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160213 – CBS Republican Debate Transcript

Posted in Communications, Congress, Economy, Election, Politics, tagged , , , , , on February 13, 2016| Leave a Comment »

For your use. If you can stand it. Maybe it will read better:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/02/13/the-cbs-republican-debate-transcript-annotated/

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151204 – Oh, Pa! Old Yeller, and the Metaphor

Posted in Communications, Congress, Human Rights, Humanism, Immigration, Justice, Politics, Racism, War, tagged , , , , , on December 4, 2015| Leave a Comment »

Sept. 10th, 1955, Gunsmoke – Season 7, Episode 34 “The Boys”

Professor: “Yessir, we’re gonna bleed this town white!”

The professor, named Pa, heads a family of grifters and robs a stage dressed as Indians, killing and maiming the riders. Then they talk the Dodge town folks into hunting the “Indians” for pay.

Banker Hank Green:-“We gotta do something to protect ourselves from those Indians……”

The grifters go out and kill three innocent Indians. “Just like shootin’ fish in a barrel”….

Hank Green: “Well Marshall, it looks like our Indian troubles are over. …”

Hank Green: “Ain’t no such thing as an innocent Indian. …”

Matt Dillion: “That stage wasn’t held up with bows and arrows. Do you see what these men have done? They have gone out and murdered three innocent Indians.”

Hank Green: “There ain’t no law against killin’ Indians….”

Matt Dillion: “Those are men-I don’t what color they are and they’ve been murdered. That’s the dirtiest money you men will ever earn…”

 

There were a lot of messages early media taught us. In September 1955, segregation was still in effect, yet by December Rosa Parks had been arrested, and the Montgomery Bus Boycott was beginning. Termination of Tribal and Sovereignty rights had been underway since 1953. In doing so, Congress attempted yet another land grab from Native Americans.

Yet here was Matt Dillion, by all accounts a great upstanding mythical American hero, speaking from his heart for three Non-Christian men of color.  I say from his heart, because, as Hank Green indicated, it wasn’t illegal to shoot them, then, in Gunsmoke land.

Don’t give me any simplistic crap about “Old Yeller”. You gotta wonder about the metaphor of rabid behavior that someone like Ted Nugent presents when he invokes that yellow hound. It appears he got stuck on Disney level and his parents didn’t let him stay up for the  westerns. It’s unfortunate ’cause he is still having tantrums. Maybe that usurped western hat he wears hides tears and teenage angst.

And what about WND? are they trying to win back their spot on SPLC’s hate map in Oregon or what?

http://ignitebrasil.net/index.php/series/14626-gunsmoke/seasons/7/episodes/34

 

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151028 – 3rd Republican Debate

Posted in 51 Percent, Communications, Congress, Economy, Election, election reform, Human Rights, Politics on October 28, 2015| Leave a Comment »

Update. Utube purported to post the full debate. It it not. If you want to send your cookies to uTube and bear the inserted adds for a portion of the debate wander on over there.

Update. What do you know! WaPo posted a transcript:

The third Republican debate transcript, annotated – The Washington Post

We are at the point in the presidential election process where I point out  how our rights and obligations as voters are obliterated by corporations and their political party’s shenanigans, who require that we hook into their matrix, pay them a ridiculous monthly sum under a year long contract, to observe and evaluate presidential political debates.

If I can find a transcript afterwards I will post it. however, with the lock CNBC has on this fiasco, I’m not hopeful.

In case you missed my viewpoint from earlier posts, it’s that debates should be hosted by the League of Women Voters, or the like, on CSPAN, for free. CSPAN should be paid for by the Government, rather than as a tax deduction for corporate media. It should be on free TV, and freely available on the web.

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151022 – HRC Testimony Before the House Select Committee

Posted in Congress, Humanism, Politics, State Dept on October 22, 2015| Leave a Comment »

Below find the Transcript of the Benghazi hearing:

Full text: Clinton testifies before House committee on Benghazi – The Washington Pos

The darn thing ran just under eleven hours, with breaks. It was pretty ridiculous. To suggest that there was new information is spurious thinking. Except for Tammy Duckworth, no one had reasonable questions. Elijah Cummings was a great  defender and Adam Schiff presented wonderful data on how often questions on things like emails and Sidney Blumenthal were asked, versus items that related to Benghazi. The whole hearing reeked of Tea Party bile, and is still spewing all over the blog links on the House Website, members of which are found here:

Republicans
Trey Gowdy, Chairman (SC-04)
Susan Brooks (IN-05)
Jim Jordan (OH-04)
Mike Pompeo (KS-04)
Martha Roby (AL-02)
Peter Roskam (IL-06)
Lynn Westmoreland (GA-03)

Democrats
Elijah Cummings, Ranking Member (MD-07)
Adam Smith (WA-09)
Adam Schiff (CA-28)
Linda Sanchez (CA-38)
Tammy Duckworth (IL-08)

Secretary Clinton was  amazing. There could be no better recommendation for President than  her outlasting the over ten hours of “in your face” partisan assholery, I witnessed, on the live video today.

