Huckabee Wants Us To Be Forced To
Listen To David Barton, At Gunpoint

David Barton, one of the many aberrations from the right-wing stockpile of Batshit Crazy People, now has a USA presidential contender, HuckaBB, ballyhooing for him, (We need to listen to Barton’s concocted American history, AT GUNPOINT, so we can learn historical facts).

THE FAUX FACTS, according to the dishonest, pernicious bullies in the Republican Party.

America certainly needs a good dose of 101 in reality if they choose to follow this band of GOP charlatans. thinkingblue

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David Barton introduced Mike Huckabee at the Rediscover God In
America conference, praising him as the epitome of the
“Black Robe Regiment” mentality of seeking to apply the
Bible to every aspect of the culture.

Huckabee, in turn, repaid the compliments to Barton, calling him
one of the most effective communicators in America and wishing
that every American would be forced, at gunpoint, to listen to
every Barton broadcast:

MORE HERE

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The Right’s Library of Fake Quotes

Putting words in dead people’s mouths

By Steve Rendall

Abraham Lincoln despised class warfare, Thomas Jefferson detested
bailouts and the founders of the nation were all Bible-believing
Christians. These are among the historical “facts”
you’ll learn as a regular consumer of talk radio, Fox News
and other conservative sources.

While non-conservatives have been known to misquote historical
figures to add credibility to their own views, the right seems to
have a special enthusiasm for putting words in dead people’s
mouths.

Take what has become known as the “The Ten Cannots,” a
list repeatedly misattributed to Abraham Lincoln. It begins:

You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You
cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot
help little men by tearing down big men. You cannot lift the wage
earner by pulling down the wage payer. You cannot help the poor
by destroying the rich. You cannot establish sound security on
borrowed money. You cannot further the brotherhood of man by
inciting class hatred.…

And so on. These words were actually written by William J.H.
Boetcker, a conservative minister who published them in a 1916
pamphlet along with some actual Lincoln quotes (Snopes.com,
8/19/09). Almost a century and many well-documented debunkings
later (e.g., the 1989 Oxford Press book They Never Said It), some
conservatives still insist on assigning them to Lincoln.

The canard is a staple of rabidly anti-Obama right-wing media
such as Newsmax, where it has been repeated by columnist
Geoff Metcalf (1/20/09) and radio talkshow host Al Rantel
(3/1/04). This past summer, a flurry of letters to the editor
citing Lincoln’s supposed remarks coincided with right-wing
Tea Party demonstrations across the country (e.g., Charleston,
S.C., Post and Courier, 8/8/09; South Florida Sun Sentinel,
9/18/09).

Rush Limbaugh (Rush Limbaugh TV show, 2/19/96)
acknowledged falsely assigning the remarks to Lincoln in a 1986
speech he gave honoring the 16th president’s birthday. This
admission came four years after former President Ronald Reagan
misattributed the quote in his speech at the 1992 GOP convention
and the New York Times (8/19/92), CNN (8/19/92) and NPR (8/20/92)
ran stories disproving the Lincoln connection.

Current Republican National Committee chair Michael Steele used
to include “Lincoln’s” advice in his boilerplate
speech. It was in the pre-published text of his 2004 GOP
convention speech, but not in the version Steele delivered;
perhaps someone remembered Reagan’s RNC woes 12 years
earlier (PR Newswire, 8/31/04). (Steele continues to use
the quotes from the “Ten Cannots,” now saying that he
learned them from his mother—e.g., Your World,
1/5/10.)

Putting the Founders to Work

When widely syndicated columnist Cal Thomas posted a commentary
on his website (1/15/09) opposing federal bailouts, he cited
quotes from Thomas Jefferson to bolster his argument: MORE HERE

Mother Jones’ Nick Baumann brings us this shocker:

IRS Would Audit Abortions Under GOP Anti-Choice Bill
Under a GOP-backed bill expected to sail through the House of Representatives, the Internal Revenue Service would be forced to police how Americans have paid for their abortions. To ensure that taxpayers complied with the law, IRS agents would have to investigate whether certain terminated pregnancies were the result of rape or incest. And one tax expert says that the measure could even lead to questions on tax forms: Have you had an abortion? Did you keep your receipt?

In testimony to a House taxation subcommittee on Wednesday, Thomas Barthold, the chief of staff of the nonpartisan Joint Tax Committee, confirmed that one consequence of the Republicans’ “No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act” would be to turn IRS agents into abortion cops—that is, during an audit, they’d have to determine, from evidence provided by the taxpayer, whether any tax benefit had been inappropriately used to pay for an abortion.

