly to defund and repeal
Obamacare" and spearheaded the passage of a bill which compels the
Attorney General to challenge the health care reform law in federal court and
bars the government from mandating coverage. When speaking to radio talk show
host Laura Ingraham, Labrador <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/Labrador4Idaho#p/u/17/v0T6cg45qz4" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">maintained </span></a>that the law was "historic, but remember,
Benedict Arnold was also historic, he betrayed our nation. And I think the
Democratic Party betrayed our nation yesterday as well."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">An anti-government
zealot, he <a href="http://idahoconservative.us/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/housetable2010.htm" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">backed </span></a>bills which seek to reaffirm Idaho's sovereignty from
the federal government, to limit "Congress' power under the commerce
clause," and to stop the federal government from enforcing gun laws.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">He won support from the
Religious Right community and the American Family Association's director of
public policy and talk show host <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/individuals/bryan-fischer"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Bryan Fischer</span></a>,
who <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=915mBWkoLiU&feature=player_embedded" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">compared </span></a>gays to terrorists and believes that Muslims should
be <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/fischer-no-more-mosques-period"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">prohibited </span></a>from
building mosques in the U.S., called Labrador his "<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/bryan-fischers-good-friend-raul-labrador"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">good friend</span></a>"
and the two hosted Tea Party rallies together. Labrador <a href="http://idahoconservative.us/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/housetable2010.htm" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">voted </span></a>to make the federal government "provide for the presence
of God in the public domain," <a href="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/external/pre-election/bios/60527.html?SITE=NPRELN&SECTION=PREELECTION&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">supports the law ban</span></a>ning openly gay and lesbian soldiers from
serving in the military, and <a href="http://www.votesmart.org/npat.php?can_id=57391" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">opposes </span></a>same-sex
marriage rights.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/groups/family-research-council"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Family Research
Council Action PAC </span></a>ran <a href="http://www.frcactionpac.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">radio ads</span></a> endorsing Labrador, who supported him as a result of
his <a href="http://www.prochoiceamerica.org/elections/pro-choice-voter-guide/race/id-01.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">100% anti-choice</span></a> record--he voted to <a href="http://idahoconservative.us/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/housetable2010.htm" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">allow </span></a>medical professionals to refuse contraceptives, voted in
favor of<a href="http://www.idahostatesman.com/2010/10/24/1390652/walt-minnick-represents-a-failed.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"> increasing burdens</span></a> on women seeking to terminate their
pregnancies--and <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0VdzgBpolI&feature=youtu.be" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">lauded </span></a>his opposition to abortion in all cases. <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/individuals/penny-nance"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Penny Nance</span></a>
of the far-right <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/groups/concerned-women-america?page=2"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Concerned Women
for America</span></a> showered <a href="http://www.cwpac.org/f4daf6eb-2da6-4f1b-8a3f-3ae23ab8ff39.aspx" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">praise </span></a>on Labrador, the National Right to Life Committee <a href="http://www.labrador4idaho.com/2010/06/labrador-receives-national-right-to-life-endorsement/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">extolled </span></a>his "exemplary pro-life record," and he was
a <a href="http://www.lifenews.com/2010/04/23/state-5021/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">principal
legislative ally</span></a> of Idaho Chooses Life.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A proponent of corporate
interests, Labrador wants to <a href="http://www.teapartyboise.com/labrador_endorsement.pdf" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">scrap </span></a>the
progressive income tax in favor of a national sales tax, <a href="http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2010/oct/28/idaho-1st-cd-rivals-clash-debate/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">supports </span></a>the Supreme Court's decision in </span><i><span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Citizens
United</span></i><span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">,
and <a href="http://www.atr.org/election-taxpayer-protection-pledge-signers-a5361" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">signed </span></a>Grover Norquist's anti-tax pledge. Even though he
opposes the economic stimulus, as a state representative he<a href="http://www.boiseweekly.com/CityDesk/archives/2010/10/19/1838377-labrador-minnick-trade-barbs-on-stimulus" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"> repeatedly voted in favor </span></a>of spending federal money provided
by the stimulus. On immigration, Arizona's <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/individuals/joe-arpaio"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">notorious </span></a>Sheriff
Joe Arpaio <a href="http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2010/oct/05/arizona-lawman-endorses-labrador/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">endorsed </span></a>Labrador, who has <a href="http://www.idahostatesman.com/2010/10/17/1382228/raul-labrador-in-his-own-words.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">said </span></a>that illegal immigrants are "going to have to
self-deport."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Raul Labrador's fanatical
mission to rewrite the Constitution and dismantle the federal government has
generated massive support from the Tea Party, and Religious Right figures like
Bryan Fischer and Peggy Nance have given Labrador their blessing as a result of
his rigid anti-choice and anti-equality views. [] Labrador is now set to bring
his extremist views and right-wing platform from the Idaho State House to the
U.S. Congress.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="adams"></a><span lang="EN" style="color: #cc0033; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Meet Sandy Adams: Conspiracy-Theorist,
Religious Extremist <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">After serving four terms
in the Florida State House, Sandy Adams ran for U.S. Congress and handily
defeated freshman congresswoman Suzanne Kosmas. She built up a far-right voting
record as a state representative, and she campaigned as <a href="http://www.orlandopoliticalpress.com/2010/08/11/4930/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">the most
conservative candidate</span></a> in the <a href="http://www.floridatoday.com/article/20100825/NEWS05/8250340/Adams-wins-in-GOP-fight" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">competitive Republican primary</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">As a legislator and
