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Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Republi-CONs, and Their Mutually Beneficial Relationship With Their Corporate Overlords

Here are two local state examples:

A Fl Senate Republi-con helps billboard advertising corporate overlords save millions, read St. Petersburg Times, Bill would make it easier for billboard companies to cut down trees, and

A FL House Republi-con (whose father is a Fl Senate Republi-con) help bail bond corporate overlords earn millions, read the Northwest Daily News, Okaloosa officials, Rep. Matt Gaetz argue over pre-trial release bill.

Republi-con, always ready to serve their corporate overlords!

Thursday, June 23, 2011

Class Today at NoBullU on WEBY

Listen to the voice of wisdom and reason in a wilderness of partisan rhetoric -- No political insanity, no conservative hypocrisy, no liberal foolishness -- Just straight talk, straight at you, and that’s no bull!!

NoBullU will broadcast today from 4:05 to 6:00 p.m. at 1330 AM WEBY and on line.

Topics:

Local Business Shout-Out: TBD.


Follow-up to fact-free fantasies: don't be duped by the Birthers, including our very own racist pastor, who does the devil's work and supports Middle East dictators;


Local and regional: another article about FL State Sen. Greg Evers, and his corporate overlords in the billboard industry, and another proposal to ban booze at the beach, and fair winds and following seas to Mark O'Brien;


National and international: I'm waiting, where's the balanced budget, don't hold you breath because the Republi-CONs Con the Tea Party, there'll be no $100 billion budget cut, and let's admit the obvious, the Republi-CONs are not serious about deficits, and remember, we went from surplus to debt, Republi-CON style,

Call the Republi-CON bluff on the debt and the deficit,

Pining for laissez-faire land, move to China, where, "[o]ver the past two and a half years, thousands of workers, villagers and children have been found to be suffering from toxic levels of lead exposure",

Still seeking "a country with low taxes, little regulation and traditional family values, I have the perfect place for them. Body armor suggested",

Who is your favorite 2012 GOP candidate, or do you have a favorite not-yet-a-candidate?,

Republi-CONs and their fantasy economic plans,

Keep America great: spend, cut, tax and invest, and stop Chinese trade cheating,

My virtual strip search, the terrorist is dead, but will he still win thanks to the Republi-CONs?

For Mom and Pop Tammy, a world without chain stores,

Just 120 days til the new and improved judgment day, again,

Speaking of judgment day, Republi-CON religious hypocrisy

Racial and gender desegregation, equal opportunity for working-class families, single-payer universal health care, excellent child care and educational opportunity, and salaries that limit income inequality. Name that beloved American socialist organization,

The Middle East mess and the hope for democracy, and Christians and Muslims clashing in Egypt, Syria attempting to crush its democracy rebellion and Palestinians climbing over fences into Israel — the best we can do now is manage the unavoidable and avoid the unmanageable, time for a serious peace policy combined with a serious energy policy, and he may be dead, but will he still win thanks to the Republi-CONs?,

So you don't believe in global warming, then explain what happens to 35 gigatons of CO2 each year,

The health care industry bottom-line, the reason Republi-con want to repeal the new health care law, the nation’s bloated annual health-care tab would swell by more than $4 billion" after a company raised the price of a medicine from $20 to $1,500 per dose, and bad news for health care law opponents,

and 'The Great Stagnation' and our broken political system;


Fun stuff: questions a dog might ask God, did you ever wonder . . ., the liquid nitrogen burger, paraprosdokians, the Y Generation, Husband Day Care, and cute little cats in 'It Could Be Worse';

and

Donate to a good cause: help the friends of a former instructor at the Naval EOD school at Eglin Air Force Base, Gunnery Sgt. John Hayes, who was detachment company gunnery sergeant from June 2007 to June 2010 and taught several courses and was recently wounded in Afghanistan.

I'll discuss anything, but expect a no mercy take down if you are a shrieking hatemonger of right-wing rhetoric and partisan hackery, pandering to fear, anger and hatred, because the truth sure makes it hard out there for the party pimps.

So tune-in, call-in, but only if you can handle the truth and some ass kickin' discussion of politics and current events.

Thursday, March 3, 2011

Class Today at NoBullU on WEBY

Listen to the voice of wisdom and reason in a wilderness of partisan rhetoric -- No political insanity, no conservative hypocrisy, no liberal foolishness -- Just straight talk, straight at you, and that’s no bull!!

NoBullU will broadcast today from 4:05 to 6:00 p.m. at 1330 AM WEBY and on line.

Topics:

The NoBullU New Year's Resolution;


Follow-up to fact-free fantasies: TBD;


Local and regional: BREAKING NEWS, unconstitutional, but still enforceable, if at first Boeing doesn't succeed . . . change the rules, more state Republi-CON fiscal conservative hypocrisy, Republi-CONs, and their mutually beneficial relationship with Louisiana corporate overlords, and remember days gone by, watch this 1964 Pensacola tourism film;


National and international: I'm waiting, where's the balanced budget, don't hold you breath because the Republi-CONs Con the Tea Party, there'll be no $100 billion budget cut, but the budget battles continue, free speech, is it all or nothing?, union busting, part of the Republi-CON war on the middle class, budget gamesmanship and tough decisions, the Republi-CON Double Dip Recession, not a new ice cream, but it'll make you scream, and they're off and running, reports are that former speaker of the House Gingrich will become the first major Republican candidate to enter the 2012 Presidential race, America's obsession with sex, but not violence, a former car thief and arsonist, who is he now?, Hedgehog News protects its investment in Republi-CONs, a Facebook revolution?, new score in the health care lawsuit: US 3 - VA 1 and FL , the reason for repeal -- the health care industry bottomline, Republi-CON fear, anger, hatred whatever the subject, time flies, we just finished the runt month, no class like this at my school, and 'The Great Stagnation' and our broken political system;


Fun stuff: test your power of observation; what Dads do when Moms are not home, America's Funniest Grandmother and Mission Impossible, Squirrel Edition, Escapa;

and

Donate to a good cause: help the friends of a former instructor at the Naval EOD school at Eglin Air Force Base, Gunnery Sgt. John Hayes, who was detachment company gunnery sergeant from June 2007 to June 2010 and taught several courses and was recently wounded in Afghanistan.

