Apr 29

WHEN IN DOUBT CHECK IT OUT?

BEWARE WOLVES IN SHEEPS CLOTHING. ~mackie
By now, little of what Allen West says ever surprises. He has called President Obamaa low level socialist agitator,” said anyone with an Obama bumper sticker on their car is “a threat to the gene pool” and told liberals like Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi to “get the hell out of the United States of America.” Apparently, he gets his talking points from Fox News, Rush Limbaugh, or the discredited right wing rocker Ted Nugent.
But this time, we shook our heads in disbelief: “78 to 81 Democrats… members of the Communist Party?” That’s the moment the memory hole opened up and a ghost slithered into the room. The specter stood there, watching the screen, a snickering smile on its stubbled face. Sure enough, it was the ghost of Senator Joseph McCarthy, the Wisconsin farm boy who grew up to become one of the most contemptible thugs in American politics.
Back in the early 1950’s, the Cold War had begun and Americans were troubled by the Soviet Union’s rise as an atomic superpower.  Looking for a campaign issue, McCarthy seized on fear and ignorance to announce his discovery of a conspiracy within: Communist subversives who had infiltrated the government.
In speech after speech, McCarthy would hold up a list of names of members of the Communist Party he said had burrowed their way into government agencies and colleges and universities. The number he claimed would vary from day to day and when pressed to make his list public, McCarthy would stall or claim he accidentally had thrown it away.
Mar 06

URGENT RELIABLE NEWS

Cowboy Diplomacy: On Iran, Republican Candidates Pandering Dangerously http://huff.to/zcffgJ via @huffingtonpost CALL REPS BEFORE 2 LATE?

Albert Einstein@EinsteinBOT
Three Rules of Work: Out of clutter find simplicity; From discord find harmony; In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity
Op-ed: “The question of why #Republicans don’t like #Romney is itself a product of the conservative imagination” http://aje.me/xtzTm6
Rick Santorum‘s campaign still teetering on the precipice in Ohio http://huff.to/z9XKu2
10 things you didn’t know about Rush: http://politi.co/wEbgOU
Rush Limbaugh apologizes again, but advertisers continue to sever ties http://wapo.st/xMA5nf
y @foxnews colleague @kirstenpowers10 pens: Limbaugh isn’t only media misogynist..time for equal-opp accountability. http://bit.ly/AtKsz8
Follow @AP journalists as they cover (and tweet about) #SuperTuesday: http://apne.ws/wSBSxR -CJ
EU: Nations To Resume Nuclear Talks With Iran http://n.pr/wHaFiu
26% of parents with adult kids at home have taken on debt to support their grown family. http://dld.bz/aXPNK
EXCLUSIVE: Top members of hacking group LulzSec arrested on information provided by leader-turned-informant: http://fxn.ws/A0Gvvl
The latest release by #Wikileaks contains a glossary of useful, baffling and strange intelligence terms http://econ.st/ycOUzf
In Bob McDonnell‘s Virginia, the little girl and the riot police -
Today in Congress: still stuck on transportation http://bit.ly/xMS6Ts
BBC News (UK)@BBCNews
“Being me is not wearing a headscarf” – former US beauty queen who became only foreign defence lawyer in #Afghanistan http://bbc.in/zy06xM
Over the next 5 months, more than 500 #women volunteers will build 3 homes with @HabitatBroward! http://sunsent.nl/wRxiTv #WomenBuild
Cowboy Diplomacy: On Iran, Republican Candidates Pandering Dangerously http://huff.to/zcffgJ via @huffingtonpost  CALL REPS BEFORE TOO LATE!
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Mar 04

LATEST NEWS-WOMEN & YOU….

