The GOP is a party of White, Christian Conservatives, Tea-Baggers ~and Racism

• Rep Trent Franks: Blacks Were Better Off Under Slavery:

FRANK: In this country, we had slavery for God knows how long. And now we look back on it and we say “How brave were they? What was the matter with them? You know, I can’t believe, you know, four million slaves. This is incredible.” And we’re right, we’re right. We should look back on that with criticism. It is a crushing mark on America’s soul. And yet today, half of all black children are aborted. Half of all black children are aborted. Far more of the African American community is being devastated by the policies of today than were being devastated by policies of slavery. And I think, What does it take to get us to wake up?

• Limbaugh’s song “Barack the Magic Negro”

• The Arizona House of Representatives on Tuesday April 12, 2010 passed the Neighborhood Protection Act. The bill is a significant milestone in race and ethnic relations in America. It adopts as its underlying philosophy the basic tenets of apartheid and it harkens back to the Jim Crow laws of America before the Civil Rights Movement.

This piece of legislation basically allows police officers to ask people for their proof of residency based on “suspicion”. Which means that every brown, black, asian or “colored” person in Arizona will have to carry their passport, birth certificate or proof of citizenship to avoid being deported.

• South Carolina’s Good Christian Lt. Governor Andre Bauer said: “My grandmother was not a highly educated woman, but she told me as a small child to quit feeding stray animals. You know why? Because they breed! You’re facilitating the problem if you give an animal or a person ample food supply. They will reproduce, especially ones that don’t think too much further than that.”

Strange Fruit: Originally sung by: Billie Holiday, her first  performance of  the song was at Cafe Society in 1939 (lyrics are at the bottom of this post).

Dale Robertson, one of the founders of the Tea Patry

Watermelons on the White House lawn sent by; California Mayor Dean Grose

Staffer, Sherplatvormri Goforth emailed this picture which represents President Obama as only a set of eyes.

CNN, Lou Dobbs “My wife will love this photo”

Strange Fruit
sung by Billie Holiday


Southern trees bear strange fruit
Blood on the leaves
Blood at the root
Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze
Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees
Pastoral scene of the gallant south
The bulging eyes and the twisted mouth
The scent of magnolia sweet and fresh
Then the sudden smell of burning flesh
Here is a fruit for the crows to pluck
for the rain to gather
for the wind to suck
for the sun to rot
for the tree to drop
Here is a strange and bitter crop

Composed by Abel Meeropol (aka Lewis Allan)
Originally sung by: Billie Holiday

Note:”Strange Fruit” began as a poem written by Abel Meeropol, a Jewish high-school teacher from the Bronx, about the lynching of two black men. He published under the pen name Lewis Allan

DON BLANKENSHIP, CEO of Massey Energy: The Teabagger Who Kiled The Coal Minors

Meet The Teabagger Who Killed the Coal Miners  <—– PLEASE FOLLOW THE LINK TO READ THIS SHOCKING STORY.

DON BLANKENSHIP, CEO of Massey Energy: The Teabagger Who Kiled The Coal Minors

Meet The Teabagger Who Killed the Coal Miners  <—– PLEASE FOLLOW THE LINK TO READ THIS SHOCKING STORY.

CSA: Confederate States of America: If The South Had Won The Civil War

Note:  Due to the atmosphere of bigotry & racism that is currently permeating the air we think this post is quit appropriate.

Patty & Michael.

Netflix: CSA: Confederate States of America

Watch it on Netflix or on YouTube

CSA: Confederate States of America

2004PG-1389 minutes

What would the United States look like if the South had won the Civil War, slavery was still legal and liberals had fled to Canada? According to filmmaker Kevin Willmott (an assistant professor at the University of Kansas), it would resemble the vision put forth in this provocative mockumentary, set in a modern-day Confederate States of America. Spike Lee lends his name as a producer to this daring, if discomforting, parody.

CSA: Confederate States of America: A Tea-Partier’s Dream

 Note:  Due to the atmosphere of bigotry & racism that is currently permeating the air we think this post is quit appropriate.


  Patty & Michael.

Netflix: CSA: Confederate States of America

Watch it on Netflix or on YouTube

CSA: Confederate States of America

2004PG-1389 minutes

What would the United States look like if the South had won the Civil War, slavery was still legal and liberals had fled to Canada? According to filmmaker Kevin Willmott (an assistant professor at the University of Kansas), it would resemble the vision put forth in this provocative mockumentary, set in a modern-day Confederate States of America. Spike Lee lends his name as a producer to this daring, if discomforting, parody.

The TeaParty And Socialism, Fascism, Communism

Okay..so I’m stuck on the Tea-Baggers/Tea Party Movement and their interchangeable phrases: Socialist, fascist, communist. I had to post this. -But- first let me make a confession here. I am not educated. In fact I have only a 9th grade education so if I did not have a curious mind(and even sometimes a suspicious mind) I could very well have been a Tea-bagger myself -but- since I do have a curious mind I RESEARCH and to indulge my sometimes suspicious mind I RESEARCH THE SHIT OUT OF EVERYTHING! Are the Tea-partiers racist? Are they stupid? Are They both; stupid and racist? You Decide.