I'll discuss anything, but expect a no mercy take down if you are a party hack pandering to fear, anger and hatred, because the truth sure makes it hard out there for the party pimps.

So tune-in, call-in, but only if you can handle the truth and some ass kickin' discussion of politics and current events.

Thursday, November 10, 2011

Class Today at NoBullU on WEBY

Listen to the voice of wisdom and reason in a wilderness of partisan rhetoric -- no political insanity, no conservative hypocrisy, no liberal foolishness -- Just straight talk, straight at you, and that’s no bull!!

NoBullU will broadcast today from 4:05 to 6:00 p.m. at 1330 AM WEBY and on line.

Topics:

Local Business/Event Shout-Out: The 2011 Homecoming Air Show at Pensacola Naval Air Station,on Friday and Saturday, November 11 & 12, 2011. Gate admission is free. Gates open at 8 am each day. The show begins at 9 am, with the Blues scheduled to fly around 2 pm. The pilots do sign autographs after the show. Over 100,000 people are expected to view the show daily;


Follow-up: see below;


Fact-free fantasies of the shrieking hatemongers of right-wing rhetoric and partisan hackery: all part of the fundamentalist subculture of ignorance that embraces 'discredited, ridiculous and even dangerous ideas'

And America's preference for rhetorical fairy tales to unpleasant realities

One was gays in the military, funny thing, the world's still turning, not even a hurricane, earthquake or an oil well

Coincidentally enough it wasn't the end of the world, again, just after the Fact-Free Friday Show with our so-claimed viral Pastor.

And don't be duped by the Birthers, including our very own Pastor Dred Scott (you may remember the infamous Dred Scott decision of 1857, which asserted that African Americans were "beings of an inferior order" who "had no rights which the white man was bound to respect." That ruling declared that African Americans could never be U.S. citizens and therefore could never be President),

See The Fogbow, "your best resource for debunking the lies of the 'birther' movement and discussing the birther antics" and WhatsYourEvidence.com, there is even a Birther Case Scorecard, 0-80 for the birthers;


Local and regional: hasta la vista, when do I get my hurricane insurance refund, and
Public defenders or criminals?;


National and international: I'm waiting, where's the balanced budget, don't hold you breath because the Republi-CONs Con the Tea Party, there'll be no $100 billion budget cut, and let's admit the obvious, the Republi-CONs are not serious about deficits, and who's responsible for the debt

To balance the budget, do nothing

One way to reduce the deficit

Still no sign of those 'invisible [Republi-CON] bond vigilantes'

Our politically induced economic stagnation, part of the Republi-CON war on the middle class

Hello globalization, goodbye jobs

It's China, stupid

The Republi-CON zombie myth that the government forced the banks to make bad loans

Told ya so: economic stimulus

The Republi-CON stimulus myth

The myth of expansionary austerity

About the Republi-CON war on the middle class

More on the Republi-CON war on the middle class

Better, not just less, government

The Republi-CON 'taxes and regulations are killing business' myth, now it dwarf tossing, what next, baby juggling?

Republi-CONs in their Delusion-land

The Great Stagnation' and our broken political system

The EuroMess

Would Jesus occupy Wall Street?


Great quote on so-called government wisdom

And courtesy of Tammy, a great quote on politicians and their corporate overlords

Also courtesy of Tammy, New World Order, Inc.


And the Republi-CON Race is cont., to find America’s Not-Mitt

The audacity of grope-gate

Still searching for the ideal Republican candidate: conservative, interested, electable

They're back, with another debate

A NoBullU prediction: Romney-Cain in 2012

A Republi-CON 'my family escaped communism' myth

Is the RepubliCON race a joke?

Obama in 2012?

Déjà vu all over again, what to expect if it is Obama v. Romney


The Republi-CON 'Obama's a socalist' myth

Spreading slanderous lies, and supporting a group that massacres and enslaves women and children


Health Care Lawsuit Update

After reading two of the appellate opinions, it doesn't look good for the Republi-CONs

Republi-CON 'it's not Judicial activism, it's judicial engagement' hypocrisy


Does Palin have a point about the corrupt crony capitalism

Corrupt crony capitalism and Congress


and

An Iraq What-Might-Have-Been, and was it worth it

Did Steve Jobs' faith in alternative remedies kill him?

So You Don't Believe in Global Warming, Then Explain What Happens to 35 Gigatons of CO2 Each Year

Those not so good ol' days

CSI Dog Poop, the trial

Big brother is watching you,

The myth of voter fraud


Fun stuff: Why dogs hate Halloween, Just in time for Christmas, Humor for English majors, and Punnies


and


Donate to a good cause: read "the story of a 9-year-old girl who teaches us adults about maturity truly renews our faith in humanity" at The New York Times, Rachel’s Last Fund-Raiser.

I'll discuss anything, but expect a no mercy take-down if you are a shrieking hatemonger of right-wing rhetoric and partisan hackery, pandering to fear, anger and hatred, because the truth sure makes it hard out there for the party pimps.

So tune-in, call-in, but only if you can handle the truth and some ass kickin' discussion of politics and current events.

