--------my plan

Voter's rights bill
---make votes count
1. Eliminate the Electoral College, go with national average
2. Put re-districting in the hands of non-partisan entites based on culture and environment
3. All government contarctors at all level must disclose political donations, including donations to Super-Pacs
4. Eliminate C4 category Super Pac's within constitutonal amendment. All other category Super-PAcs must disclose donors.

---increase voter participation

restore key enforcement provisions to the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

5. Automatic voter registration established at birth, effective at 18.  All non-automatic voters may register up to one week before election. mandates that state election officials automatically register eligible citizens to vote.
6. Election day a new US Bank Holiday, all workers must have at least 4 hours
7. make minimum per-capita voting locations
8. If a state requires voter ID, that ID must be provided free of charge, otherwise it's a poll tax and illegal. 
8a. Denying a felon is illegal, unjust punishment, after dues are already paid. outlaws tactics meant to remove voters from the rolls
9. Develop secusre online voting by 2022.

--shorten election period
10. Public funding of elections begin 6 Months from election day, down to 5 months by 2022.
11. Political parties must begin public funded/aided no sooner than the above date.
----create national guidelines
12. Bi-partisan voter rights council to investigate State and Local compliance and potential voter fraud claims
13. Bi-partisan voter rights council will ensure State/Local entities do not add requirements or obsticles to vote in federal elections.
---stremline ballot requirements
13. Bi-partisan voter rights council will establish national guidelines for federal election eligablity requirements and will monitor State/Local compliance

14. effectively outlaw the gerrymandering of congressional districts, a practice employed by both Republicans and Democrats to maximize one-party control of individual states by sorting voters into districts according to their politics. Instead, states would be required to form independent commissions to draw districts based on apolitical metrics; state legislative districts would be unaffected.

--Transparency
1. Automatic yearly public audit of the Federal Reserve Banking Collective
2. Eliminate Fast-Track
3. Illegal for politicians to become lobbyists, or work for companies that have recived benefit while politician was in office.

Organized Crime reduction and Civil Liberty protection Bill
1. Revert drinking age back to 18 nationally, states and localities reserve rights
2. Legalize Marijuana nationally for adults (over 18), states and localities reserve, Alcohol agencies assume regulation. 
3. Legalize prostitution, states and localities reserve, OSHEA assumes regulation. Same rules as pornography + Mandated condoms + security + identification
4. Police will have ability to bring addicts/overdose to health faciility with no drug charge, other charges still apply.
5. Eliminate categories of drugs, addiction considered disease. Charges such public intoxicvation, neglect, disturbing the peace charges are detatched from drugs, stand, but must be substantiated independently.
6. Stop and frisk/roadblocks are hereby a violation of civil liberties and should only be conducted in immediate immergency - escape/immediate suspect pursuit/perimiter and otherwise require an immediate crime/matching want/warrant/ or court order.

- Decency

Eliminate Solitary Confinement as Cruel and Unusual Punishment

Create a temporaty committee to conduct Agriculture/custodial/construction industry examinations, as what legal temporary work could look like

ban contributions by corporations substantially owned or controlled by foreigners and would require nonprofit organizations like unions and organizations registered under section 501(c)(4) of the tax code that participate in political activity to disclose the identity of donors who contribute more than $10,000. It would also require large digital companies to make public who is purchasing political ads, provisions included in the high-profile Honest Ads Act during the last Congress.

prohibit coordination between campaigns and outside groups and expand the public financing system for House and presidential candidates.

require presidential inaugural committees, which are subject to very little oversight, to publicly account for their expenditures

require presidents, vice presidents and candidates for those offices to make public 10 years of tax files

federal grants to states to update their elections infrastructure, mandate certain routine security checks by state election authorities and require the executive branch to develop deterrence strategies.

provide funds to beef up Justice Department enforcement of the Foreign Agents Registration Act, tighten federal lobbying rules and strengthen the authority of the Office of Government Ethics.

1. Implementing an immediate ban on all private contributions of money and gifts, to all politicians in federal office, from Individuals, Corporations, Political Action Committees, Super Political Action Committees, Lobbyists, Unions and all other private sources of money to be replaced by the fair and equal public financing of all federal political campaigns. We categorically REJECT the concept that money is equal to free speech because if that were so, then only the wealthiest would have a voice. These actions must be taken because it has become clear that politicians in the United States cannot regulate themselves and have become the exclusive representatives of corporations, unions and the very wealthy who spend vast sums of money on political campaigns to influence the candidates’ decisions and ensure their reelection year after year.

2. The immediate reversal, even if it requires a Constitutional Amendment, of the outrageous and anti-democratic holding in the “Citizens United” case by the Supreme Court, which equates the payment of money by corporations, wealthy individuals and unions to politicians with free speech. We, the People, demand that institutional bribery and corruption not be deemed protected speech.

3. Prohibiting all federal public officials and their immediate family members, whether elected or appointed, from EVER being employed by any corporation they regulate while in office and/or holding any stock or shares in any corporation they regulate while in office until a full 5 years after their term is completed

4. A complete lifetime ban on accepting all gifts, services, money, directly or indirectly, to any elected or appointed federal officials or their immediate family members, from any person, corporation, union or other entity that the public official was charged to regulate while in office.

5. A complete reformation of the United States Tax Code to require ALL citizens to pay a fair share of a progressive, graduated income tax by eliminating loopholes, unfair tax breaks, exemptions and deductions, subsidies (e.g. oil, gas and farm) and ending all other methods of evading taxes. The current system of taxation favors the wealthiest Americans, many of whom, pay fewer taxes to the United States Treasury than citizens who earn much less and pay a much higher percentage of income in taxes to the United States Treasury. We, like Warren Buffet, find this income tax disparity to be fundamentally unjust.

6. Medicare for all American citizens or another single-payer healthcare system, adjusted by a means test (i.e. citizens who can afford it may opt-out and pay their own health insurance or opt-in and pay a means tested premium). The Medicaid program, fraught with corruption and fraud, will be eliminated except for the purpose of providing emergency room care to indigent non-citizens who will not be covered by the single-payer program.

7. New comprehensive regulations to give the Environmental Protection Agency expanded powers to shut down corporations, businesses or any entities that intentionally or recklessly damage the environment and/or criminally prosecute individuals who intentionally damage the environment. We also demand the immediate adoption of the most recent international protocols, including the “Washington Declaration” to cap carbon emissions and implement new and existing programs to transition away from fossil fuels to reusable or carbon neutral sources of power.

8. Adoption of an immediate plan to reduce the national debt to a sustainable percentage of GDP by 2020. Reduction of the national debt to be achieved by BOTH a cut in spending to corporations engaged in perpetual war for profit, the “healthcare” industry, the pharmaceutical industry and all other sectors that use the federal budget as their income stream AND a truly progressive income tax code that does not allow the wealthy and corporations to evade taxes through excessive deductions, subsidies and loopholes. We agree that spending cuts are necessary but those cuts must be made to facilitate what is best for the People of the United States of America, not multinational and domestic corporations.

9. Passage of a comprehensive job and job-training act like the American Jobs Act to employ our citizens in jobs that are available with specialized training and by putting People to work now by repairing America’s crumbling infrastructure. We also recommend the establishment of an online international job exchange to match employers with skilled workers or employers willing to train workers in 21st century skills.

10. Student loan debt relief. Our young People and students are more than $830 billion in debt from education loans alone. Payment and interest on these debts should be deferred for periods of unemployment and the principal on these loans reduced using a corporate tax surcharge.

11. Immediate passage of the Dream Act and comprehensive immigration and border security reform including offering visas, lawful permanent resident status and citizenship to the world’s brightest People to stay and work in our industries and schools after they obtain their education and training in the United States.

12. Recalling all military personnel at all non-essential bases and refocusing national defense goals to address threats posed by the geopolitics of the 21st century, including terrorism and limiting the large scale deployment of military forces to instances where Congressional approval has been granted to counter the Military Industrial Complex’s goal of perpetual war for profit.

13. Mandating new educational goals to train the American public to perform jobs in a 21st Century economy, particularly in the areas of technology and green energy, taking into consideration the redundancy caused by technology and the inexpensive cost of labor in China, India and other countries and paying our teachers a competitive salary commensurate with the salaries of employees in the private sector with similar skills.

14. Subject to the elimination of corporate tax loopholes and exploited exemptions and deductions stated above, offering tax incentives to businesses to remain in the United States and hire its citizens rather than outsource jobs and reconstruct the manufacturing capacity of the United States.  In conjunction with a new jobs act, reinstitution of the Works Progress Administration and Civilian Conservation Corps or a similar emergency governmental agency tasked with creating new public works projects to provide jobs to the 46 million People living in poverty, the 9.1% unemployed and 10% underemployed.

15. Implementing of immediate legislation to encourage China and our other trading partners to end currency manipulation and reduce the trade deficit.

16. Immediate reenactment of the Glass-Steagall Act and increased regulation of Wall Street and the financial industry by the SEC, FINRA and the other financial regulators, and the commencement of a Justice Department criminal investigations into the Securities and Banking industries practices that led to the collapse of markets, $700 billion bail-out, and financial firm failures in 2007-2008.

17. Adoption of a plan similar to President Clinton’s proposal to end the mortgage crisis and instead of the Federal Reserve continuing to lower interest rates for loans to banks who are refusing to loan to small businesses and consumers, the Federal Reserve shall buy all underwater or foreclosed mortgages and refinance these debts at 1% or less to be managed by the newly established Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (and foreclosure task force described below) because 1% or less is the interest rate the Federal Reserve loans to the banks directly who hoard the cash rather than loan it to the People and small businesses.

18. An immediate one year freeze on all foreclosures to be reviewed by an independent foreclosure task force appointed by Congress and the Executive Branch to (in conjunction with the  Consumer Financial Protection Bureau ) determine, on a case by case basis, whether foreclosure proceedings should continue based on the circumstances of each homeowner and propriety of the financial institution’s conduct.

19. Subject to the above ban on all private money and gifts in politics, to enact additional campaign finance reform requiring free air time and public campaign finances to all candidates who obtain sufficient petition signatures and/or votes to participate in the primaries and/or electoral process, to shorten the campaign season and to allow voting on weekends and holidays.

20. An immediate withdrawal of all troops from Iraq and Afghanistan and a substantial increase in the amount of funding needed for veteran job placement and the treatment of the physical and emotional injuries sustained by veterans in these wars. Our veterans are committing suicide at an unprecedented rate and we must help now.

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Characteristics Of Fascism
http://www.rense.com/general37/char.htm

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POLITICAL DONATIONS by Donor Industry

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What Donations get in return

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Campaign Costs

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MONEY IN POLITICS

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INCARCERATION RATE

http://tse3.mm.bing.net/th?id=OIP.Md366fcec168ffe3904df470696fe9ffco0&pid=15.1

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Prison budgets are so tight because republican policies have flooded the prisons with more non-violent offenders than the rest of the world combined.  In 1970 17% of the prison population was non-violent offenders, now it is over 70%.   70% of the prison budget is now dedicated to non-violent offenders, which could be used to focus on violent criminals.  Where there is money there are republicans.  There is money in prisons, like DHS and the military.  Corporations can profit off no-bid contracts, republicans benefit from massive donations.  The way its been for 45 years.

"It definitely isn't doing that. There are 2.2 million people incarcerated in the U.S., ten times more than fifty years ago."
Report of The Sentencing Project to the United Nations Human Rights Committee: Regarding Racial Disparities in the United States Criminal Justice System. Washington: The Sentencing Project, 2013. Web.

"'You just sell [prisons] like you were selling cars, or real estate, or hamburgers.' - Tom Beasley, 1988."
Larson, Erik. "Captive Company." Inc. Mansuento Ventures, 1 Jun. 1988. Web.

"And they rake in a TON of scratch. Last year CCA took in one point seven BILLION dollars."
2015 CCA Annual Report. Nashville: Corrections Corporation of America, 2016. Web.

"Sorry. The data shows they don't. The sales pitch was wrong: private prisons cost taxpayers just as much as regular prisons."
Oppel, Richard A. "Private Prisons Found to Offer Little in Savings." New York Times. New York Times Company, 18 May 2011. Web.

"One study showed private prisons dole out twice as many infractions as government prisons."
Mukherjee, Anita. "Impacts of Private Prison Contracting on Inmate Time Served and Recidivism." University of Wisconsin - Madison School of Business, 10 Aug. 2016. Web.

"Last year, a private prison in Arizona didn't meet their 97 percent capacity quota, so the state government had to pay them a $3 million fine."
Ortega, Bob. "Arizona prison oversight lacking for private facilities." The Arizona Republic. Gannett Company, 7 Aug. 2011. Web.

"In solitary, you're kept alone for 23 hours a day in a room the size of the king-size bed."
"Solitary Nation." Prod./Dir. Dan Edge. Frontline. Public Broadcasting Station, 22 Apr. 2014. Web.

"Solitary Confinement was conceived by Quakers who thought prisoners would use the time to reflect and study the bible."
Casella, Jean and James Ridgeway. Hell is a Very Small Place: Voices from Solitary Confinement. New York: The New Press, 2016. Web.

"Humans are social animals. And a prolonged lack of social contact can cause serious and permanent brain damage!"
Gawande, Atul. "Hellhole." New Yorker. Conde Nast, 30 Mar. 2009. Web.

"Solitary confinement is used so routinely in our prison system, it's basically given to anyone the guards don't want to deal with."
"The Dangerous Overuse of Solitary Confinement in the United States." New York: American Civil Liberties Union, 2014. Web.

"Solitary confinement is given to between 80 and a hundred thousand people a year."
START: "80 and a hundred thousand"
CHYRON: The Guardian, Apr. 27, 2016.

"He was held in solitary for almost two years before his case was completely thrown out. He never even went to trial, but still suffered through solitary. After he was released, his family said he would just hole up in his room for days. He committed suicide."
Gonnerman, Jennifer. "Kalief Browder Learned How to Commit Suicide on Rikers." New Yorker. Conde Nast, 2 Jun. 2016. Web.

"Reading, writing, math, history, geography, physiology..."
Messemer, Jonathan E. "The Historical Practice of Correctional Education in the United States: A Review of the Literature." International Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences 1.17 (2011): 91-100. Web.

"Since then, we've gone from 350 college-degree programs for people in prison across the country, to just 12!"
Zoukis, Christopher. "Pell Grants for Prisoners: New Bill Restores Hope of Reinstating College Programs." Prison Legal News. Human Rights Defense Center, 31 Jul. 2015. Web.

"And good luck getting into the programs that do exist. The largest prison training program in the country has a waiting list of 10,000 people!"
Horwitz, Sari. "U.S. official says prison system's best reentry program cut 'dramatically.'" Washington Post. Nash Holdings LLC, 29 Oct. 2015. Web.

"But they actually have to pay for their own ankle monitors, and even incarceration fees."
Stillman, Sarah. Get Out of Jail, Inc. New Yorker. Conde Nast, 23 Jun. 2014. Web.

"They can't even find a place to live. They're discriminated against by landlords and can be barred from public housing."
Childress, Sarah. "Michelle Alexander: 'A System of Racial and Social Control.'" PBS.org. Public Broadcasting Station, 29 Apr. 2014. Web.

"Yeah well it's not just me. 60% of the prison population is made of up of people of color. Black men are six times more likely to be in prison than white men. Entire communities are stuck in this cycle."
"America's Disappeared Black Men." Washington: The Sentencing Project, 2015. Web.

"Hi Emily. A few decades ago, after I got out of prison, I helped start a campaign called Ban the Box. It's a movement to eliminate the "have you been convicted of a felony" box on job applications, and give everyone a fair shot at employment."

BanTheBoxCampaign.org, 2016.



