Obama needs to show his birth certificate--the long form!

The following answer to our birther friends by Emerald 5 8 2010 North County Times

On the outside chance someone might actually take such wacko conspiracy theories seriously, here are THREE reasons Obama ain’t gonna beg you to believe him.

1. Your request has already been fulfilled.
A certified copy was posted in Hawaii, certified by the REPUBLICAN governor (Laura Lingle) and the Department of Health, and backed up by much other evidence including local birth announcements published in both major Honolulu newspapers way back at the time of Obama’s 1961 birth.

2. There is nothing that will convince the lunatic fringe who have already decided that there was a conspiracy all the way back in 1961 to fabricate a false birth record so that a BLACK BABY could be groomed for the presidency at a time when blacks weren’t even allowed vote in some parts of the country.

3. We don’t really want you to stop.
The loonier the wacko conspiracy theory extremists become, the more the general public is turned off by them.

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Heritage Foundation proved that Fannie and Freddie forced by Democrats to loan to poor caused global financial meltdow

Response to Rush Limbaugh:
First, why do you think anyone would find biased conservative OPINION sites such as Heritage to be the slightest bit credible?

Second, no one minimizes the role of Freddie and Fannie, but all intelligent analysts put them in perspective relative to where they fit with other, more significant factors. You say, “For those of you who said....” PLEASE BE SPECIFIC. Who are you referring to? Which statements? Please provide the name, date, time and statement you are referring to, unless YOU JUST MADE IT UP.

Third, Freddie/Fannie were dramatically successful for decades and collapsed during the Bush years when Republicans controlled the Presidency as well as the House and Senate. Why do you consider this to be a bad reflection on the minority party that was OUT OF POWER?

The reality-reversal desperation level here is palpable.

Brick Throwing Advocate is a "Welfare Queen""

This is priceless. The former militia leader so publicly advocating hurling bricks through Democratic leaders' windows? He's a welfare queen.

"Vanderboegh said he once worked as a warehouse manager but now lives on government disability checks. He said he receives $1,300 a month because of his congestive heart failure, diabetes and hypertension. He has private health insurance through his wife, who works for a company that sells forklift products. "

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/25/AR2010032501722_2.html?hpid=topnews&sid=ST2010032402500

And why does he hate Democrats so much? He's afraid of "collectivist" tendencies.

"He said he long opposed President Obama because he believed the president has "collectivism" tendencies. But he became especially energized during the health-care debate."

Yeah, collectivist. Like federally funded disability payments.

Owwwww, the stupid, it burns!

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This post thanks to the contribution of North County Times blogger,

CaroCogitatus said on: March 26, 2010, 9:21 am

Eric Cantor does not lie any more than Obama

Yeah, right.

Imagine if a non-Republican claimed that someone shot a bullet through their office window, telling the story to try to garner sympathy and make himself sound like a victim. Then, later it was found out that the bullet was a random bullet coming down with hardly any force. It could not have been aimed at his office. No one could shoot up into the air and have it land in a particular window hundreds of yards away. The bullet was an "accident" caused by some gun nut firing into the air.

Think how much ridicule Rush Limbaugh and the hired guns at FOX not News would heap on the poor unfortunate liar's head. But with the liar/exaggerator being a Republican, we all know from experience that FOX not News will either ignore Cantor's lie or try to explain it away.

Here is what USA Today said about the bullet, "A statement from the Richmond, Va., police department says a bullet broke the window of a meeting room in Cantor's office at about 1 a.m. Tuesday. "A preliminary investigation shows that a bullet was fired into the air and struck the window in a downward direction, landing on the floor about a foot from the window," the police statement says. "The round struck with enough force to break the windowpane but did not penetrate the window blinds.""
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/onpolitics/post/2010/03/cantor-reports-bullet-being-fired-at-campaign-office/1

So far Obama has not lied once. There are no government death panels, only private insurance death panels. There is no coverage for undocumented workers. There will be no government funds for abortions. All those lies came from FOX not News, King Limbaugh and the mental case, Glenn Beck.