Wednesday, March 6, 2013

It's the RepubliCONs and Wall Street vs. Main Street

UPDATE II:  "Huzzah! Hang the celebratory banners! Unleash the confetti! Happy days are here again. The Dow Jones industrial average closed yesterday [March 5, 2013] at 14,253.77! . .

But since the initial Obama stimulus has tapered off, and the banks strengthened, the throw-it-all-at-the-wall strategy has given way to a world where Congress sits on its hands and avoids anything that gives off a whiff of being 'stimulus' (even Democrats avoid the term). And the Fed has been the only game in town, trying to spur growth through a series of unconventional steps."

Read the Washington Post, The stock market is back, but the economy isn’t. Blame Congress. 

UPDATE:  It's been "a golden age for corporate profits, especially among multinational giants that are also benefiting from faster growth in emerging economies like China and India. . .

Corporate earnings have risen at an annualized rate of 20.1 percent since the end of 2008, he said, but disposable income inched ahead by 1.4 percent annually over the same period, after adjusting for inflation."

Read The New York Times, Recovery in U.S. Is Lifting Profits, but Not Adding Jobs.

"Here are two things that are true about the economy today.

(1) The Dow Jones industrial average is poised to set a new record as corporate profits stretch to all-time highs.

(2) There are still fewer working Americans today than there were before the start of the Great Recession.

The fact that these two things can be true at the same time might outrage you. But it shouldn't surprise you. In the last 30 years, there has been a great divergence between growth and workers' incomes, as the New York Times reminds us today. Corporate profits have soared, in the last decade especially, particularly because of three things: Globalization has pushed down the cost of labor available to multinational corporations; technology has allowed companies to make more with fewer workers, in general; and Big Finance has gobbled up the economy, as the banks' share of total corporate profits has tripled to about one-third since the middle of the last century."

Read The Atlantic, Corporate Profits Are Eating the Economy, which includes these graphs:





(Remember that bailout, Wall Street say thanks suckers!)

Now do you understand the unholy alliance of the Republi-cons and their corporate overlords
in their war on the middle class?

Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Florida Republi-CONs, and Their Corrupt Relationship With Their Corporate Overlords

You remember former Florida House Speaker Ray Sansom -- over 2½ years, a 25-year-old junior Sansom staffer, who was given a party American Express card, spent nearly $1.3 million. Thousands were spent "on jewelry, sporting goods and in one case $15,000 for what's listed as a monthlong stay at a posh Miami Beach hotel." The Florida Republi-cons spent "$650,000 in lodging, $60,000 in airfare — mostly commercial airlines — and $66,000 for charter planes."

Now, more than two years after first calling for his prosecution, the show will soon begin. Read the St. Petersburg Times, Corrupt capital culture exposed from the inside, which notes that "[s]ome in Tallahassee, inured to the capital's corrupt culture, have defended Sansom and argue that he has paid a price for doing nothing more than what many other lawmakers do to help their districts and benefactors. But . . . testimony now lays bare a conspiracy to defraud taxpayers."

I remind you that Florida government is dominated by those waskly Republi-cons.

Wednesday, August 10, 2011

Republi-CON Immigration Hypocrisy

You've heard the claim that Americans won't do the jobs that corporations are force to hire immigrants to do.

But did you know that "a Tea Party favorite and president of the House Republicans’ freshman class . . . showed his true allegence to his corporate overlords by defending] a company in his district that discriminates against U.S. citizens in favor of Mexican migrant workers. Scott introduced the bill abolishing Legal Services exactly three days after it became public that Legal Services had won a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission determination that Georgia’s Hamilton Growers 'engages in a pattern or practice of regularly denying work hours and assigning less favorable assignments to U.S. workers, in favor of H2-A guestworkers.' Hamilton also 'engages in a pattern or practice of discharging U.S. workers and replacing them with H-2A guestworkers,' the EEOC determined." Read the Washington Post, How Rep. Austin Scott betrayed his Tea Party roots, which noted:

"As one of the American plaintiffs put it: 'We worked hard at our jobs and really wanted the work, but Hamilton didn’t want Americans to work in their fields.' Americans, after all, would be more likely to know the laws and to complain if they’re being exploited.

Instead, Scott chose to side with a large employer of foreign migrants in his district — against his out-of-work constituents."

Thursday, October 20, 2011

Class Today at NoBullU on WEBY

Listen to the voice of wisdom and reason in a wilderness of partisan rhetoric -- No political insanity, no conservative hypocrisy, no liberal foolishness -- Just straight talk, straight at you, and that’s no bull!!

NoBullU will broadcast today from 4:05 to 6:00 p.m. at 1330 AM WEBY and on line.

Topics:

Local Business/Event Shout-Out: TBD.


Follow-up: see below;


Fact-free fantasies of the shrieking hatemongers of right-wing rhetoric and partisan hackery: a statement was made this morning the British 'foisted' slavery on America, all part of the fundamentalist subculture of ignorance that embraces 'discredited, ridiculous and even dangerous ideas'

One was gays in the military, funny thing, the world's still turning, not even a hurricane, earthquake or an oil well

Coincidentally enough, the end of the world, again, just after the Fact-Free Friday Show with our so-claimed viral Pastor

And don't be duped by the Birthers, including our very own Pastor Dred Scott (you may remember the infamous Dred Scott decision of 1857, which asserted that African Americans were "beings of an inferior order" who "had no rights which the white man was bound to respect." That ruling declared that African Americans could never be U.S. citizens and therefore could never be President),

See The Fogbow, "your best resource for debunking the lies of the 'birther' movement and discussing the birther antics" and WhatsYourEvidence.com, there is even a Birther Case Scorecard, 0-80 for the birthers;