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151014 – Oct 13, The Las Vegas Democratic Debate

Posted in 51 Percent, Congress, Economy, Election, election reform, Environment, Finance, Great American Women, Health and Food, Human Rights, Humanism, Immigration, LGBT, Politics, tagged , , , , on October 14, 2015| Leave a Comment »

Below find the transcript for the first 2015 Democratic debate:

The Democratic presidential candidates met in Las Vegas for a primetime debate on CNN.

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150929 – Pink Out Day Congressional Madness

Posted in 51 Percent, Congress, ERA, Feminism, Health Care, Human Rights, Racism, tagged , , , , , on September 29, 2015| Leave a Comment »

Here are the Oversight and Reform Hearing uTubes and documents. I hope they are complete, you never know with uTube:

Planned Parenthood’s Taxpayer Funding

All together, the uTubes are a few hours of listening and watching. The first part of Part 3 with Congressman Clay discusses how PP standards have been within the law and that the MO. investigation found no wrongdoing.

Yes, Planned Parenthood could probably survive without Federal Funds, but we all know this is about whether or not women, men and families would receive Medicaid service on the reduced funds.

Rep. Jackson Lee from Texas, spoke very well to the issue of mixing apples and potatoes, when it came to the loss of medical access versus abortion, and the overturning of the unconstitutional Texas Law. 25% of Texan women lost access, especially in rural areas, after July 2013.

David Daleiden, who was responsible for the edited PP videos, has been ordered to turn over the complete and raw videos for his PP sting.   According to Rep. Lee,  Daleiden may plead the 5th over his unwarranted (illegal) investigation, which was determined to provide no evidentiary basis against PP.

The House has been very busy making up new bills (See H.R.3495.)regarding women’s health care. centered around the idea that one way to reduce the impact of aPlanned Parenthood is to allow the states more latitude in determining whether they should allow federal funds to be spent on abortion providers. To be clear, federal funds already are not spent on abortion, except in cases of rape, incest, or to save the live of the mother. (Keep in mind  one point of attack has been to require proof meaning a trial or confession-something that could culminate after the birth. )

GovTrack.Us indicates that 49 abortion referenced bills have been introduced, referred to committee, and/or passed by the House THIS year. See: Abortion. That list doesn’t include H.R.3495 or H. Res. 444.

These current bills are specifically an attempt to eliminate the use of Medicaid funds by those folks who have no other way to pay for the range of health services, that PP provides. if you take Medicaid from Planned Parenthood, you prevent people on Medicaid from utilizing their range of services at 700 locations around the country. This is the worst kind of classist, sexist, racist evil.

HRC put out a “Briefing” today that includes a list of Republican candiates’ statements on Planned Parenthood:

https://www.hillaryclinton.com/p/briefing/statements/2015/09/29/gop-ppfa/

http://www.occupydemocrats.com/victory-judge-rules-utah-republicans-can’t-block-funding-for-planned-parenthood/

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Hurricane Katrina: Lessons Not Learned by Walter Brasch

Posted in 51 Percent, Communications, Congress, Construction, Disaster, Economy, Environment, Human Rights, Humanism, Nature on August 25, 2015| Leave a Comment »

Yep, worth a read:

Hurricane Katrina: Lessons Not Learned by Walter Brasch.

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150807 – GOP Debate Afterword

Posted in 51 Percent, Communications, Congress, I Own My Vote, Media, Politics, tagged , , on August 8, 2015| 2 Comments »

Results are in:

al Jazeera reported:

[WASHINGTON — Fox News’ prime-time GOP presidential debate on Thursday was a huge success for the broadcaster, with initial ratings showing that an astonishing 16 percent of U.S. households tuned in. But the event may have been less beneficial to the Republican Party, which hoped, after its chaotic 2012 primaries, to select a presidential nominee in a more orderly, less divisive and less damaging fashion.]

Whether that 16% really represents 16% of 115,610,216 US census counted households or 16% of FOX News total reported 87,058,000 household viewers, its a very poor showing for providing voter information.

The rest is all smoke and mirrors; he said-she said, and storytelling by the media.

We will have wait a little longer to see, of all the strings being pulled, which puppet “Big Brother” will finally present for the bow and roses.

 

 

 

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150621 = The Alice in Wonderland World of Fast-tracked Secret Trade Agreements by Ellen Brown

Posted in Agism, Communications, Congress, Disaster, Economy, Health Care, Politics, tagged , on June 21, 2015| 1 Comment »

Reblogged From Dandelion Salad. A reminder; the TPA/TPP House discussions are going to start on Monday all over again. Call your Representative!

The Alice in Wonderland World of Fast-tracked Secret Trade Agreements by Ellen Brown.

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1506014 – If I Were She:

Posted in Climate, Congress, Economy, Human Rights, Politics, tagged , , , , , , on June 14, 2015| 2 Comments »

Update: Here is a UTube of Clinton’s latest speech in Iowa today. She mentions TPP. See what you think she has done:

https://youtu.be/xeA6MZzGDM4

I’ll try to get the transcript of the speech when I can find it.

I would be really careful about any responses regarding the TPA, TPP, etc. Clinton is pro-trade. However, even presupposing Clinton was involved in negotiating the TPP under Obama, she most assuredly was out of those negotiations in the last two years. (more…)

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