Say when is the Kool-Aid crew going to chip in for a mental health intervention for Beck?

My son* is no longer threatened with death by you serial sociopaths that support the lies of FOX, Limbaugh and Beck. My son can no longer be cut off by my wife's insurance when he reaches the arbitrary annual cap or life time cap on medical coverage. These caps put in place by Private Insurance Death Panels.

All hail Obama and Rahm. Life savers. Thank God for the courageous in Congress. They will lose in November because lies stick in the heads of the Kool aid crew better than facts. But those Democrats did what no Republican since Teddy Roosevelt has done, they stuck to their principles of helping ordinary Americans, damn the professional cost.

* My youngest child and second son is 27 years old and suffers from psoriasis, psoriatic arthritis and worst of all ankylosing spondylitis. His first symptoms were as a twenty year old senior in college. Without costly medication, the AS freezes up his rib cage suffocating him. Twice his mother and I have sat by his bedside watching him all night long expecting every breath to be his last. Remicade saved his life when Enbrel and Humira could not.

The Remicade is VERY expensive. Out of pocket expenses for his care cost my wife and I around $10,000 a year.

I am disabled with a related immune disorder. I was forced to take a disability retirement after twenty five years in the public school system. My various jobs were as a custodian, bus driver, classroom teacher (math,algebra, bilingual math, science, US history and self contained), driver training instructor and superintendent of a tiny school district. I have six California credentials. I learned to speak Spanish while taking classes at night and teaching 6th grade during the day time.

My wife and I have lived under constant fear that we will lose her insurance and that we will not be able to afford the medication needed to keep my son alive since he almost died in the summer of 2007. Three years previous to his diagnosis I was forced from the classroom by my related immune disorder. My disease progression is much slower than my son's so I can take care of him while my wife is in the classroom teaching.

My monthly retirement check is $2100.

As a public school teacher in California of the wrong age, I have no medical insurance from my district nor do I qualify for Medicare. I cannot provide enough money for my son's meds if my wife's medical insurance is taken away nor can I provide health insurance for him as I was given none for my service.

My son and I are two of the disposable people that the folks, who acquired Selfish Con Disorder from Limbaugh and FOXnotNews, think should just go sit in a corner and die because they do not want to pay for our insurance.

Having a guarantee that our son will be covered is very nice. We thought we would have to move to Canada where my father in law's family is from if my wife lost coverage. We would sell everything and move, so my son could still get the medication he needs to live. Now we do not need to.

Obama won't consider Republican health reform ideas

The propaganda of Rush Limbaugh, FOX not News, Glenn Beck et. al. that Obama is too arrogant (code for uppity) to listen to Republicans (code for white men)is brillantly refuted in the post. This excellent reply to the lies was written by blogger Ms M in the Letters to the Editor comment section of the North County Times, Friday February 26, 2010.

Fact-checking the GOP on healthcare reform
Senate Dems adopted 161 amendments and key GOP planks while soft-pedaling the public option. That's not compromise?
By Ethan Sherwood Strauss

http://www.salon.com/news/healthcare_reform/index.html?story=/opinion/feature/2010/02/23/hcr_amendments

The six Republican ideas already in the health-care reform bill

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/ezra-klein/2010/02/five_compronises_in_health_car.html

http://www.whitehouse.gov/health-care-meeting/republican-ideas

Garrett ignores GOP influence in current health care legislation to say Obama will "start" incorporating GOP ideas

http://mediamatters.org/research/201002100034

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/82665-white-house-issues-list-of-gop-health-reform-ideas-included-in-obama-plan

Are the GOP's Ideas on Health Care Reform Any Good?

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2010/02/are-the-gops-ideas-on-health-care-reform-any-good/35699/

Global Weirding, Thomas Friedman, New York Times

Our conned friends continue to believe the dangerous nonsense that bought and paid for, conmen like Beck and Limbaugh are pedaling to the gullible about what we humans are doing to the earth's climate and oceans.