I was feeling pretty sure that we had found everything there was to hate about the No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act (aka HR3). But apparently not! As RH Reality Check’s Robin Marty notes astutely, Republicans finally found something they want the IRS to spend taxpayer dollars on: uterine audits. MORE HERE
Those who slap the label Republican on their sleeves… just can’t stand the idea that there are people who exist that possess their own will and mind. They squeak and clamor SMALLER GOVERNMENT… Yeah smaller when it comes to helping the downtrodden or creating an equal playing field so that all of us can have a fair chance. But when it comes to their delusional, religious intolerant notions about how other people should behave… They are out in the streets bellowing GOVERNMENT SHOULD STEP IN AND STOP OR DO AWAY WITH THE RIGHT OF A WOMAN TO CHOOSE WHAT’S BEST FOR HER BODY, FOR HER LIFE OR THE RIGHT TO MARRY ONE’S LIFE PARTNER NO MATTER THEIR SEXUAL ORIANTATION AS LONG AS THEY ARE OF LEGAL AGE OR THE RIGHT TO LIVE UNDER A SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE…!
It’s big, big, big government they covet so they can control all those who don’t believe as they do (because maybe, just maybe…WE… well… uh… kind of…GREW UP!).
Republicans sometimes act somewhat reasonable on an individual basis (I think?) but in GROUPS they turn into marauding gangs, using anything they can (like tissue or cell masses in a jar) to try and force everyone to turn into witless zombies like themselves.
(((The 221 members of Congress who signed their names to this egregious bill must explain to their constituents why they want to give the IRS authority to audit rape survivors. READ ARTICLE - Mother Jones’ Nick Baumann brings us this shocker ))
Yeah it’s all about jobs for Republicans, isn’t it? MY BIG FOOT! thinkingblue

1, 2, 3, SCREAM! Jim DeMint’s Theory Of
Relativity

‘The Bigger Government Gets, The Smaller God Gets’

It is nothing new for conservatives to dress their political
ideology in religious language. Rep. Joe Barton (R-TX) justified
his opposition to controlling greenhouse gases because "you
can’t regulate God." Sen. Jon Kyl (R-AZ) accused Senate
Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) of "disrespecting"
Christians by considering keeping Congress in session in order to
overcome GOP obstructionism. Rep. Steve King (R-IA) even went so
far as to compare Democrats to Pontius Pilate, the ancient Roman
official who sentenced Jesus to be crucified.

Last week, Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) added his voice to the chorus
while being interviewed on the Family Research Council’s weekly
radio show. DeMint told host Tony Perkins that the size of
government and the size of God exist in an inverse relationship
– "the bigger government gets, the smaller God gets":
DeMINT: Some are trying to separate the social, cultural issues
from fiscal issues, but you really can’t do that. America works,
freedom works, when people have that internal gyroscope that
comes from a belief in God and Biblical faith. Once we push that
out, you no longer have the capacity to live as a free person
without the external controls of an authoritarian government.
I’ve said it often and I believe it — the bigger government
gets, the smaller God gets. As people become more dependent on
government, less dependent on God.

For someone supposedly espousing Christian ideals, DeMint’s
notion that God’s power can be limited by the federal government
is a surprising argument. Indeed, one of the main tenets of
Christian belief is that God is all-powerful — Matthew 19:26 is
just one Biblical reference to God’s omnipotence. DeMint is
vastly exaggerating the nominal increase in the size of
government over the past two years.

DeMint then went on in the interview to make another outlandish
statement: "We’ve found we can’t set up free societies
around the world because they don’t have the moral underpinnings
that come from Biblical faith": DeMINT: You cannot have a
free society that way. We’ve found we can’t set up free societies
around the world because they don’t have the moral underpinnings
that come from Biblical faith. I don’t think Christians should
cower from this debate, should be told that their views and their
values should be separate from government policies, because
America doesn’t work without the faith that created it.

In fact, the world’s largest democracy is India. The third
most-populous democracy is Indonesia. Japan and Turkey are also
high on the list. Despite not having the "moral
underpinnings that come from Biblical faith" — Christians
make up less than three percent of citizens in all these
countries — these countries are clearly capable of maintaining
free societies.

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“Jesus Christ? Hey Hi, Scott Walker Here.”

Scott Walker, Another Crackpot Who Talks To A God “Lord, I’m ready . .
.”

HOLY SANCTIMONY BATMAN… It all fits together for me now… How
this idiot never seems to get upset; How he never seems to use
reason; How Stepford Wife he looks when he speaks (looking afar
as his mouth moves with emphasis on certain words)… Another
NUTBALL at the helm… If he could preempt wars… Oops, I
forgot he has… WAR ON THE MIDDLE-CLASS… It is beyond
disgusting! thinkingblue

PS: I wonder who is his higher power, HIS GOD OR DAVID KOCH?

