Posted and shared from: Wipeout Homophobia on Facebook "...The following letter inspired a whole scene in 'The West Wing' and had always made me smile..." - WHOF J. Kent Ashcraft May 2000 Dear Dr. Laura, Thank you for doing so much to educate people regarding God's Law. I have…
By OcJim How is it that we allow misanthropes like Republican Representative Paul Ryan, city mayors, and other such actors for plutocrats abuse our law-abiding citizens for speaking out against them and their master class of the one percent? Before the Occupy movement became an annoyance for one-percenters, they…
By OcJim There are many apt nicknames for Donald Rumsfeld. Of course, the media affectionately calls him Rummy, seeing a practiced smile like the photo on the bottom, an image of mirth at press conferences. Others find him malevolent, as characterized by the top two photos. They compare him…
Sign Petition here ---> Avaaz.org Posted: 15 November 2011 Right now, the US Congress is debating a law that would give them the power to censor the world's Internet -- creating a blacklist that could target YouTube, WikiLeaks and even groups like Avaaz! Under the new law, the US…
Sign the Petition here @ Credo Action Nearly 30% of waste discarded in the Grand Canyon is plastic water bottles. Tired of the litter, Park officials decided late last year to ban the sale of plastic water bottles inside the Grand Canyon, and $300,000 was spent to install "refilling"…
By OcJim Our troops will come home from Iraq by the end of this year. Will they too join the ranks of the homeless, the unemployed, and the walking wounded – many without hope or help. One could well believe that Jim DeMint, Republican Senator from South Carolina, who…
"Misery Loves Company" is an old American idiom that has sadly become true considering the enormous amount of vitriol, malice and ignorance that is running amok in American political and cultural discourse these days. From politicians to radio shock jocks to ordinary folks, people have no problem with expressing…
By OcJim The talking head for plutocrats, Pretty Boy Paul Ryan, likes to borrow his ideas from others. He doesn’t believe in divisive class rhetoric, he says, except in his statement, “We’re coming close to a tipping point in America where we might have a net majority of takers…
Shared By: Tom Hastings The Occupy movement is submerging faster than it's growing. There are two manifestations of an underlying primary problem causing this in my town, Portland OR, and I suspect it's not entirely dissimilar elsewhere. Symptom #1: Street people magnet As one of my students and a…
Shared By: Joe Bethancourt Alan Simpson, Senator from Wyoming, Co-Chair of Obama's deficit commission, calls senior citizens the Greediest Generation as he compared "Social Security" to a Milk Cow with 310 million teats. Here's a response in a letter from PATTY MYERS in Montana ... I think she is…