If Liz were Queen

MEET PATRICIA SULLIVAN WHO IS QUOTED  AS SAYING THAT  “Sarah Palin is my model.”

Well I guess that means she is a member of Palin and Bachmann’s club of “hot” Republican woman. [For more on that idiocy, click here:  If you thought that Republicans could not possibly get cheesier and more Jerry Springer. . .Well they just did!]

It’s a good thing that Ms. Sullivan has warned the voters of Florida’s 8th District that Sarah Palin is her role model because they know now what they can expect:

• a candidate who will leave office before she has even served half of her first term as their public servant and why?  Because she will realize that she can make more money on the Side-Show Bob circus sponsored by Fox News, Rupert Murdoch, Dick Armey and the Koch Brothers.

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The Big Lie (German: Große Lüge) is a propaganda technique. The expression was coined by Adolf Hitler, when he dictated his 1925 book Mein Kampf, for a lie so “colossal” that no one would believe that someone “could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously.”

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“.  .  .   All this was inspired by the principle–which is quite true within itself–that in the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility; because the broad masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted in the deeper strata of their emotional nature than consciously or voluntarily; and thus in the primitive simplicity of their minds they more readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lie, since they themselves often tell small lies in little matters but would be ashamed to resort to large-scale falsehoods. It would never come into their heads to fabricate colossal untruths, and they would not believe that others could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously. Even though the facts which prove this to be so may be brought clearly to their minds, they will still doubt and waver and will continue to think that there may be some other explanation. For the grossly impudent lie always leaves traces behind it, even after it has been nailed down, a fact which is known to all expert liars in this world and to all who conspire together in the art of lying. “—Adolf Hitler , Mein Kampf, vol. I, ch. X

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What big lies have the Republican leadership and the multibillionaire neo-cons who support them told over the past 8 years?  Here are a few:

• Weapons of Mass Destruction– They repeated this lie again and again and again.  Colin Powell even took it to the United Nations and repeated it before the world.  He has subsequently apologized for doing so.  They knew.  They all knew that there were no Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq.  THEY LIED AND THEY KNEW THEY WERE LYING.
  
• Death Panels in the Senate Health Care Bill–I’m not a huge fan of the Senate health care bill but it does not and it NEVER did have anything in it about death panels for old people.  NEVER. Chuck Grassley, a Senator from Iowa, was on the Senate committee that crafted this bill.  HE KNEW THAT THERE WERE NO DEATH PANELS IN THIS BILL.  He knew that and yet he went back to his constituents in the summer recess of 2009 and deliberately told the big lie that the bill had death panels and they planned to kick grandma to the side of the road.  HE LIED AGAIN AND AGAIN TO HIS CONSTITUENTS.  HE KNEW HE WAS LYING.  If the people of Iowa re-elect Grassley, they are beyond self-destructive to vote for any representative who deliberately feeds them misinformation.  But Grassley is not the only Republican congressperson who repeated this lie.  Most of them did and they knew they were lying.  They just didn’t care.
• Obama is not a citizen. Obama’s birth certificate has been printed all over the internet.  Every ounce of evidence beyond a shadow of a doubt has been produced to prove that he was born in Hawaii.  There have even been photographs of his mother’s passport to prove that she was in Hawaii at the time of his birth.  Barack Obama is most certainly a US citizen BY BIRTH.  Yet the big lie of the birther campaign continues.  AND WORSE, REPUBLICAN US CONGRESSMEN, WHILE NOT OUTRIGHT LYING ABOUT IT PRETEND THAT THEY ARE NOT SURE.   THEY TOO ARE LIARS.  DID THEY SEE GEORGE BUSH’S BIRTH CERTIFICATE?  YET DO ANY OF THEM HAVE ANY DOUBT ABOUT THAT?
• The Obama administration have not raised taxes! They have lowered taxes for the majority of Americans.
  

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Obama is no socialist.  However, Americans need to be reminded that if many of those who telling the big lies get their way that we will likely have a government that looks more like the reign of terror that Augusto Pinochet and his thugs implemented for Chile.