Scott Walker Believes He’s Following Orders from the Lord

By Matthew Rothschild

March 09, 2011 “The Progressive” – -The
dogmatic unwillingness of Wis. Gov. Scott Walker to negotiate or
to compromise with Democrats or unions has surprised many people
in the state. One explanation for his attitude may be found in
his religious convictions.

In a talk to the Christian Businessmen’s Committee in
Madison on November 13, 2009, Walker, who was raised by a Baptist
preacher, spoke about his personal relationship with God, his
“walk to Christ,” and his belief in the need to
“trust and obey” the Lord.

He told the group that when he was thirteen, he committed himself
to Jesus. “I said, ‘Lord, I’m ready . . . not just
in front of my Church and the world but most importantly at the
foot of your Throne, I’m ready to follow you each and every
day. . . . I have just full out there said, ‘I’m going
to trust in you Christ to tell me where to go. And to the best of
my ability I’m going to obey where you lead me,’ and
that has made all the difference in the world to me, for good
times and bad.”

Walker said that God has told him what to do every step of the
way, including about what jobs to take, whom to marry, and when
to run for governor.

When he had first met his wife, he said, “That night I heard
Christ tell me, ‘This is the person you’re going to be with.’ ”

He said he was trusting and obeying God when he took a job at IBM
and then at the Red Cross. ““Lord, if this is what you
want, I’ll try it,” he said. It was all about
“trust and obey.”

Then he recalled how he got into the race for governor in 2006,
only to withdraw, which he said was a difficult decision.

“My wife and I prayed on it,” he said. “I remember
feeling so torn: I just didn’t want to let people down. I
said, “Lord, I can’t do this. I can’t let people down.”

But he says he found divine guidance from the daily devotion,
which “was about a guy who was a sailor. One of his buddies
came along, they were in choppy waters, and the guy was throwing
up. He was told, stop looking at the waves, find a point on the
horizon. And he did this and it worked.”

Walker explains the meaning: “I was focused all too much on
the choppy waters of my life, about how uneasy it would be to
look people in the face. I wasn’t trusting and obeying my
Savior. That morning Christ said to me through that devotion,
‘This is what you’re going to do. Look at me. Find that
point on the horizon, and you’re going to be just fine.’ ”

He added: “God had a plan further down the road. Little did
I know I just had to trust in Christ and obey what he calls me to
do and that was going to work out.”

He then qualified that statement a little: “I don’t
mean that means it’s going to work out for a win. . . . I
don’t believe God picks sides in politics. I believe God
calls us to be on His side.”

He urged everyone in the room “to turn your life over 100
percent to what Christ tells you what to do.”

Once you do that, he said, your life will be complete:

“The way to be complete in life is to fully and
unconditionally turn your life over to Christ as your personal
lord and savior and to make sure that every step of every day is
one that you trust and obey, and keep looking out to the horizon
to the path that Christ is calling you to follow and know that
ultimately he’s going to take you home both here at home and
ultimately far beyond.”

Fourteen months later, at his inaugural prayer breakfast, Walker
said, “The Great Creator, no matter who you worship, is the
one from which our freedoms are derived, not the government.”

Walker’s views disturb Annie Laurie Gaylor, co-president of
the Freedom From Religion Foundation.

“It is frightening that the highest executive in our state
suffers from the delusion that God dictates his every move,”
she says. “Consider the personal and historic devastation
inflicted by fanatics who think they are acting in the name of
their deity.” MORE HERE

Welcome
to the United Corporations of America, home of the pittance wage!

Jobs
returning — but good ones, NOT!

Isn’t it amazing,
when an informative but startling article (Below) like this is
written about the fast decline of the middle-class…?
Astonishing, that there’s not a conservative snarky comment
to be found (I did not go through the 4192 responses but past
articles would be full of tea party delusional mind-set
verbiages, right from the get-go) I wonder why that is…?
Perhaps (for those who wear rose colored glasses 24/7) these
reality fact-checks, (opposed to the Fox News misinformation
type) are a little too close to what they are feeling in their
real lives, just too damn outright, to scribble nasty things all
over the comments portion. It must be painful for these people to
confront the dire straits we Americans are in, due to the
Billionaires with pockets full of politicians doing their bidding
to get them even more wealth and power… I fear for us
Americans, who use to fancy ourselves middle-class, we are a
dying breed and it may take years (longer than one’s lifetime) to
get back any resemblance of our past when it took only one person
per household to bring home the bacon. Welcome to the United
Corporations of America, home of the pittance wage and corporate
personhood! thinkingblue

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target="_blank">Jobs returning — but good
ones not so much
By Zachary Roth

When it comes to jobs, it’s not just quantity that matters–it’s
also quality. It’s great news that the economy is finally
producing jobs again–even if it’ll take another few years of
this kind of growth to get us back to where we were before the
Great Recession. But that also means it’s now time to ask what
kind of jobs are being created. And on that front, things are a
lot less encouraging.