Local and regional: hasta la vista, when do I get my hurrican insurance refund, and local Republi-Con fiscal conservative hypocrisy;


National and international: I'm waiting, where's the balanced budget, don't hold you breath because the Republi-CONs Con the Tea Party, there'll be no $100 billion budget cut, and let's admit the obvious, the Republi-CONs are not serious about deficits, and who's responsible for the debt

To balance the budget, do nothing

Republi-CON Congressional spending bills hypocrisy, not to be confused with Republi-CON constitutional authority hypocrisy, or Republi-CON laissez-faire hypocrisy

Facts v. Republi-CON tax myths

Where are those 'invisible [Republi-CON] bond vigilantes'

Our politically induced economic stagnation, part of the Republi-CON war on the middle class

Hello globalization, goodbye jobs

It's China, stupid

Told ya so: economic stimulus

The Republi-CON stimulus myth

The myth of expansionary austerity

Let's play the Republi-CON game of 'spot the contradiction', can you explain the Republi-CON contradiction as regards the economy, the debt ceiling, or deficits, or national security, or health care costs, or or even jobs

About the Republi-CON war on the middle class

More on the Republi-CON war on the middle class

Better, not just less, government

The Republi-CON 'taxes and regulations are killing business' myth, now it dwarf tossing, what next, baby juggling?

Republi-CONs in their Delusion-land

Is the 'Great Recession' God's punishment for American greed?

Beware federal pensioners, your day of reckoning is coming

The Great Stagnation' and our broken political system

The EuroMess


Great quote on so-called government wisdom

And courtesy of Tammy, a great quote on politicians and their corporate overlords


And the Republi-CON Race is cont., to find America’s Not-Mitt

Still searching for the ideal Republican candidate: conservative, interested, electable

Does faith matter?

A NoBullU prediction: Romney-Cain in 2012

About the Republi-CON war on the middle class

Republi-CONs might start with those Solyndra half truths

Did the tea so-called party debate pass the test of 'limited government, free markets, and fiscal responsibility'

The Republi-CON 'social security is a ponzi scheme' myth and The Republi-CON I'd be a millionaire if it wasn't for social security myth

The Republi-CON 'Obama's a socalist' myth


Does Palin have a point about the corrupt crony capitalism

Moral confusion and public health illiteracy


2 to 1 in the COA, health care lawsuit update

Why the individual mandate, because Ron Paul is a hypocrite


and

Am I a felon?

Did Steve Jobs' faith in alternative remedies kill him?

Those not so good ol' days

Big brother is watching you,

The myth of voter fraud


Fun stuff: Why dogs hate Halloween, Just in time for Christmas, Humor for English majors, and Punnies


and


Donate to a good cause: read "the story of a 9-year-old girl who teaches us adults about maturity truly renews our faith in humanity" at The New York Times, Rachel’s Last Fund-Raiser.

I'll discuss anything, but expect a no mercy take down if you are a shrieking hatemonger of right-wing rhetoric and partisan hackery, pandering to fear, anger and hatred, because the truth sure makes it hard out there for the party pimps.

So tune-in, call-in, but only if you can handle the truth and some ass kickin' discussion of politics and current events.

Thursday, March 3, 2011

Republi-CONs, and Their Mutually Beneficial Relationship With Their Corporate Overlords

"Corporations are restricted in making contributions to Gov. Bobby Jindal of Louisiana. But they can give whatever they like to the foundation set up by his wife." Read The New York Times, Wife’s Charity Offers Corporate Tie to a Governor.

Monday, September 26, 2011

About the Republi-CON War on the Middle Class

UPDATE: It's still Wall Street predatory business practices v. Main Street:

"A LOAF of whole wheat. A gallon of gasoline. A pair of Levi’s. Americans are paying more for many basic items this year, making tough economic times even tougher.

But these hardships for consumers provide another reason to check in on Dodd-Frank, that package of financial reforms that Congress passed in 2010. Here’s why:

Congress told federal regulators to write rules that would ensure that Dodd-Frank does what it’s supposed to do, which includes protecting consumers. But the Commodity Futures Trading Commission has proposed rules that critics say might actually encourage speculation in the commodities markets, rather than reduce it.

Senator Bill Nelson, a Florida Democrat, says that as things stand, the C.F.T.C.’s plan could cost ordinary Americans."

Read The New York Times, Speculators Get a Break in New Rule.

Meanwhile, the Republi-CONs, doing the bidding of their corporate overlords, continue to try to undermine the Dodd-Frank Act.

"Between 1979 and 2007, the income gap between the richest 1 percent of Americans and the poorest 40 percent more than tripled. Today, the richest 10 percent of Americans control two-thirds of the nation’s wealth, while, according to recently released census data, average Americans saw their real incomes decline by 2.3 percent in 2010. Though our economy grew in 2009 and 2010, 88 percent of the increase in real national income went to corporate profits, one study found. Only 1 percent went to wages and salaries for working people.

Last year, American companies posted their biggest profits ever, and bonuses for bank and hedge fund executives not only reached record highs, but grew faster than corporate revenue. Meanwhile, almost one in 10 Americans is unemployed, and 15 percent live at or below the poverty level."

Read the Washington Post, President Obama shouldn’t be afraid of a little class warfare.

Friday, August 5, 2011

Union Busting, Part of the Republi-CON War on the Middle Class

UPDATE VII: "The decline in organized labor’s power and membership has played a larger role in fostering increased wage inequality in the United States than is generally thought, according to a new study." Read The New York Times, Labor’s Decline and Wage Inequality.


