February 7, 2012

Obama's Broken Promises

I hate to say this, but it’s true. I’m extremely disappointed in Obama. There were so many things we were promised that have not been delivered.

For example, as nurse and frequent monetary contributor, I was promised a seat on one of the Death Panels. When this did not materialize, I was promised a seat on one of the boards that decided who would be rounded up and sent to Interment Camps. I had already promised some of my Republican friends I’d rule strongly in favor of them being sent to some of the nice ones, with private toilets. This did not materialize either, and now I look like a big fat liar. Thanks, Barack.

Also, where are all those guns and Bibles we were supposed to be taking away from people? Most of the people I know have more guns, not less. Not one single freaking gun has been taken away from anybody! You were going to destroy the second amendment, you promised! How are we supposed to conduct a proper “roundup” with all these millions of people with guns?

I assumed, by now, my grandchildren would be learning all about Saul Alinsky and Marxism/Leninism in public schools (headed by Bill Ayers, by the way), and being taught all about the benefits of communism. My grandchildren don’t even know who Saul Alinsky is and they think Lenin was a Beatle ! WTH?!

And health care was supposed to be FREE .. for everybody. "Medicare for all", we called it. As a nurse, I was really excited about this, because I wouldn’t have to work half as hard as I do now. We all knew there would be lines out the door, and no one would be able to get treatment, since every citizen would be eligible for it. I could take my sweet time getting to them, because everybody knows that people in those dangerous socialist countries like France and Sweden die all the time from lack of health care. It was expected!

As it is, these people without insurance still come to my ER and expect to be treated immediately, even when they’re having a heart attack. You even expanded coverage for poor kids. Can you imagine?! At least Newt wants to put them to work as janitors; but you, you’re putting food on their table and that wife of yours is encouraging them to eat well and prosper!

All those old and poor people were supposed to be first to go. Instead, you cut prescription drug costs for Medicare recipients by 50% and began eliminating the plan’s gap in coverage. You preserved access to care for Medicare beneficiaries and expanded eligibility for Medicaid. What were you thinking?



And where’s my money? You said we’d share the wealth. Take all the money away from those greedy millionaires and spread it around. But I have just about the same amount of money I did when this whole thing started. More broken promises !

Then, you were supposed to flood the country with illegal aliens, like Che Guevara. Instead, you request $600 million in emergency funding, deported more illegals and deployed more drones on the border.

Instead of promoting and appeasing terrorists, like you were ordered to do, you went and killed Bin Laden, and those pirates and saved a bunch of Americans. You caught more terrorists in one month than Bush/Cheney did in six years. You were NOT supposed to destroy the leadership of Al Qaeda, get the last U.S. troops out of Iraq, and assist in toppling two Middle Eastern dictators!

I think this ‘leader of the free world’ stuff has detracted you from your original Mission.


(oh, and that secret ‘fist-bump’ was supposed to be SECRET!)

Also, and this really upsets me, we had been working for decades to sneak you into American politics. From the day you were born a Muslim in Kenya, we’d worked tirelessly faking all those documents and paying people off to say they knew you. And look what you went and did. You waited so long to release that fake birth certificate that Donald Trump found you out ! The Donald, no less !

You’ve been careless, Mr. President.

Well, four years later, here we are, in a stupid democracy or republic or whatever. Our military is stronger than ever, the economy is improving, and Americans are going back to work. George Bush left you a PERFECT STORM to turn this republic into a commie/socialist empire, but you’ve blown it. Really, really blown it. All you had to do was let all those car companies go bankrupt, quit stimulating the stupid economy and trying to create jobs! Hell, those Republicans who keep voting down your jobs bill are doing more to wreck this country than you are! And now, we have Clint Eastwood on TV reminding people of all that crap you did for Detroit.

Clint ! It’s as bad as having John Wayne touting your achievements.



Well, I could go on, but I think you get my point. You’ve wimped out. Our one chance at getting a real Manchurian Candidate into office and you’ve blown it. Oh, sure, we’ll start hearing all those tired scary slogans again and seeing all those photoshopped pictures of you with your hand over the wrong side of your chest, not wearing a flag pin. But who are we going to fool this time? People will say you were just biding your time, waiting for the safety of your second term to start turning America into the communist state we’ve all been waiting for.

But I won’t be fooled again. You’ve betrayed us. And worst of all, I think you’ve started believing your own fake identity.

You’ve turned into a real American.




And me? Well, I’m being sent back on another mission: to try to find the next Manchurian Candidate. It’s going to be freakin cold in Siberia. Thanks for nothing.