Thomas Friedman summarized what everyone should know about human induced climate change. In his column in today's New York Times (see below), he introduces us to a new and more accurate term for this human caused climate change. He calls it "Global Weirding."

Here he is in his own words. Please pass on Friedman's comments to any of your friends or relatives who are still deluded dittoheads, broken-brained Beck viewers, or have been fooled by the FOX propaganda apparatus.

February 17, 2010

Op-Ed Columnist

Global Weirding Is Here

By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN

Of the festivals of nonsense that periodically overtake American politics, surely the silliest is the argument that because Washington is having a particularly snowy winter it proves that climate change is a hoax and, therefore, we need not bother with all this girly-man stuff like renewable energy, solar panels and carbon taxes. Just drill, baby, drill.

When you see lawmakers like Senator Jim DeMint of South Carolina tweeting that “it is going to keep snowing until Al Gore cries ‘uncle,’ ” or news that the grandchildren of Senator James Inhofe of Oklahoma are building an igloo next to the Capitol with a big sign that says “Al Gore’s New Home,” you really wonder if we can have a serious discussion about the climate-energy issue anymore.

The climate-science community is not blameless. It knew it was up against formidable forces — from the oil and coal companies that finance the studies skeptical of climate change to conservatives who hate anything that will lead to more government regulations to the Chamber of Commerce that will resist any energy taxes. Therefore, climate experts can’t leave themselves vulnerable by citing non-peer-reviewed research or failing to respond to legitimate questions, some of which happened with both the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia and the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Although there remains a mountain of research from multiple institutions about the reality of climate change, the public has grown uneasy. What’s real? In my view, the climate-science community should convene its top experts — from places like NASA, America’s national laboratories, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford, the California Institute of Technology and the U.K. Met Office Hadley Centre — and produce a simple 50-page report. They could call it “What We Know,” summarizing everything we already know about climate change in language that a sixth grader could understand, with unimpeachable peer-reviewed footnotes.

At the same time, they should add a summary of all the errors and wild exaggerations made by the climate skeptics — and where they get their funding. It is time the climate scientists stopped just playing defense. The physicist Joseph Romm, a leading climate writer, is posting on his Web site, climateprogress.org, his own listing of the best scientific papers on every aspect of climate change for anyone who wants a quick summary now.

Here are the points I like to stress:

1) Avoid the term “global warming.” I prefer the term “global weirding,” because that is what actually happens as global temperatures rise and the climate changes. The weather gets weird. The hots are expected to get hotter, the wets wetter, the dries drier and the most violent storms more numerous.

The fact that it has snowed like crazy in Washington — while it has rained at the Winter Olympics in Canada, while Australia is having a record 13-year drought — is right in line with what every major study on climate change predicts: The weather will get weird; some areas will get more precipitation than ever; others will become drier than ever.

2) Historically, we know that the climate has warmed and cooled slowly, going from Ice Ages to warming periods, driven, in part, by changes in the earth’s orbit and hence the amount of sunlight different parts of the earth get. What the current debate is about is whether humans — by emitting so much carbon and thickening the greenhouse-gas blanket around the earth so that it traps more heat — are now rapidly exacerbating nature’s natural warming cycles to a degree that could lead to dangerous disruptions.

3) Those who favor taking action are saying: “Because the warming that humans are doing is irreversible and potentially catastrophic, let’s buy some insurance — by investing in renewable energy, energy efficiency and mass transit — because this insurance will also actually make us richer and more secure.” We will import less oil, invent and export more clean-tech products, send fewer dollars overseas to buy oil and, most importantly, diminish the dollars that are sustaining the worst petro-dictators in the world who indirectly fund terrorists and the schools that nurture them.

4) Even if climate change proves less catastrophic than some fear, in a world that is forecast to grow from 6.7 billion to 9.2 billion people between now and 2050, more and more of whom will live like Americans, demand for renewable energy and clean water is going to soar. It is obviously going to be the next great global industry.