candidate Sandy Adams has embraced the agenda of the Religious Right. Adams
voted to enact <a href="http://www.votesmart.org/issue_keyvote_detail.php?cs_id=13237&can_id=31041" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">burdensome waiting periods</span></a> and tougher parental notice laws
for young women seeking abortions, and voted in favor of forcing women to have <a href="http://www.votesmart.org/issue_keyvote_detail.php?cs_id=30972&can_id=31041" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">ultrasound tests</span></a> before terminating a pregnancy, which the
governor ultimately <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/12/us/politics/12ultrasound.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">vetoed </span></a>because it placed "an inappropriate burden on
women seeking to terminate a pregnancy." During the GOP primary she was
endorsed by militantly anti-choice groups including the <a href="http://www.sandyadams.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=news.details&ArticleId=53" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Republican National Coalition for Life</span></a> and the <a href="http://www.orlandopoliticalpress.com/2010/08/11/4930/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">American
Conservative Union</span></a>. Moreover, she is on record opposing stem-cell
research and <a href="http://www.examiner.com/roman-catholic-in-orlando/interview-with-sandy-adams-candidate-for-u-s-house-district-24" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">boasts that she</span></a> "fought against this type of research
funding in the Florida House of Representatives."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">She is also an avowed
opponent of teaching evolution, and <a href="http://www.votesmart.org/issue_keyvote_detail.php?cs_id=18963&can_id=31041" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">voted in favor</span></a> of a bill that <a href="http://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/local/news-article.aspx?storyid=107654&ref=rss" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">calls on teachers</span></a> to "teach theories that contradict the
theory of evolution." Adams herself does not believe evolution and says
that Christians should reject evolution <a href="http://www.americanindependent.com/150921/florida-congressional-candidate-sandy-adams-does-not-believe-in-evolution" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">in favor of</span></a> "the biblical terms of how we came
about." When <a href="http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/opinion/os-ed-adams-evolution-christians-102720101026,0,3389381.story" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">asked </span></a>"by a caller in a telephone town hall meeting
whether she believed in evolution…Adams replied, ‘I'm Christian. What else do
you want to know?'" Adams also <a href="http://www.votesmart.org/npat.php?can_id=31041" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">supports </span></a>Florida's
<a href="http://www.sptimes.com/2002/04/14/Perspective/A_voucher_marketplace.shtml" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">unsuccessful </span></a>private school vouchers program and wants the <a href="http://www.votesmart.org/npat.php?can_id=31041" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Ten Commandments</span></a>
to be displayed in public schools.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Like Sharron Angle, Sandy
Adams <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbPvo978eC0" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">floats </span></a>the
<a href="http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2010/10/sharron_angle_is_saying_more_t.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">baseless conspiracy theory</span></a> that Islamic, or Sharia, law is
thriving in Muslim communities in Michigan and in danger of spreading
throughout Michigan and the United States:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">"The Muslim
extremist project is to create pockets and to grow their Muslim extreme
philosophies, and if you look at some of our towns within our own borders, like
Michigan, Michigan has cities that have a lot of Muslim influence and even so
much as I would say some extremist Muslim influence because they are trying to
operate under Sharia law, not American law. And I believe that we need to
continue to operate under our Constitutional laws and the laws of our country
and our state and we should not be under any other form of the law."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Sarah Palin <a href="http://www.takebackthe20.com/candidates" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">endorsed </span></a>Sandy
Adams, and Adams <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3LyuoXB4YQ&NR=1" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">claims </span></a>that she "can't wait to join the Tea Party
Caucus" and said that "I believe what Michele Bachmann is doing is
the right thing to do and I will be part of that Caucus, I can assure you of
that."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">She has embraced
anti-government extremism, and wants to radically alter the Constitution by <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXnnnOzxhiw&feature=player_embedded" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">repealing the 16th and 17th Amendments</span></a>, which would eliminate
the progressive income tax and the right of voters to elect their U.S.
Senators, respectively. Adams believes that instead of voters, state
legislators like herself should pick the state's Senators. Adams also wants to <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IwK1cK5vrQ" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">abolish </span></a>the
Department of Education, <a href="http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/opinion/os-ed-24th-congressional-endorsement-20101008,0,4624353.story" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">said </span></a>that the Departments of Energy and Interior Departments
should be "completely dismantled" because they are "not allowed
by our Constitution," and<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYSeQFMrq4Y" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"> strongly
opposes</span></a> Wall Street Reform. She wouldn't "vouch for the
constitutionality of the federal Clean Water and Clean Air acts without reading
them," <a href="http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/opinion/os-ed-24th-congressional-endorsement-20101008,0,4624353.story" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">writes</span></a> the </span><i><span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Orlando Sentinel</span></i><span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">, "yet she's all for
big government when it comes to NASA," which is based in her district.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Furthermore, she <a href="http://www.examiner.com/roman-catholic-in-orlando/interview-with-sandy-adams-candidate-for-u-s-house-district-24" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">backs </span></a>Republican Rep. Paul Ryan's "Roadmap for
America," which calls for the <a href="http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/02/one-gopers-budget-vision-social-security-and-medicare-benefit-cuts.php?ref=fpb" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">privatization </span></a>of Social Security and Medicare. According to <a href="http://www.floridatoday.com/article/20101015/OPINION/101014018/We+recommend++Reps.+Posey++Kosmas+should+return+to+Congress+%28Oct.+15%29+" target="_blank"><i><span style="color: #006699; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Florida Today</span></i></a>, Adams
"wants to cut government spending, but couldn't cite one area to cut;
wants to repeal health care reform, but offered no alternative; and is willing
to look at privatizing Medicare, something that should alarm seniors."