Patty.

Further Interviews with The Tea-Party People. I’m Scared.

These are the official Merriam-Webster Dictionary definitions of each of these philosophies.

 Capitalism
An economic system characterized by private or corporate ownership of capital goods, by investments that are determined by private decision, and by prices, production and the distribution of goods that are determined mainly by competition in a free market.

Socialism
Any of various economic and political theories advocating collective or governmental ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods. ** A system of society or group living in which there is no private property. ** A system or condition of society in which the means of production are owned and controlled by the state. ** A stage of society in Marxist theory transitional between Capitalism and Communism and distinguished by the unequal distribution of goods and pay according to work done.

Fascism
From the Italian Fascismo, from Fascio – meaning bundle, fasces or group. From Latin Fascis – bundle. – A political philosophy, movement or regime that exalts nation and often race above the individual and that stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe economic and social regimentation , and forcible suppression of opposition. * A tendency towards or actual exercise of strong autocratic or dictatorial control.

Statism
Concentration of economic controls and planning in the hands of a highly centralized government often extending to government ownership of industry.

Communism
A theory advocating elimination of private property. * A system in which goods are owned in common and are available to all as needed. * A doctrine based on revolutionary Marxian socialism and Marxism-Leninism that was the official ideology of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics. * A totalitarian system of government in which a single authoritarian party controls state-owned means of production. * A final stage of society in Marxist theory in which the state has withered away and economic goods are distributed equitably.

Not sure what all those political terms mean?  Let the goats educate you!

Goat Politics: A Satirical Look at Government Structures
by Laura Dawn LewisTaken From: http://www.couplescompany.com/FEATURES/politics/Structure4.htm

SOCIALISM: You have two goats. You keep one and give the other to your neighbor and the government keeps any kids, (no one goat herder can be richer than the next)..

COMMUNISM: You have two goats. The Government takes your goats and shares the milk with you and your neighbor but rations the wool at exorbitant prices and then forces you to cut any clothing made in half to share with the rest of the population.

DICTATORSHIP: You have two goats and your neighbor has two cows. The ruler decides since the goats aren’t producing enough milk or wool and “Baa” each time he passes, there is a goat conspiracy. He orders all goats killed and creates new anti-goat laws.  Since you tend goats, you are also considered an enemy of the state.  One night you and your goats’ carcasses disappear never to be seen again.  The next day the dictator changes the law. A bull charges him. Cows are now conspirators.  That night your neighbor disappears and his cows are shot.  Since the dictator has killed all of the milk sources he develops osteoporosis and blames the doctors.  Doctors are now outlawed and considered conspirators.

MONARCHY: The king owns a herd of goats.  By decree you are responsible for two goats.  The king keeps all the milk, wool and any kids your goats have and sells the proceeds back to you at a steep mark-up.  You then pay the king a tax for the privilege of caring for his goats on his lands and if you do a good job and don’t cause trouble, he lets you stay.  If you cause trouble, fail to pay his taxes or he is unsatisfied with your work, he takes his goats, locks you in prison and throws your family off his land.

FASCISM: You have two goats. You give the milk to the government.  The government turns around and sells it back to you at a 400% mark-up, but only if you are the “right” kind of human being.  If you’re the wrong kind, not only will you have to buy the milk back at a 400% mark-up, you’ll need to survive a walk through a mine field, numerous checkpoints and escape the refugee/concentration/internment camp to claim it.

CAPITALISM: You have two goats. You sell one, leverage the other and use the proceeds to invest in bulls.

PURE DEMOCRACY: You have two goats. Your neighbors decide who gets the milk, who gets the wool, whether each becomes community property.  As you all have just one vote, they can vote to reallocate your goats to another person without justification or reason simply because your neighbors don’t like your new hairstyle.

REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY: You have two goats. Together with your neighbors you elect one person to represent the interests of the group. This representative proposes and passes legislation that determines who gets the milk, who gets the wool and how much you owe the government for the privilege of owning goats. If you’re lucky the person you all elected will think the same as you and let you keep your goats without taxing them to the point you can no longer afford to keep them.

AMERICAN DEMOCRACY: The government promises to give you two goats if you vote a certain way. After the election the president is impeached for speculating in goat futures. The press dubs the scandal  “Goatgate” and you are taxed for capital goat-gains on each hypothetical goat you were promised but never received.  Since you can’t pay on paper goat gains, the IRS seizes your property and places a lean on all future goats, thus recycling you through the state welfare system where you finally receive your goat.

ANARCHY: You have two goats. Your neighbors conspire to set you up.  You are arrested by the secret police and never seen again.  Meanwhile your neighbors steal your goats.