MORE READING FOUR MONTHS AS A FOR PROFIT PRISON GUARD
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/06/cca-private-prisons-corrections-corporation-inmates-investigation-bauer
SOLITARY CONFINEMENT READING
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2009/03/30/hellhole
NORWAY PRISON SYSTEM
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/29/magazine/the-radical-humaneness-of-norways-halden-prison.html?_r=2

Prison budgets are so tight because republican policies have flooded the prisons with more non-violent offenders than the rest of the world combined.  In 1970 17% of the prison population was non-violent offenders, now it is over 70%.   70% of the prison budget is now dedicated to non-violent offenders, which could be used to focus on violent criminals.  Where there is money there are republicans.  There is money in prisons, like DHS and the military.  Corporations can profit off no-bid contracts, republicans benefit from massive donations.  The way its been for 45 years.

www.sentencingproject.org
http://famm.org/
http://www.ccrjustice.org/
http://ellabakercenter.org/
http://www.arkansastimeaftertime.org/
http://californiarsol.org/

https://www.womenagainstregistry.org/

norml.org

http://www.stop-watch.org/

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"They yanked Tylenol off the shelves and a few months later introduced the world to the 'tamper resistant seal.' People felt safer, the sales of Tylenol completely rebounded, and every other medicine soon did the same."

Markel, Howard, Dr. "How the Tylenol Murders of 1982 Changed the Way We Consume Medication." PBS. PBS, 29 Sept. 2014. Web.

"Yes! It [the tamper resistant seal] makes you feel safer, but it doesn't actually make you safer. Think about it -- if a murderer is that crazy, there are still plenty of ways they can get around a piece of plastic."

Schneier, Bruce. "The Security Mirage." The Security Mirage. Penn State University, University Park. 5 June 2015. TED. Web.

"But while we were focused on one fluke incident, we ignored the hard truth that 150 people die every year from what's inside these little bottles."

Gerth, Jeff, and T. Christian Miller. "Use Only as Directed." ProPublica. ProPublica, 20 Sept. 2013. Web.

"Don't worry, kid. Statistically your family is way more likely to hurt you than a stranger."

Finkelhor, David. "Five Myths about Missing Children." Washington Post. The Washington Post, 10 May 2010. Web.

"Tylenol has an incredibly narrow safety margin. Tylenol says that this is a safe daily dose of Tylenol."

"TYLENOL® Dosage for Adults." Tylenol.com. McNeil Consumer Healthcare Division of McNEIL-PPC, Inc., 2015. Web.

"But the FDA says that this is a dangerous dose."

United States. Food & Drug Administration. ProPublica. By Janet Woodcock. ProPublica, 26 Feb. 2008. Web. 10 Aug. 2015.

"Acetaminophen, Tylenol's active ingredient, is the number one cause of acute liver failure in America. In one year alone, it sent as many as 78,000 people to the hospital."

Manthripragada, AD, EH Zhou, DS Budnitz, MC Lovegrove, and ME Willy. "Result Filters." National Center for Biotechnology Information. U.S. National Library of Medicine National Institutes of Health, 20 Aug. 2011. Web.

"A lot of doctors don't think it should be. The medical journal, The Lancet said that if the drug were discovered today it would never be freely available without prescription."

"Paracetamol Hepatotoxicity." The Lancet (1975): 1189-1191. Document Cloud. Web.

------DRINKING AGE-----

Persons over the age of 18 are tried as adults, may serve and die in mililitary service, marry, and vote. It is age discrimination to treat persons over the age of 18 as an adult in every aspect of government but not afford them the same rights.

Lower the legal drinking age limit to 18 so that legal alcohol consumtion may be supervised by police, security guards and health workers as well. Countries such as Italy, China, Greece with lower drinking ages have fewer alcohol related problems.

-----------CENSORSHIP----------

------------Free Speach-------------
The Sedition Act of 1918
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/supremecourt/capitalism/sources_document1.html
Joe McCarthy hearings

PTC
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parents_Television_Council
http://www.tvguide.com/news/ptc-sons-of-anarchy-nudity-sex-1089365/

Replacing science with pseudo-science
http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2014/01/creationism_in_public_schools_mapped_where_tax_money_supports_alternatives.html

Texas Books Downplay Slavery and Jim Crow Laws
http://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2015/07/13/421744763/how-textbooks-can-teach-different-versions-of-history

Republicans have had a long history of censorship Sedition Act of 1918,  Espionage Act of 1917, McCarthyism,
Alien Registration Act or Smith Act of 1940
In 1952, the Immigration and Nationality, or McCarran-Walter, Act

On one hand, Rosanne insulted a race of people, and they have voiced their displeasure. ABC has the right to end it's business with someone who violates their code of conduct, which includes racism. On the other hand, Bee insulted Ivanka Trump. So unless Feckless people, or c***t's are a race I have never heard of, it is not at all similar. 

Rosanne was fired by her employer, Bee is being attacked by the federal government.
I dont't think I have ever met a conservative who understands the first ammendment. The Banning books, video games, or internet content for example  involves government action, and would constitute Censorship / First Amendment violations. The First Amendment says that “CONGRESS shall make no law . . . abridging the freedom of speech,”

The so called "censorship" that conservatives complain about, like the firing of Rossanne, Macy’s and Univision severing their business relationships with Trump after his comments about Mexicans, or Starbucks making their Christmas cups red, are the right of a business to protect it's image, and conduct business how they desire.  No law or government action has been proposed and it would be a constitutional violation for the government to intervene.

Rosanne's firing does not constitute the restriction of free speech. Republican's desire consequence-free speech, the ability to say anything and suffer no loss of love, respect or business opportunities. No such right has ever been guaranteed by the Constitution, and the reaction of private citizens isn’t censorship.
 
The Joe McCarthy hearings, the goals of the PTC, the Republican parental rights amendments of the 90's, Omission of the Ku Klux Klan and Slavery in Texas schoolbooks, Omission of Islam in South Carolina schoolbooks, or Paul Ryan ordering CSPAN to shut off its cameras during the 2016 Democrat sit-in, would be considered actual censorship.  The president of the United States banning reporters from the White House and calling on ESPN and TBS to fire certain employees for statements he doesn't approve, is at least bordering on violating the first amendment.

The 2015 Harris poll shows that republicans are significantly more receptive to censorship and the government banning of Books, Video games, Television programs, and Movies.  The only instance that democrats were more receptive of censorship was Books that discuss creationism.  http://www.theharrispoll.com/health-and-life/Censorship_2015.html

As a side note, this is why I have always been critical of some people trying to transform a word, with no real history of degradation, into a slur. Especially a word that is used regularly in other countries throughout the world.  It in no way compares to words that have been used to degrade races of people for generations. It is dirty a word for a body part, so let's not pretend it has anywhere near the same connotation as a racial slur.  If people treat it on the same level, it will continue to be used as a tool by bigots to justify the use of actual language of racial degredation -- "So and so" said 'that' bad word, so why can't I slur a race of people and not get fired?

Omission of the Ku Klux Klan and downplaying Slavery in Texas schoolbooks

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/150-years-later-schools-are-still-a-battlefield-for-interpreting-civil-war/2015/07/05/e8fbd57e-2001-11e5-bf41-c23f5d3face1_story.html

Omission of Islam from South Carolina schoolbooks

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/04/15/islamophobic-florida-republican-would-legalize-textbook-censorship.html

http://www.defendingdissent.org/now/

-----CIVIL FORFEITURE-----

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--------RIGHT TO CHOOSE------

Abortion pro-life pro-choice

Such laws are increasingly being used as the basis for actually arresting women who have no intention of ending a pregnancy and for preventing women from making their own decisions about how they will give birth.

Here are a few illustrative anecdotes:

1. In Iowa, a pregnant woman who fell down a flight of stairs was reported to the police after seeking help at a hospital. She was arrested for "attempted fetal homicide."

2. In Utah, a woman gave birth to twins; one was stillborn. Health care providers believed that the stillbirth was the result of the woman's decision to delay having a cesarean. She was arrested on charges of fetal homicide.

3. In another case, a woman who had been in labor at home was picked up by a sheriff, strapped down in the back of an ambulance, taken to a hospital, and forced to have a cesarean she did not want. When this mother later protested what had happened, a court concluded that the woman's personal constitutional rights 'clearly did not outweigh the interests of the State of Florida in preserving the life of the unborn child.'

--------GLOBAL WARMING------

The earth is a natural greenhouse and is kept warm by water vapors, carbon dioxide (CO2), and other gases in the atmosphere, which absorb the sun's energy and radiate it back toward the earth. This type of warming is called "natural greenhouse effect." "Enhanced greenhouse effect," on the other hand, causes global climate change due to excessive levels of CO2 in the atmosphere.


Geologists believe sea levels could rise between seven and 23 inches by the end of the century if current warming trends continue.

Worldwide, one hundred million people live within three feet of sea level, and much of the world's population is clustered in coastal areas.


The earth has always experienced cyclical bouts of climate change. Recorded temperatures throughout history display graphs of peaks and valleys with occasional extreme periods, such as the Little Ice Age of the seventeenth and eighteenth century and the Medieval Warm Period of the eleventh century.

The last two decades of the twentieth century were the hottest decades in more than 400 years and may have been the hottest decades for several thousand years.

Deserts worldwide are increasing as a result of warmer temperatures. At the end of the year 2007, Australia lost 25 percent of crop production due to desertification.

GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS BY SECTOR

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 "...per capita, cities are way greener than the suburbs, and in 2015, one study found New York to be the "Greenest City in America, largely due to public transportation."

 "2015's Greenest Cities In America." WalletHub Online. Evolution Finance, Inc. Web.

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carbon-capture technology, which is designed to collect and dispose of coal plants’ carbon-dioxide emissions before they escape into the atmosphere, where they trap heat. That technology may be on the drawing board and in a few small-scale demonstration projects, but it’s not close to being ready for widespread use at an affordable price.

The one U.S. plant that's being designed to use carbon capture, now under construction in Kemper County, Mississippi, is two years behind schedule and $4 billion over budget. A similar, heavily subsidized project in Saskatchewan has demonstrated that outfitting the world’s power stations with the technology could cost upward of $17 trillion.

In the near future, carbon capture promises to be of little help in the fight against climate change -- especially compared with natural gas, the increasing supply of renewable power, and the clean energy that nuclear plants produce.

By insisting otherwise, Trump betrays the coal miners.

Trump blames Democrats and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for putting miners out of work by shutting down coal-fired power plants. That charge is inflated: The decline in coal jobs in the U.S. has mainly to do with better mining technology (reducing the number of workers), the worldwide collapse in coal prices, and competition from cheaper, cleaner sources of energy such as solar, wind and natural gas.

-coal decline photo

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Plastic bags are easier to recycle and require less energy to produce than paper bags.

Recycling one aluminum can saves enough energy to run a television for three hours.

Bonus Fact:

Cigarette butts and filters take 12 years to biodegrade. An aluminum can takes between 200 to 500 years to degrade. Plastic diapers and sanitary pads take between 500-800 years. Styrofoam takes more than 5,000 years. And it would take a glass bottle 1 million years to degrade.
--------------PUBLIC RECYCLING
co-mingled collection or mixed waste collection,
At one end of the spectrum is mixed waste collection, in which all recyclates are collected mixed in with the rest of the waste, and the desired material is then sorted out and cleaned at a central sorting facility. This results in a large amount of recyclable waste, paper especially, being too soiled to reprocess, but has advantages as well: the city need not pay for a separate collection of recyclates and no public education is needed. Any changes to which materials are recyclable is easy to accommodate as all sorting happens in a central location.

Advances in sorting technology (see sorting below), however, have lowered this overhead substantially—many areas which had developed source separation programs have since switched to co-mingled collection

A study conducted by the Technical University of Denmark according to the Economist found that in 83 percent of cases, recycling is the most efficient method to dispose of household waste.[4][13] However, a 2004 assessment by the Danish Environmental Assessment Institute concluded that incineration was the most effective method for disposing of drink containers, even aluminium ones.[64]

According to one report, in America, 50–80 percent of computers destined for recycling are actually not recycled.[69][70]

The concept of sustainable design aims to solve this problem, and was laid out in the book Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things by architect William McDonough and chemist Michael Braungart. They suggest that every product (and all packaging they require) should have a complete "closed-loop" cycle mapped out for each component—a way in which every component will either return to the natural ecosystem through biodegradation or be recycled indefinitely.

Complete recycling is impracticable as highly dispersed wastes become so diluted that the energy needed for their recovery becomes increasingly excessive. "For example, how will it ever be possible to recycle the numerous chlorinated organic hydrocarbons that have bioaccumulated in animal and human tissues across the globe, the copper dispersed in fungicides, the lead in widely applied paints, or the zinc oxides present in the finely dispersed rubber powder that is abraded from automobile tires?"[75]:260

paperboard packaging for food products is more easily recycled than most plastic, but is heavier to ship and may result in more waste from spoilage

The amount of energy saved through recycling depends upon the material being recycled and the type of energy accounting that is used. Correct accounting for this saved energy can be accomplished with life-cycle analysis using real energy values. In addition, exergy, which is a measure of useful energy can be used. In general, it takes far less energy to produce a unit mass of recycled materials than it does to make the same mass of virgin materials.[77][78][79]

Emergy (spelled with an m) analysis, for example, budgets for the amount of energy of one kind (exergy) that is required to make or transform things into another kind of product or service. Emergy calculations take into account economics which can alter pure physics based results.

The Energy Information Administration (EIA) states on its website that "a paper mill uses 40 percent less energy to make paper from recycled paper than it does to make paper from fresh lumber."[81]

-- maybe count the recycles according to a recycle life based on exergy value

Some critics argue that it takes more energy to produce recycled products than it does to dispose of them in traditional landfill methods, since the curbside collection of recyclables often requires a second waste truck. However, recycling proponents point out that a second timber or logging truck is eliminated when paper is collected for recycling, so the net energy consumption is the same.

How much energy is used in recycling also depends on the type of material being recycled and the process used to do so. Aluminium is generally agreed to use far less energy when recycled rather than being produced from scratch.
The EPA states that "recycling aluminum cans, for example, saves 95 percent of the energy required to make the same amount of aluminum from its virgin source, bauxite."[83][84]

In some cases, the cost of recyclable materials also exceeds the cost of raw materials. Virgin plastic resin costs 40 percent less than recycled resin.[98] Additionally, a United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) study that tracked the price of clear glass from July 15 to August 2, 1991, found that the average cost per ton ranged from $40 to $60,[99] while a USGS report shows that the cost per ton of raw silica sand from years 1993 to 1997 fell between $17.33 and $18.10.[100]

 A life cycle assessment can be used to determine the levels of externalities and decide whether the recycling may be worthwhile despite unfavorable market costs.

In a 2007 article, Michael Munger, chairman of political science at Duke University, wrote that "if recycling is more expensive than using new materials, it can't possibly be efficient.... There is a simple test for determining whether something is a resource... or just garbage... If someone will pay you for the item, it's a resource.... But if you have to pay someone to take the item away,... then the item is garbage.

In a 2002 article for The Heartland Institute, Jerry Taylor, director of natural resource studies at the Cato Institute, wrote, "If it costs X to deliver newly manufactured plastic to the market, for example, but it costs 10X to deliver reused plastic to the market, we can conclude the resources required to recycle plastic are 10 times more scarce than the resources required to make plastic from scratch. And because recycling is supposed to be about the conservation of resources, mandating recycling under those circumstances will do more harm than good."

One labor-intensive underused waste is electronic and computer waste. Because this waste may still be functional and wanted mostly by those on lower incomes, who may sell or use it at a greater efficiency than large recyclers.  If a consumtion tax were adopted rather than an income tax, elcectronic and furniture recycling would become more attractive due to the absence of tax on second-hand items.  Items may be made sturdier or multi-use as well.

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Global military spending this year

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http://demilitarize.org/

-------WEALTH DISTROBUTION----

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------- TOP 1%
It seems to me that no matter what the size,  government only works for corporations and the top 1%.  The bigger the government, the more corporations benefit. All our polititions are glorified employees of corportations. They are elected with corporate money, romanced by corporate lobbyists, and are given cozy multi-million dollar "historian" jobs when they retire. All in return for crushing mom and pop's and keeping the rich - rich and the poor -poor. 

