#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty STINKING, SINKING PIGS — The GOP's image has recently been subjected to independent criticism, in light of its massive losses in the last election. GOPpers were so fooled in their self-induced, ego-encased stupor, that they were shocked when they LOST, despite their voter suppression and voter fraud efforts. So, they hired professionals to conduct focus groups as a post mortem check up on the dying GOP. The results are fascinating. From the official report: “There’s been a long running debate on the intellectual right about whether the GOP suffers from “epistemic closure,” a condition in which conservatives block out all dissenting voices until eventually their own arguments sound nonsensical to anyone who doesn’t already agree with them. The RNC report concludes this is a real and growing problem.” Told you so!! We've argued with their trolls about this for years. Now it's official. They only hear themselves!! Duh! And yet, they still don't get it. For the Republicans to make substantive changes in their “product” they'd be Democrats. For them, then, it's a lose/lose situation. If they change only their message or “brand” they will be putting lipstick on pigs. And if they change their product, they'll become Democrats. Besides, the Tea Party racists and bigots are NOT going to change. Period. Watching the GOP circular firing squad is quite entertaining. Stay tuned… Here's the link: http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2013/03/6-big-takeaways-from-the-rncs-incredible-election-autopsy.php?ref=fpb — with Paula Johnson Francesshelli.http://www.twitpic.com/cd1acw
#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty Hugo Chavez empowered and united http://www.peoplesworld.org/hugo-chavez-empowered-and-united/ The powerful voice of Hugo Chavez – a voice for economic justice, democracy, empowerment, national independence, continental solidarity, peace, anti-imperialism, and socialism – has been stilled. While local and global elites sigh in relief and belittle his life in the major media, the untimely death of Chavez is also evoking a heartfelt cry from millions of abused, marginalized, and exploited people across the globe – none more so than in Venezuela and throughout Latin America. In that cry one doesn't hear a note of despair and defeat, but rather an unmistakable affirmation that the irrepressible spirit, intellectual curiosity, an…http://www.twitpic.com/ccr1n1
#union #iww #ows #p2 #tlot #tcot One Interesting Thing About Paula Broadwell's Petraeus Biography http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/one-interesting-thing-about-paula-broadwells-petraeus-biography-20121121 So over the weekend I read All In, Paula Broadwell's slobberific biography of General David Petraeus. It was nothing special, just a typically crappy piece of fawning, noncritical journalism, full of passages like the following: At Petraeus's change of command in Baghdad in the summer of 2008, Secretary Gates claimed that “history [would] regard Petraeus as one of the nation's great battle captains . . .” Petraeus's success on the battlefield, his status as a military intellectual and his will to succeed allowed him to shape not only doctrine but also organizational design, training, education and lea…http://www.twitpic.com/bf9ic7
#union #iww #ows #p2 #tlot #tcot National petition: No to extend Not inheritable http://www.assabilonline.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=9018&Itemid=55 TRANSLATED FROM ARABIC BY GOOGLE TRANSLATOR Initial signatures We Tunisians of all political and ideological orientation and intellectual .. It all regions of the country .. It is at home and abroad .. We declare our absolute rejection of any attempt to modify the constitution in order to enable Zine El Abidine Ben Ali of progress for the next presidential elections .. It is there to continue the government under the rule of life sentence like a convincing ownership. We also announce our categorical rejection, stainless for discussion or negotiation, any effort to hereditary rule anyone from the periphery of the current president family, as his wife or one-laws, or from one of the influential circles surrounding it. We declare, in advance, not recognizing any step are in one of these two approaches, extension or inheritance, violators of the most basic rules of democracy and violators of the dignity of Tunisians and their right to choose who governs them. Long live Tunisia, free independent .. Long live the Republic real not fakehttp://www.twitpic.com/b756np