Your former supporter,

Kay Gardner

January 30, 2012

Campfield Compares Ouster from Bistro to "Segregation", calls Liberals "Closed-Minded People"

http://www.wate.com/story/16633376/knoxville-restaurant-owner-boots-sen-stacey-campfield-over-gay-stance

On an interview that just aired on a local television channel, State Senator Stacey Campfield (R-TN) compared his ouster from a local Knoxville restaurant to segregation. He also says he told Ms. Boggs he was quoting statistics from the CDC in his recently aired controversial statements.

From the article:

"In the past, Tennessee had a past of segregating people at lunch by color. Now I guess we have to segregate people by their political ideology," Campfield said.

"The liberals are all for everybody having free speech until they realize that other people do actually have different points of view. Then they can't handle it," Campfield said. "They go bonkers. They don't know how to handle other people having different points of view. Unfortunately, they're closed minded people."

Instead of trying a return trip to the Bistro anytime soon, Sen. Campfield said, "I'll spend my money where people have open minds."

Senator Campfield recently stated AIDS was caused by man-on-monkey sex, and said there was virtually no danger of AIDS being passed between heterosexuals.

January 30, 2012

Knoxville Bistro Owner Boots&Bans State Senator after AIDS Remarks(PIC)

http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2012/jan/30/bistro-at-the-bijou-owner-boots-bans-state-sen/

(Sorry, didn't realize a thread had already been posted. As a Knoxville resident, this is front page news today!

Martha Boggs, god love her soul, kicked State Senator Stacey Campfield out of one of our most popular downtown eateries on Sunday after his most recent horrible remarks on gays and AIDS.

"I don't want his hate in my restaurant", Ms. Boggs stated. And added, "He's gone from being stupid to dangerous".

Campfield made news again last week after blaming the AIDS virus on men having sex with monkeys and calling the disease "virtually impossible" to contract via heterosexual intercourse. Campfield is best known as the sponsor of the "Don't Say Gay Bill", which passed the Senate last year and awaits a vote in the house.

If only every enlightened restaurant owner would take this kind of stand, half the republican lawmakers would be starving.





KUDOS MARTHA BOGGS !

January 21, 2012

On My Signal, Unleash Hell

"On My Signal, Unleash Hell"!

To watch the GOP candidates for President this year, it would seem that is exactly what has happened. We pride ourselves on being a civilized nation. We look with disdain on ancient Rome, when blood lust turned people into cheering participants as men and women lost their lives in the brutal sands of the arena. When a man went down, cries of Habet, Hoc habet! (he's had it!), and shouts of Mitte! (let him go!) or Iugula! (kill him!) could be heard.

Roman society was a deeply divided, hierarchial and class-conscious society. They felt that undeserved rights could be rectified only by public degradation and death. In publicly witnessing such punishment, citizens were reassured that the proper social order had been restored. In this display, the games reaffirmed the moral and political order of things. In the arena, civilization triumphed over the wild and untamed, over the outlaw, the barbarian, the enemy. The threat outside society was overcome, the order of things was reasserted and death, itself, conquered.* – (James Grout, Essays on Rome,paraphrased)

We don’t need to put Gladiator into the Blu-Ray player or read essays on ancient Rome to be part of such carnage today. Just turn on any GOP Debate, watch and listen to any Republican crowd as they are thrown the red meat of racism, bigotry and intolerance. They don’t even bother with a low dog whistle this season. It is blatant. It is overt. It is in-your-face and it is tolerated, even cheered, by spectators in the audience who are thirsty for blood.

In ancient Rome, only Seneca protested the carnage of the arena.The other notables of the day advocated with their silence. Today, not one candidate for the highest office in the land objects to the vilification of the least, the poorest, the most helpless and victimized among us.

Just last week, a crowd cheered as Newt Gingrich demeaned a black journalist. “Juan”, Newt called out dismissively, and waited for the cheers of the crowd, which came right on cue. Later, a woman from South Carolina praised Newt’s action by thanking him for “putting him (Juan Williams) in his place”. Williams had the audacity to question the former speaker about repeated comments about the poor, saying poor children lack role models for work, and calling President Barack Obama a "food stamp president”. He has repeatedly said that poor children don’t know anyone who works and could be put to work in the schools as janitors.



"Will we be able to buy IPads like your granddaughter"?


In September, a Tea Party Express Audience at a CNN Debate cheered at the prospect of letting a healthy young man without health insurance die:

Blitzer: “What’s going to happen if he goes into a coma? Who pays for that”?

