OMG!!! STUPID PEOPLE SHUT UP!!!!

I am so sick of the constant complaints about Obama. When did we become so anti humanitarian? Our country is in debt and has huge problems but does a crazy dictator send people out to slaughter people?? NO! The fact that we can complain about all of this means we are 1000x better off than these people. When Petraeus and other military experts who are IN Afganistan say it's over THEN it's over (and it's not like he doesn't have a personal stake in it, his son served there too). In the meantime, count your blessings that you are American! We're in debt due to the warmongering Bush Admin and Republicans. Remember the crap Obama took for trying to settle things through peace talks?? Yeah we don't talk, we just bomb people, REMEMBER???



Among the criticism is that he should have acted sooner? Umm yeah he should have, but he can't just do that. He has to do things with the approval of other countries and the loons that are in opposition to every single thing he does!! I just keep thinking about the little world news thing that interrupted my Saturday morning cartoons and listening to Walter Cronkite talk about this insane man named Gadhafi. He was an evil man during the Reagan administration, now he's a completely insane, evil man.



I've also seen some criticism that some of the Libyan rebels dislike America. And?? So if you dislike us (likely because they have been fed negative information about us their entire lives) you deserve to be slaughtered by a mad man?? We can't save the world but if we can help out in some of the biggest atrocities, why would we hesitate? There's a lot of lip service paid to the importance of Christianity in our government as it was founded by men that held God and freedom as very important parts of the foundation of the country. So now do we pick and choose what is the "Christian" thing to do (I speak of Christianity as it was the major beliefs of our founding fathers though John Adams DID condemn the prejudice of Muslims etc.)?



I think that one of the things that's become clear during the time that Obama has been president is that there should be term limits on members of the House of Representatives AND Gadhafi.. Too much time and power obviously is a really bad mix. And as these members of Congress call for impeachment, do they have a better idea how to handle the financial crisis and war in Iraq that was handed over to this administration from the last (which was, the oil spill (yeah remember THAT?? It's still there) Haiti, Japan, Chile. And he's being accused of going into Libya over oil? Umm no, that was Bush and Iraq. Remember that war that we went into under false intelligence? Bush admits that one and who benefitted from that? Big oil and who was tied to big oil? Bush. Meanwhile Bin Ladin was able to hole up in Afganistan. THAT is where the war on terror SHOULD have taken place but it didn't and now war weary, we are finally fighting the people responsible for 9/11. And Obama fighting for oil?? Whose tagline was "drill baby drill?" Who has consistantly insisted that we work toward alternate fuel?? Who was against offshore drilling? And how soon we forget that the cost of gas was INSANE at the end of the Bush administration. Also remember that the Bush administration isn't completely safe from being tried for the things they did to fool our country and many others into a false war.

No, we can't help everyone who is experiencing slaughter by their dictatorial governments, but when they so blatantly shove it in our faces do we hide with our tail between our legs? We never have before why would we start now? And Fox News made up reports on "Human Shields"?? What? Fox News LIES?? SHUT THE FRONT DOOR!!

I'm sure I'll be venting more on all of this BS soon.

I feel like I live in an alternate universe.

So Arizona Governor Jan Brewer signed into state law a bill so backward it can only be compared to the treatment of "free" or "free born" black people in the 1860's where they were required to register at the courthouse like sex offenders. If they didn't have the papers they could be sold as a slave. This time it's Hispanic people and deportation or 6-12 months of jail time if they can't show their papers. U.S. Sen. John McCain on Monday called the bill a "tool that I think needs to be used."
Of course he did. Sen. Leah Landrum Taylor, D-Phoenix, predicted the legislation would cause chaos by spawning suspicion among neighbors, friends and relatives about who might be in the country illegally. "Our state will be going completely backward," she said. Our entire country is moving backward, honey!
Can we trade Orrin Hatch for Senator Taylor before the Republican Kool-aid crosses over into Utah? Rush Limbaugh called President Obama a racist. That's irony that would baffle O.Henry. Glenn Beck is jumping up and down, because he has an insane new chalkboard theory and no one is taking it serious. Glenn you are batsh!t crazy... The majority of your audience is people who are looking for a good laugh until The Daily Show comes on.
A little off topic here, but why do these idiots who have the Conservative masses so riled talking about what the government is taking away look so well fed? These men aren't concerned about US spreading the wealth. They've just found a way to become a well paid detriment to society with all the Cons and the fringe groups kneeling at their feet. THEY don't want to miss a meal.
This crazed law is going to create some chaos between legit Conservatives and the racists that have smacked a Tea Party label on their butts to make them relevant.
After President Obama softened on the idea of off shore drilling, a MAJOR explosion and oil spill happens in the Gulf of Mexico. I personally, hoped that he'd explore the idea of offshore drilling with extreme caution. Contrary to the "Drill baby, drill" enthusiasm of SOME people, safety measures need to be foremost in the minds of Americans along with alternate energy options. 11 workers are missing and presumed dead. Environmentally it could prove to be devastating. One wonders which would be more costly to the big oil companies* (and politicians that stroll hand in hand with them) the loss of that $600 million rig. I'm going to assume that the cost of the the men or the 4 endangered species unique to that region isn't important to them or they wouldn't have so strongly resisted new safety measures proposed to stop this kind of tragedy from occurring.

BP Exploration & Production, which owns the deep water rig that exploded last week in the Gulf of Mexico, was cited in 2007 for inadequately training employees in well control, according to the US Minerals Management Service.

The conditions of the training are the same as those suspected in the possible blowout aboard the TransOcean Deepwater Horizon, which left 11 workers missing and presumed dead.

Source

Halliburton,one of the largest oil and gas service companies in the world out of Texas with ties to the Bush administration with Vice President Dick Cheney being Halliburton’s chief executive prior to taking office in 2000. It was also reported in 2004 that "The company has been the number one financial beneficiary of the invasion of Iraq, raking in some $18 billion in contracts to rebuild the country’s oil industry and service US troops."

I also read a comment today from a Tea Party activist bringing up all of the things that have reflected badly on the Republican Party (such as it is), the Bush Admin, and the misc. Conservative Loons and suggested that President Obama and the Dems are behind all of this. Now THAT is STELLAR denial! Dude, Dick Cheney can't even be human. He's so old and evil it HAS to be demonic and how long can they avoid prosecution?? Take the money of the big oil companies refusing to comply with safety laws, Cheney/Halliburton, anyone who profited off of the fall of America. I'm pretty sure the financial issues would be greatly improved.




The Daily Kos on the similarities between AZ law's treatment of Hispanic people and freed slaves or free-born slaves.

WaPo article on oil spill in gulf of Mexico