-------INCOME INEQUALITY-------

cumulative after tax income top 1%

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--------LGBT--------

www.freedomtomarry.org/

http://www.hrc.org/

http://www.marriageequality.org/

http://www.glad.org/

http://www.gaystraightalliance.org/

http://www.equalityutah.org/

http://www.campuspride.org/lambda10/

Using Bathrooms Republican activists more likely to assault than Trans-Gender 
http://americablog.com/2016/05/conservative-men-now-infinitely-likely-trans-women-use-wrong-bathroom.html
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/anti-lgbt-activists-testing-target-sending-men-womens-rooms
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/american-family-association-testing-target-bathrooms
http://www.businessinsider.com/the-target-boycott-is-spiraling-out-of-control-2016-4

Anti-gay
http://www.advocate.com/religion/2016/6/14/baptist-pastor-who-cheered-orlando-murders-isnt-alone

-----MARRIAGE-----

unmarried

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----------GUNS ------------

GUN HOMICIDE

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-------ELECTORAL COLLEGE------

how much your vote counts

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SWING STATES

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"A voter in Wyoming has over three times as much power in the Electoral College as a voter in California."

Cowan, Sarah K., Stephen Doyle, and Drew Heffron. "Op-Chart: How Much Is Your Vote Worth?" The New York Times. The New York Times Company, 02 Nov. 2008. Web.

"And swing states have so much power, in recent elections up to 80% of the votes cast in America had no impact on the outcome. That includes your vote here in California."

"Problems with the Electoral College." FairVote. FairVote, 2014. Web.

DONNA: "Well some states are red states and some states are blue states. Sorry bucko, that's just the way America is."

ADAM: "Actually, most states are purple."

Sides, John. "Most Americans Live in Purple America, Not Red or Blue America." The Washington Post. The Washington Post, 12 Nov. 2013. Web.

Howard, Chris. What America Looks Like. 2012. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

"In 2012, over 3 million Texans voted Democratic. And almost 5 million Californians voted Republican."

United States. U.S. National Archives and Records Administration. Office of the Federal Register. 2012 Presidential Election Popular Vote Totals. College Park, 2012. Web.

"Actually, in 24 states they [the members of the Electoral College] can vote for whoever they want."

United States. U.S. National Archives and Records Administration. Office of the Federal Register. What Is the Electoral College? State Laws and Requirements. Washington D.C.: U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, 2000. Web.

"And that's happened over eighty times. In 2004, a Minnesota elector voted for "John Ewards", which was almost the name of John Kerry's running mate."

Brodarick, Taylor. "It's Time To Abolish The Electoral College." Forbes. Forbes Magazine, 4 Nov. 2012. Web.

"Oh, no. The founders didn't want you to vote at all… because you didn't own land. Also because you're a woman."

United States. National Archives. The Charters of Freedom. Washington D.C.: U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, 2015. Web.

"When the Founding Fathers created our democracy, they gave the vote to just 6% of the population at the time. And it took a long time to change that."

United States. National Archives. The Charters of Freedom. Washington D.C.: U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, 2015. Web.

"It took almost 70 years before the right to vote was even extended to all white men."

"U.S. Voting Rights Timeline." Northern California Citizenship Project. KQED, San Francisco, California, 2004. Web.

"650,000 people live in DC have no representation in Congress, and our tax rate is one of the highest in the nation."

United States. U.S. Census Bureau. District of Columbia QuickFacts from the US Census Bureau. N.p., 31 Aug. 2015. Web.

"I hate to tell you this, but a lot of these laws [Jim Crow laws] are still on the books today. They were never repealed, and they're still stopping African-Americans from voting."

Bouie, Jamelle. "The Jim Crow Zombie That Won't Die." The Daily Beast. Newsweek/Daily Beast, 11 Feb. 2014. Web.

"The bottom line: Jim Crow laws that are still on the books stop five million Americans from voting every year."

Gonchar, Michael. "Should Felons Be Allowed to Vote After They Have Served Their Time?" The New York Times. The New York Times Company, 18 Feb. 2014. Web.

"In the 19th century, many people would just sell their votes outright, and opportunistic citizens would make bank traveling from state to state being paid to vote."

Onuf, Peter, Ed Ayers, Brian Balogh, Marc Summers, Alexander Keyssar, and Jamie Raskin. "Pulling the Curtain: Voting in America." Audio blog post. Backstory with the American History Guys. Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, 2 Nov. 2012. Web.

"Oh no, election fraud was common practice well into the 20th century. LBJ won a Senate election by buying the votes of entire districts. In one case, a corrupt election worker changed a 7 to a 9."

Caro, Robert A. The Years of Lyndon Johnson: Means of Ascent. New York: Knopf, 1990. Print.

"Even though the Yellow Party has less voters… if they're allowed to redraw the district lines however they want, they can still win."

Ingraham, Christopher. This is the best explanation of gerrymandering you will ever see. How to steal an election: a visual guide. Washington Post. Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive. 1 March, 2015. Web.

"In 2012, Pennsylvania Republicans lost the popular vote, but they still won 72% of the seats in their state, by drawing weird looking districts like this."

Prokop, Andrew. "What is gerrymandering?" Vox. Vox Media, 15 May 2014. Web.

"Actually, the only other country that has a system [of gerrymandering] like this is France."

Prokop, Andrew. "How Do Other Countries Handle Redistricting?" Vox. Vox Media, 15 May 2014. Web.

"Entrapment laws are very loose. Cops are allowed to do basically anything to catch illegal activity, they just can't be the one to actually come up with the crime."

 Johnson, Jennifer. "Law Enforcement by Defeat? Entrapment and Due Process." Foundation for Economic Education. 01 Nov 1996. Web.

"Humans are complicated. The truth isn't something you can detect with a machine… Back in the Dark Ages, they would force criminals to hold a red hot iron to see if it burned them. If it did, it meant you were lying."

Trovillo, Paul V. "History of Lie Detection." Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology 29.6 (1939): 848-81. Northwestern University School of Law Scholarly Commons. Web. 

"Truthful people fail polygraphs all the time, just because they're sweaty and nervous. And all you have to do to beat it is stay super chill. Criminals do it all the time. Some infamous examples include Gary Ridgway, aka the Green River Killer..." 

"The Curious Story of How the Lie Detector Came to Be." BBC News. The BBC, 21 May 2013. Web.

"… and serial killer Charles Cullen, the Angel of Death." 

"Pretending To Be A 'Good Nurse,' Serial Killer Targeted Patients." Fresh Air. WHYY, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 15 Apr. 2013. Radio.

"Larson [the inventor of the polygraph] became so horrified by law enforcement's unscientific use of his device, he would go on to call the polygraph machine, 'a Frankenstein's monster.'"

Adler, Ken. The Lie Detectors: The History of an American Obsession. New York: Free Press, 2007. Print.

"But no one listened, and ever since people have insisted that the polygraph can do frankly impossible things."

Eells, Josh. "The Lives They Lived." The New York Times Magazine. The New York Times Company, 21 Dec. 2013. Web.

"And that's awful, because this BS is still embedded in our legal system. Massachusetts uses [the polygraph] to establish probable cause. Florida requires sex offenders take the test."

Florida Criminal Procedures and Corrections, § 948-30 (2012). Web.

"Combined, government agencies test over 70,000 people a year with a century-old piece of pseudoscience [the polygraph]."

Stromberg, Joseph. "Lie Detectors: Why They Don't Work, and Why Police Use Them Anyway." Vox. Vox Media, 15 Dec. 2014. Web.

"Police may not do it intentionally, but they unconsciously bias and alter witnesses' memories all the time."

"Eyewitness Identification Reform."The Innocence Project. 10 June 2015. Web.

"In the 1980s, a researcher actually found two snowflakes with precisely the same pattern."

Gopnik, Adam. "All Alike." The New Yorker. Conde Nast, 3 Jan. 2011. Web.

"Take the case of Brandon Mayfield. He was arrested for the Madrid train bombings when the world's top fingerprint experts said he was a perfect match for a print found at the scene."

"The Real CSI." Frontline. PBS. WGBH, Boston, Massachusetts, 17 Apr. 2012. PBS. Web.

"It's been shown that fingerprint analysts can unconsciously change their evaluations depending on the details of the case."

Russell, Sue. "Bias and the Big Fingerprint Dust-Up." Pacific Standard. 18 June 2012. Web.

"The FBI recently admitted that when conducting hair strand matches, their experts gave flawed testimony in 90% of cases, and in 94% of death penalty cases."

United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation. The FBI. U.S. Government, 20 Apr. 2015. Web.

"Bite mark analysis is notorious nonsense. Two men were once placed on death row based on bite marks that were likely made by crawfish."

"2 Men Freed in Child Death Bite-mark Cases." Msnbc.com. NBC News, 29 Feb. 2008. Web.

"You've heard how fire investigators detect arson by searching for 'pouring patterns'? Scientists have since shown that those patterns happen in any fire that has a flashover event."

Grann, David. "Trial by Fire." The New Yorker. Conde Nast, 7 Sept. 2009. Web.

"Did you know that in Scandinavia, they have open-air prisons?"

Larson, Doran. "Why Scandinavian Prisons Are Superior." The Atlantic. Atlantic Media Company. 24 Sept. 2012. Web.

------PROSTITUTION------

https://darkpoetry.org/node/work/78426

-------UNEMPLOYMENT-------

UNEMPLOYMENT RATE 2009-2014

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SELF EMPLOYMENT RISE 2008-2014

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INFLATION and PAY 2009-2014

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DEFICIT 1988-2010 (defecit) (debt)

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NATIONAL DEBT

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-----ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION-----

ILLEGAL INTERCEPTIONS

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HOMICIDE RATE UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANTS

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ILLEGAL REMOVALS 2001-2011

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WORKING NATIVE BORN NON-CITIZEN

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IMMIGRATION RATE 1821-2013

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total population
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total population from mexico
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by method

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Deportations
https://www.dhs.gov/immigration-statistics/yearbook

The Obama administration made the first priority "threats to national security, border security, and public safety." That includes gang members, convicted felons or charged with "aggravated felony" and anyone apprehended at the border trying to enter the country illegally.
In 2015, 81 percent, or 113,385, of the removals were the priority one removals.

Priority two includes "misdemeanants and new immigration violators."

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------CHRISTIAN NATION------

christianity, atheism,

"The U.S. started printing the motto on our paper money in 1957, largely to prove we were different than the 'godless communists'."

"Placing "In God We Trust" on national currency." History, Art, & Archives. U.S. House of Representatives. Accessed 12 Apr 2015. Web.

-------TERRORISM-------

https://data.buzzfeed.com/projects/2015-11-terrorism/years2.html

https://data.buzzfeed.com/projects/2015-11-terrorism/extrem_status.html
https://data.buzzfeed.com/projects/2015-11-terrorism/casualties.html
HERITAGE FOUNDATION
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Last 30 Years
CONSERVATIVE

Right Wing - White Supremacy

1988: Frazier Glenn Miller, Jr. a Vietnam Veteran and who according to the Southern Poverty Law Center founded the Carolina Knights of the Ku Klux Klan in the early 1980s served three years in Federal penitentiary for trying to assassinate Morris Dees founder of the Southern Poverty Law Center. The FBI found a cache of weapons in his home after they used tear gas to drive him out and arrest him. He testified against 14 White Supremacists as part of a plea bargain deal.[119]

January 17, 2011: Spokane Bombing attempt

August 5, 2012: Wisconsin Sikh temple shooting: Wade Michael Page killed six people at a Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wisconsin before being killed by police officers. During the investigation of the crime, police found out that Page was a member of white supremacist and neo-Nazi organizations. With this evidence, the police concluded that racial hatred was the main cause of the murders.

June 17, 2015: Charleston church shooting: Suspect Dylann Roof carried out a mass shooting at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in downtown Charleston, South Carolina, United States. The church is one of the United States' oldest black churches and has long been a site for community organization around civil rights. Nine people were killed, including the senior pastor, Clementa C. Pinckney, a state senator. A tenth victim was also shot, but survived. The FBI has not classified the act as terrorism, which was met with controversy.

June 18, 1984: Alan Berg, Jewish lawyer-talk show host was shot and killed in the driveway of his home on Capitol Hill, Denver, Colorado, by members of a White Nationalist group called The Order. Berg had stridently argued with a member of the group on the show earlier who was convicted in his murder.

August 10, 1999: Los Angeles Jewish Community Center shooting in Granada Hills, California of Los Angeles. 5 people were wounded in the Jewish community center and its daycare facility. The gunman, Buford O. Furrow had antisemitic and anti-government views and was a member of a Neo-Nazi group The Order. Shortly thereafter, Furrow murdered a mail carrier, fled the state, and finally surrendered to authorities.[120]

June 10, 2009: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum shooting: 88-year-old James Wenneker von Brunn, a white supremacist and neo-Nazi, walked into the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., shooting and mortally wounding Stephen Tyrone Johns, a security guard. Von Brunn was wounded when other museum guards immediately returned fire and on January 6, 2010, von Brunn died of natural causes at a hospital near where he was imprisoned awaiting trial.[121][122][123] During the investigation it was discovered that von Brunn had planned to target White House senior adviser David Axelrod leading to increased protection for Axelrod and other steps.[124]

April 13, 2014 Overland Park Jewish Community Center shooting: 3 killed 1 critically injured in shootings at Jewish Community Center of Greater Kansas City and Village Shalom in Overland Park, Kansas. Suspect is 74-year-old Frazier Glenn Miller, Jr..[119][125][126] On April 27, 2015, Miller told the Associated Press he plans to plead guilty and his motivation was to "put the Jews on trial where they belong".[127

Right Wing Extremsim

April 19, 1995: Oklahoma City bombing: A truck bomb shattered the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City, killing 168 people. Right-wing terrorists Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols were convicted in the bombing.

July 27, 1996: Centennial Olympic Park bombing by Eric Robert Rudolph occurred in Atlanta, Georgia, during the Atlanta Olympics. One person was killed and 111 injured. In a statement released in 2005 Rudolph said the motive was to protest abortion and the "global socialist" Olympic Movement.

May 2002: Lucas John Helder rigged pipe bombs in private mailboxes to explode when the boxes were opened. He injured 6 people in Nebraska, Colorado, Texas, Illinois, and Iowa. His motivation was to garner media attention so that he could spread a message denouncing government control over daily lives and the illegality of marijuana, as well as promote astral projection.

July 27, 2008: Knoxville Unitarian Universalist church shooting: Jim David Adkisson enters the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church in Knoxville, Tennessee with a shotgun, killing two and injuring several congregants before being tackled to the ground. Adkisson stated to the police and in a manifesto that he desired to kill Democrats, liberals, African Americans and homosexuals. Adkisson pleaded guilty to the crime in February 2009 and was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.[138][139]

November 1, 2013 2013 Los Angeles International Airport shooting: 23-year-old Paul Ciancia kills a Transportation Security Administration agent and wounds 7 others, 3 of them TSA agents. Ciancia was shot and taken into custody. A note found in Ciancia's pocket said he believed he was a patriot and wanted to kill "patriot" upset at former Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, and that he wanted to kill "TSA and pigs".[140]

June 8, 2014: Two Las Vegas police officers while eating pizza in a restaurant and one civilian were shot to death allegedly by Jerad and Amanda Miller a married couple in a suicide attack. A Gadsden flag, swastika and a note promising "revolution," was placed on the deceased officers bodies. The couple were thrown out a patriot group defending rancher Cliven Bundy. The Millers were both killed in a shootout with police on the same day.[

Right Wing Extremism

1982: Three men identifying as the Army of God kidnapped Hector Zevallos (a doctor and clinic owner) and his wife, Rosalee Jean, holding them for eight days.

1983: Joseph Grace set the Hillcrest clinic in Norfolk, Virginia ablaze. He was arrested while sleeping in his van a few blocks from the clinic when an alert patrol officer noticed the smell of kerosene.

1984: Two men entered a Birmingham, Alabama clinic on Mother's Day weekend shortly after a lone woman opened the doors at 7:25 A.M. Forcing their way into the clinic, one of the men threatened the woman if she tried to prevent the attack while the other, wielding a sledgehammer, did between $7,500 and $8,500 of damage to suction equipment. The man who damaged the equipment was later identified as Father Edward Markley. Father Markley is a Benedictine priest who was the Birmingham diocesan "Coordinator for Pro-Life Activities". Markley was convicted of first-degree criminal mischief and second-degree burglary. His accomplice has never been identified. The following month (near Father's Day), Markley entered a women's health center in Huntsville, Alabama (see above).