China, of course, understands that, which is why it is investing heavily in clean-tech, efficiency and high-speed rail. It sees the future trends and is betting on them. Indeed, I suspect China is quietly laughing at us right now. And Iran, Russia, Venezuela and the whole OPEC gang are high-fiving each other. Nothing better serves their interests than to see Americans becoming confused about climate change, and, therefore, less inclined to move toward clean-tech and, therefore, more certain to remain addicted to oil. Yes, sir, it is morning in Saudi Arabia.

Maureen Dowd is off today.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/17/opinion/17friedman.html

Obama is incompetent. He cannot get anything done.

You don’t seem to grasp the very simple concept that we have a PRESIDENT, NOT A DICTATOR.
Republicans continue to OBSTRUCT any reform, with more filibusters in ONE YEAR than all the Southern racists used in opposing civil rights during the entire 20 years of the 1950’s and 1960’s COMBINED.

Why would anyone ever trust those Republicans who broke our economic system (and obstruct those trying to undo the damage) to fix it?

Emerald

The blog editor, con no more, would add. So interesting the cons want it both ways. They say, "Obama is a terrible socialist who is ramming his facist, socialist, communist agenda down America's throat" in one breath. In the next breath he should resign or be impeached because he is lazy and incompetent. Which argument do you want to go with my CONfused friends or aren't you folks troubled by internal inconsistency?

If you haven't watched John Coleman, you cannot criticize him

Why would anyone feel the need to actually watch an anti-science propaganda piece by someone with no science credentials?

I do not need to see every piece of propaganda by unofficial, uncredentialed sources in order to determine that, lacking credibility, I do not need to watch them.

In the same way, I doubt you watch very many of the liberal pieces but do not hesitate to discredit them.

While it is my opinion that Al Gore, who as DDWiz pointed out, is a non-scientist with a journalism degree just like Coleman, except that Gore also has a ton more additional achievements and has more credibility because he explains real science rather than arguing with it, I would never, ever cite him as an original source.

And don’t give me the baloney about all the “scientists” who disagree with the consensus view.
As has been pointed out by many in this blog, none more so than Wiz himself, the vast majority of them of them are (1) not real scientists, are (2) funded by oil companies, and (3)are not published in peer reviewed journals due to their ineptness.

If someone finds Coleman entertaining, watch him.
If not, there is absolutely no reason on earth to do so.

thanks to the wisdom of Emerald

The Republican Contract with America balanced the budget

CLINTON vs. GINGRICH -- the BALANCED BUDGET SHOWDOWN

Our CONfused friends inappropriately tries to deflect credit away from the Clinton administration that inherited recession and record deficits from Reagan/Bush and turned them into record surpluses and economic prosperity.

The model that turned things around was the Democratic model, not the so-called “Contract on America.”

Al Gore even wrote a book to describe the specifics of the Clinton proposal titled, "Creating a Government that Works Better and Costs Less" (1993) with a foreword by business efficiency guru Tom Peters (author of "In Search of Excellence"). It detailed specific cuts, economic stimuli, and government by targeted incentives instead of micromanagement and regulatory detail.

It was the Clinton/Gore proposal which passed in 1993, barely, without a single Republican crossover vote when the Democrats still had a majority; the Republicans, with their usual doom-and-gloom pessimism, predicted economic disaster. As usual, they got it wrong.

Again, there was a Republican alternative but that was not the one that passed.

Remember Newt Gingrich and his little tantrum, blocking passage of the Clinton budget and letting the government shut down after the Democrats lost their majority? As a result of the public outcry, rightly blaming Gingrich, he passed down and it was the Clinton Democratic proposal that actually passed, NOT Gingrinch’s “Contract On America” alternative. If “Iceman” wants to promote his ideological beliefs, fine, but rewriting history is not going to convince any intelligent person.

