Linda McMahon: 'We Ought To Review' The Minimum Wage

I am stumped too that folks elect people who do not have their interest at heart. What is wrong with America?
About 2010 Elections
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Michigan Official Attacks Gay College Student For Promoting 'Radical Homosexual Agenda'

Geez, is today Crazy-as-H*LL day? From where are these folks coming?



The important missing piece of the new health care program is a strong mental health care componant. Folks really need a healing!
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Jerome Corsi Wants Obama To 'Renounce Lucifer'

Bwhaaaa! ROTFLMAO! Crazy....when I see that guy's picture I hear Gnarls Barkley's CRAZY playing. Can this election season get any more nuts? Why do we treat these folks as if their lights are all on? Obviously, the weakness in the new health care program is what must be the paucity of mental health help for the delusional.



Mr. Corsi, seek help!
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Lanny Davis Attacks Maddow For Clinton Criticism: 'Worst Element Of Our Party'

My grievance is not what Lanny Davis said but that he even has a platform to say anything. He is a DLC stooge and a Clinton lemming. He brings no value to the table except to do his master's bidding...WHY?



Why has Bill after SEVEN months gotten all heated up over what said in March now? This all seems a little too self-serving to me. Are they trying to destroy the Democratic party like the Republicans have done theirs?
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Bill Clinton Strikes Back At Rachel Maddow

That's not true. President Obama has achieved some remarkable legislation health care, staving off a second great depression, parity in pay for women (the Lilly Ledbetter law), an agreement for countries to get rid of nuclear products that can be made into weapons grade material, a middle class tax cut, and an agency that protects consumers against the more grievous financial shenanigans from banks. While that that is an incomplete list of accomplishments and some of them are not exactly the perfect legislation we may have desired, they are still quite an achievement for any young President but especially for one who had to hit the ground running with so many disasters looming. I am not disappointed as impatient. I am willing to give him time before I write him off as a bad change.
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Bill Clinton Strikes Back At Rachel Maddow

He did not veto it because he was and still is a DLC thinker. The DLC is the worst thing that has happened to Democrats in this country. Rahm Emanuel is a DLC thinker hence the right wing nut Democrats like Ben Nelson and Evan Bayh. To see them as corporate loving hacks (See Harold Ford) is to begin to get the picture.



I do not hate ex. President Clinton I just am not enamored of him since I think that he gave away the store to the Republicans and big business which propped up Bush to expand and finish the job.



The best thing about the Clinton years was the employment picture. Now, I give his serious props for that.
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MSNBC's New Anchor Lineup

Keith, Rachel and the new guy seems to be a decent change. I don't watch any of the other folks with the rare exception of Ed Schultz. Ed gets too worked up for me sometimes but his heart is in the right place.I see Ed in small doses.



The other folks may as well be CNN.
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Salvatore Giunta To Get Medal Of Honor, 1st Living Afghan War Veteran Receiving One

It is a great honor to call Salvatore Giunta a hero. Congratulations on receiving the Medal of Honor. You are indeed worthy of it. Thank you for what you did stepping into harms way to save brother soldiers. This country is blessed by you and all soldiers like you who stand in the gap to keep us safe and free. Thank you, thank you, thank you!



From a proud and very grateful citizen
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Quran Burning Pastor: 'We Are Definitely Prepared To Give Our Lives' (VIDEO)

I disagree with your choice of the word zealot. Ignorant attention seeking fool I think is more accurate. As a preacher you would think that he has read John 10:16. If he had then he would know that Jesus claimed more than his followers (Christians) and Jews.



What galls me though is unnecessarily putting our troops in jeopardy in a dumb political attention grabbing stunt. Hillary is right we should simply ignore him.
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Obama To Back $50 Billion Infrastructure Plan For Roads, Rail, Air Travel

When the Republicans were spending like drunken sailors barely a peep was said about fiscal responsibility. We simply endured Voodoo Economics. Now, they claim fiscal restraint sans the rich folks' tax correction due in December which they claim need not be Paygo.They do want to reduce entitlement programs (things for middle and lower income Americans) so they can pay less taxes.



50 billion dollars is again too small of an amount to do real aid to people who are unemployed. What is urgently needed is a WPA type program rebuilding our infrastructure to compete with European countries and China who invested their monies in modernizing their infrastructure.



Since many unemployed Americans lostjobs that they will never return to we also need a CETA program that will retrain people for exist ing and future jobs. The only way out of this mess is to get people employed and contributing to our tax base.y. This means putting people back to work in jobs that pay a living wage.



Finally, it is time to focus on the banks that were lent taxpayers' dollars who are refusing to lend to small and medium sized businesses that hire people to work. We missed the mark by not nationalizing them when they were bleeding us. It is high time to invest in us. The banks must be forced to lend to American businesses that hire American workers. Pay us back with loans to us. Put Americans back to work!
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Sharron Angle Claims Unemployment Insurance 'Really Doesn't Benefit Anyone'

I laughed. I laughed not because what Ms. Angle says is funny but because my disagreement about US health care is that we do not provide enough mental health care for our people. Ms. Angle could use many, many sessions and for me that would be taxpayer money well spent.



Having experienced unemployment that lasted over a year I can say UI provides the difference between abject poverty and barely hanging on. Barely hanging on gives you the tiny space/room to search for work. Abject poverty claims your full attention trying to get the basics of life...food, clothing and shelter. There is no time/space/room to do much else even though a job would eliminate having to search for basics. Ms. Angle and apparently lots of other Republicans and Tea-people are bereft of the unemployment experience. They have no frame of reference which is why they can spout such nonsense.



