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This guy, just like the rest of the Republican Governors doesn’t believe the constituents matter unless… THEY BELIEVE LIKE HE DOES. Democracy? More like Despots.

When I first saw this… I COULD NOT BELIEVE IT! RIGHT AWAY I THOUGHT… HE’S ACTING LIKE A THUG! Thanks Cenk for animating exactly how this man thinks… I mean behaves!

RECREATING LIFE IN A LABORATORY

Also may be viewed here:

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7369820n&tag=contentMain%3BcbsCarousel

I know that this new discovery has probably scared the BEJESUS out of ideologues and the religious who follow a strict script and any wandering departure from such script is a WORLD CATACLYSMIC EVENT. BUT AS THEY SAY… the cat is out of the bag so…
DON’T STOP “ME” (SCIENCE) NOW!

I like to think on scientific discovery as good for mankind, that is if the greedy don’t get a hold of it and use it for reasons that will satisfy their lust for power and wealth, to the detriment of us all (like they have done –but not got away with– so many times in the past)! thinkingblue

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Keith Olbermann June 23, 2011
‘BOOK OF LOVE’

As always, (It feels so good to be able to use the word “ALWAYS” once again concerning Keith) Keith Olbermann delivered an emotional Special Comment last night. As I listened with tears welling up, (along with a silent roar of laughter at Olbermann’s astonishing wit and sarcasm) I thought to myself, it’s so good to have you back on the air.For years, in the past I had sat in front of my TV with tears flowing down my face during one of Keith’s dissertations about some human topic or event concerning the strength or despair of the “human condition” (Pure Theatre of the Absurd is what I like to call it). These comments of hope (or anger) helped diminish my cynicism just a little and made me believe there was perhaps hope for us tragic human creatures. But always these feelings of encouragement were short lived because some other psychopathic saga (usually of a political nature) would come down the pike, bringing with it a puff of (GOP) gloom.

Please watch Keith Olbermann’s special comment of June 23, 2011 but have a tissue handy.

Then maybe you might like to read the very (unfortunately) accurate descriptive reality from the article below… The Rise of the Second-String Psychopaths BY David Schwartz.

Will life ever have a silver lining as the song “Look for a Silver Lining” suggests? I hope so but I’m not too enthusiastic about it, but as long as Keith Olbermann stays on the air, I will have a resource to help get me
through this journey called LIFE (in one –whole stable mental– piece). thinkingblue

Published on Sunday, June 5, 2011 by CommonDreams.org

The Rise of the Second-String Psychopaths

by David Schwartz

The great writer Kurt Vonnegut titled his final book A Man
without a Country. He was the man; the country was the United
States of America. Vonnegut felt that his country had
disappeared right under his – and the
Constitution’s – feet, through what he called
“the sleaziest, low-comedy Keystone Cops-style coup
d’état imaginable.” He was talking about the Bush
administration. Were Vonnegut still alive in the post-Bush
era, he would not have felt that his country had returned.

How had our country disappeared? Vonnegut proposed that among
the contributing factors was that it had been invaded –
as if by the Martians – by people with a particularly
frightening mental illness. People with this illness were
termed psychopaths. (The term nowadays is anti-social
personality disorder.) These are terms for people who are
smart, personable, and engaging, but who have no consciences.
They are not guided by a sense of right or wrong. They seem
to be unaffected by the feelings of others, including
feelings of distress caused by their actions. Straying from a
decent way of treating people, or violating ethical codes
causes no anxiety, the anxiety which is what causes the rest
of us to moderate our more greedy impulses. If most children
feel anxiety when they are pilfering the forbidden cookie
jar, psychopaths feel just fine. They can devour the cookies,
shatter the jar as evidence and stuff it in the trash can.
When accused, they can argue with apparent sincerity that the
cookie jar has been missing for at least a week. There suffer
no remorse, no guilt, no shame. They are free to do anything,
no matter how harmful.

