Are Americans in Line for Gitmo? by Ray McGovern -- Antiwar.com

A few hundred years ago, the Inquisition was in full force. People were arrested, jailed, tortured and killed because of rumor and suspicion. Rumor and suspicion was all it took to kill thousands of people. And greed. Actual proof never came into the process.

In the 1600's here in this country (before we were a country), people were arrested, jailed indefinitely and quite a few killed based on suspicion and rumor. Again, actual proof was never on the agenda.

During World War II, thousands of people were put in camps here in the US only because they were of Japansese descent -- no crimes, no courts, no proof of wrongdoing.

I really don't understand what is going through the minds of those who we, collectively, have put in office. Because it looks like we're going down that same road.

Are Americans in Line for Gitmo? by Ray McGovern -- Antiwar.com

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We really do need to get the money out. In more ways than one. In the Capitol, we need to get rid of the lobbyists and the special interest groups. More than that, we need to do something about that oh-so-sweet pension our elected officials enjoy when they retire (or are fired voted out of office). Maybe then we would get people running who actually want to be part of the solution rather than being the problem. Maybe then we'll get people who are more than petty bureaucrats who want to get rich and retire on the government's dime.

The pension for Senators, Representatives and Presidents? Their entire annual salary plus that very sweet benefits package for the rest of their lives.

Apathy in America

As I watched yet another GOP presidential wannabe implode, I started thinking about how we came to this point. This point where a group of clowns in nice suits can spawn our possible next president. How can this be?  The Occupy movement is going strong, for all the attempts to shut it down. Even with the attacks on our educational system, this is still a mostly intelligent and educated society. So what's with the acceptance of these total losers as possible presidential material?

Then I got the answer: Apathy. Yup, that's right, apathy. How can that be? you ask. How can it NOT be, I say.

Too many people are living horror stories. Private, personal horror stories. They've lost their jobs, their homes, their savings, and there isn't an end in sight. All they see on the news is bad. The economy sucks, the war in the Mideast drags on, and now, on top of everything, on the horizon is a holiday that used to be a time of hope. Too many people have seen their futures destroyed along with the futures of their children. Some may have taken part in the Occupy movement in the beginning, but that doesn't put food on the table or clothes on their backs and it doesn't pay the rent.

Then they start listening to a bunch of people who are jockeying for position to become the next President of the United States. At first, they probably laugh and scoff, but then they start hearing what they want to hear: Quick, easy answers to all their problems. It doesn't matter that these "solutions" won't work. Its what they want to hear.

This is what really scares me. One of the clowns may become president because people can't afford to care any more and will vote for the one with the easy answers with no substance.

Remembering too much

Remember September 11, 2001. Today is the 10th anniversary of that day. It isn't something that anyone can really forget. But isn't it time we stopped picking at the scab and let it scar over? We really need to grow through and past what happened. It really doesn't do anyone any good to keep the memory so fresh that we can't finish grieving for what happened.

Does anyone remember April 19, 1995? I'm sure some do, but this is a date we should remember as well.

This is just plain wrong

This isn't what I was going to say today, but a friend pointed out that "Deviant Art" is dropping the ball big time.  Here's what my friend had to say:

Dear Deviant Art:

How long will it be before you open your eyes and see that the 'joking' stamps about rape are not jokes, that they are warning signs that the person who makes them sees rape as funny and encourages others who think like they do? We report them and you seem to just giggle and ignore us, as if you agree with these sociopathic cretins that keep making these violent stamps. Well starting today, each time one comes to my attention there will be a post about it on all my blogs and on FB and Twitter. Oh and on Care2 as well. I want the world to see that Deviant Art seems to have a hatred of women and encourages that attitude. 
Shame on you for supporting rape, for that tells me you care little for the welfare of the women in your lives and I feel such sympathy for them. 
And so people can see what you support, let's share a link or three shall we? And I ask all who read this to report these stamps and even reblog this to get more people to pressure DA into doing the right thing.
Nastiness 1

Nastiness 2

Really? Some things are just plain wrong, and this is one of them. Okay, Deviant Art, time to wake up and fix this.

Tea Party? No!

Until the "Tea Party" is officially designated as a viable political party, we really need to stop using that term. At the very least, add in the word "Republican." Why? Because there will be no "Tea Party" designation on the ballots come election time. There are those who will look for their favorite "Tea Party" candidate....

Second, I really don't like the term "Tea Party" since it kind of means that they are patriots of some sort. Patriots with a very skewed sense of history. Apparently, all that tea was dumped into the Boston Harbor to stop the British from taxing us and the "Tea Partiers" are all about no taxation.... They forget about the other two words: "without representation."

I say we go back to calling them "Tea Baggers" since the term fits... "Tea Bagger Republican". I like the sound of that......

In Which I Lose My Temper Over Politics

Okay. I have had it. I am sick of the stupid partisan politics. I am sick of the idiocy that is happening over the national budget. I HAVE HAD IT! 

Dear Elected Officials: Do your f*cking job. So, you don't want Pres. Obama re-elected. WHO CARES! You know what people are going to remember?? Huh? Do you? They are going to remember you guys f*cking around with our lives. Guess who won't get re-elected..... Won't be just the Pres. ALL of you jerkwads are going to lose your jobs because you are being so f*cking stupid. Yes, I am PISSED OFF!

For some reason, ALL of these elected officials think the voting public is too stupid to remember any of this come election time. They had best think again because I, for one, will keep it to the top of the list of things to talk about. Maybe Boehner wants to find out first hand what its like to be unemployed? Maybe Sean Duffy thinks that we're all so forgetful and won't remember his pissing and moaning about how hard it is for him to pay his bills with a six figure salary when 3/4 of his constituents will never make half of that.

Stop screwing the people who put you in power just because you don't like the President. How does what you are doing keep him from getting re-elected? You think your voters won't remember? How stupid do you think we are? What was the plan? Ummmm, lets mess things up and then tell everyone that its the President's fault because he's the one in charge. Yeah, that'll work.

It is time to remember a little history. The big finance bail-outs? That was under the Bush presidency. Entry inton not one, but two wars? Yup, you guessed it, Bush again. Do the math. The budget problem was set up by A REPUBLICAN PRESIDENT. Even better, the problems in the Bush presidency were set in action by.... THE FIRST BUSH PRESIDENT. Yes. And the rest of the budget problems? Well, do you really need to be told again that trickle down economics DOES NOT WORK. It never did, it never could, and you bought it like it was the gold standard. 

I am sick of all of it. Leave the politics out of the budget talks. Hell, leave the f*ucking partisan politics out of the whole thing. Each of you elected idiots has personal things you want to get passed... how many of those things actually help the people who put you in office? My guess is about 1% the rest is all for personal glory.

I am calling on the voters to vote every single one of these greedy, narcissistic asshats out of office. Let them be the ones trying to figure out how to feed their families and pay the doctor and keep a roof over their heads. I have had enough. 

Its time we all quoted the movie "Network."  "I'M MAD AS HELL AND I"M NOT GOING TO TAKE IT!"