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Jan 24

GINGRICH FLUBS FACTS….AGAIN, etc.

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ETCWASHINGTON (AP) — Newt Gingrich called rival Mitt Romney a “terrible historian” but flubbed his own history in Congress on Monday night when he claimed the nation ran four consecutive budget surpluses during his time as House speaker. Romney attacked Gingrich’s financial links to Freddie Mac while ignoring his own.
The accusations were fast out of the gate in the latest Republican presidential debate, and reality got tromped in the process.
A look at some of claims and how they compare with the facts:
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GINGRICH: “When I was speaker, we had four consecutive balanced budgets.”
THE FACTS: Actually, two.
 
The four straight years of budget surpluses were 1998 through 2001. Gingrich left Congress in 1999, so he only had a hand in surpluses for his last two years. The budget ran deficits for his first two years as speaker.
The highest surplus of that four-year string came in budget year 2000, after Gingrich was out of office.
 
 

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Jan 05

CORPORATIONS GAINING MORE POWER OVER INDIVIDUALS…….

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“I refuse to believe that corporations are people until Texas executes one” is flooding the internet.
 
Put simply, a corporation can sell all its assests, pocket the money, hire a new CEO who will down size and declare bankruptcy and leave high and dry. What happens to the employees who had no other skills to find a different job right away? Many lose their homes, assets, pensions funds, family, etc. There are many more reasons. Source cited below. -mackie
 
Just three months after Romney proclaimed that “corporations are people,” he has pledged to ensure that the Supreme Court will continue to share this delusion. During editorial board meeting yesterday, Romney promised that if he is elected, he will model his Supreme Court picks after corporate America’s most favorite justices:
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney said if he had the opportunity to appoint a Supreme Court justice he or she would be in the mold of Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and Chief Justice John Roberts.
“Their approach is the approach I would encourage,” he said. “I would try to find those who would follow the Constitution.
Setting aside the obvious tension between Romney’s promise to appoint justices like Roberts, Scalia, Thomas, or Alito and his promise to appoint justices who will “follow the Constitution,” it’s important to note exactly what Romney is endorsing by supporting these four justices:
 
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Dec 10

NO “JOB CREATOR” FOUND WHO OPPOSES SURTAX ON MILLIONIARES?

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By Tanya Somanader on Dec 9, 2011 at 2:10 pm:

 Yesterday, Republicans again shot down an extension of a payroll tax break for middle-class families due to their objection to a 1.9 percent tax increase on the top 0.2 percent of income earners. Naturally, Republicans are recycling their spurious claim that taxing America’s millionaires will somehow hit small businesses and stifle job creation.

“It’s just intuitive that, you know, if you’re somebody who’s in business and you get hit with a tax increase, it’s going to be that much harder, I think, to make investments that are going to lead to job creation,” said Sen. John Thune (R-SD). Hoping for more than Thune’s intuition, NPR put out a request to Republican offices and the business groups that have been lobbying against the surtax to find business owners who’d be affected. Unsurprisingly, Republican leadership and the business groups came up empty: We wanted to talk to business owners who would be affected. So, NPR requested help from numerous Republican congressional offices, including House and Senate leadership. They were unable to produce a single millionaire job creator for us to interview. So we went to the business groups that have been lobbying against the surtax. Again, three days after putting in a request, none of them was able to find someone for us to talk to. A group called the Tax Relief Coalition said the problem was finding someone willing to talk about their personal taxes on national radio.

For much more click on:

http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2011/12/09/385989/republicans-job-creators-taxes/

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Oct 20

2nd look: WHY SHE QUIT BEING A CHRISTIAN?

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One of the first things I would do as a minister called to another church is to ask for a list of members who no longer came.  I would call, setup an appointment with each one of them and go to their homes.  I told them everything would be in confidence.  I just wanted to know why they no longer came.  I heard things like: “the preacher played favorites,” or “I took on too many responsibilities and just burned out,” or, “the trustees or deacons tried to run the church,” or “there was too much quarreling, gossip,” etc. 

  I assured them that I never played favorites, that I would be open to any concerns they had, etc. We had prayer together.  I would leave with this: ” I heard it said that a new broom sweeps clean.  I am glad to be your pastor and hope that you will give us another chance.  Regardless, please call if I can help in any way.”  mackie

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 ‘On July 28, bestselling author Anne Rice officially left the Roman Catholic Church. The writer has had a fairly tumultuous religious history. Although she was raised Catholic, Rice rejected the church for the first time when she was 18.