Psychopaths can be very tricky to recognize. As psychiatrist
Dr. Hervey Cleckly wrote in his classic The Mask of Sanity in
1941, psychopaths are not technically insane. They don’t
have a psychosis, like schizophrenia. They are experts in
appearing normal. They can act the role of a caring,
concerned executive, even though they actually do not seem to
experience such feelings. If they hurt somebody, they
don’t modify their behavior.

The United States corporate and government spheres have
become, Vonnegut suggested, a perfect habitat for
psychopaths. What has allowed so many psychopaths to rise so
high in corporations, and then government, he wrote,

“is that they are so decisive. They are going to do
something every fuckin’ day and they are not afraid.
Unlike normal people, they are never filled with doubts, for
the simple reason that they don’t give a fuck what
happens next. Simply can’t. Do this! Do that! Mobilize
the reserves! Privatize the public schools! Attack Iraq! Cut
health care! Tap everybody’s telephone! Cut taxes on the rich!”

In a country in which much of human culture has been rendered
into machines for the manufacture of money, psychopaths are
the ideal leaders. They are very focused. They are outcome
oriented. They are frequently charming, and usually very
bright and able. They can lay off thousands of people, or
deny people health care, or have them waterboarded, and it
does not disturb their sleep. They can be impressively
confident. Psychopaths can be dynamic leaders of enterprises,
but are handicapped by their lack of feelings for
relationships. They may be accomplished captains of industry,
or senators, or surgeons, but their families are frequently
abused and miserable. Most psychotherapists have seen the
wives or husband or children of such accomplished people.

Since psychopaths are usually very smart, they can be quite
competent at impersonating regular human beings in positions
of power. Since they don’t care how their actions affect
people, they can rise to great height in enterprises dealing
with power and money. They can manufacture bombs or run
hospitals. Whatever the undertaking, it is all the same to
them. It’s just business.

The economic system that remains after the destruction of
American local cultures has created an excellent employment
picture for psychopaths. But the opportunities open to them
are now so vast that there is apparently now an actual labor
shortage. At least that is the only explanation I can find
for the rise of a cadre of psychopathic leaders who resemble
the usual type in all ways but one: they’re simply not
that smart. One has only to look at right-wing
not-so-Christian fundamentalists to see the peculiar
emergence of a second-string of psychopaths.

The US has been endowed with abundant resources, and there
have always been a more than sufficient supply of psychopaths
of the first intellectual grade to supply corporate suites
and their subsidiary, the Congress. Why is there now a
downgrade to the dumb ones, like the lowering of standards
for military recruits to deal with a shortage of cannon
fodder?

It is no secret that the Koch brothers and others of the
super-rich seem to have undertaken a final push to
consolidate control through the conversion of a marginally
democratic to an essentially fascist state; extreme
right-wing, authoritarian, and demagogic. This kind of
government is ideal for control of a populace by the moneyed
elite. To carry this out requires the employment of many
‘kept’ politicians to excite and misdirect scared
and angry – and ignorant – voters. Lest the
citizenry realize who stole their money and storm their
castles with torches, the rapacious elite need politicians
who will carry out the work of re-directing anger at
teachers, or labor unions, or the poor. I can only conclude
that the people who now own the country couldn’t find
any first-rate psychopaths to carry out their work. Or maybe
the smart ones were all occupied. So they had to go to
second-stringers, people who could actually believe what they
were told to say.

We are a country who has become second-best, even in the
quality of our psychopaths.

David B. Schwartz, Ph.D practices psychotherapy in Ithaca,
NY. His books include Who Cares? Rediscovering Community and
the forthcoming The Sidewalk Psychotherapist.