Several recent studies suggest that the new jobs pay less and
offer fewer work hours than the ones they have replaced. Let’s
look at the numbers:

• Lower-wage industries — things like retail and food
preparation — accounted for 23 percent of the jobs lost during
the recession, but 49 percent of the jobs gained over the last
year, a recent study (pdf) by the National Employment Law Program
found. Higher-wage industries, by contrast, accounted for 40
percent of the jobs lost, but just 14 percent of the jobs gained.
In other words, low paying jobs are increasing as a percentage of
total jobs, while high-paying jobs are on the decline.

• Meanwhile, the percentage of those working who have
part-time jobs and want full-time ones surged in mid-February to
19.6 percent — almost as high as it was a year ago before the
recovery began, according to Gallup numbers. That suggests, of
course, that a large number of the new jobs created over the last
year are part-time.

• And a recent Wall Street Journal analysis found that even
though productivity rose 5.2 percent from mid 2009 to the end of
2010, wages increased by just 0.3 percent. That means only 6
percent of productivity gains were shared with workers. In past
recoveries, that figure has averaged 58 percent. This time
around, far more of the gains went to shareholders, in the form
of profits, which are at record levels.

There are no easy answers for how to fix the problem. Some argue
that workers need more clout in their relationship with
employers, something that would require a renaissance of
private-sector labor unions, which have been on the decline for
the last half-century. But that prospect looks unlikely: Indeed
efforts are underway in several states to make public-sector
unions as weak as their private-sector counterparts.

Still, as the economy continues to add jobs in the coming months,
it’s worth keeping the issue of quality in mind. An economy with
a glut of low-paying and part-time jobs isn’t an economy that’s
working for most Americans. href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thelookout/20110309/ts_yblog_thelookout/jobs-returning-but-good-ones-not-so-much#mwpphu-container"
target="_blank">COMMENTS HERE

Now please
listen to Michael Moore’s passionate oracle about the
Corporatehood Shenanigans’ that have happened in Wisconsin.
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MICHAEL MOORE LET THE CAT OUT OF THE BAG…

href="http://www.thethinkingblue.com/americanotbroke">AMERICA IS
NOT BROKE!

AMERICA
IS NOT BROKE!

I don’t know about you… but the words Michael Moore’s conveying on the steps of the Capital in Madison, Wisconsin ring so clear to we Americans
who think and are beyond the reach of the Billionaire Propaganda Machines… i.e. Fox News, American For Prosperity (Koch Brothers Think Tank), Tea Party (Also a Koch Brother creation) the many conservative/wealthy lobbies and The United Corporations of America… It’s emotional and inspiring and makes you almost believe there is hope for America. But, since wealth seems to trump common sense, (I love you Michael) but I am not sure we will win this battle of so many battles the Republicans throw our
way.

Again, please forgive my cynical nature and watch Mr. Moore pour his heart out over Union Busting that is just one of the many Republican plans to dismantle our Democracy and turn our Nation into a Plutocracy. thinkingblue

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In Wisconsin, What Is It That Does Not Stink?

There is a vulgar expression from days of old that was applied to those who thought themselves to be superior to others. If one acted condescending and snobbish, people would say of them… “They think their S**T doesn’t stink!” Well, last night on ‘The Last Word’ with Lawrence O’Donnell one of his guests absolutely suited this nasty verbalization like a tailor-made piece of clothing.

WI State Senator Glenn Grothman Calls Protestors “A Bunch of Slobs”…

In my arrogant opinion, this is so typical of the Republican/Conservative Mind-Set. They reveal this often in their every utterance. Just listen and hear some of them as they refer to free thinkers or anyone who disagrees with their political (or religious) views as a… Commie, pinko, tree-hugger, faggot, hippie, socialist… (From This Site: You Might Be A Dittohead Conservative)

The very essence of these jeers directed at those who do not share any of their Belief Systems show they think themselves to be superior to you and to me.

As far as I’m concerned State Senator Glenn Grothman (R-Wi.)spoke on behalf of all the people who consider themselves to be a High-caliber, Sanctimonious, Pecksniffian Republican dolt.

Please watch the video below and judge for yourself. thinkingblue