1984: An abortion clinic and two physicians' offices in Pensacola, Florida, were bombed in the early morning of Christmas Day by a quartet of young people (Matt Goldsby, Jimmy Simmons, Kathy Simmons, Kaye Wiggins) who later called the bombings "a gift to Jesus on his birthday." The clinic, the Ladies Center, would later be the site of the murder of Dr. John Britton and James Barrett in 1994 and a firebombing in 2012.

1987: Eight members of the Bible Missionary Fellowship, a fundamentalist church in Santee, California, attempted to bomb the Alvarado Medical Center abortion clinic. Church member Cheryl Sullenger procured gunpowder, bomb materials, and a disguise for co-conspirator Eric Everett Svelmoe, who planted a gasoline bomb. It was placed at the premises but failed to detonate as the fuse was blown out by wind.

1989: A fire was started at the Feminist Health Center clinic in Concord NH on the day U.S. Supreme Court upheld a Missouri law banning funding of public facilities as related to abortion. The clinic was set afire again in 2000.

1993: Blue Mountain Clinic in Missoula, Montana; at around 1 a.m., an arsonist snuck onto the premises and firebombed the clinic. The perpetrator, a Washington man, was ultimately caught, convicted and imprisoned. The facility was a near-total loss, but all of the patients' records, though damaged, survived the fire in metal file cabinets.

1993: David Gunn was murdered by anti-abortion activist Michael F. Griffin

1994: Abortion provider John Britton and James Barrett (both killed) and his wife June (shot but not killed) became victims of Reverend Paul Jennings Hill.

1994: Two receptionists, Shannon Lowney and Lee Ann Nichols, were killed in two clinic attacks in Brookline, Massachusetts. 5 others critically injured. John Salvi was arrested and confessed to the killings. He died in prison and guards found his body under his bed with a plastic garbage bag tied around his head. Salvi had also confessed to a non-lethal attack in Norfolk, Virginia days before the Brookline killings.

1996–98: anti-abortion extremist Eric Rudolph cited biblical passages as his motivation for a series of bombings, including Atlanta's Olympic Centennial Park, a Lesbian bar, and several abortion clinics. Rudolph acknowledges his attacks were religiously motivated, but denies that his brief association with the racist Christian Identity movement was a motivation for his attacks.

1996: Dr. Calvin Jackson of New Orleans, Louisiana was stabbed 15 times, losing 4 pints of blood. Donald Cooper was charged with second degree attempted murder and was sentenced to 20 years. "Donald Cooper's Day of Violence", by Kara Lowentheil, Choice! Magazine, December 21, 2004

1997: Dr. David Gandell of Rochester, New York was injured by flying glass when a shot was fired through the window of his home by an anti-abortion Christian extremist.

1997: Eric Rudolph admitted, as part of a plea deal for the Centennial Olympic Park bombing at the 1996 Olympic Games to placing a pair of bombs that exploded at the Northside Family Planning Services clinic in the Atlanta suburb of Sandy Springs.

1998: Three people were seriously injured when acid was poured at the entrances of five abortion clinics in Miami, Florida.

1998: Robert Sanderson, an off-duty police officer who worked as a security guard at an abortion clinic in Birmingham, Alabama, was killed when his workplace was bombed. Eric Rudolph admitted responsibility; he was also charged with three Atlanta bombings: the 1997 bombing of an abortion center, the 1996 Centennial Olympic Park bombing, and another of a lesbian nightclub. He was charged with the crimes and received two life sentences as a result.

1998: Emily Lyons, a nurse, was severely injured, and lost an eye, in the Christian extremist "anti-abortion" bombing which also killed off-duty police officer Robert Sanderson.

1998: Dr. Barnett Slepian was shot to death with a high-powered rifle at his home in Amherst, New York. His was the last in a series of similar shootings against providers in Canada and northern New York State which were all likely committed by James Kopp. Kopp was convicted of Slepian's murder after being apprehended in France in 2001.

1998: James Kopp killed at least one and went on a series of anti-abortion shooting sprees, both in the U.S. and Canada.

1999: Martin Uphoff set fire to a Planned Parenthood clinic in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, causing US$100 worth of damage. He was later sentenced to 60 months in prison.

2000: An arson at a clinic in Concord, New Hampshire, resulted in several thousand dollars' worth of damage. The case remains unsolved. This was the second arson at the clinic.

2000: John Earl, a Catholic priest, drove his car into the Northern Illinois Health Clinic after learning that the FDA had approved the drug RU-486. He pulled out an ax before being forced to the ground by the owner of the building, who fired two warning shots from a shotgun.

2001: An unsolved bombing at a clinic in Tacoma, Washington, destroyed a wall, resulting in $6,000 in damages.

2005: A clinic Palm Beach, Florida, was the target of an arson. The case remains open.

2005: Patricia Hughes and Jeremy Dunahoe threw a Molotov cocktail at a clinic in Shreveport, Louisiana. The device missed the building and no damage was caused. In August 2006, Hughes was sentenced to six years in prison, and Dunahoe to one year. Hughes claimed the bomb was a "memorial lamp" for an abortion she had had there.

2006: David McMenemy of Rochester Hills, Michigan, crashed his car into the Edgerton Women's Care Center in Davenport, Iowa. He then doused the lobby in gasoline and started a fire. McMenemy committed these acts in the belief that the center was performing abortions; however, Edgerton is not an abortion clinic. Time magazine listed the incident in a "Top 10 Inept Terrorist Plots" list.

2007: A package left at a women's health clinic in Austin, Texas, contained an explosive device capable of inflicting serious injury or death. A bomb squad detonated the device after evacuating the building. Paul Ross Evans (who had a criminal record for armed robbery and theft) was found guilty of the crime.

2007: An unidentified person deliberately set fire to a Planned Parenthood clinic in Virginia Beach, Virginia.

2007: Chad Altman and Sergio Baca were arrested for the arson of Dr. Curtis Boyd's clinic in Albuquerque. Baca's girlfriend had scheduled an appointment for an abortion at the clinic.

2009: Matthew L. Derosia, 32, who was reported to have had a history of mental illness rammed an SUV into the front entrance of a Planned Parenthood clinic in St. Paul, Minnesota.

2009: Anti-abortion activist Scott Roeder killed George Tiller in Kansas.[143]

2012: Bobby Joe Rogers, 41, firebombed the American Family Planning Clinic in Pensacola, Florida, with a Molotov cocktail; the fire gutted the building. Rogers told investigators that he was motivated to commit the crime by his opposition to abortion, and that what more directly prompted the act was seeing a patient enter the clinic during one of the frequent anti-abortion protests there. The clinic had previously been bombed at Christmas in 1984 and was the site of the murder of Dr. John Britton and James Barrett in 1994.

2012: A bomb exploded on the windowsill of a Planned Parenthood clinic in Grand Chute, Wisconsin, resulting in a fire that damaged one of the clinic's examination rooms. No injuries were reported.
2015: Robert Lewis Dear kills 3 people in a shooting at a Planned Parenthood Clinic. At his court hearings Dear declared himself a "warrior for the babies

CONSERVATIVE ISLAM

January 25, 1993 (Langley, VA): A Pakistani with Mujahideen ties guns down two CIA agents outside of the headquarters.

February 26, 1993 (New York, NY): Islamic terrorists detonate a massive truck bomb under the World Trade Center, killing six people and injuring over 1,000 in an effort to collapse the towers.

March 1, 1994 (Brooklyn, NY): A Muslim gunman targets a van packed with Jewish boys, killing a 16-year-old.

March 23, 1997 (New York, NY): A Palestinian leaves an anti-Jewish suicide note behind and travels to the top of the Empire State building where he shoots seven people in a Fedayeen attack.

September 11 attacks, 2001 (New York, NY): Islamic hijackers steer two planes packed with fuel and passengers into the World Trade Center, killing hundreds on impact and eventually killing thousands when the towers collapsed. At least 200 are seriously injured.

(Washington, DC): Nearly 200 people are killed when Islamic hijackers steer a plane full of people into the Pentagon.
(Shanksville, PA): Forty passengers are killed after Islamic radicals hijack the plane in an attempt to steer it into the U.S. Capitol building.

June 25, 2006 (Denver, CO): Saying that it was 'Allah's choice', a Muslim shoots four of his co-workers and a police officer.

July 28, 2006 (Seattle, WA): An 'angry' Muslim-American uses a young girl as hostage to enter a local Jewish center, where he shoots six women, one of whom dies.

June 1, 2009 (Little Rock, AR): A Muslim shoots a local soldier to death inside a recruiting center explicitly in the name of Allah.

November 5, 2009 Ft. Hood, TX A Muslim psychiatrist guns down thirteen unarmed soldiers while yelling praises to Allah.

September 11, 2011 (Waltham, MA): Three Jewish men have their throats slashed by Muslim terrorists.

February 7, 2013 (Buena Vista, NJ): A Muslim targets and beheads two Christian Coptic immigrants.

April 15, 2013 (Boston, MA): Foreign-born Muslims describing themselves as 'very religious' detonate two bombs packed with ball bearings at the Boston Marathon, killing three people and causing several more to lose limbs.

September 25, 2014 (Moore, OK): A Sharia advocate beheads a woman after calling for Islamic terror and posting an Islamist beheading photo.

July 16, 2015 Chattanooga, TN A Muslim stages a suicide attack on a recruiting center at a strip mall and a naval center which leaves five dead.

December 2, 2015 San Bernardino, CA A Muslim shoots up a Christmas party with his wife, leaving fourteen dead.
June 12, 2016 Orlando, FL Omar Mateen shoots and kills 49 people and injures 53 more at a gay bar, the largest mass shooting in U.S. history.

OTHER

Palestinian militancy

March 23, 1997 "A Palestinian leaves an anti-Jewish suicide note behind and travels to the top of the Empire State building where he shoot seven people in a Fedayeen attack"

Undetermined

2006 Sears Tower plot

Black Radical

July 7, 2016 An Army veteran "upset about Black Lives Matter" and "recent police shootings" who opened fire Thursday night (July 7, 2016) in Dallas in an attack on police officers has been identified by police as Micah Xavier Johnson.[137]

"Actually, there's very little evidence the TSA has ever stopped a terrorist or found a real bomb."

Lapidos, Juliet. "Does the TSA Ever Catch Terrorists?" Slate. Slate, 18 Nov. 2010. Web. 

"What has stopped terrorist attacks? All the other safety measures we've added since 9/11. Like reinforced cockpit blast doors."

Hawley, Kip. "Why Airport Security Is Broken -- And How To Fix It." Editorial. Wall Street Journal [New York] 15 Apr. 2012, Saturday Essay ed.: n. pag. Web.

"When Homeland Security tested them, the TSA failed to find mock weapons and explosives 95% of the time."

Fishel, Justin, Pierre Thomas, Mike Levine, and Jack Date. "EXCLUSIVE: Undercover DHS Tests Find Security Failures at US Airports." Good Morning America. ABC. New York, New York, 1 June 2015. ABC News. Web.

-------FOOD STAMPS------

Here is a TIME magazine study on who recieves food stamps

http://swampland.time.com/2013/12/04/interactive-republicans-more-likely-to-have-constituents-who-use-food-stamps/

-------WELFARE--------

http://www.balloon-juice.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/welfare_queens.gif

DEMOCRATS WEALTH vs REUPUBLICANS WEALTH

According to Heritage Foundation

"Democrats control the majority of the nation's wealthiest congressional jurisdictions. More than half of the wealthiest households are concentrated in the 18 states where Democrats control both Senate seats."

http://www.heritage.org/research/commentary/2007/11/democrats-wake-up-to-being-the-party-of-the-rich

Map of wealth

http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2005/05/median_income_d.html

New York Voting Record

2008

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/89/New_York_Presidential_Election_Results_by_County%2C_2008a.svg

2008, 2012

http://www.mapsofworld.com/elections/usa/results/maps/new-york.jpg

1996

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/85/New_york_presidential_results_1996.svg/440px-New_york_presidential_results_1996.svg.png

FALSE : New York only votes democrat because of New York City

PARTISAN POLITICS

PARTISAN 1949-2011
standard deviation

http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/figure/image?size=large&id=info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0123507.g001
cluster charts

http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/figure/image?size=large&id=info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0123507.g002

roll call disagreements

http://www.realclearscience.com/images/wysiwyg_images/rollcall.jpg

POLITICAL POLARIZATION 1988-2010

http://www.newyorker.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/polarization_opt.jpg

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8b/Political_Spectrum2.png

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0b/Standard_Nolan_chart.jpg/800px-Standard_Nolan_chart.jpg

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/Political_chart.svg/543px-Political_chart.svg.png

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6a/Inglehart_Values_Map.svg/800px-Inglehart_Values_Map.svg.png

ECONOMIC GROWTH USA UK EU
1999-2013
https://www.economicshelp.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/uk-us-eurozone.png

MJ Countries/States Legal
http://de.academic.ru/pictures/dewiki/87/World-cannabis-laws.png

FREE AND SLAVE STATES
animated
http://thomaslegion.net/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/maptexaswarofindependencerevolution.gif

PRESIDENT ELECTION PROCESS
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-HuAtva6bsUM/TqWedqqdrEI/AAAAAAAAJ74/toS866y7ku4/s1600/presidentposter.png

IQ Tests

"...IQ scores are going up, which means we're actually getting smarter."

Kreme, William. "Are humans getting cleverer?" BBC Magazine. British Broadcasting Corporation, 02 Mar 2015. Web.

--------Hypnotism-------

Before he introduced hypnotism in 1775, Franz Mesmer tried to heal patients by having them swallow a drink with tiny grains of iron and then moving magnets over their bodies to sway the magnetic currents. When he realized people were reacting to his performance, he stopped using magnets and relied on the effect of his own voice.

The first recorded use of hypnosis as anaesthesia took place in the 19th century. Dr. James Esdaile, a Scottish surgeon working in India, used hypnosis successfully in hundreds of limb amputations.

People with the best imaginations are the easiest to hypnotize. Hypnosis researcher Theodore Sarbin calls hypnosis "believed-in imaginings."

Between 70 and 80 percent of people respond to certain hypnotic suggestions but not others. For example, they may scratch their head when a buzzer goes off if the hypnotist has told them to, but they won't go so far as to pour a bucket of water over their heads.

Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette believed so strongly in Franz Mesmer's technique that they created the Magnetic Institute in France. At first, Mesmer had patients put their feet in buckets of magnetized water, with cables attached to magnetized trees. The French medical community - and visiting diplomat Benjamin Franklin - denounced him as a fraud.

Falling under the power of a hypnotist was a legal defense in France in the 19th century. It was believed that a hypnotist could make someone "a toy in his hands" and that the person "could not reject the ideas of the beguiler." People who committed crimes under such influence could not be held legally or morally responsible for their acts.

QUOTE: "You use hypnosis not as a cure but as a means of establishing a favorable climate in which to learn."

ANSWER: Milton H. Erickson.

----RACISM-----

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/sc-manager-pleads-guilty-to-beating-black-worker-not-paying-him-for-years/ar-AAykk4n?ocid=ientp

Democratic Party

“That was true in like 1910, but then after World War II Democratic presidents like Truman and Johnson started supporting civil rights laws and that led to a mass exodus of racists from the Democratic Party,” Noah mocked the claim in 2016. “Just because something used to be something doesn’t mean it still is. What matters more is what it is now.”