Adams was also the chief sponsor of a <a href="http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/sections/Bills/billsdetail.aspx?BillId=42156" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">state constitutional amendment</span></a> that would stop Florida from
cooperating with the recently passed health care reform law by barring
mandatory insurance coverage.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Adams is also ardently
opposed to immigrant rights and <a href="http://www.sandyadams.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=pages.sandyontheissues" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">touts </span></a>the endorsement of Americans for Legal Immigration,
which has been <a href="http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/2007/spring/shoot-shovel-shut-up/the-groups-a-lis" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">classified </span></a>as a "nativist extremist organization" by
the Southern Poverty Law Center. The group is "allied with various
Minuteman factions" and, according to the SPLC, the <a href="http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/2008/spring/the-nativists?page=0,8" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">group's </span></a>"‘rallying cry is: Illegals Go Home!'" While
serving in the State House, Adams was one of just fourteen members to <a href="http://www.votesmart.org/issue_keyvote_detail.php?cs_id=13271&can_id=31041" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">vote against</span></a> allowing undocumented children to receive
healthcare through Florida KidCare.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">On the environment, Adams
<a href="http://www.votesmart.org/issue_keyvote_detail.php?cs_id=25291&can_id=31041" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">supports </span></a>offshore oil drilling off Florida's coast and tried
to <a href="http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/news_politics/2010/07/sandy-adams-lets-censure-charlie-crist.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">censure</span></a> the Governor for attempting to pass a constitutional
amendment to prohibit such drilling.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A
steadfast and longtime advocate of the Religious Right and anti-government
extremism, Sandy Adams plans to be a bridge between Christian conservatives and
Tea Party reactionaries in addition to a stalwart ally of Michele Bachmann in
the House.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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In many parts of the world, today is Christmas—but in Russia and Eastern Europe, which use the Orthodox calendar, December 25 is just an ordinary day. Little known to most, however, it’s also a day that marks the anniversary of a key development in European computer history. <br />
Sixty years ago today, in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv, the Soviet Academy of Sciences finally granted formal recognition to Sergey Lebedev’s pioneering MESM project. MESM, a Russian abbreviation for “Small Electronic Calculating Machine,” is regarded as the earliest, fully operational electronic computer in the Soviet Union—and indeed continental Europe. <br />
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Recently we were privileged to get a first-hand account of Lebedev’s achievements from Boris Malinovsky, who worked on MESM and is now a leading expert on Soviet-era computing.<br />
Described by some as the “Soviet Alan Turing,” Sergey Lebedev had been thinking about computing as far back as the 1930’s, until interrupted by war. In 1946 he was made director of Kyiv’s Institute of Electrical Engineering. Soon after, stories of “electronic brains” in the West began to circulate and his interest in computing revived.<br />
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Initially, Lebedev’s superiors were skeptical, and some in his team felt working on a “calculator”—how they thought of a computer—was a step backward compared to electrical and space systems research. Lebedev pressed on regardless, eventually finding funding from the Rocketry department and space to work in a derelict former monastery in Feofania, on the outskirts of Kyiv. <br />
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Work on MESM got going properly at the end of 1948 and, considering the challenges, the rate of progress was remarkable. Ukraine was still struggling to recover from the devastation of its occupation during WWII, and many of Kyiv’s buildings lay in ruins. The monastery in Feofania was among the buildings destroyed during the war, so the MESM team had to build their working quarters from scratch—the laboratory, metalworking shop, even the power station that would provide electricity. Although small—just 20 people—the team was extraordinarily committed. They worked in shifts 24 hours a day, and many lived in rooms above the laboratory. <br />
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MESM ran its first program on November 6, 1950, and went into full-time operation in 1951. In 1952, MESM was used for top-secret calculations relating to rocketry and nuclear bombs, and continued to aid the Institute’s research right up to 1957. By then, Lebedev had moved to Moscow to lead the construction of the next generation of Soviet supercomputers, cementing his place as a giant of European computing. As for MESM, it met a more prosaic fate—broken into parts and studied by engineering students in the labs at Kyiv’s Polytechnic Institute. <br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08399031949803866083noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7320740094558564364.post-32408715565029160562011-02-12T09:21:00.005-05:002011-02-12T09:40:17.049-05:00Food for ThoughtWoody Allen<br />"I do not eat oysters, I want my food dead, not sick, not wounded, dead"<br />"Why does man kill? He kills for food, and frequently there must be a beverage"<br /><br />Joan Fontaine<br />"The main problem for a man is that sex is a hunger like eating, if a man is hungry and he can't go to a french restaurant he will go to a hotdog stand"<br /><br />Buddy Hackett<br />"My mothers menu consisted of two choices, take it or leave it"<br /><br />Unknown<br />"I didn't fight my way to the top of the food chain to be a vegetarian"<br /><br />Chef "Big Sal" Minella<br />"Texas is the place where rubbing your meat and pulling your pork makes you a gourmet"Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08399031949803866083noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7320740094558564364.post-41746635047906389932010-04-04T14:32:00.001-04:002010-04-04T14:32:21.626-04:00Oh, heavenly bird - The Boston Globe<a href=http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/magazine/articles/2010/04/04/oh_heavenly_bird/>Oh, heavenly bird - The Boston Globe</a><br /><br />Posted using <a href="http://sharethis.com">ShareThis</a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08399031949803866083noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7320740094558564364.post-27810699155618586772008-10-11T00:43:00.007-04:002008-10-18T00:11:11.966-04:00Xtreepistalwhipped is right on what Xtree did;<br />the preview structure was very useful as was the ability to visually review and edit the hex structure. Which still is being used today as a tool in decryption and file corruption management.