'Cmon little Patchling, you can say whatever you want, except that you like Glenn Beck.

I was listening to President Obama's Back to School Speech and wondering if my daughters were allowed to listen to him this year. He mentions his mother often when he talks about education. He makes it very clear that he is who he is because of her. Glenn Beck said that President Obama is reverse racist. He doesn't like white people. Glenn, his mama was white. I'm thinking he just doesn't like stupid white people. I don't even think he notices that they are white.

I'm voting Libertarian in my District House this year. I read a silly survey of questions that they each filled out. I know the Republican incumbent whose answers on dream car and favorite local restaurant makes it clear he's wealthy enough to be a Republican Politician. The Lib stated an affordable restaurant and the modest car he already drives. His answers were creative and amusing (showing that he'll play along even though it was stupid) and they were correct or else he's smart enough to know what the right answers are. Either way, I'm voting for him. Plus his name made me laugh all the way to the school and back.
VOTE BARRY SHORT!!!

So beautiful.

The Patch has had some requests.

One of them being the use of more Jon Stewart clips to emphasize some of my opinions on the more cracked individuals who had used their constitutional right of free speech it further reinforce how crude, rude, and unrefined some Americans can be ie. the entire Tea Party, Glenn Beck, Michelle Bachman, etc. I also have a guest blogger so stay tuned just in case the little Patchling decides to throw in her $.02.

Today's Daily Show clip is aimed at Fox News ignorance, and Terry "Yosemite" Jones, disingenuous change of heart. I think he and Glenn Beck are hearing the same party line voices in their head that they are attributing to God when in fact it's clear that they are seriously mental.
In case you are confused but who Terry Jones is and Yosemite Sam, this is for you:

(Yosemite Sam is the one that is clearly the most reasonable and intelligent looking.)

In one of the last clips of The Daily Show, Jon Stewart made a sensible argument about how stupid it is to worry what the radical Islamic people overseas think of us. Since when did WE start letting nut jobs influence our country. Oh yeah, that was the Bush Administration.. My bad.  But I'm with General Petraeus on this one. Burning the holy book of the Islamic people is an offense to the good people around the country that are kind and faithful people but it would also add fodder to the people in terrorist organizations just waiting for propaganda to stoke the rage and hatred against the American people.

Anywho.. Here's the clip of the day:

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Okay, I'm talking semantics right now.

We'll start off with The Most Trusted man in the media and his approach to this issue:

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So here's my take on the matter. Hatred and bigotry needs to go. The N-word is way worse because it means one thing and it's disparaging to black people. That being said, THEY need to stop using it too. It needs to be something that we teach our children is degrading and wrong along with other racial slurs.

Retarded has become slang for mentally handicapped individuals but it has other definitions:

re·tard
   (ree-tahrd)
–verb (used with object)
1.
to make slow; delay the development or progress of (an action, process, etc.); hinder or impede.
–verb (used without object)
2.
to be delayed.

For example: "The extremist right wingers are retarding the progress of our country for really stupid reasons."
Or: "The Minister who planned to burn Quran is retarded in his thinking." In other words he is hindering or slowing the acceptance of people's difference.
And don't forget that if you need to stop a fire, you use fire retardant. So can we move it along to something real? Sarah Palin is such a hypocrite. Her freedom of speech is more important that the rest of America's. She's very retarded in her way of thinking.

Remembering...

