Perry did the trick. He defeated Bachmann after the Iowa straw poll.

Social Conservatives are never nominated.  They win in places like Iowa, but, they never make the nomination.  The Fiscal Conservative is always the nominee.


The problem with Fiscal Conservatives is the method of which they are fiscally irresponsible and how they buy their economy with the USA treasury by primarily over reaching on foreign soil to allow cronies to handle natural resources.


Romney is a fiscal conservative and is already stating how the USA doesn't use its natural resources to its best outcomes.  Really?  Currently, the leases purchased by private companies for oil and gas are mostly undeveloped, so Romney is not only rhetorical but a liar.  He seeks not the facts, but, only the political uptick.  If he was ever to be voted into the Executive Branch and was unable to deliver on the leases already sold by the USA, next stop to support an economic uptick would be war.  


Romney cannot deliver on increased employment in the USA from private conglomerates, because, they aren't interested in USA labor.  The last time that occurred was under Clinton when he made global friends with invitations for tourism.  It increased the employment in the country, increased the tax base, but, deprived Americans of fair wages.  That lag in return to a sustainable economy where Americans are paid good wages with benefits ended a long time ago.  It is that economy President Obama has been seeking with new venues of energy and an economy of Small Family Businesses that increase local economies.


Santorum had his uptick.  The only real challenge to Romney is Gingrick, unless, Huntsman can actually score in New Hampshire.  He might.


Michele never stopped smiling, her message never changed and she was loyal to her supporters and her values.  She'll be missed.
continued...

It is about time the Ecuadorians received justice. Chevron's $11.5 bn pound is equal to approximately $18 bn US.

The current judgement against Chevron is comparable to the $20 billion for the Gulf Coast of the USA.  It isn't just BP, it is all of them in some manner or another.  What Ecuador and the rest of the global community where oil and gas are drilled needs to learn is the 'land leases' have to include automatic liability of any trace of damage.  100% liability for any damage done.  In Ecuador there was wide spread cancers and birth defects as well as ecosystem destruction.  When is human society going to stop using carbon based fuels?  It is possible.  E85 is produced in abundance in Brazil.  


An Ecuadorean (click title to entry - thank you) appeals court has upheld a ruling that Chevron should pay damages totalling $18.2bn (£11.5bn) over Amazon oil pollution.


4 January 2012 Last updated at 01:51 ET

Chevron said the judgement was "illegitimate" and "a fraud".

Texaco, which merged with Chevron in 2001, was accused of dumping toxic materials in the Ecuadorean Amazon.

The original ruling ordered Chevron to pay $8.6bn in damages, which was more than doubled after the company failed to make a public apology.

"We ratify the ruling of February 14 2011 in all its parts, including the sentence for moral reparation," the court in the Amazonian city of Lago Agrio said in its ruling, according to Reuters....

Santorum might say the same things today. This is an interview from July 25, 2005.

Santorum assaults Roe v. Wade based on privacy.  Somehow the privacy granted women during those proceedings is wrong and different than any other privacy afforded anyone.  I'll put the link at the title as soon as I have it all up.


Maybe it will be helpful in reflecting on the extremism of this Republican hopeful.

...BROWN: Sam Rayburn, the legendary speaker of the house of representatives was legendary for many things, but is remembered for saying this if you want to get along, go along. Safe to say our guest tonight rarely gets called the get along/go along type. Rick Santorum, the junior senator from Pennsylvania is fiercely partisan, openly devout, frequently outspoken. He's also the third ranking Republican in the United States Senate, and now the author of "It Takes a Family: Conservatism and the Common Good." We're pleased to see him always, and pleased that he's with us in New York tonight. Nice to see you. 

SEN. RICK SANTORUM (R), PENNSYLVANIA: Thanks. 

BROWN: When's the last time you checked Amazon to see how the book was doing?

SANTORUM: My wife checked it earlier today. BROWN: Thank you. That's what we call the honesty question, right here. OK. How was it doing?

SANTORUM: It was like 100 or 120, or something -- 140, I forget what it was.

BROWN: Well, check when it you get off.

SANTORUM: I'm sure. I want to see which program gives it the biggest bump.

BROWN: You can't know. I'll talk a little about the book, a little about other things. I saw a poll the other day that said 60 percent of the country wanted to know how Judge Roberts felt about Roe v Wade. It's a settled case. Do you think the country's entitled to know whether he believes that that case was decided correctly?

