I’m posting this mostly for myself so I can have a handy link whenever I (foolishly) decide to debate Ron Paul supporters.
The Newsletters:
How Ron Paul used racist newsletters to wipe out debts, get rich
President Obama Takes on the Republican Budget
The President tells it like it is. He tears apart the radical Republican budget point by point, and makes it crystal clear how devastating their Millionaires over Medicare plan would be for our country.
[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]
What’s not to like about Ron Paul?
- His racism.
- His horrible economic plan.
- His awful views on civil liberties.
Let me add to that:
• He doesn’t believe in the separation of church and state.
• He believes abortion should be illegal.
• He doesn’t support the repeal of DOMA and didn’t support the repeal of DADT.
• He doesn’t support putting more money into inner-city schools, but does support vouchers for religious schools.
• He believes creationism should be taught alongside evolution in public schools.
• He doesn’t believe HIV causes AIDS.
• While he doesn’t support a federal ban on gay marriage, he also doesn’t support a federal law legalizing gay marriage. Some see this as a states’ rights issue, and this is how he frames it, but he does support other federal legalization movements (drugs, for example).
• His newsletter spouted horrible racist content for twenty years.
• He believes in reinstating the gold standard, which most economists believe was one of the major causes of several financial crises during the early part of the 20th Century, including the Great Depression.
• He believes in free market Capitalism.
• He wants to get rid of Affirmative Action.
This picture of him makes me laugh.
I have a few reasons I’d like to contribute…
- He voted to ban same-sex couples from adopting children (in DC)
- He wants to eliminate the department of education
- He is against raising taxes on the 1%
- He wants to get rid of income tax all together
- He wants to deregulate Wall St.
- He thinks climate change is a hoax
- He is against the EPA- even after the Gulf Oil spill of 2010 he was advocating deregulating big business and oil companies
- He wants to repeal The Affordable Healthcare Act
- He would do away with medicaid, medicare, food stamps, welfare, and social security.
- He was against the Civil Rights Act & the Americans with Disabilities Act
- He has been in government for about 14 years and has only gotten ONE of his bills passed (out of 464)
- He is against increasing airport security, proposing that instead we just give pilots guns (no joke).
- Against the Auto-Industry restructuring which saved 2 million jobs and put our car industry back on top
- He supports a state’s right to imprison people for having consensual anal sex in the privacy of their bedrooms
Also it’s worth noting that the person that coined that phrase didn’t really win all that much.
-Joe
If Fox News had been around in 1967…half of you reading this
right now would never have been born. Interracial marriage was referred to as “miscegenation,” as if you would incur the wrath of Zardoz just for checking out someone attractive from the wrong part of town.
My aunt and uncle (Japanese and Jewish) never had kids for this very reason.
If you are not a regular reader and you are thinking it’s the Fag Apocalypse, lemme tell you…you should be so lucky as to live in a gay neighborhood.
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Okay, so I know that one of the major criticisms Democrats make about Republicans is that we don’t care for the poor.
How do you figure that? You’re right that we don’t want the government to do that through the…
Mitt Romney is a welfare queen. [Without] the tax-breaks given to interest payment, the private equity business model would never have been born. Those tax-breaks are nothing but a taxpayer subsidy, paid for by everybody else picking up the slack for Mitt Romney and his crony corporate raiders.
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| — | Mitt Romney, ‘welfare queen’ (via theamericanbear) |
…there are nearly three whites with doctoral degrees for every one behind bars, but nearly six Latinos, behind bars for every one with a doctoral degree. This is the world I live in and in this world, I find offensive the injunction to not teach “politically” and to leave questions of identity and power outside of the classroom, especially when my subject of teaching is the United States.
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-Michael Hames-García, “Which America is Ours?: Martí’s ‘Truth’ and the Foundations of ‘American Literature’” (2003) so, this is my professor and he is great. (via muxersita) =/ (via dumbthingswhitepplsay) |
Watch: Aurora borealis in real time
As solar storms barraged the Earth last week, a photographer caught this amazing, real-time video of northern lights over Norway. Check it out.