--------TRUMP------

Trump supporters beleive anything

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/fake-news-donald-trump-supporters-gullible-believe-anything-barack-obama-paedophile-hillary-clinton-a7623441.html

16 and 17 year old Macedonians, making great money duping Trump supporters

https://www.buzzfeed.com/craigsilverman/how-macedonia-became-a-global-hub-for-pro-trump-misinfo?utm_term=.nmkraLdGw#.unlM6kb5n

TRUMP VIOLENCE AFTER ELECTION
http://www.ibtimes.com/trump-nation-whites-only-20-horrific-acts-violence-against-minorities-president-2446458
TRUMP VIOLENCE AT RALLYS
http://www.redstate.com/leon_h_wolf/2016/06/06/trump-supporters-pepper-spray-non-violent-protesters-video/

“The last super successful businessman elected to be president on that credential was Herbert Hoover,” said Holtz-Eakin. “Things didn’t go very well for him.”

self-described “king of debt,”

916 million dollar loss

Trump mad at how little Obama pays in taxes
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/190866856624668672?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

No, Pope Francis didn't endorse Trump, but Pope Pius XII would have
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitler%27s_Pope

Russian media coverage of her own campaign was vicious, portraying her as an aggressive Russophobe, a criminal and a liar.

http://images.memes.com/meme/490491

Pro-Kremlin analyst Sergei Markov said yesterday... "We're glad the new president will be Donald Trump who respects Vladimir Putin and recognises that Crimea is part of Russia," Referring to Trump's statements on ABC News, saying "I'm gonna take a look at it", when asked about the possibility of lifting sanctions against Russia tied to its annexation of Crimea. He went on to say "the people of Crimea, from what I've heard, would rather be with Russia than where they were"
 
In December of 2013, Article 280.1 of the Criminal Code of Russia, which includes the recently annexed Crimea,  designated 'incitement of violation of territorial integrity of the Russian Federation' punishable by labor up to 480 hours or imprisonment up to five years.  Of which Putin used to imprison, and reportedly execute and/or torture those who publicly oposed the annexation.  Even if Trump is referring to interviews or polling, the people in Crimea are not allowed to say they disagree with the annexation.

The USA played a big role in Ukraine's transition to Democracy. They historically have favorability ratings of 60 to 80% toward the United States.
Ukraine has sent troops to both Afghanistan and Iraq. He is turning his back on a 25 year United States ally in favor of Putin.

No, you're the puppet, times infinity.
http://a57.foxnews.com/media2.foxnews.com/2015/12/17/780/438/121715_putin.jpg

"From what I heard", another vague they-said-it-not-me tactic of Trump like "people are saying" doesn't hold up.

Trump Tweet Student Debt

https://img.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://img.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/files/2016/06/1_loans.jpg&w=1484

Reality Student Debt Acutally constant ride since 2004

https://img.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/files/2016/06/1_b_older.png

OBAMA

https://macromon.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/prezperformance.jpg

REPUBLICAN FUTURE

Get your ten-dollar company store credit after your 12 hour work day (Unions are Illegal) at the coal mine (although coal is no longer a profitable commodity, the company still makes money because of the 100 billion dollar government subsidy).
Pick your children up from Bible School (Science is Illegal) in your Ford F850, bring them back to your trailer, carfully avoiding your land mine home defense system, kiss your sister/wife, and open 'the Crusader' to the NASCAR section.

SLAVERY IN THE CIVIL WAR

Students in Texas are required to read the  speech Jefferson Davis gave when he was inaugurated president of the Confederate States of America, an address that does not mention slavery. But students are not required to read a famous speech by Alexander Stephens, Davis’s vice president, in which he explained that the South’s desire to preserve slavery was the cornerstone of its new government and “the immediate cause of the late rupture and present revolution.”

"The new [Confederate] constitution has put at rest, forever, all the agitating questions relating to our peculiar institution African slavery as it exists amongst us the proper status of the negro in our form of civilization. This was the immediate cause of the late rupture and present revolution," said Alexander Stephens on March 21, 1861. Almost one year later he would become the first and only vice president of the Confederate States of America.

"Confederate states did claim the right to secede, but no state claimed to be seceding for that right. In fact, Confederates opposed states' rights — that is, the right of Northern states not to support slavery," wrote historian James W. Loewen in a Washington Post article on the issue. Then the Confederates attacked Fort Sumter and the war was on. Making things more confusing is the fact that Lincoln was strongly against slavery but initially argued that the war would be about keeping the Union together because he knew many in the North and on the border didn't care enough about slavery to go to war about it. Less than two years into the war, he signed the Emancipation Proclamation in an attempt to make it crystal clear for future armchair historians what was at stake.

“Our position is clearly identified with the institution of slavery,” reads Mississippi’s declaration , signed in 1861.

Mississippi Cessation

http://avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/csa_missec.asp

White people's flag, actual confederate flag

DEMOCRATS EDUCATION LEVEL vs REPUBLICANS EDUCATION

Education level Poll by Pew Research center

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/7d/Ideology_US_copy.jpg/525px-Ideology_US_copy.jpg

FEDERAL EMPLOYEES

http://underthemountainbunker.com/2011/07/17/a-great-explanation-of-the-conservative-argument-that-federal-workers-are-overpaid/

TAX

CNN and Corey Lewandowski

the clear conflict of

CNN’s previous stance that contributors paid by a campaign “would not be permitted,” to work as commentator on CNN

Lewandowski, who is now a paid commentator on CNN, collected at least $415,000 in salary, bonuses and severance from the Trump campaign between April 2015 and August of this year, according to a Washington Post analysis of federal campaign finance filings. Campaign officials said he will continue receiving his $20,000 monthly pay as severance until the end of the year, which would give him a total of $495,000 over two years.  More importantly, Lewendowski is still under non-disparagement agreement with Trump

CNN has Hired a man who is Legally Prohibited From Criticizing Donald Trump to provide commentary on Donald Trump.

 Corey R. Lewandowski
‎@CLewandowski_ 

Despite false reports to the contrary, I am not writing a book. I am under a strict confidentiality agreement with Mr. Trump.

6:47 PM - 16 May 2016
 511 511 Retweets  1,229 1,229 likes
 
-- From the Agreement---

No Disparagement. During the term of your service and at all times thereafter you hereby promise and agree not to demean or disparage publicly the Company, Mr. Trump, any Trump Company, any Family Member, or any Family Member Company or any asset any of the foregoing own, or product or service any of the foregoing offer, in each case by or in any of the Restricted Means and Contexts and to prevent your employees from doing so.
Source: The Daily Dot
http://cdn0.dailydot.com/uploaded/images/original/2016/3/14/trump1.png

ROYAL FAMILY

a pompus spoiled who is ungratefully and self reightously given money and praise from the working class and poor because it's ancesters were murderers and slaveowners who were able to force millions to support their incestrius autocratic family, and will never be asked to give anything back.  That baby represents opression, the antithesis of freedom.  Why can't we hear about the hundereds of millions of baby's that will be born this year who aren't in a family who sucks 80 million dollars a year from peple who need it.

NHL LOCKOUT
When ESPN The Magazine recently asked Suter if he thought maybe they the deals were not made in good faith, he replied:

"From what's going on right now? Yes. Definitely. I haven't done any interviews. I haven't said anything, but yeah, it's disappointing that the owners, they sign all these guys and some guys were signed within the last week before the CBA was up. Now, they're trying to go back on their word. It's frustrating, disappointing. It doesn't seem like that's the way you operate a relationship or business."

MITT ROMNEY

''My plan will create 23 million new jobs.''
-          45 minutes later          - 
''Government does not create jobs. Government does not create jobs.''

Mitt Romney, during the second presidential debate: Oct. 16, 2012

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''Let Detroit Go Bankrupt'': ''If General Motors, Ford and Chrysler get the bailout that their chief executives asked for yesterday, you can kiss the American automotive industry goodbye.''

Romney, in the New York Times 2008

 ''I pushed the idea of a managed bankruptcy. And finally, when that was done, and help was given, the companies got back on their feet. So I'll take a lot of credit for the fact that this industry's come back.''
- Romney - May 2012

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''I'm not familiar precisely with what I said, but I'll stand by what I said, whatever it was.''
—Mitt Romney, asked in a press conference about remarks he made to Fox News host Sean Hannity in which he said Obama was trying to make America a less Christian nation (Jacksonville, Florida, May 17, 2012)
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''Who let the dogs out? Who, who.''
—Mitt Romney, while posing in an awkward photo op with a group of African Americans kids at a Martin Luther King Day parade (January 2008)
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''I'm Wolf Blitzer and yes, that's my real name.''
—CNN's Wolf Blitzer at the beginning of a November 2011 Republican presidential debate

''I'm Mitt Romney -- and yes Wolf, that's also my first name.''
—Mitt Romney, getting his own name wrong (his first name is ''Willard,'' and his middle name is ''Mitt'')

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''Corporations are people, my friend... of course they are. Everything corporations earn ultimately goes to the people. Where do you think it goes? Whose pockets? Whose pockets? People's pockets. Human beings, my friend.''
—GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney to a heckler at the Iowa State Fair who suggested that taxes should be raised on corporations to help balance the budget, Aug. 11, 2011

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''Join me in welcoming the next president of the United States, Paul Ryan.''
—Mitt Romney, flubbing the introduction of his running mate, Norfolk, Va., Aug. 11, 2012

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''I'll introduce to you the heavyweight champion of my life.''
—Mitt Romney, introducing his wife Ann while speaking at factory in Youngstown, Ohio, March 5, 2012 (He quickly corrected himself, saying ''I didn't mean weight'')

''We use Ann sparingly right now so that people don't get tired of her.''
—Mitt Romney, referring to his wife while speaking to a room of wealthy donors in Florida, May 17, 2012

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George Stephanopoulos: ''Is $100,000 middle income?''
Mitt Romney: ''No, middle income is $200,000 to $250,000 and less.'' (ABC's ''Good Morning America,'' Sept. 14, 2012)

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''I have inherited nothing. Everything Ann and I have we have earned the old-fashioned way.''
—Mitt Romney, who grew up in one of the wealthiest communities in America, attended an elite prep school, worked for his father, the governor of Michigan, and used stock to pay for his multiple degrees from Stanford, BYU, and Harvard (leaked remarks from a private fundraiser, May 17, 2012)

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Mitt Romney's Wind Vane strategy and why it's working. 
Depending on where he's campaining he is able to get on both sides or brush up against his competiters on virtually all issues. When campaining in Massachusets, obviously a liberal minded state, he had to paint himself as a moderate though slightly more conservative than his oponent.  When running in the Republican primaries (a far more conservative constituant) he had to "shake the etch-a-sketch", to quote his own campaign manager, and run as "very conservative", slightly less conservative than his republican oponents (but more electable).  When the nomination was official, the etch-a-sketch was shaken and he adopted moderate policies once again that are only slightly more conservative than Obama's. This makes him a perceivably viable option for everyone.  Here are some examples...

1. Regarding Abortion, In 1994 he said said when running in the widely pro-choice Massachusets...

"I believe that abortion should be safe and legal in this country. I believe that since Roe v. Wade has been the law for 20 years, that we should sustain and support it. I sustain and support that law and the right of a woman to make that choice."

SHAKE!, SHAKE! ... In 2001.

"I do not wish to be labeled Pro-Choice"

SHAKE!, SHAKE! AGAIN ... In 2002 he said also running in Massachusets

"I will preserve and protect a woman's right to choose and am devoted and dedicated to honoring my word in that regard."

SHAKE!, SHAKE! AGAIN... in 2007 when campaigning in a pro-life environment at the Iowa straw poll....

"Look, I was pro-choice. I am pro-life. You can go back to YouTube and look at what I said in 1994. I never said I was pro-choice, but my position was effectively pro-choice. I changed my position."

SHAKE!, SHAKE! AGAIN... in October  2012 Romney told the Des Moines Register,

“There’s no legislation with regard to abortion that I’m familiar with that would become part of my agenda.”

SHAKE!, SHAKE! AGAIN... October 20th, 2012 in

2. Regarding gun control, In the Massachusets Gubernatorial debate of 2002...

"We do have tough gun laws in Massachusetts. I support them. I won't chip away at them."

And...

"Deadly assault weapons have no place in Massachusetts." While signing a Ban on Assault rifles in Massachusets.

SHAKE!, SHAKE! ... after leaving Massachusets, he said....

"I don’t support any gun control legislation, the effort for a new assault weapons ban, with a ban on semi-automatic weapons, is something I would oppose."

3. Regarding Universal Health Care, in a speach from 2007...

"I'm proud of what we've done. If Massachusetts succeeds in implementing [Romneycare], then that will be a model for the nation."

And at the presidential primary of 2008...

"I like mandates. Mandates work."

SHAKE!, SHAKE! .... at the Rupublican primary debate of 2011 after the republican base had changed it's position on mandated Healthcare (because Obamacare was legislated)...

"At the time I crafted the plan in the last campaign I was asked is [Romneycare] something that you would have the whole nation do, and I said no. This is something that was crafted for Massachusetts. It would be wrong to adopt this as a nation."

SHAKE, SHAKE AGAIN .... When asked what his health care plan was during the October 3rd debate with Obama...

"Well, actually it’s — it’s — it’s a lengthy description. But, number one, preexisting conditions are covered under my plan...
And with regards to health care, you had remarkable details with regards to my pre-existing condition plan. You obviously studied up on — on my plan. In fact, I do have a plan that deals with people with pre-existing conditions. That’s part of my health care plan. And what we did in Massachusetts is a model for the nation state by state. And I said that at that time."

4. Regarding Climate Change at a NH townhall meeting in 2011...

"I believe the world’s getting warmer. I can’t prove that, but I believe based on what I read that the world is getting warmer. And number two, I believe that humans contribute to that. ... And so I think it's important for us to reduce our emissions of pollutants and greenhouse gases that may well be significant contributors to the climate change and the global warming that you're seeing."

SHAKE!, SHAKE! .... Four short months later at a Q&A in PA in 2011...

"My view is that we don’t know what’s causing climate change on this planet. And the idea of spending trillions and trillions of dollars to try to reduce CO2 emissions is not the right course for us."

5. Regarding Don't ask Don't tell, In a letter to Log Cabin Republicans...

Romney said he was in favor of  "gays and lesbians being able to serve openly and honestly" in the military"

SHAKE!, SHAKE! .... later in the Republican primary of 2007...

"(Don't Ask Don't Tell has) been the policy now in the military for, what, 10, 15 years – and it seems to have worked. This is not the time to put in major change, a social experiment, in the middle of a war going on."

6. Regarding Gay Rights, in his 1994 Senate campaign against Democrat Edward Kennedy that he

"would be a greater advocate for gay rights than Kennedy."

SHAKE!, SHAKE! .... After Romney's interview with Pat Buchanon, Buchanan issued a clarification to BuzzFeed following the initial publication of his interview, writing, “Governor Romney supports a federal marriage amendment to the Constitution that defines marriage as an institution between a man and a woman. Governor Romney also believes, consistent with the 10th Amendment, that it should be left to states to decide whether to grant same-sex couples certain benefits, such as hospital visitation rights and the ability to adopt children. I referred to the Tenth Amendment only when speaking about these kinds of benefits – not marriage.”

7. Regarding the Auto Bailout on May 7, 2012,

"If General Motors, Ford and Chrysler get the bailout that their chief executives asked for, you can kiss the American automotive industry goodbye. It won't go overnight, but its demise will be virtually guaranteed."

SHAKE!, SHAKE! .... A couple months later...

"I pushed the idea of a managed bankruptcy and finally when it was done and help was given, the companies got back on their feet. So, I'll take a lot of credit for the fact that this industry has come back".

8. Regarding the Bush Tax Cuts on Jan. 6, 2008.

According to the Boston Herald - "He (Romney) told his state delegation that he 'won't be a cheerleader' for tax cuts that he doesn't agree with."

SHAKE!, SHAKE! .... Republican primaries 2012

"I have never opposed the Bush 2002 tax cuts. I supported them."

9. Regarding Illegal immigaration on Nov. 22, 2011.

 "My view is that those 12 million who come here illegally should be given the opportunity to sign up to stay here "

SHAKE!, SHAKE! .... 2012 Republican primary debate

"But to say that we're going to say to the people who have come here illegally that now you're all going to get to stay ... amnesty is a magnet..."

10.  Regarding the War in Iraq on Dec. 21, 2011 after it was known there were no WMD's

"It was the right decision to go into Iraq. I supported it at the time, I support it now"

SHAKE!, SHAKE! .... A few short months later...