<br /><br />http://www.jeffreycjohnson.com/xtreehistory.htmlAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08399031949803866083noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7320740094558564364.post-45470705216770852662008-08-01T00:51:00.003-04:002008-08-01T22:33:37.500-04:00Now I Understand<div style="text-align: right;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXydYkS4Jp7WODGoKEp0sqZcnBX-FW_nDm8rGdtzs58jCiGy65bHrjK2e25_Q-8W4DZVqFMMxzyfYb5MjGLsUzLV0zGpApz3j8Pes3QhSCGTnrzDeFjHJp8-hMSEBXpl0wS5crq4epcyZ3/s1600-h/bushes_iraqoil.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 401px; height: 237px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXydYkS4Jp7WODGoKEp0sqZcnBX-FW_nDm8rGdtzs58jCiGy65bHrjK2e25_Q-8W4DZVqFMMxzyfYb5MjGLsUzLV0zGpApz3j8Pes3QhSCGTnrzDeFjHJp8-hMSEBXpl0wS5crq4epcyZ3/s320/bushes_iraqoil.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5229407574212963938" border="0" /></a></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08399031949803866083noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7320740094558564364.post-26267860329748454952008-06-23T21:43:00.001-04:002008-06-23T21:45:18.043-04:00We will miss GeorgeBaseball is a nineteenth-century pastoral game.<br /> Football is a twentieth-century technological struggle.<br /><br />Baseball is played on a diamond, in a park. The baseball park!<br /> Football is played on a GRIDIRON, in a STADIUM, sometimes called SOLDIER FIELD or WAR MEMORIAL STADIUM.<br /><br />Baseball begins in the spring, the season of new life.<br /> Football begins in the fall, when everything is dying.<br /><br />In football you wear a helmet<br /> In baseball you wear a cap.<br /><br />Football is concerned with downs. "What down is it?<br /> Baseball is concerned with ups. "Who's up? Are you up? I'm not up! He's up!"<br /><br />In football you recieve a penalty.<br /> In baseball you make an error.<br /><br />In football the specialist comes in to kick.<br /> In baseball the specialist comes in to relieve somebody.<br /><br />Football has hitting, clipping, spearing, piling on, personal fouls, late hitting, and unnecessary roughness.<br /> Baseball has the sacrifice.<br /><br />Football is played in any kind of weather: Rain, snow, sleet, hail, fog...can't see the game, don't know if there is a game going on; mud on the field...can't read the uniforms, can't read the yard markers, the struggle will continue!<br /> In baseball if it rains, we don't go out to play. "I can't go out! It's raining out!"<br /><br />Baseball has the seventh-inning stretch.<br /> Football has the two-minute warning<br /><br />Baseball has no time limit: "We don't know when it's gonna end!"<br /> Football is rigidly timed, and it will end "even if we have to go to sudden death."<br /><br />In baseball, during the game, in the stands, there's kind of a picnic feeling. Emotions may run high or low, but there's not that much unpleasantness.<br />In football, during the game in the stands, you can be sure that at least twenty-seven times you were perfectly capable of taking the life of a fellow human being<br /><br />And finally, the objectives of the the two games are completely different:<br /><br />In football, the object is for the quarterback, otherwise known as the field general, to be on target with his aerial assault, riddling the defense by hitting his recievers with deadly accuracy in spite of the blitz, even if he has to use the shotgun. With short bullet passes and long bombs, he marches his troops into enemy territory, balancing this aerial assault with a sustained ground attack that punches holes in the forward wall of the enemy's defensive line.<br /> In baseball the object is to go home! And to be safe! "I hope I'll be safe at home!"Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08399031949803866083noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7320740094558564364.post-10162596761943686152008-04-17T22:51:00.001-04:002008-04-17T22:53:31.628-04:00Top Ten Reasons Romney Dropped Out<p>By Joseph Williams, Globe Staff</p> <p>WASHINGTON -- Three months after suspending his Republican presidential bid, Mitt Romney returned to the scene of his political Waterloo and delivered a scoop to the Capitol Hill reporters gathered at an annual awards dinner tonight: The real reasons he dropped out.</p> <p>The former Massachusetts governor, not particularly known for his sense of humor, made a surprise appearance at the Radio and Television Correspondents' Association dinner and delivered a Top Ten list poking fun at himself and his image -- and threw a few barbs at Hillary Clinton and Al Gore in the bargain. </p> <p>Romney, who has been rumored to be on presumptive GOP nominee John McCain's short list for vice president, said the reasons he dropped out, in reverse order, were: </p> No. 10: There weren't as many Osmonds as he thought. <br />No. 9: Got tired of the corkscrew landings of his campaign plane while under fire<br />No. 8: As a lifelong hunter, I didn't want to miss the start of varmint season.<br />No. 7: There wasn't room for two Christian leaders in the presidential race<br />No. 6: I was upset that no one bothered to search my passport files. <br />No. 5: I'd rather get fat, grow a beard and try for the Nobel prize.<br />No. 4: Got tired of wearing a dark suit and tie, and I wanted to kick back in a light colored suit and tie.<br />No. 3: When my wife realized I couldn't win the GOP nomination, my fundraising dried up.<br />No. 2: I took a bad fall at a campaign rally and broke my hair.<br />And the No. 1 reason Romney dropped out: His campaign relied on a flawed campaign strategy that as Utah goes, so goes the nation.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08399031949803866083noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7320740094558564364.post-28584262044370200822008-04-13T00:14:00.001-04:002008-04-13T00:15:26.520-04:00IBM Bigger Faster First<h1 class="storyHeadlineFull" style="margin-left: -2px; padding-left: 1px; letter-spacing: 0px; text-align: left;"> IBM Research Spins 'Racetrack' Nano-Magnetic Memory </h1><br /><!-- teaser (dek) copy --> <div class="storyDekFull" style="background-color: white; margin-left: 0px;"> The advanced storage technique could eventually replace flash memory and hard drives, IBM scientists believe. </div> <!-- / teaser (dek) copy --> <span class="byLine" style="margin-left: 2px;"> By <a href="mailto:rcj@spiritone.com"><u>R. Colin Johnson</u></a><br /><span id="courtesyOf" style="margin-left: 2px;"> <!-- remove http:// substring (if present) from the url --> <a href="http://www.eetimes.com/;jsessionid=NGGEURJS54BZKQSNDLRSKHSCJUNN2JVN" target="_blank"> EE Times </a> </span> </span><br /><span class="storyDate" style="margin-left: 2px; line-height: 20px;"> <nobr> April 11, 2008 01:14 PM </nobr> </span> <br /> <!--body--> <p> <span id="articleBody"> <div class="IntelliTXT"> <p> PORTLAND, Ore. — A next-generation nonvolatile <a itxtdid="3802385" target="_blank" href="http://www.informationweek.com/news/internet/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=207200184#" style="border-bottom: medium none ! important; font-weight: bold ! important; text-decoration: none ! important; padding-bottom: 0px ! important; color: darkblue ! important; background-color: transparent ! important; cursor: pointer ! important;" classname="iAs" class="iAs"><nobr>memory<img style="border: 0pt none ; margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt; height: 10px; width: 10px; position: relative; top: 1px; left: 1px; float: none;" src="http://images.intellitxt.com/ast/adTypes/3.gif" /></nobr></a> dubbed "racetrack" is expected to initially replace flash memory and eventually hard-disk drives, according to <a itxtdid="3802433" target="_blank" href="http://www.informationweek.com/news/internet/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=207200184#" style="border-bottom: medium none ! important; font-weight: bold ! important; text-decoration: none ! important; padding-bottom: 0px ! important; color: darkblue ! important; background-color: transparent ! important; cursor: pointer ! important;" classname="iAs" class="iAs"><nobr><img style="border: 0pt none ; margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt; height: 10px; width: 10px; position: relative; top: 1px; left: 1px; float: none;" src="http://images.intellitxt.com/ast/adTypes/3.gif" /></nobr></a>IBM (NYSE: <a target="_blank" href="http://www.techweb.com/financialCenter/index.jhtml?Account=techweb&Page=QUOTE&Ticker=IBM" class="stockLink">IBM</a>) Corp. fellow Stuart Parkin of its Almaden Research Center (San Jose, Calif.) </p><p> Using <a href="http://www.eetimes.