UPDATE VI: There wasn't always Republi-con distain for labor unions. in 1983, Ronald Reagan said: “where collective bargaining is forbidden, freedom is lost.” Watch the mythical Reagan says it himself:




UPDATE V: "Since the early 1980s, when General Electric's widely admired chief executive, Jack Welch, declared that the primary goal of the corporation was to increase shareholder value, America's corporate managers have been faithfully rewarded for treating their employees as necessary - or unnecessary - evils, to be shed whenever possible, or replaced by foreign or temporary workers, and most certainly not allowed to form unions or receive wage increases. Thirty years later, this form of shareholder capitalism has swept the field of nearly all opposition, with results - chiefly, the eclipse of the decent-paying job - that grow more glaring with each passing day." Read the Washington Post, Where's the economic recovery?


UPDATE IV: Stephen Colbert's proposal for two America's -- America Plus and Poor America. Funny, but unfortunately true:

The Colbert ReportMon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c
The Word - New Country for Old Men
www.colbertnation.com
Colbert Report Full EpisodesPolitical Humor & Satire BlogVideo Archive


UPDATE III: "In the raging battle over union rights in Wisconsin, those seeking to curtail collective bargaining for state employees have advanced an argument that seems hard to resist: It will make it easier to reward those workers who perform the best [as judged by a performance review]. What could be fairer than that? . .

Performance reviews are held up as objective assessments by the boss, with the assumption that the boss has all the answers.

Now, maybe your boss is all-knowing. But I’ve never seen one that was."

Read The New York Times, Why Your Boss Is Wrong About You.


UPDATE II: "Madison, Wis., is looking a lot like Baghdad in 2003, with government officials exploiting fiscal crises for fun and profit" to benefit our corporate overlords. Read The New York Times, Shock Doctrine, U.S.A.

The real objective -- "reward the G.O.P.’s wealthiest patrons by crippling what remains of organized labor, by wrecking the government agencies charged with regulating and policing corporations, and, as always, by rewarding the wealthiest with more tax breaks." Read The New York Times, Why Wouldn’t the Tea Party Shut It Down?


UPDATE: Wisconsin Gov. Walker has been caught "eagerly recounting his efforts to crush collective bargaining in Wisconsin to an out-of-state billionaire backer," who supported his election and has current (rules on pipeline transport) and possible future (no-bid sell-off of any state-owned heating, cooling, or power plants) business interest in the state. Read The Business Insider, Why A Reporter's Prank Call To David Koch Is No Laughing Matter.

Here is Jon Stewart's take:


"Republican talk of balancing budgets is cover for the real purpose of gutting the political force of middle-class state workers." Read The New York Times, Spreading Anti-Union Agenda.

Thursday, October 27, 2011

Class Today at NoBullU on WEBY

Listen to the voice of wisdom and reason in a wilderness of partisan rhetoric -- no political insanity, no conservative hypocrisy, no liberal foolishness -- Just straight talk, straight at you, and that’s no bull!!

NoBullU will broadcast today from 4:05 to 6:00 p.m. at 1330 AM WEBY and on line.

Topics:

Local Business/Event Shout-Out: Happy Halloween!!, 2011 Halloween Light Show, and a reported Why Dogs Hate Halloween.


Follow-up: see below;


Fact-free fantasies of the shrieking hatemongers of right-wing rhetoric and partisan hackery: all part of the fundamentalist subculture of ignorance that embraces 'discredited, ridiculous and even dangerous ideas'

And America's preference for rhetorical fairy tales to unpleasant realities

One was gays in the military, funny thing, the world's still turning, not even a hurricane, earthquake or an oil well

Coincidentally enough it wasn't the end of the world, again, just after the Fact-Free Friday Show with our so-claimed viral Pastor.

And don't be duped by the Birthers, including our very own Pastor Dred Scott (you may remember the infamous Dred Scott decision of 1857, which asserted that African Americans were "beings of an inferior order" who "had no rights which the white man was bound to respect." That ruling declared that African Americans could never be U.S. citizens and therefore could never be President),

See The Fogbow, "your best resource for debunking the lies of the 'birther' movement and discussing the birther antics" and WhatsYourEvidence.com, there is even a Birther Case Scorecard, 0-80 for the birthers;


Local and regional: hasta la vista, when do I get my hurricane insurance refund, and
a local example of corrupt crony capitalism?;


National and international: I'm waiting, where's the balanced budget, don't hold you breath because the Republi-CONs Con the Tea Party, there'll be no $100 billion budget cut, and let's admit the obvious, the Republi-CONs are not serious about deficits, and who's responsible for the debt

To balance the budget, do nothing

Still no sign of those 'invisible [Republi-CON] bond vigilantes'

Our politically induced economic stagnation, part of the Republi-CON war on the middle class

Hello globalization, goodbye jobs

It's China, stupid

Told ya so: economic stimulus

The Republi-CON stimulus myth

The myth of expansionary austerity

About the Republi-CON war on the middle class

More on the Republi-CON war on the middle class

Better, not just less, government

The Republi-CON 'taxes and regulations are killing business' myth, now it dwarf tossing, what next, baby juggling?

Republi-CONs in their Delusion-land

The Great Stagnation' and our broken political system

The EuroMess

Would Jesus occupy Wall Street?


Great quote on so-called government wisdom

And courtesy of Tammy, a great quote on politicians and their corporate overlords

Also courtesy of Tammy, New World Order, Inc.


And the Republi-CON Race is cont., to find America’s Not-Mitt

Still searching for the ideal Republican candidate: conservative, interested, electable

A NoBullU prediction: Romney-Cain in 2012

A Republi-CON 'my family escaped communism' myth

Is the RepubliCON race a joke?