SANTORUM: You know my feeling is, you have to look at the standard of what's been applied in the past. And what judges in the past have been forced to answer is, you know, how they felt about, you know, sort of the black letter law, if you will. Not really looking at, how would you rule in cases...

BROWN: I'm not asking how you'd rule. This is a settled case. Roe v Wade is a settled case, it is settled. Is this a fair question, do you agree that that case was settled correctly? Is that a fair question to ask him?

SANTORUM: Well, let me put it this way. That question was asked of Judge Ginsberg, it was asked of Judge Breyer and neither of them answered the question.

BROWN: So the answer is no you don't think the country is entitled...

SANTORUM: Well I think, what's good for the goose is good for the gander. I mean, it's remarkable that we have an ACLU lawyer, not just someone who -- I mean, an ACLU lawyer who gets a pass on their ideology for the United States Senate and we have a lawyer who is really a lawyer's lawyer, he's been all over the place, is clearly not someone with an agenda and all of a sudden they have to answer litmus test kinds of questions. Is that fair? I would say it's not fair.

BROWN: All I want to know is if -- it's really a simple question.

SANTORUM: I'm giving you the answer. The answer is no. If it wasn't answered in the past, it shouldn't be answered in the future.

BROWN: OK. So we're not entitled to know whether he thinks that was settled correctly, no. Why? Isn't that a good thing to know? Because people vote for and against that.

SANTORUM: I think you should know about how a judge makes a decision and what he takes into consideration in making that decision. But as far as applying it to a specific case...

BROWN: Even if that case has been decided?

SANTORUM: Right, you know, I think even if that case has been decided, yeah. I think you want -- you want to look at -- this is not a test of how judges feel about certain issues. You get to elect members of the Congress. We have to answer those questions.

BROWN: Do you think there's a right to privacy in the Constitution?

SANTORUM: No -- well, not the right to privacy as created under Roe v. Wade and all...

BROWN: Do you think there's a right to privacy in the Constitution?

SANTORUM: I think there's a right to unreasonable -- to unreasonable search and seizure...

BROWN: For example, if you'd been a Supreme Court judge in Griswold versus Connecticut, the famous birth control case came up, which centered around whether there was a right to privacy. Do you believe that was correctly decided?

SANTORUM: No, I don't. I write about it in the book. I don't.

BROWN: The state of Connecticut had the right to ban birth control for a married couple.

SANTORUM: I think they were wrong. It was a bad law.

BROWN: But they had the right. SANTORUM: They had the right. They had the right...

BROWN: Why would a conservative argue that government should interfere with that most personal decision?

SANTORUM: I didn't. I said it was a bad law. And...

BROWN: But they had the right to make.

SANTORUM: They had the right to make it. Look, legislatures have the right to make mistakes and do really stupid things...

BROWN: OK.

SANTORUM: ... but we don't have to create constitutional rights because we have a stupid legislature. And that's the problem here, is the court feels like they have a responsibility to right every wrong. When they do that, unlike a Congress, that if we make a really stupid mistake and we do something wrong, we go back next year or next month and change it, and we've done that. Courts don't do that. They only get cases that come before them and they have to make broad, sweeping decisions that have huge impact down the road. That's what happened in Griswold. It was a bad law. The court felt, we can't let this bad law stand in place. It's wrong. It was. But they made a -- they created out of whole cloth a right that now has gone far, far from Griswold versus Connecticut.

BROWN: I'm going to do something I almost never do. The control room just -- we're going to go -- we're going to run long here. This is fun and interesting.

SANTORUM: OK.

BROWN: I want to talk about the thing you said about Boston for a second.

SANTORUM: OK.

BROWN: OK. I don't know if we have this. We can put it on the screen, but you said "when the culture is sick, every element becomes infected. While it is no excuse, the scandal" -- referring to the priest abuse scandal -- "it is no secret that Boston, the seat of academic, political, cultural liberalism in America, lies at the center of the storm." First of all, wasn't that a little over the top?

SANTORUM: Well, what's over the top is taking a three-year-old article...

BROWN: What's the context?

SANTORUM: And the context was, I was writing about the priest scandal and condemning the priest scandal, condemning the church...

BROWN: Well, of course you were condemning it. No one supports it.