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Last Blog: KEITH OLBERMANN’S COUNTDOWN DEBUTS

ANTHONY WIENER RESIGNS

TIT FOR TAT

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He’s Baaaaaaaaaaack, Welcome Keith Olbermann

It was with much excitement and anticipation that I watched the first two nights of Countdown with Keith Olbermann on Current TV. A glorious moment for me because after he was booted off MSNBC for not buckling under their rigid, corporate (and on-the-spot whoever conservative manager that was vexed by Olbermann’s honesty) RULES, a BLACK HOLE(replacing the Olbermann candidness that kept us SANE in an INSANE period in our lives) appeared in my psyche.

I must tell you, I was not disappointed.

While I sat there glued to my TV, I felt as though I had a momentary time-travel and landed somewhere betwixt the horrible years we were forced to endure during the Bush/Cheney administration; where, if it had not been for Keith, those years would have been, without question, completely intolerable and torturous. His nightly show spoke words of truth that were ubiquitous to all, who treasure freedom and realize its vulnerability. Thank You Keith we missed you and WELCOME BACK!
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QUOTE OF THE WEEK

SERIES DEBUT 8-9PM

COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN Current TV

It’s the same title and the same cranky, opinionated and BELOVED (Well not by Sarah Palin) broadcaster. But here on Al Gore’s network, Keith Olbermann will welcome contributors like Michael Moore and Ken Burns and presumably will donate to whomever the #@”& He wants!!!

By Jessica Shaw EW magazine

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Countdown With Keith Olbermann’ premieres on Current TV

Special Announcement By Keith Olbermann About His New Show On Current TV

As you can see, Keith Olbermann’s new Countdown on Current TV which debuted last night, looks and feels much like his old Countdown. Here are a few moments from the
show, including his “Special Comment” in which he discusses the new program, which he calls “the last line of defense.”

Countdown is weeknights at 8 pm on Current.

Read more: http://www.towleroad.com/2011/06/olbermann.html#ixzz1Q0s4fbYF

Keith Talks About MSNBC

AND JUST FOR GOOD MEASURE, IN CASE YOU’VE READ ANY OF THE HATEFUL ANGRY COMMENTS FROM TEA PARTY MEMBERS, WATCH THOM HARTMANN’S “TEA PARTY USES GUERRILLA WARFARE”.

PLEASE SIGN PETITION

It is clear that Clarence Thomas does not belong on the benches of the highest court in our nation. It is hard to believe that he has immunity from the things he is accused of simply by occupying the chambers of SCOTUS. Anita Hill must be shaking her head fervently with ‘I TOLD YOU SOS’. It is a shame that sexual harassment was looked upon as BOYS WILL BE BOYS back then. In today’s world Clarence Thomas probably would not be appointed. He should simply resign but taking into account his lack of ethics and his low moral conduct he will never leave. The man has no shame and our country will suffer years to come because of it. thinkingblue

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Let The Opinions Begin. Anthony Weiner Resigns

Not everyone believed Anthony Weiner should have resigned. But whether you agree it’s best for our country if he do so or not, you will find opinion out in Internet Land that hits the old proverbial nail right smack on its head. Here are two of the
best… IMAO. thinkingblue

PS: We all know the saying… Opinions are like BLANK in that everyone has one. Well with the resignation of Anthony Weiner this is certainly an OPINION FREE-FOR-ALL! I am only putting forth these 2… Why? Because I like them.

First a word from Keith Olbermann: Click this link:

Thanks Keith, we have all missed you… Welcome back. thinkingblue

(Keith Olbermann to start his new show on Current TV April 20, 2011)

MSNBC’s Ed Schultz To Anthony Weiner: Resign

And Ed Schultz After Anthony Weiner Resigns

Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy

Well done Big Ed, you are so spot-on! thinkingblue

Next “Tit For Tat”

TIT FOR TAT
June 14, 2011
(Tit for tat is an English saying meaning “equivalent retaliation”)

I literally love Bob Herbert. I’ve read his columns for years and have blogged on a few. He possesses a wealth of wisdom and along with that, enormous intelligence. And even with all that talent he, believe or not, is a humble man… a rare trait these days.