Déjà vu all over again, what to expect if it is Obama v. Romney

Colbert does another take-down of the Republi-CON 'taxes and regulations Are killing business' myth

Republi-CONs might start with those Solyndra half truths

Republi-CON Small Government Hypocrisy

Did the tea so-called party debate pass the test of 'limited government, free markets, and fiscal responsibility'

The Republi-CON 'Obama's a socalist' myth

Spreading slanderous lies, and supporting a group that massacres and enslaves women and children


Health care lawsuit update, the Supreme Court edition

Republi-CON 'it's not Judicial activism, it's judicial engagement' hypocrisy


Does Palin have a point about the corrupt crony capitalism


and

An Iraq What-Might-Have-Been, and was it worth it

Did Steve Jobs' faith in alternative remedies kill him?

So You Don't Believe in Global Warming, Then Explain What Happens to 35 Gigatons of CO2 Each Year

Those not so good ol' days

CSI Dog Poop, the trial

Big brother is watching you,

The myth of voter fraud


Fun stuff: Why dogs hate Halloween, Just in time for Christmas, Humor for English majors, and Punnies


and


Donate to a good cause: read "the story of a 9-year-old girl who teaches us adults about maturity truly renews our faith in humanity" at The New York Times, Rachel’s Last Fund-Raiser.

I'll discuss anything, but expect a no mercy take-down if you are a shrieking hatemonger of right-wing rhetoric and partisan hackery, pandering to fear, anger and hatred, because the truth sure makes it hard out there for the party pimps.

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Thursday, April 26, 2012

Watch Hedgehog News, Be Dumber Than the Ill-Informed

UPDATE II:  Here is Colbert's take on the silver spoon lie: where "Obama makes a cowardly statement about Mitt Romney's wealth, made all the more cowardly by the fact that he never said it." Watch The Colbert Report, Steve Doocy's Silver Spoon Subtext Reporting:
 



UPDATE:  The ignorance is due to all the Hedgehog News lies in the service to their Republi-con overlords.  Read the Washington Post, Fox News, Steve Doocy and the 'silver spoon' smirk


People who watch Hedgehog News, "the most popular of the 24-hour cable news networks, are 18-points less likely to know that Egyptians overthrew their government than those who watch no news at all (after controlling for other news sources, partisanship, education and other demographic factors). [Hedgehog] News watchers are also 6-points less likely to know that Syrians have not yet overthrown their government than those who watch no news." Read the reports of the Fairleigh Dickinson University’s PublicMind Poll, Some News Leaves People Knowing Less and Many think US is bailing out Greece; NPR, Jon Stewart Out-Fox Cable News.

The first report quotes Dan Cassino, a professor of political science at Fairleigh Dickinson and an analyst for the PublicMind Poll, who says that "the results show us that there is something about watching. [Hedgehog] News that leads people to do worse on these questions than those who don’t watch any news at all."

Monday, March 3, 2014

Bwahahahaha!!!!

UPDATE X:  Thank to RC Radio Blog, there is a timeline of some of the many claims and promises made by the "Sheriff Joe’s Scooby Doo gang" to 'Gallups' gullibles' on 'fellatio Friday', read MCSO Cold Case Posse Timeline.  

And as Obama Conspiracy Theories summarizes

"One year ago today, Zullo and his posse said through Carl Gallups, 'We will be gaining an audience with some VIPs from around the nation… we have some attorney generals and some congressmen who have said that they would perhaps speak with us; and one congressman in particular WANTS to meet with us….'

And all through this time we’ve seen 'person of interest,' 'enormous,' 'block buster,' 'definite plan of action,' 'full steam ahead,' 'there will be new revelations,' ' this isn’t speculation any more,' 'breathtaking,' 'indisputable proof,' 'you won’t believe the bombshells,' 'explosive evidence,' 'shocker,' '[Arpaio] will do something after the election,' and 'surprises are coming.' In January 2013 we learned that due to unfortunate circumstances, the Cold Case Posse turned to the far-superior 'Plan B.' With plan B 'full steam ahead' we learn about 'absolute forensic verification' and that they are in 'total law enforcement perspective' mode again with a 'definitive plan of action now in the works,' 'gaining audience with some VIP’s,' 'powerful things could begin happening,' 'possible that something monumental will occur,' 'real progress over the next several months (this was a year ago),' 'undeniable evidence,' and last April, 'the investigation is over.' With the completion of the investigation, Zullo concluded, 'we’re in the driver’s seat.' Then, 'information breaking' about VIP’s, 'hopefully by mid-summer (last summer),' 'light at the end of the tunnel,' 'possibly mid–summer,' 'three to six month window is still very plausible,' 'the evidence is mounting up,' and 'it will be universe shattering.'

And here we are two years later with none of this having come to pass. The VIP’s never materialized, what arguments that were released were shot down, and the Reed Hayes report remains unreleased. For the past two years we have seen nothing but publicity and promises from the Cold Case Posse. It’s pretty pathetic."

The so-called Pastor is just another huckster and con man. 

UPDATE IX:  Tomorrow begins the month the universe will 'shatter', as promised by the "Sheriff Joe’s Scooby Doo gang"to 'Gallups' gullibles' on 'fellatio Friday' in mid-December (the 'universe-shattering' twist was being promoted elsewhere in late November).

From Obama Conspiracy Theories, Birther apocalypse:

In less than 24 hours it will be the month of March, when Mike Zullo and Carl Gallups will strap on their swords, Obot Cleaver and Fogbow Basher, hitch up their boots, and come for the Obots. Leading their birther army, they will slash and burn everything that crosses their path, and no supporter of Obama shall escape retribution as birthers shatter the universe in their righteous fury.