As I went through my day, yesterday getting everything ready for my youngest daughter's birthday party, I did it like I have for the past 9 years: In a daze. Not the same as the day she turned 4. It was so busy. I had to get her to preschool. The invitations were sent. I had come up with a cute idea to make her poster of her short life even better. I bought die-cut letters spelling out her name and strung them on yarn like a necklace that laid on the pictures of her first 4 years of life. But from the moment my husband called me telling me to turn on the TV to watch the horror of an attack that still makes no sense to me it was like sleepwalking. Only one tower had been hit and I watched in disbelieving horror as the second plane flew into and almost through, but not quite, the second tower. It never occurred to me to worry for MY safety or that of my kids. The terrorists were obviously making a huge statement by choosing targets of political and populated immensity. Everywhere I went the radio or television was on. When the attacks were over I was reminded that being a newscaster is probably not on par with rocket science as the pundits asked inane questions and offered useless commentary. The bewilderment of the people living in NYC became anger, resentment and a need for vengeance. It also united the country in a way that was astonishing and brief.
9 years later and our country is as divided as it's ever been or maybe that is just the way it feels to me. Hatred is a common commodity and it's bought and sold with ignorance. My daughter's party was a success. Far more successful than I was anticipating considering I was catering to a bunch of little divas. In the background we watched the horror of 9/11 replayed over and over on the History Channel. It's amazing to me that nine years have passed and I feel no sense of atonement. Our country is financially broken by a war that to me seems a farce. It's always felt that George H. Bush had no real end to Operation Desert Storm. Saddam Hussein wasn't dead and Bush couldn't have another term. The Clinton years pulled us out of the huge national debt. And George W. Bush Jr. former college cheerleader, part owner of the Texas Ranger Baseball team, and card carrying alcoholic "good ol' boy", set about to tie up Daddy's loose ends. And he did. Bush Jr. surprised many people by choosing Dick Cheney as Vice President, but probably not his co-members of the Skull and Bones Society where shaking hands with the devil is what they aspire too. Financed by daddy's oil and bloodshed and married to Haliburton prince of darkness George W. became the worst president the United States of America has ever had. After riding off into the sunset, free of puppet master Cheney, George hasn't had much to say in the last couple of years. That's been the wisest thing he's ever done, in my opinion.
I don't know when it was, in the past nine years that the unanswered questions started nagging at me. Questions like: Why Pearl Harbor? If you're going to poke a hornet's nest, do the most damage possible, right? And when the hornets begin to sting, they annihilate Hiroshima and Nagasaki? Killing so many innocent people. Doctors, nurses, civilians. Why?? What was the military strategy in that?
So it's 2010 and President Obama has shifted the war from Iraq to Afghanistan. The Al Quida has had plenty of time to regroup and like his father, George W. left office knowing that the bad guy slipped through his fingers. President Obama is left holding the bag, and the debt, and the unnecessary wars including a renewal of the war on racial prejudice. The Republicans, the bat shit crazy Tea Party/Birthers/9-12ers, etc. How does he face it? A self destructive country.
Who will be our first female president? Sarah Palin? I'm guessing one of the Bush twins. She can continue the tradition of cleaning up daddy's mess and even secure a pardon for all of the atrocities committed under false intelligence. There's no atonement for the events of 9/11/01. No redemption because we are tired of war, and lies. We're broken. And in some crappy hole in Afghanistan, a stinking man by the name of Osama Bin Laden laughs at American stupidity and greed.
Happy freaking birthday, youngest daughter.

Are you serious?

The Tea Party could be here to stay. I like it!! It's divisive and that is what we need in the GOP. I'm not being snide, I'm being honest. My minority in being liberal is a dead horse that I've completely annihilated but I've been genuinely floored by the insanity and ignorance in our country, my community, and in my circle of friends, family, and acquaintances. In the race for Alaska's senate seat, the GOP candidate who was considered a shoo-in, Sen. Lisa Murkowski, is trailing Joe Miller who is backed by the Tea Party and Sarah Palin. That is actually frightening! The extreme behavior and platforms that the Tea Party have been pushing is truly alarming. Many of ther residents of the state of Alaska has shown themselves to be willing to take a look at what Sarah Palin's agenda really is. I've watched the disillusionment and anger of some Alaskan residents at being abandoned by her as Governor. Realizing that she QUIT being their governor and taking her dog and pony show for shallow celebrity. Maybe they think back to the embarrassment of her interviews with Couric and Gibson (among others) that established the fact that she was completely unqualified for VP but drove home that her motives are questionable. She QUIT! She used her children to sell herself, she failed her state and she stole money from the GOP and the tax payers. But she's proving to have some determined sycophantic followers and she's doing it for her own selfish purposes. She doesn't represent the needs of the Alaskan people, she doesn't support the Constitution unless it suits her. She certainly violated several of Kathleen Gustafson and Billy Sullivan's rights in Homer Alaska.

The Republican Party has some very good people who seem genuinely ashamed of the behavior of the antics of the extremists. In fact, many have tried to distance themselves from some of the crazier people and their movements. More and more these extreme wingnuts are showing that their problems don't lie in the government as a whole, but with President Obama. Today I read about a newer movement and I wonder WHY doesn't this disturb more people? Starting with the one I read about today, I'm going to list some of these groups and what their agenda is:

Thirteenthers: They seem to be okay with the part of the 13th Amendment that banned slavery, but they want to reintroduce an amendment from 1810 stating that no one holding a public office that is bestowed a title of nobility. This mean that President Obama must step down because he won the Nobel Prize. Apparently unbeknownst  to those of us who HAVEN'T won one, the recipient is crowned King of Norway too! *Sarcasm, in case no one picked up on that* This appears to be mostly Iowa.
Tenthers: This one isn't so bad. I understand the mistrust of "big government" and this is about letting states govern themselves. Problem with that is that I don't want Utah's state leaders making my choices for me. Sheesh, if they had their way, Arizona could shoot Latinos on sight! Texas and Alaska would secede, but that could have it's up sides, as well.
Birthers: Talk about a dead horse!!! President Obama started snowing us at birth. Orly Taitz lost that one!
Teabaggers: I think I've covered that, but they are normally uneducated, racist, people with too much time on their hands.
Glenn Beckites: People who believe the rantings of a man that is a complete boob. This will probably become a religion because self proclaimed prophets are frowned upon by the faith whose members made him a wealthy man.
Foxtards: People who watch and believe a cable news network that isn't bright enough to let them Republican party BUY their favor, they are unfair and unbalanced and they paid the GOP to boot!


I may think of more later. I'm pretty POSITIVE I'll think of more :)

More on Fox owned government.