SANTORUM: ... and talking about concrete things we need to do to fix it. I was out there. No other United States senator...

BROWN: Why so -- why Boston?

SANTORUM: Because, again, context. What was going on in 2002 -- not 2005, but in 2002 -- that's where the scandal was. It wasn't anywhere else. We weren't talking about it. In 2002, it was the epicenter. We didn't have the report by the bishops conference. We didn't have...

BROWN: So now you wouldn't say that?

SANTORUM: I wouldn't -- well, no, there's a lot of other cities that were involved. But the point is that cultural liberalism and what I talked about is a contributing factor to how people view sexual activity. And I am not the one that says that. Robert Bennett, in the report that he issued on behalf of the bishops conference, called the Bennett report, said exactly my words, except the word Boston wasn't in it.

BROWN: OK. But you wouldn't say that about Boston now. Is that right? Based on what we know about the scandal.

SANTORUM: I said it then, it was the...

BROWN: Not then, now?

SANTORUM: ... yeah, it was the epicenter, and there are many other cities that that would apply.

BROWN: All right, I want to talk -- for the next -- we've got two more minutes. Will you come back, by the way?

SANTORUM: We haven't even talked about my book yet.

BROWN: We're about to.

SANTORUM: OK.

BROWN: I'm not here to sell books. You're here to sell books.SANTORUM: I'm here to sell books.

BROWN: You're here to sell books.

SANTORUM: OK.

BROWN: What we were talking about in the break was that -- my belief that actually in many respects, the left and the right talk (INAUDIBLE), but they agree on a lot of things. It takes a child -- it takes a family and it takes a village, in fact, are both true. And I think you'd agree with that.

SANTORUM: And I say that, yeah. BROWN: Right. And that the left doesn't believe it only takes a village any more than the right believes it only takes a family.

SANTORUM: It's where you start from. I think the left -- the left starts from the top down. Believes in the experts, believes in...

BROWN: What is the basis of that? Why do you believe that?

SANTORUM: Well, I mean, look at institutions dominated by the left. I mean, education. I talk about this very much in the book. I mean, it was created very much as a way of having, you know, social control from the top, and modernizing it to -- into our culture, progressive children, and having state control of education. It's been a battle ever since for local control of schools, versus the experts on top trying to decide for us how to handle...

BROWN: Republican administration -- this -- your administration has exerted more federal control over schools than any in history.

SANTORUM: Yeah. I have serious -- serious problems and have had serious problems with federal legislation. And had very serious concerns about No Child Left Behind...

BROWN: Did you vote for it?

SANTORUM: I voted for it, because what it basically required was accountability. It didn't dictate how we get there. It dictated that you had the measure how you get there. And to me, that is basically holding folks accountable for what they do, as opposed to dictating what they do.

BROWN: Do you really think that left and right have a dramatically different view of how a good child is formed?

SANTORUM: I would say yes. The highest virtue of the left in the world today is tolerance, and that is -- that's acceptance of anything, and anything for any reason. Well, I don't believe on the right -- or I don't think most Americans, not just on the right -- I don't think most Americans see it that way. I think most Americans want people to have certain virtues, honesty, integrity and all those other things. There may be agreement, and certainly obviously the left wants honesty and integrity, but there is a lot of things they don't accept.

BROWN: The best way to sell books is to be an interesting person. You have been. It's nice to see you.

SANTORUM: Thanks a lot.BROWN: Thank you, Rick Santorum.SANTORUM: I appreciate it.

BROWN: I hope you come back, really. 

SANTORUM: I will. 

BROWN: Thank you.Just ahead, the shuttle countdown, other things to take care of. This is NEWSNIGHT.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)...

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...BROWN: Okey doke. Time to check the morning papers from around the country, and around the world. That was fun with Senator Santorum, wasn't it. I've got to tell the control more often I want to run long....

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It makes sense, Iowa chose the Zealot from the Bush years.

It was the last minute anti-Romney vote.  Santorum is more right wing than Michele Bachmann. Absolutely.

The Pennsylvania senator raked in some cash during his trip to Florida last month, but he's paying a price in political capital. (click here)


THURSDAY, APR 21, 2005 2:46 PM EASTERN STANDARD TIME


The Terri Schiavo controversy is turning out to be a losing issue for Sen. Rick Santorum, R-Penn., despite the fact that he happened to rake in $250,000 campaign funds during his trip to Florida last month....