 But in 1998, Rice — who’s famous mostly for writing steamy, gothic, decidedly un-Christian novels such as Interview with the Vampire — had a religious awakening. She converted to Catholicism and began to write exclusively Christian-themed novels, like Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt.

In July, Rice decided she had had enough. She announced her decision on her Facebook page:

“For those who care, and I understand if you don’t: Today I quit being a Christian. I’m out. I remain committed to Christ as always but not to being ‘Christian’ or to being part of Christianity. It’s simply impossible for me to ‘belong’ to this quarrelsome, hostile, disputatious, and deservedly infamous group. For ten years, I’ve tried. I’ve failed. I’m an outsider. My conscience will allow nothing else.”

But, the decision wasn’t an easy one.’

 For much more click on:  http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=128930526&ps=cprs

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Sep 21

MILLIONAIRES: USA 1%; CONGRESS 46%. SEE PROBLEM?

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?1% Millionaires in USA. 46% MILLIONAIRES IN THE CONGRESS. SEE THE PROBLEM? No wonder the majority of them want reduced taxes while taking benefits from middle class, poor & elderly, students, etc. Read or listen below.-mackie

 
President Obama’s “Buffett Rule” would mean a new tax for people who make more than a million dollars a year, who currently pay a much lower rate than an average middle-class American. The president, in fact, proposed this rule to a group of people with a lot of millionaires in it: Congress.

President Obama continued laying what may be more groundwork for his re-election campaign Monday, including a new tax proposal. He calls it the “Buffett rule”: a new tax on people making more than $1million a year, who currently pay a much lower rate than an average middle-class American. The president, in fact, proposed this rule to a group of people with a lot of millionaires in it.

The number of Americans who are millionaires is pretty low — about 1 percent of the population. Members of Congress who are millionaires? Nearly 50 percent.

Sep 17

WAR OR PEACE? IF EACH OF US LIVED BY THE GOLDEN RULE WE COULD LEAD THE WORLD IN PEACE.

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BELOW ARE JUST A FEW OF THE BELIEF SYSTEMS WHO BELIEVE IN THE GOLDEN RULE. WE COULD LEAD THE WORLD IN PEACE……
bullet Bahá’í Faith:

bullet “Ascribe not to any soul that which thou wouldst not have ascribed to thee, and say not that which thou doest not.” “Blessed is he who preferreth his brother before himself.” Baha’u'llah
bullet “And if thine eyes be turned towards justice, choose thou for thy neighbour that which thou choosest for thyself.” Epistle to the Son of the Wolf. 1

 
bullet Brahmanism: “This is the sum of Dharma [duty]: Do naught unto others which would cause you pain if done to you”. Mahabharata, 5:1517 ”
bullet Buddhism:

bullet “…a state that is not pleasing or delightful to me, how could I inflict that upon another?” Samyutta NIkaya v. 353
bullet Hurt not others in ways that you yourself would find hurtful.” Udana-Varga 5:18

 
bullet Christianity:

bullet “Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.” Matthew 7:12, King James Version.
bullet “And as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise.” Luke 6:31, King James Version.
bullet “…and don’t do what you hate…“, Gospel of Thomas 6. The Gospel of Thomas is one of about 40 gospels that circulated among the early Christian movement, but which never made it into the Christian Scriptures (New Testament).

 
bullet Confucianism:

bullet “Do not do to others what you do not want them to do to you” Analects 15:23
bullet “Tse-kung asked, ‘Is there one word that can serve as a principle of conduct for life?’ Confucius replied, ‘It is the word ‘shu’ — reciprocity. Do not impose on others what you yourself do not desire.’” Doctrine of the Mean 13.3
bullet “Try your best to treat others as you would wish to be treated yourself, and you will find that this is the shortest way to benevolence.” Mencius VII.A.4
bullet Ancient Egyptian:

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“Do for one who may do for you, that you may cause him thus to do.” The Tale of the Eloquent Peasant, 109 – 110 Translated by R.B. Parkinson. The original dates to circa 1800 BCE and may be the earliest version of the Epic of Reciprocity ever written. 2
 

 
Many more are mentioned. Click on: http://www.religioustolerance.org/reciproc2.htm
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Sep 14

ABOUT US.