His comments on Rachel Maddow’s Show give good reasoning to why Anthony Weiner has to go and makes mucho sense. Yet many liberal voters have embraced the question, why is Anthony Weiner being thrown under the bus by Democrats when Republican miscreants were left off the hook.

Even Rachel Maddow has weighed in on the side of the angry liberals who would like only a TIT FOR TAT action concerning Weiner. If there are Republicans who have descended into perversion and stayed in office then why are Democrats holding Weiner to a higher standard?

Listen to Herbert explain this with so much casual integrity. “I think that there’s a lot of reasons he should leave. First and foremost, I don’t think Democrats should be behaving like Republicans. I expect Republicans to be hypocrites — I expect politicians to be hypocritical, and I expect Republicans to be at a heightened state of hypocrisy than most politicians.”

RIGHT ON BOB!

Rachel, I love you too but on this one YOU ARE WRONG! thinkingblue

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Divided Wisconsin Supreme Court upholds anti-union law
June 15, 2011

Is this the beginning of the end for WI and our nation? When FACTS can be manufactured to affect the outcome of a very POLITICAL debate then there is nowhere else to go but UP for the GOP and its Koch Brother Tea Party offshoot. Even if this decision doesn’t end in the WI Supreme Court and goes to SCOTUS… The political imbalance there, will only allow it to stand… Why even bother to spend the money for this to happen?

It is a sad day for WE THE PEOPLE and for our nation. The people, The facts, The Truth are no longer important. Where did the SILVER PLATTER come from that was under the OUR FREEDOMS which was handed over to Scott Walker and his Tea Party? Never mind, I know THE KOCH BROTHERS BOUGHT IT! thinkingblue

Divided Wisconsin Supreme Court upholds anti-union law
MADISON, Wisconsin (Reuters) – A sharply divided Wisconsin Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that a controversial measure that curbs the collective bargaining rights of public workers in the state can go into effect.

In what was essentially a 4-3 decision, the high court overturned a lower court, which had ruled Republican lawmakers violated the state’s open meetings law when they passed the measure in March.

“Access was not denied,” the Supreme Court declared in Tuesday’s decision. “There is no constitutional requirement that the legislature provide access to as many members of the public as wish to attend meetings of the legislature or meetings of legislative committees.”

But Tuesday’ 68-page decision was a thicket of concurrences and dissents, reflecting the sharp divide the measure has created in the state itself.

David Prosser, whose recent reelection to the state’s high court had been hotly contested by opponents of the union measure, wrote in his eight-page concurrence that GOP legislators had good reason to rush things they way they did, given the ugly mood of protesters at the Capitol.

“The circuit court concluded that the legislature should have provided public notice of the special session conference committee 24 hours in advance,” Prosser wrote.

“The court did not acknowledge that thousands of demonstrators stormed and occupied the state Capitol within a few hours of the notice that a conference committee meeting would be held.” MORE HERE

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If this next video doesn’t turn your stomach (or at least alarm you)… NOTHING WILL! thinkingblue

Thom Hartmann – Tea party use’s Guerrilla Warfare on the Internet!?

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Richard Dawkins Is An Inspiration To Anyone Who Yearns For Truth

Please view the videos below if you subscribe to truth. Our world is in a terrible state and I believe the root cause is religion. thinkingblue

THE ROOT OF ALL EVIL
PART ONE

THE ROOT OF ALL EVIL PART TWO

THE ROOT OF ALL EVIL PART 3

THE GOD DELUSION

By Richard Dawkins

PS: I know people who have been indoctrinated into the fairytale belief system of religion are afraid of the truth. This I find both puzzling and sad. We (all living things) are one, no living entity is above the other, believe in this and religion will be put where it belongs in mythology.

See Richard Dawkins in Virginia

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SHOULD RICK SCOTT BE BAKER ACTED?