MACKIE BAZEN@Mackiebzn 

MISTREATMENT OF WOMEN IN THE BIBLE | Unbiased TRUTH http://j.mp/ACvAZi God of Bible decrees man over woman? or 2 become 1? Up 2 U,OK?

http://biblebabble.curbjaw.com/women.htm God of the Bible? of Your concept of eternal truth? My wife, mother, sisters, etc. women! GLORY BE TO MOTHER OF GOD!?>
http://nobeliefs.com/DarkBible/darkbible7.htm men love women. WO-MEN IF THEY DON’T! MORE IMPORTANT: 2 = 1 AND FORM SPIRITUAL UNION. FOLLOW YOUR ETERNAL “I AM-NESS”!
Women are more influenced by how a man smells rather than how he looks.
More Young Women Having Strokes http://abcn.ws/x2ElJR
Men, we got to be kind and respectful to all women. U came out of a woman, right?
Daily Kos@dailykos
Women of color in women‘s history: Part one—Native Americans http://bit.ly/wIYlv6
A #waronwomen “is being fought around the country — and in much of the country, women are losing.” – @NickKristof http://bit.ly/Ak9FiC
ICYMI, When States Abuse Women-my column on forced vaginal ultrasounds on Texans seeking abortions http://nyti.ms/xLJLig
WOW (Women Occupying Wall Street) | Forum | I think the militant …: WOW stands for Women Occupying Wall Street… http://bit.ly/xxHjfK
Tell Rush Limbaugh‘s advertisers: Stop supporting Rush’s unforgivable attacks on women: http://bit.ly/A9rZcf @CREDOMobile
A bit last-minute, but qs for 2night’s #PHTwitJC on- low income mothers, nutrition & health – now up http://bit.ly/AfitXv All welcome.
Bunker was complaining about Jews: Dingbag: “Archie, Jesus was a Jew.”  “ONLY ON HIS MOTHER’S SIDE!” replied Archie.
more later-mackie
Mar 03

LATEST NEWS FOR YOU…

Gaming CEO gifts employees $3 million of his own money http://huff.to/xWOuj7

Feature: #BP denies that its blown oil well in the Gulf of Mexico continues to leak, @DahrJamail follows the story http://aje.me/xmVHMe
Losses mount from scams and fraud targeting older Americans; more prosecutions urged: http://apne.ws/AuDwCM -CJ
Web users join Rush Limbaugh boycott http://huff.to/y1wXpF
The logical way to save money is to reduce the prison population. A blow to private prisons in Florida: http://mojo.ly/wnLQyw
Albert Einstein@EinsteinBOT
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.
What can U.S. do to halt rising gas prices? Not much http://usat.ly/yMj8eh
RT @pwillow1: @mmfa Private ins. covering contraceptives saves taxpayers money in the form of reduced AFDC/Medicaid claims for OB care, etc
Berlin recalls diplomat from Iran over Christian pastor sentence http://huff.to/zHlFpi
Our thoughts and prayers are with family, friends and all of those affected by the tornadoes. usatoday.com/weather/storms…
it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.” T. Jefferson
Think you know the news of the week? See if you can pass this week’s #quiz: http://nyr.kr/wshGaJ
~more later.
Mar 02