And what actually happened to the Republican predictions of doom and gloom and economic collapse? Every single year of Clinton's first term, budget deficits were reduced, until at the end of that term they crossed over into surpluses for the first time since it was done by -- guess who? -- LBJ and the Democratic Congress (FY 1969, passed in February 1968), despite the costs of the Apollo Moon Program.

When government operates more efficiently, it costs less, and taxes go down. When you do more with less, taxes go down. When you proactively prevent problems instead of reactively clean up the mess in their wake (the fence at the top instead of ambulances at the bottom), it costs less. When you encourage compliance with incentives rather than only through the heavy hand of punitive government force, it costs less and taxes go down. When you broaden the base of economic prosperity, there is greater productivity all around, real wealth goes up, and the tax base expands.

Peace, prosperity and sunshine to all, DD Wiz

Bush problems were a result of him kow towing to democrats

Tor 6 of the 8 years that Bush was in office he had a Republican Congress, got almost everything he wanted and made more "signing statements" than all other Presidents combined. In addition he had the entire AM radio frequency and a phony cable news network worshiping, praising his every move while calling those, with even mild disagreements, traitors.

It should be quite entertaining to see your vast number of examples of how Bush "kowtowed" to the Democrats.

Much to Bush's credit, he did start distancing himself from Cheney during his second term. Although it took him a while, even Bush saw the evil, the power-lusting monster that lurks in and defines the essence of Dick Cheney.

Thanks to Swift

Those who say Happy Holidays insult Christians and Christmas

Cons misstate the perspective of those who say, “Happy Holidays” to strangers during the period between mid-November and mid-January, when a number of holidays occur including Thanksgiving, Hanukkah, Solstice, Yule, Christmas, Kwanzaa, New Year, Epiphany and, in some years, Ramadan and/or the Feasts of Eid al-Adha and Al-Hijra.

Some of these holidays represent religious or cultural viewpoints, some are secular. But they all occur. And when you meet a stranger, not knowing their viewpoint, saying “Happy Holidays” is simply a gesture of respect to avoid judging others or imposing your choices on them.

But there is no instance in which someone finds the celebration of Christmas by those who observe it to be “offensive” as you incorrectly stated.

My own choice is to say “Happy Holidays” if I do not know the person’s preference, and to offer the appropriate greeting to them if I do. If I know someone celebrates Christmas, as I do, I will greet them with, “Merry Christmas.”

Thanks to 3D

Obama is going to let tax increase on small business by letting Bush tax cuts end

Letting tax rate changes passed by Bush expire have NO EFFECT on separate, subsequent tax cuts passed by Obama last year on those making less than $250,000, or in the current proposals which reiterate tax cuts for individuals and small businesses other than the very rich.

I can never tell whether the stench of these misrepresentations reeks of ignorance or malice, but disinfectant is in order.

Thanks to Emerald.

Obama is a socialist who hates working Americans

Sure my CONfused friends, the RepubliCON party may want him to dump progressives so he has no base left and no support in the country. But did you hear what Obama said recently on this subject?

"If the price of certainty is essentially for us to adopt the exact same proposals that were in place for eight years leading up to the biggest economic crisis since the Great Depression -- we don't tinker with health care, let the insurance companies do what they want, we don't put in place any insurance reforms, we don't mess with the banks, let them keep on doing what they're doing now because we don't want to stir up Wall Street -- the result is going to be the same," he said. "I don't know why we would expect a different outcome pursuing the exact same policy that got us into this fix in the first place."

Middle class Americans, Obama said, "are more and more vulnerable, and they have been for the last decade, treading water. And if our response ends up being, you know, because we don't want to -- we don't want to stir things up here, we're just going to do the same thing that was being done before, then I don't know what differentiates us from the other guys. And I don't know why people would say, boy, we really want to make sure that those Democrats are in Washington fighting for us."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/03/obama-calls-out-conservat_n_447697.html
This quote brought to us today by blogger, Ms M.

Do you think San Diego weatherman John Coleman is lying or is he naive?

As I mentioned, I have shared a stage with him in the past when each of us were representing the views of our respective political parties. I found him to be gracious, likeable and an all-around nice guy.