...Why the flagging numbers for Santorum? The Quinnipiac report cites his stance on Social Security and his handling of the Schiavo case; 38 percent of poll respondents said they’re less likely to vote for Santorum because of his support for Bush’s privatization plan, and 34 percent said his prominent role in the Schiavo case diminished the likelihood that they’d vote for him.

Interesting, though.  The shoe leather candidate vs. the media mogul surrogated by a superpac. The two extremes.  The shoe leather can win in Iowa, but, I don't for long.  Besides the public has not been reminded of whom Sanctorum sincerely is when it comes to right wing Republican rhetoric and power.  He has a long history of being a religious zealot in the USA Senate.  

Iowa: Romney, Santorum seesawing in narrow vote (click title to entry - thank you)

By David Espo and Thomas Beaumont

Associated Press / January 4, 2012

DES MOINES, Iowa—Rick Santorum and Mitt Romney waged a seesaw battle for supremacy in Iowa's Republican presidential caucuses late Tuesday night, a dramatic opening round for the campaign to pick a challenger to President Barack Obama.

Texas Gov. Rick Perry, a leader in opinion polls at one point, finished a distant fifth and said he would return to his home state "to determine whether there is a path forward" for his White House aspirations.

Texas Rep. Ron Paul finished third, not far behind the front-runners.

Returns from 97 percent of the state's precincts showed Santorum, a former Pennsylvania senator, and Romney, a former governor of Massachusetts, in a near dead heat, a fitting conclusion to a race as jumbled as any since Iowa gained the lead-off position in presidential campaigns four decades ago....

ABC News’ Shushannah Walshe and Michael Falcone report: (click here)

DAVENPORT, Iowa — An Iowa Christian conservative leader who bestowed his highly sought-after endorsement on presidential candidate Rick Santorum this week is now at the center of a controversy over whether he asked for cash in exchange for his public support.

Less than 48-hours after receiving the backing of Bob Vander Plaats, the head of the prominent evangelical group The Family Leader, Santorum disclosed that the prominent Iowan told him he needed money to make the most out of the endorsement.

And sources familiar with talks between the conservative heavyweight and representatives from several of the Republican presidential campaigns went a step further, describing Vander Plaats’ tactics as corrupt.

“Clearly the endorsement was for sale — without a doubt,” one source said.

It’s a charge that The Family Leader flatly denied...


The Marriage Vow Pledge.  This is the strength of 'the pledges' the Right Wing Republican makes and then adheres to after reaching office.  The pledges dummy down the electorate as a measure of control after the election.  Here we go again.


Former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum (click here) and U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann have made commitments to sign pledges in support of traditional marriage sought by the Family Leader, an Iowa group that backs Christian conservative social values....

WASHINGTON (RNS) An Iowa-based conservative  (click here) Christian organization has removed controversial language about slavery from a pledge to uphold traditional marriage that the group has asked GOP candidates to sign.

The Family Leader's "Marriage Vow" originally included language in its preamble that implied that black children had better family conditions during slavery than today.

"Slavery had a disastrous impact on African-American families, yet sadly a child born into slavery in 1860 was more likely to be raised by his mother and father in a two-parent household than was an African-American baby born after the election of the USA's first African-American president,"...

The religious bigot lives !!!!


...As a result of multicultural relativism, (click here) however, we are seeing the American aspiration eroded, our common purpose lost, and a “re-appearing tyranny and oppression” that is not only poised against us abroad but is also pointing its dagger at us here at home. This is especially true in some of the Islamist communities, where separation from the rest of America is sacrosanct and intellectual assimilation degraded-and where the equality of every human being is not taught as a self-evident truth. Our American sense of toleration, in other words, is now protecting noxious philosophies that are anti-American....

"Restoring Our Future" - The word "Restoring" was/is a favorite of Beck.

The CORPORATION responsible for the Anti-Gingrick ads.


He used that word all the time.  He used it in narcissistic framework.  "Restoring Dignity."  "Restoring what it was that needed restoring."


He never used it in terms of what was needed in government, like, "Restoring the tax structure we need to pay the debt."  "Restoring the forests or clean water or the USA treasury."  


It was always used in terms of 'personality deprivation as if something was DONE to people that were in his audience.  Didn't he have a restore Israel thing?  ??????  Oh, yeah, "Restoring Courage." I didn't know Israel turned 'chicken.'