Fox News has become home to the crazier folk that bring ratings if not news. Sarah "I'm a really stupid quitter" Palin has her own platform there (along with a show on the Discovery Channel where she will be sharing the parts of Alaska that AREN'T ashamed of her very existence (mark your calendar for the upcoming episode featuring the OTHER MOTHER OF THE YEAR: Kate Gosslin! What a treat. Dr. Laura is going down like a circus clown for dropping the N-word 11 times on her radio show so she's likely a shoe in for a Fox show. Really Fox News equals intolerance.

UPDATED FoxPAC: Fox News' corporate parent gave Republican Governors Association $1 million

August 16, 2010 5:52 pm ET by Matt Gertz

Bloomberg News reports today (h/t Daily Kos' KingOneEye) that News Corp. -- the media giant which owns Fox News and The Wall Street Journal -- has donated $1 million to the Republican Governors Association, the GOP organization that helps coordinate Republican gubernatorial campaigns and pays for independent ads in support of their candidates.

Media Matters has confirmed Bloomberg's report using publicly available IRS filings. We also found no evidence of corresponding donations to the Democratic Governors Association in the current political cycle. News Corp. wants Republicans elected to office, and they're willing to spend money to make it happen.

According to the article, News Corp. is actually the RGA's "biggest corporate donor." Bloomberg suggests that News Corp. has made these donations due to their opposition to "proposed federal rule changes that would weaken the position of its Fox network in negotiations with cable companies," stating that "Governors may have a stake in the issue."

Whether or not that is the case, this large corporate donation to the GOP underscores News Corp.'s role as an appendage of the Republican Party.

UPDATE: Politico's Ben Smith has received the following quote from a News Corp. spokesman: "News Corporation believes in the power of free markets, and the RGA's pro-business agenda supports our priorities at this most critical time for our economy." They're not trying to hide it anymore. As the coverage of its media outlets indicates, News Corp. supports the Republican Party's platform. It's just now started putting its money where its mouth has long been.

Sixteen months ago, we drew attention to Fox News Senior Vice President Bill Shine's characterization of his network as the "voice of the opposition." Ever since, we've been demonstrating how the network has been living up to his words.

In September, we defined Fox News as a conservative political organization, noting that the network had been openly advocating against the Democratic Congress and White House through extreme promotion of anti-government rallies, witch hunts against administration officials, and by urging their audience to call Congress and the White House to protest Democratic policies.

In October, we revealed the revolving door between the Republican Party and Fox News Channel, with a number of former Bush administration officials, former and potentially future GOP presidential candidates, and Republican strategists on Fox's payroll and airwaves.

In November, we chronicled Fox News' promotion of Conservative Party congressional candidate Doug Hoffman, New Jersey Republican gubernatorial candidate Chris Christie, and Virginia Republican gubernatorial candidate Bob McDonnell in the run-up to the November 3 election. We also noted how Fox News hosts and analysts spent Election Day promoting their candidacies.

In January, we documented Fox's campaign for Scott Brown; in February, we pointed out the network's advocacy for fellow Republican Senate candidates Marco Rubio and Mark Kirk.

In April, we showed how Fox News hosts and contributors have raised millions of dollars for Republican candidates and causes in the 2010 election cycle. We also pointed out that in recent years, at least twenty Fox News personalities have endorsed, raised money, or campaigned for Republican candidates or causes, or against Democratic candidates or causes, in more than 300 instances and in at least 49 states.

And now we have Fox's parent company donating $1 million to elect Republican gubernatorial candidates. Are there still people who doubt that Fox is just an arm of the GOP?

Okay, a recap.

So Fox News, owned by News Corp. is a NEWS CHANNEL. Sarah Palin, and Glenn Beck, both have shows on Fox News yet neither are newscasters. Or politicians but I digress.. Jon Stewart is a comedian on Comedy Central and yet in less than 10 minutes he can clear up pure insane crap that spews from Warrior Who Hears From God (or just batpoop crazy voices in his head) Glenn Beck.

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Soooo.. Vacation is over.

I haven't blogged for awhile. My heart hasn't been in it. I was considering making a separate blog toned down so I could share it then I remembered that this blog has never been about sharing. It's for my personal need to fight against the out of touch stupid people around me. I've decided to open it up BECAUSE of the people around me. It's not going to be a shocker that I'm opinionated, liberal, maddened, and painfully blunt. So, it is what it is.

I got the call I've been waiting for but half dreading a few days ago. I will be campaigning again soon. Actually I will be working security at Democratic events and voting. Yeah THAT sounds wise! I'd get in a smack down at CHURCH if I gave into my urge to fight back. I'll be calling again soon. But ONLY for candidates I believe in.

Prop8

Prop 8 overturned! I can't say I'm sorry to see it happen, because I have the church vs. politics or whatever it is about me that is sooooo different than most people I know.

I'm happy that couples who have been denied constitutional rights on a morality judgment (and exactly who is it that is morally superior?) can finally be married.

And yes, I AM still Mormon. Active and in good standing :)