I have a hard time thinking that he is lying and, with his lack of science credentials, it is easy for someone with just enough science background to try figure things out and think he has answers that have eluded real scientists. This is especially true with persons who, however otherwise gregarious and positive they may be, have the kind of oversized egos necessary to succeed in the kind of media field he is in.

I prefer to believe he is simply in error and, lacking any evidence to the contrary (such as outright grants or bribes from the pushers of our addiction to non-renewable FINITE FILTHY FOSSIL FUELS, which I have not seen in his case), prefer to believe that most people are basically decent.

Prior to 1492, those lacking science backgrounds believed for many centuries that the world was flat because those profiting off Big Religion (in both money and power) told them so, and because they could look out their front doors and it LOOKED flat, while the few educated scientists of the time were unanimous in their knowledge that the world is round and even knew its precise circumference (calculated by Eratosthenes back in 240BC). They were not “lying” or even particularly ignorant. They saw an optical illusion and did not have a grasp of the intricacies of the scientific realities that had been known for all those centuries.

This wisdom from blogger DDWiz

Democrats in Sacramento caused California to go bankrupt

So let me see how conservative “logic” works here....

1. Republicans held the California governorship 21 out of the last 27 years....

2. During this time, Republicans have ALWAYS had enough votes to obstruct any fiscal policy by the Democrats that requires an outrageous 2/3 super majority needed to pass a state budget.

Democrats cannot pass any legislation, nor do they control the Executive branch (Arnold Schwarzenegger) that/who has all the power of appointments (judges, financial officers, bureaucratic decision-makers, contract awards), vetoes, executive orders, and all that.

So the mess is all California Democrats’ fault.

Why would anyone ever trust the Republicans who broke the system by constantly obstructing those trying to fix it?

This wisdom thanks to blogger Emerald

Canadian premier, Danny Williams is headed to U.S. for heart surgery

Yes, and my son and our family may be headed to Canada soon to find health care for him. You see we are among the filthy rich in America who get fine health care when they are not making tax free donations to "think" tanks that provide disingenuous information to bought and paid for AM radio con men to convince Americans not to provide health care for the sick and dying. Why? Because the filthy rich already can afford the world's best health care no matter its location, they just want to make sure they do not have to pay their fair share for other Americans to have health insurance too.

As my college graduate son formerly newspaper editor of his college newspaper slowly withers away from four autoimmune diseases for which the medicine costs to keep him alive cost our family tens of thousands of dollars, the filthy rich can feel safe from his pain and our bills. My sons condition started hitting him in his senior year of college. After doing every thing and more America asked of my son, he is left with no help when he got sick. The filthy rich can be secure in the knowledge that they will not have to pay even a penny toward any health care for him or any other sick American.

As long as the filthy rich can buy the mouth of Rush Limbaugh and Fox not News" anchors" and opinion makers, they can securely and cheaply live off the sweat of middle class and blue collar American brows. They can feel complete safety provided by American armed forces, police and firefighters but never have to pay what they owe for this safety and security to the American middle class and blue collar workers.

Our filthy rich friends will never have know when my son and many others like him finally die from treatable illnesses that the ordinary Americans can not afford. The filthy rich will not have to interrupt their non stop partying and full social calendars. All Hail the filthy rich!

The selfish class gets richer and richer. The CONfused and deceived dittoheads continue to get the shaft from the greatest liar and class traitor America has ever produced, Rush Limbaugh and the most successful propaganda machine since the Nazis, Rupert Murdock's FOX not News.

This post provided by blog editor and blogger--con no more

Scientist email prove they are all liars

It was from E-MAILs written by a few European scientist on one university's email system.
The email was not peer-reviewed science.
The ideas in the emails were rejected.

Oh, and NONE of the few discredited e-mails - which had no effect on the broad spectrum of scientific consensus - ever made it past peer review or had the slightest effect on the broad base of data used, most of which comes from American facilities such as NASA and NOAA which were not even involved.