"If we knew at the time of our entry into Iraq that there were no WMD, if somehow we had been given that information, obviously we would not have gone in."

11. Regarding Osama Bin Laden on  May 1st, 2012....

"It's not worth moving heaven and earth spending billions of dollars trying to catch one person"

A couple months later...

"Of course the right course was to assassinate, execute Osama bin Laden. I congratulate the president for doing so. And I'm confident I would have taken the same exact decision".

12. Regarding the Economic Stimulus on Sept. 28th, 201! (Sept. 28, 2011

"I think there is a need for economic stimulus."

SHAKE!, SHAKE! .... A few months later

"I have never supported the President's Recovery Act, alright, the stimulus. No time, nowhere, nohow".

13.  Regarding the The Blunt Amendment (It Creates a Loophole, Allowing Employers and Plans to Use Religious or Moral Convictions to Eliminate Critical Health Care Services).

“I’m not for the bill (the blunt amendment), but look, the idea of presidential candidates getting into questions about contraception within a relationship between a man and a woman, husband and wife, I’m not going there,” Romney answered.

SHAKE!, SHAKE! .... After some backlash from conservatives he released a statement...

“I didn't understand his question,” Romney said on a Boston radio show later Wednesday. “Of course, I support the Blunt amendment.”

SHAKE!, SHAKE! AGAIN!.... October, 2012 presidential debate...

"Every woman in America should have access to contraceptives"

As Ron Paul pointed out in the Republican Debates, Romney lack's convictions, and therefore cannot be pinned down on the issues.  But he also can't be trusted because the public doesn't know the real Romney (assuming the "real" Romney has any convictions at all).  All we know is that he is a political Wind Vane, flowing with the convictions of his audience. If he doesn't stand for something, he is likely to do whatever the lobbyists pay him to do.  If I can quote Republican Gov. Rick Perry from Texas...

"This is not leadership! Mitt Romney needs to realize that "when you try to stand on both sides of an issue, you stand for nothing."

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THE JUDGE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fZliGQROqU

OCCUPY WALL STREET
I have never seen such extreme media manipulation in my life on both sides (liberal and conservative) regarding the Occupy Wall Street Movement. This email is not meant in support of, or opposition to the movement.  it is not meant to be left or right, simply a clarification of who they are and why they are there. 

1. Here is an explanation by Doug Wead, former George W Bush adviser, on a conservative website about why the Occupy Wall Street protesters are there....
http://www.conservativeactionalerts.com/2011/10/ron-paul-and-the-occupy-wall-street-protest/

2. Here is a Video from famous conservative Star-Ledger columnist Paul Mulshine's visit to Occupy Wall Street
http://www.nj.com/ledgerlive/index.ssf/2011/10/cranky_con_goes_to_occupy_wall.html

I know youtube videos Can't be played at work but if you want to copy down these links and watch them later I think you will be surprised...

3. Fox reporter returns from Occupy LA and reports that there are NO Obama supporters and EVERYONE is voting for Ron Paul.  The Host says he has had the same experience and has tried to pass the information on to the network (FOX).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cW0zaKEIenI

4.Protester goes on a rant about the federal reserve at Occupy Wall Street, Ron Paul's message.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxjfgnliNwI&feature=results_main&playnext=1&list=PLFBAB660866E9EE26

5. Another interview with a protester at Occupy LA claiming Ron Paul is the only choice
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KofVTt_6jmg

6. Here is a debate at Occupy Wall Street between Ron Paul supporters and someone who claims he is socialist.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrU3FZlN7Fs

There are a ton of youtube videos of liberal celebrities caught off guard by the overwhelming pro- Ron Paul presence. Here is Alec Baldwin...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEnc7iak6ms
There are many more...

FOX News claims they are Socialists and Vagrants,
MSNBC claims them as fellow progressives,
They are Both equally wrong.
Most "occupiers" claim the movement is over 50% Ron Paul supporters and near 0% Obama supporters. 
How did two major networks mistake a mostly far right libertarian movement for a far left one? They assumed, they did no research, and they never asked.  They were too busy building their case for or against it.
It shouldn't be too much longer before Fox News realises they have been "eating their own" and MSNBC relaizes they have been "coddling the enemy". Will they reverse their respective roles? I expect a slow transition in an attempt by both networks to save face.
One thing we should learn from this is to reject the media's opinionated presentation (especially from these two sources) as "fact".  Then maybe ... just maybe ... we can do a little research ourselves rather than accept what is presented to us by the media.

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HISTORY MONTH

Why no white history month?

Which one?
Irish Amercian History month is March
Greek-American Heritage Month is March
Women's History Month is March
German Amercian History month is September 15th to October 15th
Scottish-American Heritage Month is April
Russian American History Month in New York State is April
Jewish American Heritage Month is May
French-American Heritage Month is July
Italian-American Heritage Month is October
Polish-American history month is October

Why do the groups have to be different species? You also chose "ants" who all work together as one economy for one common community goal, every healthy ant is given a job as a contingent of life. This is socialism.  Socialism we know will fail when faced with competition from capitalism.
        Anyway I have a more applicable story (if it sounds familiar stick with it, it's original). Lets assume these ants act like capialists rather than socialists. 1.5 % of them didn't work through the summer and are now leaching off the rest of the ants (this is about the number of people on welfare now - 4.4 million out of 300 million).  We will also throw out the economic and industrial history of the Ant colony, we will throw out slave labor, child labor, and the rise of organized labor movements.  We will skip to our current era, one of marriage between government and big business, where capitalism has been abandoned for corporatism. 
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           A nice Ant couple, newly married, is excited about opening their own leaf store. They first must jump a parade of colony  regulations. They are disguised as well intentioned, helping out the disabled, protecting the environment, providing for the worker Ant's health. The problem is that there are too many of them, they cost too much, and they are commissioned by the big box leaf store chains. By driving up costs the big box leaf stores can assure that they will have a monopoly on leafs.
         But let’s say the Ant family mortgages their Ant hill and get the start up money to overcome this.  The big box leaf stores control the leaf industry. It is not just through volume but also that their political donations assure that their friend Ants get appointed to the colony leaf inspection agencies. The very Ants who worked for the big box leaf companies will cross over and become a regulator. Ant tax dollars will go to subsidize the big box leaf stores.
         The Ants that pass the laws in Antington D.C. are corrupt. The Big Box Leaf company establishes a lobby in Antington, D.C., which our ant family can't afford to do. They start with a firm of lawyers and former Ant politicians and leaf inspectors. They lobby congressional ants for money for their big box leaf corporation. And they get it. The big box leaf stores are  too large and powerful and control the price and quality of the leafs but also take dollars out of the Ants pocket as an additional subsidy.
So the Ant family has no choice but to get a job at Leaf-Mart. The dream of creating their own leaf store was out of their reach. They now earn a stagnant wage and pay a 25% tax rate.
                       35% of the tax goes to elderly ants. 
                       31% goes to discretionary spending and other mandatory services. A large amount of money went to bailing out the banker and corporate ants who had mismanaged their businesses. The same corporate ants who had paid congressional ants to rig the system in their favor had still failed. It might seem like this would be an oportunity for other ants to establish start-ups, but no, the profits of the corporate ants are privatized but the risks are socialized. 
                       25% of the tax goes to Army ants. The big box leaf stores have discovered that they can find cheaper leafs in other ant colonies . Some foreign ants do not like the economic arangements and intend to disrupt them. Antington D.C. has deployed the Army ants to protect these economic interests and has handed out no-bid support contracts to their Ant friends. All funded by worker ant tax dollars.  They have also found they can give foreign worker ants fewer rations and have moved the majority of their leaf plants overseas but continue to receive the same tax subsidies locally.
                        9% goes to interest on the debt because the governing ants cant seem to balance a budget.  The governing ants are given millions of ant dollars for election campaigns by the big box leaf companies, are surrounded all day by lobbyists for the big box leaf companies, taken to dinner, given gifts, and when the congressional ants retire the big box leaf company has a cushy high paying job waiting. All in exchange to keep the current marriage between corporate and congressional ants going, and keeping our ant family from establishing their leaf store and taking market share from the big box leaf companies.
                     10% of their tax goes to assist other ants economically, some are disabled, some are handicapped, some are working for it, and some are scamming the system. Many conservative ants focus on this greatly. AntFOX news presses it's viewers to focus on this small number of deadbeat ants rather than the trillions of unconditional funds that are handed out to domestic and foreign corporate ants like the ownership of ANTfox news and it's friends. If they can keep a percentage of the population focused on a group of people that will always be there no matter what is done, it is business as usual in Antington D.C.
                      Finally the greatest tax of all. The income and savings of our ant family is devalued greater than their wage can grow because the governing ants allow special FEDants to print money unregulated and hand it out to who they please. In 2009 these FEDants printed 16 trillion ant dollars and handed it out to corporate and banker ants, 3 trillion to went to corporate and banker ants in foreign colonies. Due to no fault of their own, our Ant family will soon find out that their money is worth half of what it was worth just a couple years earlier.
 
All our ant family can do is play the game, be followers, and wonder "what happened to this colony, what happened to the Ant dream?".

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The ANT AND THE GRASSHOPPER
This one is a little different....
Two Different Versions ...
Two Different Morals

OLD VERSION
The ant works
hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter.

The grasshopper
thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away.

Come winter, the ant is warm
and well fed.

The grasshopper has no food or shelter, so he dies out in the cold.

MORAL OF THE OLD STORY:
Be responsible for yourself!

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ANT AND THE GRASHOPPER MODERN VERSION
The ant works hard
in the withering heat and the rain all summer long, building his house
and laying up supplies for the winter.

The grasshopper thinks the ant
is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away.

Come winter, the shivering grasshopper
calls a press conference and demands to know why the ant should be
allowed to be warm and well fed while he is cold and starving..

CBS, NBC, PBS, CNN,
and ABC show up to
provide pictures of the shivering grasshopper
next to a video of the ant
in his comfortable home with a table filled with food.
America is stunned by the sharp contrast.

How can this be, that in a country of such wealth, this poor grasshopper
is allowed to suffer so?

Kermit the Frog appears
on Oprah
with the grasshopper
and everybody cries when they sing,

'It's Not Easy Being Green...'

Occupy the Anthill stages
a demonstration in front of the ant's
house where the news stations film the SEIU group singing,

We shall overcome.

Then Rev. Jeremiah Wright
has the group kneel down to pray for the grasshopper's sake,

while he damns the ants.

President Obama condemns the ant
and blames
President Bush 43, President Bush 41, President Reagan, Christopher Columbus, and the Pope for the grasshopper's plight..

Nancy Pelosi & Harry Reid
exclaim in an interview with Larry
King that the ant has
gotten rich off the back ofthe
grasshopper,
and both call for an immediate tax hike on the ant to make him pay his fair share.

Finally, the EEOC drafts
the Economic Equity &
Anti-Grasshopper Act
retroactive to the beginning of
the summer.

The ant is fined for failing to hire a proportionate number
of green bugs and,
having nothing left to pay his retroactive taxes, his home is confiscated by the Government Green Czar
and given to the grasshopper.

The story ends as we see the grasshopper
and his free-loading friends finishing up the last bits of the ant's food while the government house he is in, which, as you recall, just happens to be the ant's old house,
crumbles around them because the grasshopper doesn't maintain it.

The ant has disappeared in the snow, never to be seen again.

The grasshopper is found dead in a drug related incident, and the house, now abandoned, is taken
overby a gang of spiders who terrorize the ramshackle, once prosperous and peaceful, neighborhood.

The entire Nation collapses
bringing the rest
of the free world with it.

MORAL OF THE STORY:

Be careful how you vote.

I've sent this to you because I believe that you are an ant
not a grasshopper!

Make sure that you pass
this on to other ants.

Don't bother sending
it on to any grasshoppers,
they wouldn't
understand it, anyway

------REPUBLICAN CHILD ABUSE------

Republican County Constable Larry Dale Floyd was arrested on suspicion of soliciting sex with an 8-year old girl. Floyd has repeatedly won elections for Denton County, Texas, constable.

Republican judge Mark Pazuhanich of Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania pled no contest to fondling a 10-year old girl and was sentenced to 10 years probation.

Republican Party leader Bobby Stumbo of Floyd County, Kentucky was arrested for having sex with a 5-year old boy.

Republican teacher and former city councilman John Collins of Asbury Park, New Jersey pled guilty to sexually molesting 13 and 14 year old girls.

Republican campaign worker Mark Seidensticker of Nashua, New Hampshire is a convicted child molester.

Republican Mayor Philip Giordano of Waterbury, Connecticut is serving a 37-year sentence in federal prison for sexually abusing 8 and 10-year old girls.

Republican Mayor John Gosek of Oswego, New York was arrested on charges of soliciting sex from two 15-year old girls.

Republican County Commissioner David Swartz of Richland County, Ohio pled guilty to molesting two girls under the age of 11 and was sentenced to 8 years in prison.

Republican Speaker of the Puerto Rico House of Representatives Edison Misla Aldarondo was sentenced to 10 years in prison for raping his daughter between the ages of 9 and 17.

Republican Committeeman John R. Curtain of Monroe County, Pennsylvania was charged with molesting a teenage boy and unlawful sexual contact with a minor.

Republican anti-abortion activist Howard Scott Heldreth of Kannapolis, N.C., is a convicted child rapist in Florida.

Republican zoning supervisor, Boy Scout leader and Lutheran church president Dennis L. Rader of Witchita, Kansas pled guilty to performing a sexual act on an 11-year old girl he murdered.

Republican anti-abortion activist Nicholas Morency of Camden, New Jersey pled guilty to possessing child pornography on his computer and offering a bounty to anybody who murders an abortion doctor.

Republican campaign consultant Tom Shortridge of Soputhbay, California was sentenced to three years probation for taking nude photographs of a 15-year old girl.

Republican United States Senator Strom Thurmond of South Carolina had sex with a 15-year old black girl which produced a child.

Republican pastor Mike Hintz of Des Moines, Iowa, who George W. Bush commended during the 2004 presidential campaign, surrendered to police after admitting to a sexual affair with a female juvenile.

Republican legislator Peter Dibble of New London, Connecticut pled no contest to having an inappropriate relationship with a 13-year-old girl.

Republican advertising consultant Carey Lee Cramer of Arizona was charged with molesting his 9-year old step daughter after including her in an anti-Gore television commercial.

Republican activist Lawrence E. King, Jr. and Republican lobbyist Craig J. Spence both of Washington, D.C. organized child sex parties at the White House during the 1980s.

Republican Congressman Donald “Buz” Lukens of Columbus, Ohio was found guilty of having sex with a female minor and sentenced to one month in jail.

Republican fundraiser Richard A. Delgaudio of Burke, Virginia was found guilty of child porn charges and paying two teenage girls to pose for sexual photos.

Republican activist Mark A. Grethen of Colorado Springs. Colorado was convicted on six counts of sex crimes involving children.

Republican activist Randal David Ankeney of El Paso County, Arizona pled guilty to attempted sexual assault on a child.

Republican Congressman Dan Crane of Illinois had sex with a female minor working as a congressional page.

Republican activist and Christian Coalition and South Carolina Republican leader Beverly Russell admitted to an incestuous relationship with his step daughter.

Republican Judge Ronald C. Kline of Orange County, California was placed under house arrest for child molestation and possession of child pornography.

Republican congressman and anti-gay activist Robert Bauman of Maryland was charged with having sex with a 16-year-old boy he picked up at a gay bar.

Republican Committee Chairman and attorney Jeffrey Patti of Sparta, New Jersey was arrested for distributing a video clip of a 5-year-old girl being raped.

Republican activist Marty Glickman of Florida (a.k.a. “Republican Marty”), was taken into custody by Florida police on four counts of unlawful sexual activity with an underage girl and one count of delivering the drug LSD. It was Glickman, interestingly enough, that claimed Bill Clinton came from a low rent state and had torn down all of the standards for the highest office in the land.