Rick Scott following in lockstep with the GOP’s unyielding desire to KILL anything public has signed more bills into law (Regressive Conservatism laws) to help in the annihilation of the Public Education System. First expanding the voucher system which allows more students to flee poor performing Public Schools and with the help of the government (our tax money) enter private schools. This is a KILL THE SOCIAL SAFETY NETS and privatize EVERYTHING, fulfillment for the GOP. Also passing a bill that will allow any teacher to judge the clothing of students… Say for instance, some Evangelical Christian teacher (who has a problem with seeing the SKIN of others) is appalled by perhaps a bellybutton exposure (or maybe an armpit or a hint of cleavage) they can now under government law punish the student and banish him/her to an in-school suspension. Does this sound like SMALL GOVERNMENT? Small government My Big Fat Foot! “Heil Hitler”. RICK SCOTT SHOULD BE BAKER ACTED! Please read the article below: thinkingblue

UPDATE] Governor Scott Approves Voucher Expansions, Baggy Pants Bill
A trio of bills overhauling state voucher programs and a measure cracking down on baggy pants at public schools were signed into law by Gov. Rick Scott on Thursday.
Posted: 9:15 PM Jun 4, 2011
Reporter: Danielle Sommerfeld, Brandon Larrabee, The News Service of Florida

Tallahassee, FL – A trio of bills overhauling state voucher programs and a measure cracking down on baggy pants at public schools were signed into law by Gov. Rick Scott on Thursday.

The four bills were among 48 measures Scott approved Thursday, according to an announcement by his office late in the day.

Two of the bills could increase, perhaps by thousands of students, the number of recipients of taxpayer funds to be put toward private education.

One of the measures (HB 1329) could add 50,000 to the rolls by increasing the number of conditions that would qualify a student for the John McKay scholarship. The scholarship program targets students with disabilities.

Another (HB 1331) would make it easier for students in poorly performing schools to take advantage of the Opportunity Scholarship program. Currently, students are eligible if their public school has received an “F” in a four-year period; the new law changes the definition of failing school to instead include any school that received a “D” or “F” in the prior year.

In addition, the bill, which already allows students to use the scholarships at private schools, now permits students in failing public schools to transfer to a higher-rated public school anywhere in the state, instead of limiting that choice to adjacent districts.

Some Democrats at times complained that the measures could make it more difficult for public schools to improve, but the bills passed easily through the GOP-dominated Legislature.

Scott also signed a bill (HB 965) tweaking the corporate tax credit scholarship program. The measure allows companies that donate to a scholarship organization to claim 100 percent of that donation as a corporate income tax credit. Current law only permits a credit of 75 percent of the donation.

And in a victory long sought by Sen. Gary Siplin, D-Orlando, Scott signed into law a bill (SB 228) that has become known around the Capitol as the “baggy pants” bill. The new law requires school boards to adopt dress codes barring clothes that “expose underwear or body parts in an indecent or vulgar manner.”

Students could be punished with removal from extracurricular activities and in-school suspension. Siplin said he pushed the measure in an effort to make sure students understood how to dress well and improve their employment prospects after they graduated.

Note: News Service Reporter Lilly Rockwell contributed to this report.

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Is Rick Scott, Turning Florida into a Totalitarian State?

Rick Scott One Of The Nastier (Sociopathic) Tea Party Governors

Regression Comes of Age in the Republican Party
I like to consider myself a Progressive Liberal. That is, someone with core beliefs that the best thing we can do as a people is see to the weakest of us, and raise them up. That the best thing we can do as a people is to make health, wealth and happiness available to the greatest number. That the best thing we can do as a people is to guarantee that everyone gets a fair share and a square deal with opportunity for all.

That’s what lies at the core of a Progressive. More or less.

The Republicans, or shall we say now, the conservatives don’t have a progressive branch unless you consider moderate Republicans the progressive branch of that party. But now, I definitely think that a new branch of the Republican Party has formed this year. A branch that is so anti-progressive that the only word to describe it is “Regressive.”