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=193500309">spintronics</a>--the storage of bits generated by the magnetic spin of electrons rather than their charge--a proof-of-concept shift register was recently demonstrated by IBM. The prototype encodes bits into the magnetic domain walls along the length of a silicon nanowire, or <a href="http://www.eetimes.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=199000220">racetrack.</a> IBM uses "massless motion" to move the magnetic domain walls along the nanowire for the storage and retrieval of information. </p><p> "We have now demonstrated a current-controlled, domain-wall, shift register which is the fundamental, underlying technology for racetrack memory," said Parkin. "We use current pulses to move a series of domain walls along a nanowire, which is not possible to do with magnetic fields." </p><p> <table align="left" width="100"><tbody><tr><td align="center" valign="top"><img src="http://i.cmpnet.com/eetimes/news/online/2008/04/parkin_stuart_100.jpg" border="0" height="115" width="100" /></td></tr><tr><td align="center" valign="top"><span style="font-family:tahoma;font-size:78%;"><b><br />IBM's Stuart Parkin</b></span></td></tr></tbody></table> </p><p>IBM's goal, based on spintronic patents filed as early as 2004, is to use the same square micron that currently houses a single SRAM memory bit, or 10 flash bits, and drill down into the third dimension to store spin-polarized bits on a sunken racetrack-shaped magnetic nanowire. Using an area of silicon 1 micron wide and 10 microns high, IBM said its first-generation racetrack would store 10 bits compared to one, thereby replacing flash memory. Eventually, it could store 100 bits in the same area, which is dense enough to replace hard-disk drives. </p><p> "Racetrack is essentially the third turn of the crank of this new field of engineering called spintronics," said Parkin. "In current solid-state memory devices you store and control the flow of electrical charge. Here, we store and control the flow of the spin of an electron." </p><p>Parkin invented a spin valve sensing device in 1989 based on the giant magnetoresistive effect, which was used to increase disk drive capacity 1,000-fold. "Then we invented the use of the magnetic-tunnel junction (MTJ)--a sandwich of two magnetic layers separated by a dielectric--which we used to build the first magnetic random access memories in 1999. </p><p>"The third generation is the racetrack, which could replace all nonvolatile memories, including flash memory and hard-disk drives," Parkin claimed. </p><p>IBM estimates that an iPod using racetrack memory could store 100 times more information. Unlike flash, the solid-state devices have no components that can wear out. </p><p>Racetrack memory injects magnetized domain walls along the length of a high aspect ratio nanowire--only nanometers wide but up to microns long. Spin-polarized current pulses are then used to move the domain walls along the nanowire to store and retrieve bits. </p><p> <a href="http://www.eetimes.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=199000220">Last year IBM, demonstrated that it could store a magnetic domain</a> on a nanowire, then move it along the wire's length. The new shift register composed of many domain walls can be stored and moved together along the length of the wire. To read-out bits, the device senses a change in resistance in the wire. </p><p>The next step is building a fast MTJ read-head at the top of each racetrack, enabling it to quickly read-out any of the up to 100 bits stored on a racetrack. </p><p>IBM's current prototype uses a linear racetrack aligned parallel to the surface of a silicon chip. The first racetrack demonstration with MTJ read-heads will use that same approach. Eventually, IBM said it plans to build vertical racetracks by sinking nanowires into silicon. The MTJ read-head would be located at the top of each racetrack. </p><p> </p></div> </span> </p><p> </p><center><span class="autoPagebreak"> </span></center>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08399031949803866083noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7320740094558564364.post-43517468081050923312008-03-29T01:35:00.002-04:002008-03-29T01:37:52.961-04:00This day in history<b>March 29, 1967</b> - WCMU TV channel 14 in Mt. Pleasant, MI (PBS) begins broadcasting and my first son was born. Coincidence???Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08399031949803866083noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7320740094558564364.post-89168915044669771782008-01-05T22:37:00.001-05:002008-01-05T22:43:42.003-05:00Is It Good For the Jews?<div style="border-style: none solid none none; border-color: -moz-use-text-color windowtext -moz-use-text-color -moz-use-text-color; border-width: medium 1pt medium medium; padding: 0in 6pt 0in 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 6pt;"> <h4 style="border: medium none ; padding: 0in;">BELIEF WATCH<o:p></o:p></h4> </div> <h2>Lisa Miller<o:p></o:p></h2> <h1><o:p> </o:p></h1> <p><o:p> </o:p></p> <p>In 1922, Harvard announced a simple way to reduce anti-Semitism on campus: admit fewer Jews.<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Jan 14, 2008 Issue <o:p></o:p></p> <p>In the 20th Century no group was better at chronicling its own experience than the American Jews. You want self-loathing, assimilation and paranoia? Turn to Philip Roth. You want bright young women resisting and yet conforming to family expectations? Check out Allegra Goodman. You want the passionate rediscovery of Jewish history and values? Turn to Steven Spielberg.<o:p></o:p></p> <p>The story of the Yiddish-speaking bubby with the Harvard educated grandson has been told so often—in fiction and in life—it's become an American cliché and a reference point for subsequent generations of immigrants.<o:p></o:p></p> <p>American Jews have documented their own journey so thoroughly and in so many brilliant, hilarious and accessible variations, the efforts of a documentary filmmaker to package it all in one television extravaganza is a bit puzzling. Nevertheless, starting this week and unfolding in three weekly, two-hour segments, PBS stations will air "The Jewish Americans," directed by David Grubin. With all the slow-moving self-importance of a Ken Burns documentary, "The Jewish Americans" tries to do too much: it sums up the highs and lows of the Jewish-American story, beginning with the first Jewish immigrants to New York City in the 18th century and ending with a Hasidic rapper, and still it manages to offend no one. Like an evening spent at dinner with one's beloved grandparents, "The Jewish Americans" is a pleasant if old-fashioned encounter with Jewish boosterism.<o:p></o:p></p> <p><!