Republican legislative aide Howard L. Brooks of Quartz Hill, California was charged with molesting a 12-year old boy and possession of child pornography.

Republican Senate candidate John Hathaway who had relocated to Maine from Huntsville, Alabama after having been accused of having sex with his 12-year old baby sitter and withdrew his candidacy after the allegations were reported in the media.

Republican preacher Stephen White of West Chester, Pennsylvania, who demanded a return to traditional values, was sentenced to jail after offering $20 to a 14-year-old boy for permission to perform oral sex on him.

Republican talk show host Jon Matthews of Houston, Texas pled guilty to exposing his genitals to an 11 year old girl.

Republican anti-gay activist Earl “Butch” Kimmerling of Anderson, Indiana was sentenced to 40 years in prison for molesting an 8-year old girl after he attempted to stop a gay couple from adopting her.

Republican Party leader Paul Ingram of Thurston County, Washington pled guilty to six counts of raping his daughters and served 14 years in federal prison.

Republican election board official Kevin Coan of St. Louis, Missouri was sentenced to two years probation for soliciting sex over the internet from a 14-year old girl.

Republican politician Andrew Buhr, also of St. Louis, was charged with two counts of first degree sodomy with a 13-year old boy.

Republican politician Keith Westmoreland of Kingsport, Tennessee was arrested on seven felony counts of lewd and lascivious exhibition to girls under the age of 16 (i.e. exposing himself to children).

Republican anti-abortion activist John Allen Burt of Pensacola, Florida was found guilty of molesting a 15-year old girl.

Republican County Councilman Keola Childs of Hawaii County, Hawaii pled guilty to molesting a male child.

Republican activist John Butler of Cass County, Illinois was charged with criminal sexual assault on a teenage girl.

Republican candidate Richard Gardner of Clark County, Nevada admitted to molesting his two daughters.

Republican Councilman and former Marine Jack W. Gardner of Lancaster, Pennsylvania was convicted of molesting a 13-year old girl.

Republican County Commissioner Merrill Robert Barter of Boothbay, Maine pled guilty to unlawful sexual contact and assault on a teenage boy.

Republican City Councilman Fred C. Smeltzer, Jr. of Wrightsville Borough, Delaware pled no contest to raping a 15 year-old girl and served 6-months in prison.

Republican activist Parker J. Bena pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography on his home computer and was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison and fined $18,000.

Republican parole board officer and former Colorado state representative, Larry Jack Schwarz, was fired after child pornography was found in his possession.

Republican strategist and Citadel Military College graduate Robin Vanderwall of Virginia was convicted in Virginia on five counts of soliciting sex from boys and girls over the internet.

Republican city councilman Mark Harris of West Bend, Wisconsin, who has been described as a “good military man” and “church goer,” was convicted of repeatedly having sex with an 11-year-old girl and sentenced to 12 years in prison.

Republican businessman Jon Grunseth withdrew his candidacy for Minnesota governor after allegations surfaced that he went swimming in the nude with four underage girls, including his daughter.

Republican director of the “Young Republican Federation” Nicholas Elizondo of Bakersfield, California molested his 6-year old daughter and was sentenced to six years in prison.

Republican president of the New York City Housing Development Corp, Russell Harding, pled guilty to possessing child pornography on his computer.

Republican benefactor of conservative Christian groups, Richard A. Dasen, Sr. of Kalispell, Montana, was found guilty of raping a 15-year old girl. Dasen, 62, who is married with grown children and several grandchildren, has allegedly told police that over the past decade he paid more than $1 million to have sex with a large number of young women.

Republican Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld authorized the rape of children in Iraqi prisons in order to humiliate their parents into providing information about the anti-American insurgency.

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http://recoveringliberal.com/?page_id=765
http://deadstate.org/more-gop-politicians-have-been-arrested-for-sexual-misconduct-in-bathrooms-than-trans-people/
http://www.mediaite.com/online/republican-mayor-arrested-over-underage-strip-poker-game/
Larry Craig,
Josh Duggart,
 
Dennis Hastert, former speaker of the house
http://lawnewz.com/high-profile/dennis-hastert-molested-at-least-four-young-boys-prosecutors/
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/rec.crafts.metalworking/SHxFGlPBtR4
https://bureaucracybuster.com/2016/04/13/the-latest-family-values-pervert/

Joseph Russell Dendy
http://www.joemygod.com/2016/05/20/georgia-former-local-republican-party-chair-arrested-on-aggravated-child-molestation-charges/

Conservative Pastor Ken Adkins
http://www.lgbtqnation.com/2016/08/pastor-said-pulse-victims-deserved-die-busted-child-abuse/

Tea Party leader, Christian Philip Hine
http://usuncut.news/2016/08/30/tea-party-pervert-heading-to-prison-for-ten-felonies/

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RON PAUL Non-WHITES

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JOHN WAYNE

“It’s a little known fact that on long breaks between shootings, the Duke liked to retire to his trailer, get in drag, and then prance in front of a mirror for hours.” Tommy Baker

western movie producer and longtime transvestite, John Ford

“It’s not whether you wear frilly panties,” Steigelberg’s quotes Wayne as saying, “but what you do when you take them off at the end of the day that defines you as a man.”

“Cowboy hats, boots and a bandanna . . . ruffled-skirts, halter tops and mascara . . . Hell, I don’t care. The Duke was a beautiful person.” Rogers Wilson, Chapter Director of LA Cross-dressers Anonymous

“It’s a little known fact that the Duke was a big fan of courageous cross-dressing director Ed Wood and wanted to star in an Ed Wood movie, but was dissuaded by his close friends and business associates. He always regretted letting Eddie down.” Tommy Edwards, Scriptwriter

Myron Steigelberg wrote a book detailing it John Wayne – Duke or Dutchess

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15603 Dem
2087 Rep

------PRICE GOUGING----  overpriced

paying between 99 cents and $1.50 for tap water. But there are other places where you are getting ripped off every day and you probably don't even know it.

 the hippie movement and other failures of the generation.

www.northcountrypublicradio.org

Today's Random Fact:

Although it costs less than ten cents per ounce to produce, popcorn in movie theaters will typically cost you around $5, which ounce-for-ounce is more than filet mignon! Movie theaters mark up pop corn and many other concessions over 1,000 percent!

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Bonus Fact:

It costs a carrier about one-third of a cent to deliver a text message. Users, however, generally pay between 10 to 20 cents per text. That is a markup of over 6,500 percent!
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 Notes

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http://www.investopedia.com/articles/financial-theory/08/political-party-democrat-republican-stock-returns.asp

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http://www.learnoutloud.com/podcaststream/listen.php?url=http://www.hbo.com/podcasts/billmaher/podcast.xml&all=1&title=18789

https://www.aclu.org/taxonomy/term/1/feed
http://feeds.dailykos.com/dailykos/index.xml
http://chimpfeedr.com/

https://www.aclu.org/

http://www.protectioninternational.org/
http://www.brennancenter.org/

Over Legislation

http://www.motorists.org/seat-belt-laws/social-cost

https://ssdp.org/campaigns/lowering-drinking-age/

https://www.chooseresponsibility.org/

http://www.freerangekids.com/

http://www.stop-watch.org/

www.sentencingproject.org
http://famm.org/
http://www.ccrjustice.org/
http://ellabakercenter.org/
http://www.arkansastimeaftertime.org/
http://californiarsol.org/

https://www.womenagainstregistry.org/

norml.org

http://www.defendingdissent.org/now/

https://www.eff.org/

http://www.ted.com/

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Why no white history month?

Which one?
Irish Amercian History month is March
Greek-American Heritage Month is March
Women's History Month is March
German Amercian History month is September 15th to October 15th
Scottish-American Heritage Month is April
Russian American History Month in New York State is April
Jewish American Heritage Month is May
French-American Heritage Month is July
Italian-American Heritage Month is October

Confederate History Month is April (southern US only)
Polish-American history month is October

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The U.S. didn't institute an income tax until the time of the Civil War, as a temporary measure. It took the Sixteenth Amendment, ratified in 1913, to make it possible for the federal government to tax individuals directly.

But the story of tax day doesn't end there. In 1954, Congress passed nearly 1,000 pages of revision to the Internal Revenue Code. In it, Tax Day would be moved from March 15 to April 15, giving the taxpayer an extra month to recover from Christmas expenses.

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Today's Random Fact:

The federal tax code is now 74,608-page-long. It is 187 times longer than it was a century ago.

From 2010, when Obamacare was passed, to 2014, the tax code grew by nearly 3,000 more pages.

If the tax code continues to grow at the same pace it did over the last century, it will pass 100,000 pages in 2050.

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Bonus Fact:

Tax deniers (tax defiers or tax protesters) are people who refuses to pay tax on constitutional or legal grounds.

Tax protesters raise a number of different kinds of arguments, these typically include constitutional arguments, such as claims that the Sixteenth Amendment to the Constitution was not properly ratified or that it is unconstitutional generally, or that being forced to file an income tax return violates the Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination.

These arguments rarely work out for them.
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RANDOM FACTS

The eagle on the United States Great Seal faces the olive branch in its right paw. However, until 1945 the eagle on the Presidential Seal faced the arrows gripped in its left paw.

The gag rule was instituted in the Senate in 1836 in order that the senators would not have to accept, debate, or vote on anti-slavery petitions.

West Virginia is the only state to have formed by seceding from a pre-existing state.

The original Library of Congress was burned down by the British in 1814 along with the Capitol. To replace it, the Congress bought Thomas Jefferson's personal book collection, which consisted of approximately 6,500 volumes.

The middle initial "S" in Harry S. Truman's name does not actually stand for anything - his parents could not agree on a middle name.

The first time John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon locked in public debate was not as presidential candidates in 1960 but as young congressmen in 1947, when a political club invited them to discuss the pros and cons of a labor bill.

"July is the most dangerous month to be in the hospital because that's when newly graduated doctors hit the scene."

Rice, Sabriya. "Are Hospitals Deadlier in July?" CNN. Turner Broadcast Newtork (TimeWarner). 8 Jul 2010. Web.

10% of Brain

"Throughout a 24-hour period, we already use 100% of our gray matter, every day."

Boyd, Robynne. "Do People Only Use Ten Percent of Their Brains?" Scientific American. Nature America, Inc. 7 Feb 2008. Web. 

"Rutherford B. Hayes, got the presidency in 1876 even though he didn't win the popular OR the electoral vote."

Wormser, Richard. "Hayes-Tilden Election." PBS Online. Public Broadcasting Service. Accessed 12 Apr 2015. Web.

"Star Spangled Banner", wasn't the original name of the song, an anti-war song about a war no one remembers, and the tune was lifted from popular music at the time."

 Wilson, Scott. "Star Spangled Banner Myths Debunked." ABC News. The Walt Disney Company. 4 Jul 2014. Web.

"Although crime goes up in the heat, it levels off when the thermometer hits around 80 degrees."

Keim, Brandon. "The Hazy Science of Hot Weather and Violence." Wired. Condé Nast Publications. 22 Jul 2011 Web.

"Kids lose on average one month of instruction every summer. Educators call it the summer slide."

Cooper, Harris, Barbara Nye, Kelly Charlton, James Lindsay, and Scott Greathouse. "The Effects of Summer Vacation on Achievement Test Scores: A Narrative and Meta-Analytic Review." Review of Educational Research 66.3 (1996): 227-68.Duke University. Duke University, 26 Jan. 2011. Web.

"Six out of seven kids eligible for summer lunch programs never receive them."

"Summer Meals: Summer Meals Survey of Parents." No Kid Hungry, Center for Best Practices. Share Our Strength, n.d. Web.

"In other countries like Japan and England, students get multiple short breaks throughout the school year."

Lyons, Linda. "Can We Learn From Year-Round Schooling?" 12 November, 2012. Gallup. Web.

"Back in the 20s, our copyright system worked the way it was supposed to. An artist who created a new work could claim the exclusive right to it for 56 years."

The Association of Research Libraries. "Copyright Timeline: A History of Copyright in the United States." ARL.org. 2015. Web.

"Remixing the works of the past is an essential part of how we create new culture. And this same process brought us so many of your favorite characters: Frankenstein, Dracula, Sherlock Holmes, Sleeping Beauty, Alice in Wonderland, The Wizard of Oz, Hercules, Pinocchio, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Captain Nemo, Paul Bunyan, Tarzan, King Arthur, Robin Hood, Moby Dick, and many, many more."

Lessig, Lawrence. Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock down Culture and Control Creativity. New York: Penguin, 2004. Print.

"In 1998, Mickey Mouse was about enter the public domain. To stop that from happening, Disney and other companies lobbied Congress to extend the term of copyright by decades, just so they could retain ownership of him and other characters."

Lee, Timothy B. "15 years ago, Congress kept Mickey Mouse out of the public domain. Will they do it again?" Washingtonpost.com. Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive. 25 Oct. 2013. Web.

"Dozens of Disney characters were taken directly from the public domain."

Khanna, Derek. "50 Disney Movies Based On The Public Domain." Forbes. Forbes Magazine, 3 Feb. 2014. Web.

"Before World War II, little boys and little girls wore the same outfits, pretty dresses."

Maglaty, Jeanna. "When Did Girls Start Wearing Pink?" Smithsonian.com. Smithsonian Institution, 7 Apr. 2011. Web.

"Early games like Pong were totally unisex. In fact, the game was marketed to the entire family."

Lien, Tracey. "No Girls Allowed: Unraveling the story behind the stereotype of video games being for boys." Polygon. Vox Media, 02 Dec. 2013. Web.

"Pac-Man was so popular with women, that when it came time for a sequel, the developers gave it a female main character: Ms. Pac-Man."

"Electronic Games Magazine." May 1982: n. pag. Internet Archive. Internet Archive. Web.

"Because all of that changed thanks to the videogame crash of 1983. Greedy publishers started flooding the market with shoddy titles… [and] most adults stopped playing games entirely, and the videogame market cratered."

Gratzer, Karl, and Dieter Stiefel. History of Insolvency and Bankruptcy from an International Perspective. Huddinge: Södertörns Högskola, 2008. Web.

"More adult women play video games than teenage boys do."

"Essential Facts about the Computer and Videogame Industry." Entertainment Software Association (2015): n. pag. Entertainment Software Association, Apr. 2015. Web.

"Animal Crossing: New Leaf... broke sales records, and 56% of the people playing it are women."

Hudson, Laura. "Nintendo's New Key to Creativity: More Women." Wired. Conde Nast, 28 Mar. 2014. Web.

"No one ever compares the signature on the slip to your real one. It's more security theater."

"The Bryant Park Project." Why Do We Still Have To Sign Credit Card Receipts? NPR. New York, New York, 7 July 2008. NPR. Web.

"Heck, most of the time they'll call you before you ever notice it happened. Credit card fraud is so pervasive, banks have started covering the cost just so people don't cancel their cards."

Palmer, Kimberly. "How Credit Card Companies Spot Fraud Before You Do." U.S. News & World Report Money. US. News & World Report L.P., 10 July 2013. Web.

"Now, this home alarm system you have… these things are a notorious boondoggle that does nothing."

Sullivan, Paul. "Weighing the Value of a Home Security System." Review. The New York Times. 30 Apr. 2010, New York ed., B5 sec.: n. pag. Web.