Regressive Conservativism has come of age in the Republican Party.

I became convinced of that this week. Earlier, when conservatives were railing about the 14th Amendment, a matter of settled law for 140 plus years, I thought it was just theatrics. Then when the Bush doctrine of privatizing Medicare and allowing Social Security to play in the stock market (heck, why not go whole hog and let them play the ponies? A hit on an exacta, now that’s a great return on your investment) I thought they were just trying to impress Wall Street. When the lunatic fringe suggested that the Department of Education and the Environmental Protection Agency needed to be abolished, I thought that they were just catering to the Teabaggers. But then when people railed about refusing to turn in their census forms because . . . well just because . . . I thought it was just another way to tell that Black President they weren’t going to play ball if he continued to insist on pitching.

But I have been in denial, haven’t I? These people are serious. This week, the new flavor is abolishing the minimum wage.

Just now, when the economy needs to get more money into the hands of people, so they’ll spend it, people are now talking of putting less money into the hands of people, and actually think that’s a good idea.

This is just craziness.

All of these ideas, very regressive ideas, are part and parcel of the new Regressive Wing of the Republican Party.

And I bet they’re not done. In undoing a century and a half of progress, the Regressives can have a lot on their plate. Areas for future consideration:

Abolish votes for women.
Abolish the 40 hour work week.
Overturn Child Labor Laws. Make the spoiled brats work in the mines. It was good enough for my grandfather after all.
Abolish the USDA. It should be up to the meat packing industry to police itself, and salmonella.
Overturn Roe v. Wade. Make getting an abortion a capital offense.
Reinstitute prayer in public schools.
And last but certainly not least, abolish the two-party system. One is enough and it’s just too expensive to allow a dissenting party to run a campaign. As a matter of fact, why not regress all the way to 1776 and bring back the British Monarchy?

God save the Queen!

Homeowner Forecloses On A Bankster

Wow, what a rare exceptional GEM…right here in the Totalitarian State of Florida (thanks to Rick Scott and the GOP) an ordinary citizen gets SWEET JUSTICE from a Bankster by foreclosing on “IT”
(I refuse to call Banksters he or she because I will never recognize them as PERSONS even though SCOTUS does). I am posting this because it is so extremely rare here in the United Corporations of America that it may never happen again. View it and enjoy but also feel grief that it is a once in a lifetime TABLE-TURN event. thinkingblue

Bank of America Gets Pad Locked After Homeowner
Forecloses On It

Collier County, Florida — Have you heard the one about a
homeowner foreclosing on a bank?

Well, it has happened in Florida and involves a North Carolina
based bank.

Instead of Bank of America foreclosing on some Florida homeowner,
the homeowners had sheriff’s deputies foreclose on the bank.

It started five months ago when Bank of America filed foreclosure
papers on the home of a couple, who didn’t owe a dime on their
home.

The couple said they paid cash for the house.

The case went to court and the homeowners were able to prove they
didn’t owe Bank of America anything on the house. In fact, it was
proven that the couple never even had a mortgage bill to pay.

A Collier County Judge agreed and after the hearing, Bank of
America was ordered, by the court to pay the legal fees of the
homeowners’, Maurenn Nyergers and her husband.

The Judge said the bank wrongfully tried to foreclose on the
Nyergers’ house.

So, how did it end with bank being foreclosed on? After more than
5 months of the judge’s ruling, the bank still hadn’t paid the
legal fees, and the homeowner’s attorney did exactly what the
bank tried to do to the homeowners. He seized the bank’s assets.

“They’ve ignored our calls, ignored our letters, legally
this is the next step to get my clients compensated, ”
attorney Todd Allen told CBS.

Sheriff’s deputies, movers, and the Nyergers’ attorney went to
the bank and foreclosed on it. The attorney gave instructions to
remove desks, computers, copiers, filing cabinets and any cash in
the teller’s drawers.