--AD BEGIN-->At its best, the series unearths stories not part of the Jewish folk canon, like that of Judah Benjamin, who was the attorney general for the Confederacy and, when the South lost the Civil War, fled to <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">England</st1:place></st1:country-region> and reinvented himself as a barrister. In a lovely aside, one commentator wonders aloud what Passover must have been like in the antebellum South, with Jewish families thanking God for their freedom from slavery while slaves served the Seder meal. In another memorable chapter Harvard president Abbott Lowell announces in 1922 a simple and effective way to reduce anti-Semitism on campus: admit fewer Jews. In a chapter about Jewish contributions to the westward expansion, the example of Anna Solomon, who moved to the <st1:state st="on"><st1:place st="on">Arizona</st1:place></st1:State> desert, opened a store and then a hotel, and raised a bunch of Jewish kids with no synagogue in sight, is unforgettable.<o:p></o:p></p> <p>Too often, though, the documentary functions as a kind of "Jewish Hall of Fame." Featured talking heads include Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sid Caesar and the playwright Tony Kushner. Exemplars of Jewish achievement include Albert Einstein, Hank Greenberg, Irving Berlin and Louis Brandeis. Worthy exemplars all, but in the 21st century, when so many have accomplished so much, and when Jewish identity is frequently a matter of hyphenation—Kushner laughingly calls himself a "gay American Jewish socialist"—this earnest ritual of praising famous Jews feels insufficiently meaningful.<o:p></o:p></p> <p>Guardians of Jewish culture mourn the loss of Jewish identity—no one speaks Yiddish anymore, they say, and intermarriage is epidemic—and "The Jewish Americans" is clearly a valentine to a time when despite (or perhaps because of) anti-Semitism, Jews knew who they were. Now, the film rightly points out, the absence of significant antiSemitism in <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">America</st1:place></st1:country-region> allows Jews to embrace Judaism on their own terms, a situation that raises questions for which history has no answers. Can good American Jews disapprove of <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">Israel</st1:place></st1:country-region>'s foreign policies? Does intermarriage mean the end of Judaism or the birth of a new kind of Jew? Can synagogues satisfy American Jewish longings for spiritual connection without sacrificing orthodoxy? "The Jewish Americans" ably reminds us and our children of where we came from, but it fails to address the more challenging question of where we go from here.<o:p></o:p></p> <p><em>© 2008 Newsweek, Inc.</em> <o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08399031949803866083noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7320740094558564364.post-15590779326837892662007-12-24T16:53:00.001-05:002007-12-24T17:13:49.383-05:00When will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops<span class="text">A Modern Man digital and smoke free, a man for the millenium.<br />A diversified, multi-cultural post-modern deconstructionist; politically, anatomically and ecologically incorrect.<br />I've been uplinked and downloaded, I've been inputted and outsourced, I know the upside of down sizing and the downside of upgrading.<br />I'm a high tech low life, a cutting edge state of the art bi-coastal multi-tasker and I can give you a gigabyte in a nanosecond.<br />I'm new wave but I'm old school; and my inner child is outward bound.<br />I'm a hot wired heat seeking warm hearted cool customer; voice-activated and bio-degradable.<br />Behind the eight ball, ahead of the curve, ridin' the wave, dodging the bullet, pushin the enevelope. <br />I'm on point, on task, on message, in the moment, on the edge, over the top, but under the radar.<br />A high-concept, low profile, medium range ballistic missionary.<br />I'm a non-beleiver and an over acheiver, laid back and fashion forward.<br />Up front, down home, low rent and high maintenence.<br />I'm super-sized, long lasting, high-definition, fast acting and built to last.<br /><br /></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08399031949803866083noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7320740094558564364.post-77857008966052921962007-12-16T00:44:00.000-05:002007-12-16T00:47:39.209-05:00Worlds Oldest Animal or was<h2 class="date-header">Monday, October 29, 2007</h2> <h3 class="entry-header">Scientists Find 405 Year Old Living Clam</h3> <div class="entry-content"> <div class="entry-body"> <p><img src="http://img137.imageshack.us/img137/8143/mingclamsm8.jpg" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 8px; float: right;" alt="" />Scientists have found a clam off the coast of island that may well be the world's oldest creature. The ocean quahog clam was dredged up off the coast of Iceland and using the rings on its shell researchers claim it is 405-years-old.</p> <p>Named Ming, after the Ming Dynasty which ruled China when it was young, the clam is so old that during its youth Queen Elizabeth I was on the throne and Shakespeare was penning his famous works.</p> <p>Professor Chris Richardson, from Bangor University's School of Ocean Sciences explained that the rings on the clam's shell provide researchers with information about growth conditions year-by-year, and so provide a record of the environmental changes during the animal's life.</p> <p>According to the Guinness Book of Records, the longest-lived animal was a clam found in 1982 aged 220. Unofficially, another clam - found in an Icelandic museum - was discovered to be 374-years-old, making Ming 31 years older. <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7066389.stm">Link</a></p><p><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7066389.stm">Then they killed it to study its rings!!!!!<br /></a></p> </div> </div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08399031949803866083noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7320740094558564364.post-52116086532389244562007-10-20T17:00:00.000-04:002007-10-20T17:05:37.543-04:00Todays ThoughtI think to know if they know what I know I need them to think they know what I want them to think I know what they know if I want them to think I know, I think. Or not.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08399031949803866083noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7320740094558564364.post-47576577791549553842007-08-17T05:04:00.000-04:002007-11-10T20:56:28.586-05:00The Good Old Days<h1 style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">IBM System/3</h1><br /><img src="http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/rochester/images/4506VV4008.jpg" alt="IBM introduced its System/3 computer (IBM 5410) on July 30, 1969 to meet the computing needs of small businesses." height="301" width="443" /> <br /><br /><p>IBM introduced its System/3 computer (IBM 5410) on July 30, 1969 to meet the computing needs of small businesses. It was the first system totally developed in-house by the company's laboratory in Rochester, Minn., and the most significant IBM product announcement since the IBM System/360 in 1964. The System/3 was not compatible with the System/360, as it featured a smaller punched card which could encode up to 96 characters per card. The System/3 used IBM's new monolithic integrated circuits, and rented for less than $1,000 a month -- about half the cost of a System/360 Model 20.