We need to especially be mindful of this when we look at what is happening in Arizona, soon to be the first police state in the nation.

Charles and David Koch–the Wingnut Brothers who bankroll the Tea Party Movement would not be able to without assistance from Joseph Stalin.

As most educated Americans know, the Koch family is the biggest financial backer of the Tea Party.  We also know that the Koch brothers are the 19 richest people in the world.

However what some may not know is that the Koch family might not be the billionaires they are today were it not for the godless empire of the USSR. Yasha Levine has written a well-researched article on the topic that appears in the AlterNet.  It is titled “The Roots of Stalin in the Tea Party Movement“. I highly recommend reading this well-researched article.

The Koch family who bankroll extreme right-wing groups such as the John Birch Society, Americans for Prosperity, and the Tea Party movement made a pile of money working for the Bolsheviks in the late 1920s and early 1930’s building refineries, training Communist engineers and laying down the foundation of Soviet oil infrastructure.

How about that?  Looks like instead of putting mustaches on President Obama’s posters, it would be more fitting if Tea Party enthusiasts wore the mustaches themselves, or perhaps carried posters of the Koch brothers sporting the mustaches.

Instead of being concerned with terrorists half-way around the world, the leaders of our nation need to bring it on home and deal–not with Muslim terrorists in our midst, but Christian terrorists who like all religious fanatics, think they they have a direct line to God and know what is best for the rest of us.

One such group is an evangelical Christian hate group called  Repent Amarillo.  They are in the business of threatening and intimating the citizens of Amarillo, Texas  who disagree with their narrow restricted viewpoint of God.  As you can see from their moniker above, they model themselves after a militia.  Their targets include liberal Christians, Muslims, environmentalists, and even breast cancer events such as “The Race for the Cure”.

The group is associated with Raven Ministries and its leader is David Grisham, a security guard at Pantex,  a nuclear-bomb facility in Amarillo. Hummmm.  The leader of a Christian hate group in Amarillo, Texas works as a security guard in a nuclear bomb facility.  How safe does that make  you feel, my fellow Americans?

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IF YOU THINK THAT WHAT HAPPENS IN AMARILLO TEXAS DOESN’T AFFECT THE ENTIRE USA, THINK AGAIN.

In January of this year, W-56 warhead, with a yield of 1,200 kilotons, 100 times the destructive power of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima was almost detonated in Amarillo Texas.

On January 15, 2010,  A three hour lockdown at Pantex was initiated. Afterward,  Pantex employees conveyed information of a security threat. They would not specify what the nature of the threat was but they did deem it a security issue.

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The Project on Government Oversight watchdog group said the “near miss,” which led the Energy Department to fine the plant’s operator $110,000, was caused in part by technicians at the plant being required to work up to 72 hours per week.

The Pantex facility, 17 miles northeast of Amarillo in the Panhandle, is the country’s only factory for assembling and disassembling nuclear weapons.  The organization said it was told by unidentified experts “knowledgeable about this event” that the accident, in which an unsafe amount of pressure was applied to the warhead, could have caused it to explode.

The group also released an anonymous letter, purportedly sent by Pantex employees, warning that long hours and efforts to increase output were causing dangerous conditions in the plant. “Most production technicians work five 10-hour days, plus weekends,” the letter states. “Our safety analysts get pounded on a daily basis to support the production schedule and are expected at times to work around-the-clock. “And this is BEFORE we take the insane step of trying to complete work on 50 percent more units this fiscal year,” it says.

workers applied too much pressure, and a safety mechanism failed to work. This caused a part of the warhead to “separate . . . at an unanticipated location,” a summary of violations said.

When a mechanism that is part of the disassembly equipment fails to prevent application of too much pressure, Energy Department regulations require that a new or different device be used, the summary states.
However, “due to expediency/convenience,” the same device was used the next day in a second attempt to disassemble the warhead. Project on Government Oversight investigator Peter Stockton, a former Energy Department official, said the weapon was a W-56 warhead, with a yield of 1,200 kilotons, 100 times the destructive power of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima.