Debt deal

This was a non-issue that dragged on too long and cause so many problems because of the focus on this issue that wasn't even important.  There has never been an issue with raising the debt ceiling before and this was a power play which is so obvious to me that it infuriates me to no end that anyone was even voting for this shit.  Yet again the president has shown his weakness in the face of what is actually a solvable problem and now there is are so many dead and so many millions of dollars lost because we were stuck on this fucking issue that it makes me angry.  These people go home to their mansions in their fancy cars with their air conditioning while people, in this country, are dying from heat.  They are dying from starvation or births that they weren't allowed to terminate even in cases of danger and they are being infected with diseases because these selfish assholes can't just do one fucking day of work without fucking over the entire poor population of this country. And outside of this country there are people being slaughtered in Syria, hundreds of people, and this is what our country used to do.  We used to step in with our massive military and help out those who were being oppressed and murdered.  But now we can't even do that.  We sit in our comfortable houses drinking our expensive alcohol and in our air conditioning and it's so easy to forget about the outside world.  They say ignorance is bliss but I think it's actually more like corruption.  It is a fucking nightmare to me when those who are sworn in to protect, sit back and cause destruction by their inaction or by their selfish actions.

Vote the bums out.  There are a few goodies, but not enough to make a huge difference.  If they could make a difference there wouldn't even be a fucking debate about this debt bullshit.  We know how to fix it, and it has everything to do with the rich paying their fair share and nothing to do with cutting the budget.  Vote them out!

13 July, 2011

Iran Women's team banned by FIFA:
http://globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com/2011/06/17/fifa-disqualifies-iranian-womens-soccer-team-for-wearing-hijab/

How they are taking over the country:
http://www.alecexposed.org/wiki/ALEC_Exposed

Misleading anti-union:
http://wepartypatriots.com/wp/2011/07/13/business-lobby-using-misleading-signature-gathering-tactics-to-push-anti-union-ballot-measure-in-san-diego/

Arizona, still crazy:
http://wepartypatriots.com/wp/2011/07/13/business-lobby-using-misleading-signature-gathering-tactics-to-push-anti-union-ballot-measure-in-san-diego/

Mexican's stay in Mexico because they have less reason to come to the U.S.
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/07/06/world/americas/immigration.html?ref=world

Net Neutrality suffers
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/07/07/u-s-internet-providers-agree-to-block-subscribers-accused-of-copyright-infringement/

Gender Neutral School in Sweden
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-14038419?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

http://rageagainstthemanchine.com/2010/12/20/get-on-the-fucking-ball-janitors/

More News of the World shit
http://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2011/07/plainly-not-fit-and-proper-persons/

"Loves" Orlando Police
http://www.rawstory.com/rawreplay/2011/07/protester-tells-reporter-satirically-why-he-loves-the-orlando-police/

Advocate for Solar Power!
http://www.seia.org/cs/contact_your_representative

Fake Democrats
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/07/11/st-croix-county-republican-party-in-wisconsin-campaigning-for-fake-democrat/

People use more social programs than they think
http://wonkette.com/449255/americans-who-use-u-s-govt-social-programs-think-they-dont-use-u-s-govt-social-programs

Anti Abortion Terrorism
http://prospect.org/csnc/blogs/adam_serwer_archive?month=07&year=2011&base_name=why_we_dont_call_it_terrorism

CIA secret sites in Somalia
http://www.thenation.com/signup/161936?destination=article/161936/cias-secret-sites-somalia

Doesn't like Sharia, whatever that is
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/07/that-marriage-vow-guy-says-hes-no-sharia-expert-but-he-hates-sharia-anyway.php?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+tpmelectioncentral+(TPM+Election+Central)

Dual Sex Butterfly
http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharpscience/2011/07/rare-dual-sex-butterfly-hatche.html

Union Men Harassed
http://stlactivisthub.blogspot.com/2011/07/not-guilty.html

Robert Novack

The government is holding Bradley Manning prisoner for allegedly leaking videos and files of the American Military in Iraq abusing their power and basically killing people and terrorizing people, and he is being held without charge and will be executed if the White House does not get enough push back from the American people.  If this man is executed and never taken to trial, I will feel that yet again this country has fallen victim to their utter laziness and self centered attitudes.  It will be, yet again, disgusted with the people of this country as I was when Bush became president a second time knowing that he had already caused hundreds of thousands of deaths.  The democrats are just as guilty as the republicans in the sense that they have rolled over at every chance to fight back.  They have allowed the republicans to lie their faces off and rarely ever corrected them with actual facts.  The reason this country has no idea what's going on, is that those in power are allowing the lies into our homes by either being the liars, or by not correcting them.

So the point here is that if Bradley Manning, who has never been charged, is actually guilty of anything he should be tried by a jury.  If he is not, and this is a practice we are implementing, why are those who have committed heinous crimes before, not being held in the same conditions (conditions which constitute torture) and with the same rules (held without proof of guilt.)

One example I can give, would be Robert Novack.  When the Valerie Plame thing happened (google it if you really don't know what I'm talking about) Robert Novack is directly linked to this outing of a CIA agent.  We suspect that her name was leaked by Dick Cheney.  With the evidence we have Robert Novack would be able to held as we know he was involved, and Dick Cheney would be held as we suspect he was involved, and guess what?  This is a much more heinous crime than whistle blowing.  This is an actual crime of treason, which is not whistle blowing, it is something that has put the lives of many people in danger because when she was outed, the front company she worked for was outed as a front company and we will never ever know who was killed or tortured as a result because it's all classified.  But at the very least, every single person in the company was put in the position of being killed, by Dick Cheney.  So why isn't he being tortured and held without a trial or proof?  Because we just don't do that.  I'm glad we don't do that.  But apparently we do.  We do actually do that.  Just not to republicans and not to war mongers.

News

http://skepchick.org/2011/07/the-privilege-delusion/

http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2011/07/soon-voting-democratic-in-some-states.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-gay-rights-20110706,0,3768798.story

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/national-security/families-of-service-members-who-committed-suicide-now-to-receive-white-house-condolences/2011/07/05/gHQACxljzH_story.html

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-14040902?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

http://www.ottawacitizen.com/mobile/iphone/story.html?id=5050166

http://electronicintifada.net/content/israeli-checkpoints-kill-women-childbirth-says-new-study/10145

http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE7656PP20110706?irpc=932

http://thepoliticalcarnival.net/2011/07/06/photoh-kentucky-tea-party-sells-%E2%80%98yup-i%E2%80%99m-a-racist%E2%80%99-tee-shirts/

http://cpj.org/2011/07/tibetan-magazine-editor-given-four-year-jail-term.php

Feeling better, but feeling sick

Lot's of fireworks.  One of my dogs was totally scared while the other just seems antsy.  We went down to the town to watch a few fireworks and then came home.  I am sick and I think I just need to take it easy, but I hate being useless.  I guess it's more feeling useless.  I need to take care of the belly and myself.  Ugh.

In a better mood for some reason.  The world still frustrates me to no end, but I feel a little less futile.  Must keep keeping on.  What else is there?  Well I suppose I'm going to go see what I can do to make myself feel better and to feed the little one.  Must find something that won't make me feel worse to eat for breakfast but everything sounds like...ick.  

UK Girls being sent abroad for mutilation

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/uk-girls-at-risk-of-mutilation-abroad-2306288.html

Israel to hand over bodies of Palestinian militants ahead of Ramadan:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/04/us-palestinians-israel-bodies-idUSTRE7634PP20110704

Horn of Africa drought:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-14023160?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

Teachers union endorses Obama:
http://www.chicagobreakingnews.com/news/local/chi-teachers-union-endorses-obama-20110704,0,7205539.story