May God grant them the experience of unemployment so they can be more charitable to towards folks who need help (that they paid for anyway) until they get work.
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Fire At Tennessee Mosque Construction Site Now Under Federal Arson Investigation

Terror is the ability to strike fear in the hearts of people with one demonstrable act. During the beginnings of the modern Civil Rights Movement it took the form of bombing churches. The country was aghast at the killing of four girls in a church in Birmingham, Alabama. It is my prayer that we do not wait until there are deaths before standing up for our fellow Americans who worship the same God as Christians and Jews where their right to do so is guaranteed by the 1st Amendment to the United States Constitution.



This aggression from the ignorant must be stared down by the people of goodwill of every faith and those who are non-religious too. It is simply a question of recognizing our humanity. Let us not be silent. We could be next. They have no shame.
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Five Years After Katrina, New Orleanians Still Feel The Scars

Five years and I cannot make myself to return to the new New Orleans. The city I was born and raised in no longer exists. It is now heading towards gentrification and a rather timely land grab.



The educational system is a hodgepodge where if your alumni is weak the schools that educated generations of family and friends are discarded and some experimental school stuffed in its place.



My family still lives in New Orleans. It is in their blood. They have rebuilt homes that laid under 9 feet of nasty water. They have knitted together their lives and bear the pain of separation from their eldest member because there are no comparable services for seniors in New Orleans as is where we live now. They survive.



I shall always remember the day we left. We took only a few articles of clothes with the intent of staying in a motel some distance away from the hurricane. What we planned to be a couple of days away from home has turned out to be five years for me in a different region and five years of hard struggle for my siblings and their children in New Orleans.



The city I love is gone and a stranger rises in its place...slowly.
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Franklin Graham, Evangelical Minister: Obama's 'Problem Is That He Was Born A Muslim' (VIDEO)

Exactly, the entire point of Christianity is freewill. What pains me most about Franklin Graham is his failure to understand what Jesus said about "sheep of many folds" commonly taken as people with different names and beliefs in God. The allusion is that Jesus loves all who claim him even if we don't. Also, you could look back at Jonah and his resistance and prejudice towards a group of people he found unworthy but that God insisted he serve willingly or willingly.



The Christianity I know and believe in is expansive and based on love and fellowship. Franklin's seems based on fear and loathing. That is sad.
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Obama To AFL-CIO: I Know You're Frustrated But Hang With Me

He has done more for this country in two years than several Presidents in their full terms. Health care, saving the auto industry, and the consumer protection bureau to name but a very few things that have been accomplished by President Obama in TWO YEARS. Is it all we need? No. Were even the accomplishments imperfect? Yes. I can say this regardless as yo what health preconditions I have I cannot be turned away from health insurers any more. For me That is very significant.



Am I satisfied? No. I elected a man not Superman. He has a good team but the other side plays hard and dirty and he is still in there fighting. He fights differently from what I would want but he fights, admits his errors and moves on. I too at this point see no reason to vote for someone else.
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Dan Maes, Colorado Gubernatorial Candidate, Warns Of U.N. Plot To Destroy America With Bike-Sharing Programs

One of the critical flaws in our health care system is the lack of support for the provision of mental health services. Obviously, some folks are dearly in need of it.
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Dan Maes, Colorado Gubernatorial Candidate, Warns Of U.N. Plot To Destroy America With Bike-Sharing Programs

This article would be funny if it were about a Colbert skit. Coming from someone wanting help make critical decisions in Congress this terrifies me. What is wrong with people? Even if you thought that stuff it should never be spoken aloud to confirm that you are crazy as hell. Is this the best that we have to offer?



"I question America."- Fannie Lou Hamer
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Great Summer Reading

I highly recommend The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo movie and the book too. I stumbled onto this movie in a desperate search for entertainment on Netflix. After skipping over it I finally succumbed and watched it. AWESOME! Any way, it is a foreign film and so has subtitles. The story is so good that you will not notice the reading part. It is a murder mystery with some action kind of film. There will be an American version in a couple of years but why wait?

After seeing the movie I decided to read the book. It is first in a trilogy. The first book is  The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. The second book is The Girl Who Played with Fire. The last book is The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest. What makes these books more interesting is that the writer Stieg Larsson died in 2004 all three manuscripts done. Readers suspect that there is a fourth manuscript, a MYSTERY!

The film is surprisingly close to the book. They are great summer reading.

Essence's White Fashion Director Ellianna Placas Causes Controversy

I left as a reader of Essence years ago when Marcia Gillespie left. The fiction and poetry section have not since been repeated. As fir the fashions...when they stopped showing black women in fashionable clothes with curses that nixed it forever for me. I've been marching to my own drummer ever since.



I had a subscription from their second year until Marcia left and stopped buying them a news stands and stores after the skinny women appeared.



My sister was a charter subscriber who ended her subscription for about the same reasons.



I still miss the old Essence. Calling up Emerge too. Once we had some great black magazines.
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Shirley Sherrod, a Family Farmer's Friend

I love Willie Nelson because he has put time in on the issue of family farms for years. Holding on to the land and producing seasonal locally grown food is exactly the direction we should be heading. Family farms provide the means to get there.



I also applaud a man that stands up for his friends and speaks the truth about them. Mrs. Sherrod's work must continue because frankly we need her and a lot more like her in the corner of the family farmers.
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