</p> <p>On October 28, 1970, the company rolled out the IBM System/3 Model 6 (IBM 5406). Rochester's Advanced Unit Record Systems Programming group had developed the Report Programming Generator II programming language intended for commercial applications on the Model 6.</p> <p>On July 10, 1973, IBM introduced a new, larger-capacity System/3 -- the Model 15 (IBM 5415) -- with added function and versatility. Developed in Rochester, the Model 15 was manufactured in Boca Raton, Fla., and in Vimercate, Italy.</p> <p>By July 1974, more than 25,000 System/3s had been installed around the world, and another version, Model 8, jointly designed by Rochester and Boca Raton, debuted that September.</p> The System/3 was ultimately succeeded by the IBM System/38 in 1978, and all System/3 models had been withdrawn from marketing by June 1985.<noscript></noscript>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08399031949803866083noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7320740094558564364.post-49152528651623903142007-08-15T23:07:00.000-04:002007-08-15T23:19:37.136-04:00The Maine Coast<p class="MsoNormal">The <st1:state st="on"><st1:place st="on">Maine</st1:place></st1:state> coast at night late in December</p> <p class="MsoNormal">The air so cold I still remember</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Just you and I alone </p> <p class="MsoNormal">At last together</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Finding each other </p> <p class="MsoNormal">forgetting the weather</p> <p class="MsoNormal">The night so quiet</p><p class="MsoNormal">Just the water and wind</p> <p class="MsoNormal">And our hearts beating again and again</p> <p class="MsoNormal">A moment in time</p> <p class="MsoNormal">a time to remember</p> <p class="MsoNormal">The <st1:state st="on"><st1:place st="on">Maine</st1:place></st1:state> coast at night late in December</p>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08399031949803866083noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7320740094558564364.post-59330189394535046102007-08-08T23:53:00.000-04:002007-11-10T21:04:11.916-05:00George Carlin 101 Quotes<a title="Permanent Link: 101 Greatest George Carlin Quotes" href="http://blogzarro.com/?p=226" rel="bookmark">101 Greatest George Carlin Quotes</a><br />By James A. on May 12th, 2007<br /><blockquote>The man who says “life is worth losing” turns 70 today. George would say that’s irony, not a coincidence. George Dennis Carlin was born May 12, 1937 in New York City and for the last 47 years he’s been doing stand-up comedy better than anyone else on the planet. In the process he’s pissed off a lot of people and accumulated some of funniest, and most controversial, quotes known to man. Even a list of 101 quotes is just scratching the surface. In no particular order here are his 101 best…</blockquote><br /><ul><li>I don’t have pet peeves — I have major psychotic fucking hatreds!</li><li>Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.</li><li>Swimming is not a sport. Swimming is a way to keep from drowning. That’s just common sense!</li><li>A house is just a place to keep your stuff while you go out and get more stuff.</li><li>Have you ever noticed that their stuff is shit and your shit is stuff?</li><li>I wanna live. I don’t wanna die. That’s the whole meaning of life: Not dying! I figured that shit out by myself in the third grade.</li><li>I used to be Irish Catholic. Now I’m an American — you know, you grow.</li><li>You can’t fight City Hall, but you can goddamn sure blow it up.</li><li>If the Cincinnati Reds were really the first major league baseball team, who did they play?</li><li>Honesty may be the best policy, but it’s important to remember that apparently, by elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy. </li><li>If it’s true that our species is alone in the universe, then I’d have to say that the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little.</li><li>No one knows what’s next, but everybody does it.</li><li>There are 400,000 words in the English language, and there are seven you can’t say on television. What a ratio that is! 399,993 to 7. They must really be baaaad. They must be OUTRAGEOUS to be separated from a group that large. “All of you words over here, you seven….baaaad words.” That’s what they told us, right? …You know the seven, don’t ya? That you can’t say on TV? Shit, piss, fuck, cunt, cocksucker, motherfucker and tits.</li><li>The very existence of flamethrowers proves that sometime, somewhere, someone said to themselves, “You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I’m just not close enough to get the job done.”</li><li>The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept.</li><li>Just when I discovered the meaning of life, they changed it.</li><li>Religion has convinced people that there’s an invisible man…living in the sky, who watches everything you do every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a list of ten specific things he doesn’t want you to do. And if you do any of these things, he will send you to a special place, of burning and fire and smoke and torture and anguish for you to live forever, and suffer and burn and scream until the end of time. But he loves you. He loves you and he needs money.</li><li>Weather forecast for tonight: Dark. Continued dark overnight, with widely scattered light by morning.</li><li>If it requires a uniform, it’s a worthless endeavor.</li><li>If you live long enough, sooner or later everybody you know has cancer.</li><li>You know the good part about all those executions in Texas? Fewer Texans.</li><li>Soft rock music isn’t rock, and it ain’t music. It’s just soft.</li><li>Reminds me of something my third-grade teacher said to us. She said, “You show me a tropical fruit and I’ll show you a cocksucker from Guatemala.”</li><li>As soon as someone is identified as an unsung hero, he no longer is.</li><li>If a movie is described as a romantic comedy, you can usually find me next door playing pinball.</li><li>The IQ and the life expectancy of the average American recently passed each other in opposite directions.</li><li>I knew a transsexual guy whose only ambition is to eat, drink, and be Mary.</li><li>I put a dollar in a change machine. Nothing changed.</li><li>If you’ve got a cat and a leg, you’ve got a happy cat. If you’ve got a cat and two legs, you’ve got a party.</li><li>You can prick your finger — just don’t finger your prick.</li><li>By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.</li><li>Ever notice that anyone going slower than you is an idiot, but anyone going faster is a maniac?</li><li>Isn’t it a bit unnerving that doctors call what they do “practice”?</li><li>I don’t like to think of laws as rules you have to follow, but more as suggestions.</li><li>I think it’s the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately.</li><li>When you’re born you get a ticket to the freak show. When you’re born in America, you get a front-row seat.</li><li>Eventually, alas, I realized the main purpose of buying cocaine is to run out of it.</li><li>I never fucked a ten, but one night, I fucked five twos.</li><li>I never joined the Boy Scouts. I don’t trust any organization that has a handbook.</li><li>I would never want to be a member of a group whose symbol was a man nailed to two pieces of wood.</li><li>Have you noticed that most of the women who are against abortion are women you wouldn’t want to fuck in the first place? There’s such balance in nature.</li><li>So I say, “Live and let live.” That’s my motto. “Live and let live.” Anyone who can’t go along with that, take him outside and shoot the motherfucker. It’s a simple philosophy, but it’s always worked in our family.