After about an hour of being locked out of the bank, the bank
manager handed the attorney a check for the legal fees.

“As a foreclosure defense attorney this is sweet
justice” says Allen.

Allen says this is something that he sees often in court, banks
making errors because they didn’t investigate the foreclosure and
it becomes a lengthy and expensive battle for the homeowner.

MORE ON RICK SCOTT

George Carling Quote:

I don’t feel so confined. I frankly don’t give a f**k how it all turns out in this country – or anywhere else, for that matter. I think the human game was up a
long time ago (when the high priests and traders took over), and now we’re just playing out the string. And that is, of course, precisely what I find so amusing: the slow circling of the drain by a once promising species, and the sappy, ever-more-desperate belief in this country that there is actually some sort of “American Dream,” which has merely been msiplaced.

The decay and disintegration of this culture is astonishingly amusing if you are emotionally detached from it. I have always viewed it from a safe distance, knowing I don’t belong; it doesn’t include me, and it never has. No matter how you care to define it, I do not indentify with the local group. Planet,
species, race, nation, state, religion, party, union, club, association, neighborhood, improvement committee;I have no interest in any of it. I LOVE AND TREASURE INDIVIDUALS AS I MEET THEM, I LOATH AND DESPISE THE GROUPS THEY IDENTIFY WITH AND
BELONG TO.

Is Rick Scott, Turning Florida into a Totalitarian State?

Rick Scott, is a monster, pure and simple. He is out to

GET OUT AND VOTE AND STOP THESE MONSTERS! thinkingblue

Standing up to Rick Scott in Florida

As we speak Rick
Scott is harming the state of Florida. My daughter almost was
fired from her teaching job because she was up for tenure (THE
ONLY REASON)… A single mother of 2 children who worked her
fingers to the bone to obtain a teaching degree while working and
raising her kids. Then a Rick Scott comes along and wantonly
tries to snatch her achievement away from her. This man is not
worthy of his position.

Rick Scott’s goal in life apparently is to bring Florida to its
knees or worse. The people who voted for this selfish, arrogant
man must be horrified at what they have put into power. If
Florida is to survive as a state anyone would be proud to call
home, Rick Scott and his immoral objectives must go. Below is a
video I have put together concerning this pathetic man Florida
calls Governor. Please watch it and then help save our beautiful
state from Rick Scott, sign
petition.
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THE PETITION SITE

Rick Scott took the Fifth SEVENTY FIVE TIMES during this Two
Hour Deposition for Medicare Fraud

MIAMI (Reuters) – Florida’s Republican Governor Rick Scott will
soon be hit with legal challenges over his decision to make drug
tests mandatory for all state workers, an American Civil
Liberties Union official said on Monday.

Also See:
Democracy: Just Not Here
In Florida

Florida Governor Signs Historic Medicaid Bill

Gov. Rick Scott has signed two historic
Medicaid bills, placing the health care of nearly 3 million
Florida residents into the hands of for-profit companies and
hospital networks

Tallahassee, FL – Gov. Rick Scott has signed two historic

Medicaid bills, placing the health care of nearly 3 million
Florida

residents into the hands of for-profit companies and hospital

networks.

Scott signed the bills Thursday.

Lawmakers say Medicaid was overwhelming the state budget and

needed to be privatized to rein in costs and improve patient
care.

Critics fear the bills build on a flawed five-county experiment

where patients struggled to access specialists and doctors

complained the treatments they prescribed were frequently denied.

Sen. Joe Negron, who spearheaded the overhaul, said leaders have

learned from the pilot program’s shortcomings and includes

increased oversight and more stringent penalties.

Long term care patients will be the first to enroll in the

statewide program starting in October 2013. Others will join the

following year.

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Rick Scott Faces Challenge Over Decision To Make
Drug Tests Mandatory For State Workers

“We’re certainly moving in that direction,” said Howard
Simon, executive director of the ACLU of Florida, when asked
about possible lawsuits challenging the policy.