OIL SUBSIDYS-SLUTS?-RELIGIOUS ZEALOTS…

RT@Mackiebzn SnteBgOil$ http://nyti.ms/yknsxh In 2005, Prsdnt G. W. Bsh: “With $55 oil, we don’t need incentives to oil & gas..” $106 nw?
If those arguments aren’t enough, we offer the Senate some words from President Bush. In a 2005 address to the American Society of Newspaper Editors, Mr. Bush spoke forcefully of the need for an energy strategy that looked to the long term and emphasized conservation and renewable fuels.
David W. Hannen@DavidWHannen
I would eliminate all subsidys to oil companies. They are profiting billions of $’s/yr. and we are giving them billions more of taxpayer $.
Al Jazeera English@AJEnglish
Video:  China introduces new air quality standards http://aje.me/wboyTA
Rush’s vile, appalling assault on Sandra Fluke deserves universal condemnation.  How can folks who calls themselves leaders walk away?
Khaddafina Karungi@Khaddafina
Women cannot afford to allow religious zealots & cons. politicians to erode a century of rights under the false rubric of religious freedom
Scott P. Brown @ScottBrownMA
Rush Limbaugh‘s comments are reprehensible. He should apologize.
#Retweet to Tell @ClearChannel to Drop Hate Radio Host Rush Limbaugh. #HateRadio #OWS #p2 #tcot
UPDATE: @quickenloans pulls ads from Rush Limbaugh show. They are the 3rd company to do so today. http://thkpr.gs/yOPdrG #standwithsandra
FOX 17 News: Family Fare Manager Arrested For False Report: A man lied to police telling them he was forced by g… http://tinyurl.com/7m3xhop
I believe Christ was a real prophet, but I don’t believe he was from virgin birth. Am I still a Christian? #JustAsking
Four Views on the Virgin Birth in Isaiah 7:14. #Scripture On Virgin Birth – Isaiah 7:14 http://scripture-on.com/virgin-birth-isaiah-7_14/virgin-birth-i…
Danger of Zealots Like Santorum: Dont Wnt Freedom, They Wnt 2 Impose Religious Beliefs on Rest of Us > http://ow.ly/9o19X < #cim #nolabels
Then I’ll say it: Suicide bombers: NOT pure religious zealots, but useful idiots, following orders, promises of awaiting virgins.  Period.from College, AK
-more later
Nov 26

THANKSGIVING WARS? NO THANKS……….

My sentiments, as well. -mackie

(source cited)

 ”Happy Thanksgiving. That is not a political sentiment. Yet this year, everything seems partisan and even this most unifying of national holidays has become an occasion for ideological warfare.

The idea now popular in conservative circles is that all past interpretations of Thanksgiving are tainted either by malign forms of multiculturalism—did those white colonists really need help from the Indians to get their act together?—or by dangerous inclinations to socialism.

Some of our friends on the ascending right wing insist that it’s a big lie to use Thanksgiving to celebrate how the Pilgrims pulled together and, with the help of God, prospered through communal assistance and a little help from their new neighbors. They buy the part about the Almighty but insist this holiday is primarily about the virtues of American capitalism and how free enterprise saved those folks at Plymouth.

The historian Rush Limbaugh has been pushing this view since 1993 when he published the definitive account in his book “See, I Told You So.” Year after year, he’s used his talk show to teach us that the settlers suffered because, at the outset, their land and their homes “belonged to the community.” As Limbaugh exclaimed on a 2007 show, “They were collectivists!”’

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 ”Now I want to be honest: Given what I do for a living and my own inclinations, I’m perfectly capable of politicizing all manner of issues, too. It’s also true that national holidays almost necessarily invite this sort of debate. We are, after all, celebrating something, and it shouldn’t surprise us that we’d tangle over exactly what that something is. Besides, having grown up in a politically diverse extended family, I have fond memories of Thanksgiving dinners being the staging ground for many a raucous debate. Why not argue about the holiday itself?

 Yet putting aside the dangers of allowing ideology to distort the facts of our present and our past, we seem to have lost our sense of balance as a country. This argument over Thanksgiving strikes me as a symptom of our failure to acknowledge that the American story is not all one thing or all another.

  It is, instead, a tale of a healthy and ongoing tension between our love of individualism and our reverence for community. Capitalism is part of our story, but so is solidarity and the idea that no one ever really “goes it alone.” Our rights are embedded in a web of social bonds and obligations that enrich us. We have a responsibility to take care of ourselves and our families, but also to look out for one another. And we hope that if we run into trouble, someone, maybe even the entire community, will look out for us.”

 For the entire article click on: 

 http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/the_thanksgiving_wars_no_thanks_20101124/

 
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Sep 29

SUPPORT INSURANCE COMPANIES OR ALL CITIZENS?

You have to check this out: Will Ferrell on health care reform, along with Jon Hamm from “Mad Men,” Donald Faison from “Scrubs,” Olivia Wilde from “House,” and a whole cast of amazing, funny actors.

CLICK link BELOW to see the video—and if you like it, pass it along to your friends:

http://pol.moveon.org/insurance_execs/?id=17290-10606714-1jET2dx&t=2