</li><li>Catholic — which I was until I reached the age of reason.</li><li>Here’s a bumper sticker I’d like to see: “We are the proud parents of a child who’s self-esteem is sufficient that he doesn’t need us promoting his minor scholastic achievements on the back of our car.”</li><li>I love and treasure individuals as I meet them; I loathe and despise the groups they identify with and belong to.</li><li>Beethoven was so hard of hearing, he thought he was a painter.</li><li>Don Ho can sign autographs 3.4 times faster than Efrem Zimbalist Jr.</li><li>God bless the homicidal maniacs. They make life worthwhile.</li><li>I’ve never seen a homeless guy with a bottle of Gatorade.</li><li>One great thing about getting old is that you can get out of all sorts of social obligations just by saying you’re too tired.</li><li>If Helen Keller had psychic ability, would you say she had a fourth sense?</li><li>What year did Jesus think it was?</li><li>George Washington’s brother, Lawrence, was the Uncle of Our Country.</li><li>Have you ever wondered why Republicans are so interested in encouraging people to volunteer in their communities? It’s because volunteers work for no pay. Republicans have been trying to get people to work for no pay for a long time.</li><li>In America, anyone can become president. That’s the problem.</li><li>Once you leave the womb, conservatives don’t care about you until you reach military age. Then you’re just what they’re looking for. Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers.</li><li>“One thing leads to another”? Not always. Sometimes one thing leads to the same thing. Ask an addict.</li><li>No one who has had “Taps” played for them has ever been able to hear it.</li><li>Property is theft. Nobody “owns” anything. When you die, it all stays here.</li><li>The best thing about living at the water’s edge: You only have assholes on three sides of you, and if they come this way you can hear them splash.</li><li>The future will soon be a thing of the past.</li><li>The planet is fine. The people are fucked.</li><li>The real reason that we can’t have the Ten Commandments in a courthouse: You cannot post “Thou shalt not steal,” “Thou shalt not commit adultery,” and “Thou shalt not lie” in a building full of lawyers, judges, and politicians. It creates a hostile work environment.</li><li>Boxing is a more sophisticated form of hockey.</li><li>The only good thing ever to come out of religion was the music.</li><li>I think everyone should treat one another in a Christian manner. I will not, however, be responsible for the consequences.</li><li>Bowling is not a sport because you have to rent the shoes.</li><li>“When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?” This title offends all three major religions, and even vegetarians!</li><li>Thou shalt keep thy religion to thyself.</li><li>And now, in the interest of equal time, here is a message from the National Institute of Pancakes: It reads, and I quote, “Fuck waffles.”</li><li>Atheism is a non-prophet organization.</li><li>Whoever coined the term “Buyer Beware” was probably bleeding from the asshole.</li><li>Cloud nine gets all the publicity, but cloud eight actually is cheaper, less crowded, and has a better view.</li><li>Have you ever noticed that the lawyer always smiles more than the client?</li><li>I’m always relieved when someone is delivering a eulogy and I realize I’m listening to it.</li><li>Just think, right now as you read this, some guy somewhere is gettin’ ready to hang himself.</li><li>The reason they call it the American Dream is because you have to be asleep to believe it.</li><li>If all our national holidays were observed on Wednesdays, we could wind up with nine-day weekends.</li><li>“Meow” means “woof” in cat.</li><li>Most people with low self-esteem have earned it.</li><li>Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit.</li><li>“No comment” is a comment.</li><li>If a man smiles all the time, he’s probably selling something that doesn’t work.</li><li>You can’t argue with a good blowjob.</li><li>Most of the time people feel okay. Probably it’s because at the moment they’re not actually dying.</li><li>So far, this is the oldest I’ve been.</li><li>Instead of warning pregnant women not to drink, I think female alcoholics ought to be told not to fuck.</li><li>Do you think Sammy Davis ate Junior Mints?</li><li>When you think about it, attention-deficit order makes a lot of sense. In this country there isn’t a lot worth paying attention to.</li><li>The Golden Gate Bridge should have a long bungee cord for people who aren’t quite ready to commit suicide but want to get in a little practice.</li><li>I think I am, therefore, I am. I think.</li><li>If the cops didn’t see it, I didn’t do it!</li><li>Hooray for most things!</li><li>Capitalism tries for a delicate balance: It attempts to work things out so that everyone gets just enough stuff to keep them from getting violent and trying to take other people’s stuff.</li><li>I don’t have a fear of heights. I do, however, have a fear of falling from heights.</li><li>What was the best thing before sliced bread?</li><li>May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.</li><li>Life is a zero sum game.</li><li>Somehow I enjoy watching people suffer.</li><li>I have as much authority as the Pope. I just don’t have as many people who believe it.</li><li>It isn’t fair: the caterpillar does all the work, and the butterfly gets all the glory.</li></ul>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08399031949803866083noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7320740094558564364.post-18201373647467604512007-07-26T22:03:00.001-04:002007-08-18T18:01:54.866-04:00Edgar & Annabel Lee<pre> It was many and many a year ago,<br /> In a kingdom by the sea,<br /> That a maiden there lived whom you may know<br /> By the name of ANNABEL LEE;<br /> And this maiden she lived with no other thought<br /> Than to love and be loved by me.<br /><br /> I was a child and she was a child,<br /> In this kingdom by the sea;<br /> But we loved with a love that was more than love-<br /> I and my Annabel Lee;<br /> With a love that the winged seraphs of heaven<br /> Coveted her and me.<br /><br /> And this was the reason that, long ago,<br /> In this kingdom by the sea,<br /> A wind blew out of a cloud, chilling<br /> My beautiful Annabel Lee;<br /> So that her highborn kinsman came<br /> And bore her away from me,<br /> To shut her up in a sepulchre<br /> In this kingdom by the sea.<br /><br /> The angels, not half so happy in heaven,<br /> Went envying her and me-<br /> Yes!- that was the reason (as all men know,<br /> In this kingdom by the sea)<br /> That the wind came out of the cloud by night,<br /> Chilling and killing my Annabel Lee.<br /><br /> But our love it was stronger by far than the love<br /> Of those who were older than we-<br /> Of many far wiser than we-<br /> And neither the angels in heaven above,<br /> Nor the demons down under the sea,<br /> Can ever dissever my soul from the soul<br /> Of the beautiful Annabel Lee.<br /><br /> For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams<br /> Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;<br /> And the stars never rise but I feel the bright eyes<br /> Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;<br /> And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side<br /> Of my darling- my darling- my life and my bride,<br /> In the sepulchre there by the sea,<br /> In her tomb by the sounding sea.</pre>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08399031949803866083noreply@blogger.com1