Ron Paul: “That’s what freedom is all about, taking your own risks. This whole idea that you have to prepare to take care of everybody…”

Blitzer: “Are you saying society should just let him die?”

The audience enthusiastically shouted “Yes! Yes”!

"Are you not entertained"?

At the Reagan Library on September 7, Brian Williams questioned Governor Rick Perry about the death penalty. Texas leads the country in wrongful death convictions. Perry has recently condoned U.S. troops urinating on the corpse of an enemy combatant even though the Geneva Convention forbids it.

Williams: Governor Perry, a question about Texas. Your state has executed 234 death row inmates, more than any other governor in modern times. Have you (the crowd begins applauding) struggled to sleep at night with the idea that any one of those might have been innocent?

Perry: No, sir. I’ve never struggled with that at all. <snip>

Williams: What do you make of…(continued applause) What do you make of that dynamic that just happened here, the mention of the execution of 234 people drew applause?

Perry: I think Americans understand justice. I think Americans are clearly, in the vast majority of cases, supportive of capital punishment. <snip>

"Kill him"!

Also in September, in Orando, a Republican crowd loudly booed a United States soldier, who is on active duty in Iraq, after the following question: “In 2010, when I was deployed to Iraq, I had to lie about who I was, because I’m a gay soldier, and I didn’t want to lose my job. My question is, under one of your presidencies, do you intend to circumvent the progress that’s been made for gay and lesbian soldiers in the military?”

“What we’re doing is playing social experimentation with our military right now. And that’s tragic. I would just say that, going forward, we would reinstitute that policy, if Rick Santorum was president, period. That policy could be reinstituted.”

The crowd in Orlando cheered wildly at Santorum’s answer.

“I will win the crowd. I will give them something they have never seen before”.

Newt Gingrich used the following line in this week’s debate: “As close to despicable as anything I can imagine”. Of course, Newt was talking about the media, and the crowd was on its feet.

The brutal display put on by this year’s crop of GOP candidates, is indeed, as despicable as anything I can imagine. In a country already torn by two wars, a recession, record unemployment and foreclosures, the gap between the “have’s” and the “have nots” grows wider every day. And yet the raw meat of human misery and suffering is tossed into the audience, and they go after the bloody bones of their fellow human beings like a pack of wild dogs. This is only the beginning. The bloodsport will grow ever more divisive for this country as we near the general election. The sacrificial lambs will be offered up to the waiting crowds.

One wonders how far, really, we have come from the days of Gladiators; when people roared in triumph over the spilling of blood, innocent or otherwise. These crowds, the supposed “Christian right” – do they ever ask themselves, would Jesus be cheering for poverty, bigotry, racism, death, torture, executions, illness, starvation, homelessness and inequality?

When the games in ancient Rome were finally banished, it was largely prompted by the death of a monk, Telemachus, who had entered the arena to try to stop the fight. He was stoned to death by the indignant crowd.

Many months remain between now and November. Let’s hope someone has the integrity and courage to step into this godless and bloody gladiatorial arena the Republican Primary has created and say “enough - have you no decency, Sir"?

Greater empires have fallen over less.

[font color="blue" size="2" face="Verdana"]There was once a dream that was Rome. You could only whisper it. Anything more than a whisper and it would vanish... it was so fragile. And I fear that it will not survive the winter. Let us whisper now, together, you and I.[/font]

(All quotes from Gladiator)

*James Grout –
http://penelope.uchicago.edu/~grout/encyclopaedia_romana/circusmaximus/circusmaximus.html

January 6, 2012

I'm going to try this too. I thought they were all gone !

http://journals.democraticunderground.com/K%20Gardner

February 17, 2012

No Contraception? OK. No Sex Until this B/S Ends.

I am at my boiling point here. And I don't even have ovaries left.

I have MEN posting on my FB page in defense of this garbage.. defending "aspirin between the knees", defending the "all male panel". So fine. I'm sick of arguing about it.

It would take exactly ONE WEEK to put this argument to rest.

No contraception? No sex. Let's show them what a Real Voting Bloc can do.

Enough already.

"Our bodies are their battlefield. Let's just put our bodies out there, because it was just about at that point in time, all of us, the mind-set was we need to do something to change the situation if our children must live in this country." - Leymah Gbowee, Winner of Nobel Peace Prize.

Gbowee, who now works for the Accra, Ghana-based Women Peace and Security Network Africa, played a key role in ending the Liberian war by forming a group of Christian and Muslim women who held daily protests. At one point, the women organized a "sex strike" to underscore their anger about continuing violence.


http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-nobel-peace-women-20111008,0,2016722,full.story