-- Federal Employees--

http://underthemountainbunker.com/2011/07/17/a-great-explanation-of-the-conservative-argument-that-federal-workers-are-overpaid/

--Random--

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--the ants parable

Why do the groups have to be different species? You also chose "ants" who all work together as one economy for one common community goal, every healthy ant is given a job as a contingent of life. This is socialism.  Socialism we know will fail when faced with competition from capitalism.
        Anyway I have a more applicable story (if it sounds familiar stick with it, it's original). Lets assume these ants act like capialists rather than socialists. 1.5 % of them didn't work through the summer and are now leaching off the rest of the ants (this is about the number of people on welfare now - 4.4 million out of 300 million).  We will also throw out the economic and industrial history of the Ant colony, we will throw out slave labor, child labor, and the rise of organized labor movements.  We will skip to our current era, one of marriage between government and big business, where capitalism has been abandoned for corporatism. 
          ...............................................................................................................
           A nice Ant couple, newly married, is excited about opening their own leaf store. They first must jump a parade of colony  regulations. They are disguised as well intentioned, helping out the disabled, protecting the environment, providing for the worker Ant's health. The problem is that there are too many of them, they cost too much, and they are commissioned by the big box leaf store chains. By driving up costs the big box leaf stores can assure that they will have a monopoly on leafs.
         But let’s say the Ant family mortgages their Ant hill and get the start up money to overcome this.  The big box leaf stores control the leaf industry. It is not just through volume but also that their political donations assure that their friend Ants get appointed to the colony leaf inspection agencies. The very Ants who worked for the big box leaf companies will cross over and become a regulator. Ant tax dollars will go to subsidize the big box leaf stores.
         The Ants that pass the laws in Antington D.C. are corrupt. The Big Box Leaf company establishes a lobby in Antington, D.C., which our ant family can't afford to do. They start with a firm of lawyers and former Ant politicians and leaf inspectors. They lobby congressional ants for money for their big box leaf corporation. And they get it. The big box leaf stores are  too large and powerful and control the price and quality of the leafs but also take dollars out of the Ants pocket as an additional subsidy.
So the Ant family has no choice but to get a job at Leaf-Mart. The dream of creating their own leaf store was out of their reach. They now earn a stagnant wage and pay a 25% tax rate.
                       35% of the tax goes to elderly ants. 
                       31% goes to discretionary spending and other mandatory services. A large amount of money went to bailing out the banker and corporate ants who had mismanaged their businesses. The same corporate ants who had paid congressional ants to rig the system in their favor had still failed. It might seem like this would be an oportunity for other ants to establish start-ups, but no, the profits of the corporate ants are privatized but the risks are socialized. 
                       25% of the tax goes to Army ants. The big box leaf stores have discovered that they can find cheaper leafs in other ant colonies . Some foreign ants do not like the economic arangements and intend to disrupt them. Antington D.C. has deployed the Army ants to protect these economic interests and has handed out no-bid support contracts to their Ant friends. All funded by worker ant tax dollars.  They have also found they can give foreign worker ants fewer rations and have moved the majority of their leaf plants overseas but continue to receive the same tax subsidies locally.
                        9% goes to interest on the debt because the governing ants cant seem to balance a budget.  The governing ants are given millions of ant dollars for election campaigns by the big box leaf companies, are surrounded all day by lobbyists for the big box leaf companies, taken to dinner, given gifts, and when the congressional ants retire the big box leaf company has a cushy high paying job waiting. All in exchange to keep the current marriage between corporate and congressional ants going, and keeping our ant family from establishing their leaf store and taking market share from the big box leaf companies.
                     10% of their tax goes to assist other ants economically, some are disabled, some are handicapped, some are working for it, and some are scamming the system. Many conservative ants focus on this greatly. AntFOX news presses it's viewers to focus on this small number of deadbeat ants rather than the trillions of unconditional funds that are handed out to domestic and foreign corporate ants like the ownership of ANTfox news and it's friends. If they can keep a percentage of the population focused on a group of people that will always be there no matter what is done, it is business as usual in Antington D.C.
                      Finally the greatest tax of all. The income and savings of our ant family is devalued greater than their wage can grow because the governing ants allow special FEDants to print money unregulated and hand it out to who they please. In 2009 these FEDants printed 16 trillion ant dollars and handed it out to corporate and banker ants, 3 trillion to went to corporate and banker ants in foreign colonies. Due to no fault of their own, our Ant family will soon find out that their money is worth half of what it was worth just a couple years earlier.
 
All our ant family can do is play the game, be followers, and wonder "what happened to this colony, what happened to the Ant dream?".

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From: PFEIFFER, BERNARD
Sent: Thu 2/16/2012 4:09 PM
To: PATZELT, ROBERT A; JOHNSON, JEFFREY; SORRELL, JUSTIN J
Subject: FW: The Ant and The Grasshopper

Interesting way to look at it…

S

The ANT AND THE GRASSHOPPER
This one is a little different....
Two Different Versions ...
Two Different Morals

OLD VERSION
The ant works
hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter.

The grasshopper
thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away.

Come winter, the ant is warm
and well fed.

The grasshopper has no food or shelter, so he dies out in the cold.

MORAL OF THE OLD STORY:
Be responsible for yourself!

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

MODERN VERSION
The ant works hard
in the withering heat and the rain all summer long, building his house
and laying up supplies for the winter.

The grasshopper thinks the ant
is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away.

Come winter, the shivering grasshopper
calls a press conference and demands to know why the ant should be
allowed to be warm and well fed while he is cold and starving..

CBS, NBC, PBS, CNN,
and ABC show up to
provide pictures of the shivering grasshopper
next to a video of the ant
in his comfortable home with a table filled with food.
America is stunned by the sharp contrast.

How can this be, that in a country of such wealth, this poor grasshopper
is allowed to suffer so?

Kermit the Frog appears
on Oprah
with the grasshopper
and everybody cries when they sing,

'It's Not Easy Being Green...'

Occupy the Anthill stages
a demonstration in front of the ant's
house where the news stations film the SEIU group singing,

We shall overcome.

Then Rev. Jeremiah Wright
has the group kneel down to pray for the grasshopper's sake,

while he damns the ants.

President Obama condemns the ant
and blames
President Bush 43, President Bush 41, President Reagan, Christopher Columbus, and the Pope for the grasshopper's plight..

Nancy Pelosi & Harry Reid
exclaim in an interview with Larry
King that the ant has
gotten rich off the back ofthe
grasshopper,
and both call for an immediate tax hike on the ant to make him pay his fair share.

Finally, the EEOC drafts
the Economic Equity &
Anti-Grasshopper Act
retroactive to the beginning of
the summer.

The ant is fined for failing to hire a proportionate number
of green bugs and,
having nothing left to pay his retroactive taxes, his home is confiscated by the Government Green Czar
and given to the grasshopper.

The story ends as we see the grasshopper
and his free-loading friends finishing up the last bits of the ant's food while the government house he is in, which, as you recall, just happens to be the ant's old house,
crumbles around them because the grasshopper doesn't maintain it.

The ant has disappeared in the snow, never to be seen again.

The grasshopper is found dead in a drug related incident, and the house, now abandoned, is taken
overby a gang of spiders who terrorize the ramshackle, once prosperous and peaceful, neighborhood.

The entire Nation collapses
bringing the rest
of the free world with it.

MORAL OF THE STORY:

Be careful how you vote in 2012.

I've sent this to you because I believe that you are an ant
not a grasshopper!

Make sure that you pass
this on to other ants.

Don't bother sending
it on to any grasshoppers,
they wouldn't
understand it, anyway

---------Occupy--------

I have never seen such extreme media manipulation in my life on both sides (liberal and conservative) regarding the Occupy Wall Street Movement. This email is not meant in support of, or opposition to the movement.  it is not meant to be left or right, simply a clarification of who they are and why they are there. 

1. Here is an explanation by Doug Wead, former George W Bush adviser, on a conservative website about why the Occupy Wall Street protesters are there....
http://www.conservativeactionalerts.com/2011/10/ron-paul-and-the-occupy-wall-street-protest/

2. Here is a Video from famous conservative Star-Ledger columnist Paul Mulshine's visit to Occupy Wall Street
http://www.nj.com/ledgerlive/index.ssf/2011/10/cranky_con_goes_to_occupy_wall.html

I know youtube videos Can't be played at work but if you want to copy down these links and watch them later I think you will be surprised...

3. Fox reporter returns from Occupy LA and reports that there are NO Obama supporters and EVERYONE is voting for Ron Paul.  The Host says he has had the same experience and has tried to pass the information on to the network (FOX).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cW0zaKEIenI

4.Protester goes on a rant about the federal reserve at Occupy Wall Street, Ron Paul's message.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxjfgnliNwI&feature=results_main&playnext=1&list=PLFBAB660866E9EE26

5. Another interview with a protester at Occupy LA claiming Ron Paul is the only choice
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KofVTt_6jmg

6. Here is a debate at Occupy Wall Street between Ron Paul supporters and someone who claims he is socialist.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrU3FZlN7Fs

There are a ton of youtube videos of liberal celebrities caught off guard by the overwhelming pro- Ron Paul presence. Here is Alec Baldwin...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEnc7iak6ms
There are many more...

FOX News claims they are Socialists and Vagrants,
MSNBC claims them as fellow progressives,
They are Both equally wrong.
Most "occupiers" claim the movement is over 50% Ron Paul supporters and near 0% Obama supporters. 
How did two major networks mistake a mostly far right libertarian movement for a far left one? They assumed, they did no research, and they never asked.  They were too busy building their case for or against it.
It shouldn't be too much longer before Fox News realises they have been "eating their own" and MSNBC relaizes they have been "coddling the enemy". Will they reverse their respective roles? I expect a slow transition in an attempt by both networks to save face.
One thing we should learn from this is to reject the media's opinionated presentation (especially from these two sources) as "fact".  Then maybe ... just maybe ... we can do a little research ourselves rather than accept what is presented to us by the media.

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1. Implementing an immediate ban on all private contributions of money and gifts, to all politicians in federal office, from Individuals, Corporations, Political Action Committees, Super Political Action Committees, Lobbyists, Unions and all other private sources of money to be replaced by the fair and equal public financing of all federal political campaigns. We categorically REJECT the concept that money is equal to free speech because if that were so, then only the wealthiest would have a voice. These actions must be taken because it has become clear that politicians in the United States cannot regulate themselves and have become the exclusive representatives of corporations, unions and the very wealthy who spend vast sums of money on political campaigns to influence the candidates’ decisions and ensure their reelection year after year.

2. The immediate reversal, even if it requires a Constitutional Amendment, of the outrageous and anti-democratic holding in the “Citizens United” case by the Supreme Court, which equates the payment of money by corporations, wealthy individuals and unions to politicians with free speech. We, the People, demand that institutional bribery and corruption not be deemed protected speech.

3. Prohibiting all federal public officials and their immediate family members, whether elected or appointed, from EVER being employed by any corporation they regulate while in office and/or holding any stock or shares in any corporation they regulate while in office until a full 5 years after their term is completed

4. A complete lifetime ban on accepting all gifts, services, money, directly or indirectly, to any elected or appointed federal officials or their immediate family members, from any person, corporation, union or other entity that the public official was charged to regulate while in office.

5. A complete reformation of the United States Tax Code to require ALL citizens to pay a fair share of a progressive, graduated income tax by eliminating loopholes, unfair tax breaks, exemptions and deductions, subsidies (e.g. oil, gas and farm) and ending all other methods of evading taxes. The current system of taxation favors the wealthiest Americans, many of whom, pay fewer taxes to the United States Treasury than citizens who earn much less and pay a much higher percentage of income in taxes to the United States Treasury. We, like Warren Buffet, find this income tax disparity to be fundamentally unjust.

6. Medicare for all American citizens or another single-payer healthcare system, adjusted by a means test (i.e. citizens who can afford it may opt-out and pay their own health insurance or opt-in and pay a means tested premium). The Medicaid program, fraught with corruption and fraud, will be eliminated except for the purpose of providing emergency room care to indigent non-citizens who will not be covered by the single-payer program.

7. New comprehensive regulations to give the Environmental Protection Agency expanded powers to shut down corporations, businesses or any entities that intentionally or recklessly damage the environment and/or criminally prosecute individuals who intentionally damage the environment. We also demand the immediate adoption of the most recent international protocols, including the “Washington Declaration” to cap carbon emissions and implement new and existing programs to transition away from fossil fuels to reusable or carbon neutral sources of power.

8. Adoption of an immediate plan to reduce the national debt to a sustainable percentage of GDP by 2020. Reduction of the national debt to be achieved by BOTH a cut in spending to corporations engaged in perpetual war for profit, the “healthcare” industry, the pharmaceutical industry and all other sectors that use the federal budget as their income stream AND a truly progressive income tax code that does not allow the wealthy and corporations to evade taxes through excessive deductions, subsidies and loopholes. We agree that spending cuts are necessary but those cuts must be made to facilitate what is best for the People of the United States of America, not multinational and domestic corporations.

9. Passage of a comprehensive job and job-training act like the American Jobs Act to employ our citizens in jobs that are available with specialized training and by putting People to work now by repairing America’s crumbling infrastructure. We also recommend the establishment of an online international job exchange to match employers with skilled workers or employers willing to train workers in 21st century skills.

10. Student loan debt relief. Our young People and students are more than $830 billion in debt from education loans alone. Payment and interest on these debts should be deferred for periods of unemployment and the principal on these loans reduced using a corporate tax surcharge.

11. Immediate passage of the Dream Act and comprehensive immigration and border security reform including offering visas, lawful permanent resident status and citizenship to the world’s brightest People to stay and work in our industries and schools after they obtain their education and training in the United States.

12. Recalling all military personnel at all non-essential bases and refocusing national defense goals to address threats posed by the geopolitics of the 21st century, including terrorism and limiting the large scale deployment of military forces to instances where Congressional approval has been granted to counter the Military Industrial Complex’s goal of perpetual war for profit.

13. Mandating new educational goals to train the American public to perform jobs in a 21st Century economy, particularly in the areas of technology and green energy, taking into consideration the redundancy caused by technology and the inexpensive cost of labor in China, India and other countries and paying our teachers a competitive salary commensurate with the salaries of employees in the private sector with similar skills.

14. Subject to the elimination of corporate tax loopholes and exploited exemptions and deductions stated above, offering tax incentives to businesses to remain in the United States and hire its citizens rather than outsource jobs and reconstruct the manufacturing capacity of the United States.  In conjunction with a new jobs act, reinstitution of the Works Progress Administration and Civilian Conservation Corps or a similar emergency governmental agency tasked with creating new public works projects to provide jobs to the 46 million People living in poverty, the 9.1% unemployed and 10% underemployed.

15. Implementing of immediate legislation to encourage China and our other trading partners to end currency manipulation and reduce the trade deficit.

16. Immediate reenactment of the Glass-Steagall Act and increased regulation of Wall Street and the financial industry by the SEC, FINRA and the other financial regulators, and the commencement of a Justice Department criminal investigations into the Securities and Banking industries practices that led to the collapse of markets, $700 billion bail-out, and financial firm failures in 2007-2008.

17. Adoption of a plan similar to President Clinton’s proposal to end the mortgage crisis and instead of the Federal Reserve continuing to lower interest rates for loans to banks who are refusing to loan to small businesses and consumers, the Federal Reserve shall buy all underwater or foreclosed mortgages and refinance these debts at 1% or less to be managed by the newly established Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (and foreclosure task force described below) because 1% or less is the interest rate the Federal Reserve loans to the banks directly who hoard the cash rather than loan it to the People and small businesses.

18. An immediate one year freeze on all foreclosures to be reviewed by an independent foreclosure task force appointed by Congress and the Executive Branch to (in conjunction with the  Consumer Financial Protection Bureau ) determine, on a case by case basis, whether foreclosure proceedings should continue based on the circumstances of each homeowner and propriety of the financial institution’s conduct.

19. Subject to the above ban on all private money and gifts in politics, to enact additional campaign finance reform requiring free air time and public campaign finances to all candidates who obtain sufficient petition signatures and/or votes to participate in the primaries and/or electoral process, to shorten the campaign season and to allow voting on weekends and holidays.

20. An immediate withdrawal of all troops from Iraq and Afghanistan and a substantial increase in the amount of funding needed for veteran job placement and the treatment of the physical and emotional injuries sustained by veterans in these wars. Our veterans are committing suicide at an unprecedented rate and we must help now.

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It seems to me that no matter what the size,  government only works for corporations and the top 1%.  The bigger the government, the more corporations benefit. All our polititions are glorified employees of corportations. They are elected with corporate money, romanced by corporate lobbyists, and are given cozy multi-million dollar "historian" jobs when they retire. All in return for crushing mom and pop's and keeping the rich - rich and the poor -poor.  We thought Obama could change the system and we were wrong, seems he decided to "play ball".  Is it so hard to understand why RonPaul is appealing to us?

----------royal family