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OUR AIM IS TO SHARE WITH YOU RELEVANT IDEAS THAT YOU MIGHT WANT TO CONSIDER FOR YOUR OWN ENLIGHTENMENT.

We provide an independent platform for in-depth investigative reporting and critical analysis, to reveal systemic injustice and offer transformative ideas to strengthen democracy. We share a host of ideas about what seeking minds want to know about science, health, the spiritual, mental, financial, and how we can improve our own lives, communities, and world.

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He started in the U.S. Navy IN 58, received an honorable discharge as an Electronics Engineer, hired by NBM to recruit and train technicians to install background music throughout the Southeast.   He later felt a calling to go into church ministries.  He earned his BA, MDiv, and DMn degrees, was ordained and served several churches in the 70s-80s.  Later, because he was not able raise his children to receive a good education,  he continued to work with churches on a weekend basis, was recruited by a major financial firm to be trained as Chartered Financial Consultant that would lead to management.  He earned his Charter from the American College, was promoted and appointed district manager with 3 offices in the Virginia Beach and Newport News area.  After a few years his and his wife’s parents were becoming older and needed their help.  They became caregivers.    During this time Dr. Bazen wanted to find another need and fill it.  It was his concern for the polarization in churches, schools, politicians, communities, the growing gap between rich and poor, etc. that led him to a new venture.  Believing in “United we Stand, Divided we fall” he began developing the website to air all sides in truth. This has been going on and growing for over 10 years.

Sep 05

WHY JAILS AND PRISONS DON’T WORK……

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Three hundred and fifty thousand: That’s a conservative estimate for the number of offenders with mental illness confined in America’s prisons and jails.
 
More Americans receive mental health treatment in prisons and jails than in hospitals or treatment centers. In fact, the three largest inpatient psychiatric facilities in the country are jails: Los Angeles County Jail, Rikers Island Jail in New York City and Cook County Jail in Illinois.
 
“We have a criminal justice system which has a very clear purpose: You get arrested. We want justice. We try you, and justice hopefully prevails. It was never built to handle people that were very, very ill, at least with mental illness,” Judge Steve Leifman tells Laura Sullivan, guest host of weekends on All Things Considered.
 
A failing system
 
When the government began closing state-run hospitals in the 1980s, people with mental illness had nowhere to turn; many ended up in jail. Leifman saw the problem first-hand decades ago in the courtroom. When individuals suffering from mental illness came before him accused of petty crimes, he didn’t have many options.
 
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Sep 05

GOOD EMPLOYEES SHOULD BE CONTINUALLY TRAINED…

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TO KEEP THE JOBS THEY HAVE. 

CORPORATIONS AND UNIONS SHOULD BE TRAINING LAID OFF EMPLOYEES TO REQUALIFY FOR JOBS THAT ARE NEEDED. A GOOD EMPLOYER SHOULD KEEP EMPLOYEES UP TO DATE ON THE JOBS THEY HAVE AND ON THE NEW JOBS TO COME. IF A POLITICIAN DOES SUPPORT THIS, HE NEEDS TO BE RECALLED AND FIRED.~mackie

Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reports:
In a statement, [Randy Radtke, president of the council,] added that the parade is intended to celebrate working men and women and what the labor movement has given them: weekends, a 40-hour workweek, child labor protection and a safe working environment.

www.npr.org

In previous years, Republicans have walked the parade route, but this year they will not be allowed to take part. The parade is organized by local unions, which said Wisconsin Republicans “have openly attacked worker’s rights.”
Sep 02

WE ARE ALL FROM THE ONE……….

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HOW SAD IT IS THAT SOME PEOPLE WON’T ACCEPT THAT WE ALL ARE PART OF THE HUMAN RACE AND CAME FROM THE SAME SOURCE, whether from God or some planet. Down in my neck of the woods some say they couldn’t vote for Obama because of his race, or they think he was a muslim. Jesus was a dark skin palestinian Jew. The key to life is to love God with your whole being and your neighbor as yourself.
 
 

www.huffingtonpost.com

Dick Cheney’s new memoir has been making waves since the former vice president first signed a multi-million dollar publishing deal with Simon & Schuster in 2009. And, while discussing the memoir with NBC’s Jamie Gangel, Cheney said there would “be heads exploding all over Washington” upon its release…
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