But, the "Restore" mess is directly stolen from Beck, or maybe he gave them permission to mimic his methodology.  "Restoring our future."  Sounds like something President Obama has been trying to do in spite of the Republican obstructionists for the past three years!

This ad is deceptive. There has to be a scope for political ads.

There are several aspects to these 'swiftboat type' ads that are deceptive advertising.


To begin, no one is asking Mitt Romney to disavow the hostile tone of the ad.  During the 2004 campaign, George W. Bush was asked to disavow the ads both in their tone and in the lack of factual content.  Bush won't do it and therefore provided permission for the viciousness of the campaign that attacked a Vietnam Veteran.  Simply providing ads that 'I approve this message," while interesting, isn't disavowing the other ads.


Secondly,  President Obama never made the statement the former Speaker would be his choice to run against.  Quite the opposite, President Obama stated he would expect all the debates be robust.  He never stated there would be one candidate or another he would prefer to run against.  That aspect of the ad is nothing but supposition and lies.  They aren't even legitimate suppositions if one understands the actual statements by President Obama.


Thirdly, these ads can't simply be ignored, but, they should be met by plenty of questions from the electorate as to the 'answers' the former Speaker made regarding these allegations.  The former Speaker answered all these allegations in the debates.  Debates which cost money as well.

The fact the ads don't include the answers to the allegations is deceptive and quite frankly immoral.  When the rebuttals provided by the former Speaker were disregarded as legitimate by the producers of these ads, it lead me to believe the rebuttals were more factual than the allegations.  In particular, in regard to $1.6 million from Freddie and Fannie, the former Speaker stated, "His corporation, which had three offices, received those monies and he did not."  If that is the case, then the former Speaker received a salary along with the rest of his staff.  I always thought Republicans applauded small businesses.  Additionally, if there is a corporation they could produce records to validate Mr. Gingrick's answers to the allegations.


I don't believe allegations should stand alone in political ads.  Anyone can do that.  The electorate needs answers, the truth and an understanding of whom they are voting for, not the most deceptive and wealthiest candidate among their choices.


I sincerely believe the FCC has a jurisdiction here along with assistance from the Justice Department.  It is the deception in advertising that is at question.  It is the tone of the deception that provides an 'adult - child' news feed of information in these ads.  These ads are a problem and I consider them to be corrupt.

Clergy Members Arrested with Occupy Wall Street Protesters After Briefly...

Clergy members? This is disgraceful. The clergy came out to make the point the protesters are making a very moral statement about the condition of the USA's citizens. Where does the harassment by the police stop?

This was December 17th.

The events in this video happened today, December 17th, 2011, at roughly 3:45 PM as protesters, including clergy members, attempted to liberate the unused, fenced off section of Duarte Square on the corner of Canal Street and 6th Avenue in New York City on the three-month anniversary of Occupy Wall Street.

An Egyptian politician believes Iran does not have to prove its control over the Straits of Hormuz.

..."Iran is a powerful country (click here) and has many winning aces in its hands; were it a weak and feeble country, the colonialist and imperialist powers would have attacked it already," Abdullah al-Ash'al told FNA in Cairo on Monday. 

"I believe that these wargames of Iran have a clear message for Israel and the US, while helping the country test and evaluate its power in the region as well," he added. 

He further reiterated that Israel has always been fearful of Iran's leader and military power, and added, "Iran's wargames show its power and capability of exercising its sovereignty and control over strategic points of the world like the Strait of Hormoz."...


Iran's economy is failing and they are hopping mad.  Certainly nuclear capacity can't be that important.  There will be no invasion into Iran as there was Iraq.  When change comes to Iran it will come from within

...The prospect of sanctions targeting (click title to entry - thank you) the oil sector in a serious way for the first time has hit Iran's rial currency, which has fallen by 40 percent against the dollar in the past month.

Queues formed at banks and some currency exchange offices shut their doors as Iranians scrambled to buy dollars to protect their savings from the currency's fall....


Iran Waiting for EU to Set Meeting, EU: Ball in Tehran’s Court (click here)

Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman said Tuesday that Iran is waiting for proposal from EU foreign policy chief, Catherine Ashton, to set a meeting for fresh talks on the nuclear issue.

After receiving letter from Ashton, Iran’s top nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili will review her proposals, said Ramin Mehmanparast during his weekly press briefing.
 