Any day now.

And Jared Daniel Dent is ready, saying on Februaury 27:  "Come on march. 3 more days, come on sheriff Joe, Mike Zullo, and CCP release the findings. Come on America Snap out of the trance, strap up your boots and get outside and kick some Obot . Stop letting Obama loving democrats trendy's walk all over you, um up, look me up on face book, Im in VA, and I dont give a about a morally bankrupt society of zombies threatening me or mine, because I walk the walk, There only one man in that mob destined to take you out and you are destined to take him out , You go through the mob to meet him and cut down all others like blades of grass until you cross and the take meet your fate, Im sure you men and women could take out at least 20 obots apiece.."

I wonder if he and others will ask for refunds on April 1.
UPDATE VIII:   The "Sheriff Joe’s Scooby Doo gang" denies writing the letter to the Delusional Dentist, but the comments are informative none the less.

Read Obama Conspiracy Theories, Gallups, Taitz talk: Glass half full, or half wrong?

Also check out Obama Conspiracy Theories, The debunker's guide to Obama conspiracy theories.

UPDATE VII: Now the "Sheriff Joe’s Scooby Doo gang" claim to have "the most incredible, universe-shattering thing you’ve ever heard!", which will finally be disclosed on March 19.  So the Delusional Dentist has been asked to "stand down with regard to your ongoing court cases, which appear to have already run their course, you must admit. I cannot overstate the importance that your cooperation will bring to the disclosure of this essential information."

In response the Delusional Dentist said:"there were multiple promises from Mr. Gallops and Mr. Zullo before, everyone expected a criminal case against Obama to be officially submitted by Sheriff Arpaio to the DA, AG, US Attorney and Judiciary Committee of Congress before the election, it did not happen, even though Sheriff Arpaio had according to his own admission a 100% evidence of Obama using fabricated IDs. I do not know what earth shattering announcement you are planning to make next month, on March 19. Even if you make some announcement, it is just that, an announcement."

Read http://www.orlytaitzesq.com/?p=446381

A big difference between the the huckster and his con man and the Delusional Dentist is that she allows and responds to comments, which include:

They want the "stand down because they’re not getting as many donations as they used to.  And nothing earth shattering is coming out in March or April or May or June or July…"

"They have had PLENTY of time and chances to reveal anything that they might have. They have nothing!!!"

If they indeed have something bigger than the BC and the SSN, why would it matter if you continued what you are doings?"

"Zullo and Arpaio have been saying this chit for months and have revealed nothing.If they had anything why are they with holding it until march 19. They are simply using it to to get all the money they can.I live in Alabama and about 3 months I began getting mails from Arpaio wanting money."

"[I]t makes no sense to do what they ask, no sense to voluntarily dismiss ongoing cases".

"I thought Obama was the world’s number one liar, but this guy Gallups is awfully close. What the hell is he raving and ranting about and if it’s so earth shattering why wait until March 19th? He sounds like some ancient seer reading an animal’s entrails and predicting a cosmic event on a certain day."

"I have been waiting to see how Zullo and co were going to weasel out of their promise to deliver universe shattering information in March.  They know full well that Dr. Taitz is not going to drop anything and when they do not release any information (because they have none), they will blame it on Orly Taitz and claim that Taitz is the hold up and that if it were not for her and her cases they would be able to release the Universe Shattering information that would have brought down the Obama Presidency. WHAT A LOAD OF CRAP !!!!!"

"The sheriff, Zullo, and the minister are trying out for late nite TV comedy show of their own!!! Ha, Ha, Ha,"

"Zullo,Gallups and Sheriff Joe have their fans so caught up in their con for donations that they will believe anything that they say without explanation and they know it. Look we are talking about people who every three or four months say that they have devastating information that will bring down Obama but just can not reveal it at this time. They then chose an arbitrary date a few months from the announcement that they have information that they will reveal the information. When the date comes, they then make up an excuse why they can not release the information along with a request for more donations and a promise to release information even more devastating than the information that they promised but failed to release the last time and then when the new date comes they start the same con all over again. This has been going on ever since they became involved in the Birther issue and I see no end in sight to it."

Read also Wonkette, Here Is Your Birther Slap Fight, Starring Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s Minions And Super-Heroine Orly Taitz, which stated: "Ohmygodohmygodohmygod WHAT COULD IT BE? We want to be shocked and awed and emasculated and universe-shattered by your news. Tell us, Reverend Carl!"

Comments for this article include:

"I am 1,000,000% certain that these jerks are 10,000,000% batshit insane."

"Trouble in paradise- looks like the circle jerk is running low on KY and everybody is getting rubbed a little raw".

"I'd be worried about this universe-shattering news, on account of I live in a universe, but it's painfully obvious it's nowhere near the universe these nincompoops inhabit, so I say rock on."

"This looks very bad for Obama's 2016 reelection chances."

"This Rev Gallups fellow writes in a way that we would, to mock him with satirical hyperbolic versions of wingnut communiqué. Is he... using our weapons against us?"

"I knew it! OBAMA IS AN ET, and a socialist/communist/nazi ET planted by the UN as part of Agenda 21. It all fits together."

"Proof that Obama is a lizard person!! I always knew it was true! All Hail our new overlords, the Lizard People!!!"

They had zero chance before, but the new evidence will change that by 10,000%"

You know you've got a problem when you've lost credibility with other birthers!

UPDATE VI:  Still waitin' for that 'universe-shattering twist' in the Obama birth certificate probe, first predicted and promised to 'Gallups' gullibles' on 'fellatio Friday' in mid-December (the 'universe-shattering' twist was being promoted elsewhere in late November) by the huckster and his con man.  