But, anyway, what are cons trying to claim?
That because a few drops spill from one bucket that no bucket is capable of holding any water?

In fact, all cons do is discredit your own anti-science statements.
Any time anyone misrepresents sources, distorts facts and repeats trivial nonsense from unpublished sources that doesn’t even mean anything, they only discredit themselves.

Only the victims or perpetrators of Big Oil propaganda could hold such anti-science views.

I repeat, no matter how many times the CONfused repeat the same unverified propaganda, it does not alter the FACT that the EMAILS the CONfused quote from did NOT make it into peer-reviewed data, did NOT come from within the United States (from where the best and most data originates) and did NOT address ANY of the core scientific conclusions you are so desperate to misrepresent.


This information thanks to blogger, Emerald--North County Times-Lttrs to Ed.

Meterologist, John Coleman, is an American hero for debunking global warming

John Coleman not only is not as an “American Hero” but he also is not a “meteorologist.” Our con friends are wrong on both counts. Coleman’s own website notes that he has a degree in JOURNALISM (not science) which he received in 1957 from the University of Illinois.

John Coleman, with whom I have shared a stage in the past, is a nice guy. Very jovial and likable. He is not a scientist. He is a TV weatherman.

In fact, all the things about Coleman could also be said of Al Gore:
Degree in journalism, not science.
Created a documentary on climate science.

Why, they could practically be twin brothers.
Well, other than Gore’s decades of actual public service (instead of just talking about it), and having won an election for presidency of the United States and that Grammy, Emmy, Oscar and Nobel Peace Prize.

And the fact that non-scientist Gore makes documentaries that explain science rather than put himself in opposition to the widespread consensus of real scientists.

So, which non-scientific journalism major do so many conservatives ridicule, and which do they call a “hero” while exaggerating his nonexistent science credentials?

Hmmmm. You don’t think those billions of dollars of propaganda from the pushers of our addiction to non-renewable FINITE FILTHY FOSSIL FUELS would have anything to do with that, do you?

Follow the money.

This post thanks to the wisdom of North County Times blogger, DDWiz

Republican hero, Everett Dirksen (R-IL) was key to getting 1964 Civil Rights bill passed, Robert Byrd, Democrat opposed it.

Again, Robert Byrd acknowledged the error of his ways, repudiated his past wrongs, and changed his ways and is today a respected member of the Democratic party.

Everett Dirksen was a LIBERAL Republican.
Today, he would be ridiculed as a RINO and forced, like so many others of his contemporaries, to quit the party he would no longer recognize and become a Democrat.

Democrats applaud the liberal Republicans of the past such as Lincoln, trust-buster Teddy Roosevelt and Everett Dirksen and, in some areas, Eisenhower. None of these heroes would be welcome in the tea party of today.

Shall we start a list of those Southern Democrats who followed the lead of Strom Thurmond and quit the Democratic Party on the issue of race and race alone, to be welcomed into the warm embrace of racist Republicans.

Do you really not know this?

I know it was the Democrats that were segregationists, Rush told me so.

Anyone knowledgeable about American history knows that SOUTHERN Democrats, out of step with their party, opposed Civil Rights during the 1950’s and the first half of the 1960’s.

Rush knows this fact very well. He is counting on being able to fool folks without any contradiction. With no fairness doctrine, he can say anything he wants. No one is allowed on his radio stations after his shows to set the record straight. Rush is not only a hired gun liar but he is a coward. He won't allow stations to broadcast any criticism or corrections of his lies (Randy Rhodes radio personality from Florida revealed that fact in 2005).

Further more, after LBJ signed the Civil Rights bill that finally passed in 1964, he lamented that he had lost the South for the Democrats for generations.

Those Democrats either retired, repented (as Byrd, who repeatedly acknowledged his error and apologized) or, like most, including Strom Thurmond, changed parties to REPUBLICAN.

Democrats say GOOD RIDDANCE to the RACISTS that were embraced with open arms by Republicans.