“We are waiting for a date and venue of the next meeting to be declared by Ashton for negotiations between Iran and the 5+1 group,” Mehmanparast told reporters.

Ashton wrote a letter dated October 21, 2011 to Iran reiterating an offer to resume negotiations. Mehmanparast said Tuesday that, "Iran has already given its response to Mrs Ashton....

Iran Dismisses Sanction Impact on Currency (click here)

By NASSER KARIMI and TAREK EL-TABLAWY Associated Press

TEHRAN, Iran January 3, 2012 (AP)

Iran said Tuesday that the steep depreciation in the country's currency against the U.S. dollar was not linked to U.S. new sanctions targeting its Central Bank, while officials geared up for a meeting to assess possible measures to shore up the riyal in an already ailing economy.

Since President Barack Obama on Saturday signed into law a bill that takes aim at Iran's Central Bank, the riyal hit a new record low on Monday, dropping by around 13 percent against the dollar in just two days and reaching 18,000 riyals to the dollar. The official rate, which few but the government pay attention to, is 11,180 riyals to the dollar. The currency rebounded Tuesday to about 17,000 riyals to the dollar....

Get Money Out of Elections - No Plutocracy, We Want Democracy!

The irrelevancy of this six person race. It is about the message not the candidate.

The Iowa and New Hampshire Republican race for a nominee is somewhat the least of the predictors to the outcome.  The race is proving the power of money though, especially where Romney successfully trounced his competition in Newt Gingrick.  


But, to believe the outcome of the Iowa and New Hampshire campaigns indicates the nominee is to believe the other candidates are simply building momentum to test the waters in the future.  There is a very real chance that Romney won't be the nominee.  The Republicans are divided six ways with a consistent majority showing up for Romney.  However, that majority is minor when the rest of the field comprises more than 70% of Republican voters.


...A day after police made 18 arrests (click here) at sometimes-heated rallies at political offices in the metro area, protesters carried out several more subdued actions Sunday. One man was arrested at Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign offices in Des Moines....


IF the Republican field ever comes down to two to three candidates there is a very good chance Romney won't be the nominee and one of the others will due to the reduction of Anti-Romney candidates hoping to be Vice President.  That is why New Jersey's governor is dancing with Romney.  The RNC and Rove are hoping Christi pulls enough support from the Anti-Romney vote to prevent that from happening.


I find it very unfortunate Rep. Schultz, now the DNC Chair, could not find the time to meet with the Occupy members in Iowa.  I believe all people should be heard and it would be best if the DNC received opinion from everyone, including those that represent the generation estranged from a future of employment due to the 2008 global economic collapse.  The #Occupy members are very insightful.  The information they bring to the outcome of 2012 is invaluable and encompasses an entire generation's future.  Every Democratic candidate or hopeful needs to realize whom #Occupy is and the information they bring.  


The nomination process we are witnessing now is about 'the message,' not the candidate.  "The message" of the Republicans has homogenized to not estrange the primary participants.  But, the DNC has to realize they need to get their message correct as well and they won't be able to do that without hearing from everyone, including the youngest generation of voters currently represented by #Occupy.

We will...

...never forget.


We are our parent's legacy.

How far has the Middle Class come in 75 years in the industrialized USA?

On the eve of the New Year, an article appeared that cannot be ignored.


Americans believe their children are their legacy. I believe that is true of most people everywhere.

...On this day, (click title to entry - thank you) December 30th, in 1936 -- 75 years ago today -- hundreds of workers at the General Motors factories in Flint, Michigan, took over the facilities and occupied them for 44 days. My uncle was one of them.

The workers couldn't take the abuse from the corporation any longer. Their working conditions, the slave wages, no vacation, no health care, no overtime -- it was do as you're told or get tossed onto the curb....

Michael Moore has accepted the honor of being 'the people's voice' having grown up in the Rust Belt of the USA.  In order for him to wear this honor as well as he does one has to realize how much he loves and has loved his family.  He accepted his heritage with sincere love and respect for those that surrounded his life.  The nation today has a gratitude to him for never forgetting the great struggles of the past and the great struggle we all face today.

Why is it the great struggles of the Middle Class are always facing the oppression of Wall Street?  Why is it the oppression of Wall Street always enforced by the right wing political government of this country?  