In the meantime:

"Seeing hidden connections and causes is a key element of conspiracy thinking. But that logic is a common fallacy with a Latin name: post hoc ergo propter hoc (Latin for "after this, therefore because of it"). Because the human mind seeks connections, people often mis-attribute causes, thinking that "B happened after A did, so A must have caused B." It makes sense, and it’s often true, but not always. It’s like saying 'roosters crow before the sun rises, so the roosters must have made the sun rise.'

Taken in extreme, this type of thinking can result in clinical paranoia. The 'Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders,' the so-called bible of psychiatry, notes that in paranoid disorders 'The persecutory delusions may be simple or elaborate and usually involve a single theme or series of connected themes, such as being conspired against, cheated, spied upon, followed, poisoned or drugged, maliciously maligned, harassed, or obstructed in the pursuit of long-term goals. Small slights may be exaggerated and become the focus of a delusional system…. Common associated features include resentment and anger, which may lead to violence.'"

Remind you of anyone?

Read Discovery News, Why Conspiracy Theories Provoke Violence.

UPDATE V:  Still waitin' for that 'universe-shattering twist' in the Obama birth certificate probe, first predicted and promised to 'Gallups' gullibles' on 'fellatio Friday' in mid-December by the huckster and his con man.  

Don't hold your breath.

In the meantime, "[a]nother multi-million-dollar bill comes due this year for Sheriff Joe Arpaio's reckless antics in Maricopa County, Arizona. And that's why more taxpayers may finally be asking: Who keeps voting for this guy, anyway?"

Read The Atlantic, As 2014 Begins, Toll Rises for "The Most Expensive Sheriff in America".

UPDATE IV:  It's been a while since I heard Zullo on "'fellatio Friday', [where] Zullo joins Gallups to fawn over each other and grift birther bucks from Gallups' gullible audience."

Quote from The Many Lies of Mike Zullo and Carl Gallups.

Grift means to make money "dishonestly, as in a swindle." I'll let you look up that other word if you don't know what it means.

Couldn't have said it better. 

UPDATE III:  More challenges: The Many Lies of Mike Zullo and Carl Gallups is now a Facebook page.

And "Gallups blusters that he challenges Obots, and then turns off the microphone when they call him. He’s afraid."
 
UPDATE II:  After years of empty promises, some birthers are catching on to the "I Know Something You Don't Know" con.

Comments during the last week of June 2013 include:

Gallups "told us nothing new today, except that he is in touch with Zullo every day, every single day, for God only knows what reason. . . No one questioned the evidence at the Sheriff's conference, according to Gallups - I'm questioning it, because Gallups and Zullo refuse to tell anyone any details. All they do is rail on and on - yet release no data to the public."

"How can the public and Congress give full and really enthusiastic support to Zullo and the CCP when they tease us by not releasing the 'juicy' details that they've uncovered. Why are they holding back on the 90% not released? . . My advice to Zullo and the CCP is this: Lay it on us now and let the cards fall where they may. This is not the time to be playing 'I've Got A Secret'. "
"Gallups has made this about him. . . stringing it out to an uncertain date in the future makes people infuriated. I'll still give Zullo the benefit of the doubt, but as far as I'm concerned Gallups is a clown."

"Listening to Gallups is like hearing a giddy teenager talking about their first date. He's so excited to have a real person like Zullo on his show that he's verbally orgasmic."

"Whoever Mike is, the guy who did the interview, did a nice job - he let Gallups talk. That's something Gallups never allows his guests as he prattles."

"Carl Gallups is so full of shit his eyes must be brown. . . Just about every video he puts out it is always 'BREAKING' 'STUNNING REVELATIONS' 'NEW REVELATIONS' . . . Get over yourself Gallups! "

" I hate to say it, but he reminds me a mix of a side-show barker and a used car salesman."

I warned you before of the cult that is Carl, AKA C Squared.

(Although he proclaims differently, was C Squared ever a law enforcement officer in Florida?  Not according to the Sarasota Harld-Tribune.)

As for the alleged interview with the CONgressman, aren't you "tired of being played for a fool." And don't "be surprised if Stockman never does the interview." (FYI, the station has a special line for VIPs to call, the CONgressman wouldn't be given the announced call-in number.)

Remember: "if you're in the con game and you don't know who the mark is … you're the mark."

UPDATE:  As Vincent Bugliosi explains in his book on the JFK assassination, "Reclaiming History":

"The conspiracy community regularly seizes on one slip of the tongue, misunderstanding, or slight discrepancy to defeat 20 pieces of solid evidence; accepts one witness of theirs, even if he or she is a provable nut, as being far more credible than 10 normal witnesses on the other side; treats rumours, even questions, as the equivalent of proof; leaps from the most minuscule of discoveries to the grandest of conclusions; and insists that the failure to explain everything perfectly negates all that is explained."

That's the reaction to Pastor Truthiness' (formerly known as Pastor Poppins') interview last week with "[f]ormer police investigator Don Jeffrey, who investigated reports of Obama having multiple security-security numbers for Mike Zullo, finds that none of the multiple numbers reported by other birther investigators, tie back to President Obama personally."

Read Obama Conspiracy Theories, Social-security number allegations undermined by Cold Case Posse investigator.

The so-called Pastor is just another huckster and con man.  He and the other birthers have "made promise after promise that they haven't kept, they presented some evidence that was faked, their 'experts' tell stories that contradict each other from press conference to press conference, they refuse to testify under oath and blow off subpoenas, and they never actually do anything but seek media attention."

And the angry old "closed-minded, racist, rigid, old-fashioned" white men continue their "offensive, polarizing rhetoric".