“It’s certainly going to be subjected to a test, a
constitutional evaluation by the courts,” Simon, a veteran
civil rights advocate, told Reuters.

He was referring to an executive order that Scott, a Tea
Party-backed conservative, signed last week requiring random drug
screening for all workers on the state payroll at least once
every three months.

New job applicants would also be subject to drug tests under the
order signed by Scott, a controversial former healthcare
executive, who took office in January.

Scott issued his order on the same day a bill was filed in the
state legislature seeking to make good on his campaign pledge to
require drug tests for welfare recipients, who would be required
to pay for their own drug screening.

He said random drug testing of government workers, without
reasonable suspicion of drug abuse, has generally been limited to
employees in jobs where public safety is an issue.

“There’s federal, U.S. Supreme Court standards on all of
this. I don’t think the governor got very good legal advice on
this thing,” Simon said.

He noted that Scott has staunchly opposed a statewide computer
database that would track prescriptions of Vicodin, Percocet and
other dangerous narcotics, on grounds that it could intrude on
privacy rights.

“That could only come from a person who is very, very
selective in their principles,” Simon said.

Law enforcement officials say Florida is the largest U.S. state
without a database to keep track of painkillers, including
oxycodone, and the undisputed epicenter of America’s illegal
pill-mill trade and prescription dope dealers.

(Reporting by Tom Brown; Editing by Todd Eastham)

BUT WAIT,
THERE’S GOOD NEWS CONCERNING THIS FLORIDA TOTALITARIAN GOVERNOR
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The Rick Scott Effect:
Obama’s Approval Rating Skyrockets In Florida

May 26, 2011

By Jason Easley

http://www.politicususa.com/en/obama-rick-scott-florida

A new Quinnipiac poll released today found that in one month
President Obama’s approval rating in Florida has gone from
44% to 51%.

According to the Quinnipiac University poll, President Obama has
experienced a net 16 point swing in Florida. The President went
from having a net negative approval rating of 44%-52% in April to
having a positive 51%-43% job approval rating in May.

Obama has made up most of his ground with Independents, who swung
a net 18 points in his direction. The president’s job
approval rating with the state’s Independents has gone from
39%-55% in April to 47%-45% today. Obama also gained a net 12
points in Democratic approval from 79%-16% in April to 86%-11%
today. Obama experienced a huge swing with men in the state. He
has gained a net 22 points. The president has gone from a 19
point negative split in April, 39%-58% to 47%-45% today.

By a margin of 50%-44% voters say Obama deserves a second term.
Last month, by a margin of 51%-42% voters said that he did not
deserve to be reelected.

Obviously the big change since April was the killing of Bin
Laden, but Americans have notoriously short memories and that
event took place weeks before this poll was conducted. Something
interesting happens when Gov. Rick Scott’s approval numbers
from the same poll are compared with Obama’s. As Obama was
gaining a net 18 point in the state, Gov. Scott was losing 16
points.

Scott’s approval rating has fallen to a Palin like 29%. His
disapproval rating (54%) almost mirrors Obama’s new approval
rating (51%). Scott’s disapproval ratings with Independents
and men are each over 50%. Rick Scott came into office as an
unpopular governor, and his numbers continue to only trend
downward.

The question is has Rick Scott poisoned the well for the
Republican nominee in 2012? If Scott’s approval ratings
don’t improve, he may have made it impossible for the
Republican nominee to beat Obama in Florida. Recent polling in
Ohio revealed that as Gov. John Kasich has become the second most
unpopular governor in America, Obama has become the favorite
there too.

The best argument for voters in Florida to support Obama in 2012
may end up being Rick Scott. If Scott continues to plummet, a
state that Republicans consider crucial to defeating Obama may be
out of reach.

The lesson here is be careful what you wish for. Republicans
wanted a big victory in 2010, but their victory may be helping
Obama steam ahead towards a Sunshine State victory 2012.