There is no choice for those of the Middle Class, the mantle we are assigned as evidenced by the history of our struggle requires a union of people in the work place to bring justice to those that labor.

...The workers couldn't take the abuse from the corporation any longer. Their working conditions, the slave wages, no vacation, no health care, no overtime -- it was do as you're told or get tossed onto the curb....

In "The South" of the USA these conditions have existed for the entire seventy-five years when others have seen relief.

Why?

Because the southern culture never permitted unionization of their labor force.  

With the year of 2012 upon us, the Middle Class is struggling once again and an entire generation of Americans are without the promise of employment while what was once jobs to people are now shipped to places like Iraq, China and India.  Either we are loyal to ourselves enough to realize our heritage has presented itself full circle to realize our destiny or every historical struggle was for not. 

I recently saw a segment of a young woman that received employment after being a part of #Occupy.  I congratulate her and all those that are resolving the horrible existence of a generation plagued with this burden, but, they cannot set aside a reality that visited them just a short time ago.  They need to do well in their employment, but, when achieved to decision makers they need to remember the legacy that placed them there.

I am grateful to those that had the courage to stand the protest line to bring awareness and return to a resolve to never allow this to happen again.  Nearly four generations ago, I am quite certain the people of the Middle Class made the same pledge; this time it has to be different and sustained.

Under Cheney Influence, Wyoming’s Oil Ties Flooded MMS (click title to entry - thank you)

One might ask how an energy newspaper from Wyoming could make such outrageous statements regarding the coal, oil and gas industry in Wyoming.


The newspaper is a non-profit with focus on 'the truth.'


Higher grain prices on the commodities exchange doesn't mean farmers are doing better, if they don't have enough grain to sell.


June 3rd, 2010

In a speech last week on the disaster unfolding in the Gulf, President Obama told the nation that for decades, there existed a “scandalously close relationship between oil companies and the agency that regulates them,” and that he took responsibility for a culture that had “not fully changed” [1] under his administration.

On that subject—the culture of coziness between the Minerals Management Service and industry—a non-profit Wyoming news service WyoFile [2] published a report today that details some of the ties between MMS internal culture, the state of Wyoming, and the state’s native son, Dick Cheney. From WyoFile [3]:

The elite among Wyoming’s legal and engineering professions, including several governors (past and present), have worked for energy industry clients. As a result, presidential administrations seeking an appointee (an appointee lobbyist) sympathetic to the energy industry can find a plethora of candidates in Wyoming....

A link between climate change and extreme weather? Never.

Iowa suffers from late summer drought (click title to entry - thank you)

September 7, 2011

by bschweig

...But the continued dryness has prompted private forecasters to drop the projection for Iowa’s yields to as low as 164 bushels per acre, the number the Professional Farmers of America tour posted late last week.

Those numbers set off a fresh rally for corn prices on the Chicago Board of Trade, pushing the December contract for corn above $7 per bushel and generating predictions of continued tight supplies of corn for livestock feeders and ethanol plants going into 2012.

Farmers said the rain that fell on Iowa last week didn’t help the corn crop.

“We got three-quarters of an inch of rain, which will help the soybeans, but it’s too late for the corn,” said John Heisdorffer, who farms west of Washington in what has been one of the driest areas of the state.

Heisdorffer said the cornfields in his area have shown the characteristic yellowing and drooping leaves associated with excess heat and lack of moisture.

“In a good year we expect to get 180 to 200 bushels per acre,” Heisdorffer said. “We won’t be close to that this year.”

In western Iowa, the situation is much the same. Brian Larson, whose Sunderman Farm Management of Fort Dodge manages farms in and around Webster County, pegged average yields at around 150 to 160 bushels per acre, well below the 200 bushels per acre Iowa can produce in a robust year.

“Six weeks ago this was looking like a really fine crop,” Larson said. “Now it will be only average, if that.”

The National Weather Service forecasts a chance of thunderstorms, with rainfalls totaling no more than a quarter-inch, through Saturday with clear weather through Labor Day. High temperatures will cool from the upper 90s Thursday to the mid-70s by Sunday.

Freedom And Opportunity for whom?

Romney's 'citizen's united' banks took it way from millions of Americans. He believes in the generations to come all right. He believes he can do the same thing over and over and over again. When are the CURRENT GENERATIONS going to have their lives returned to them that their parents ALREADY sacrificed for? He is a son of a bitch.