Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Thoughts on Big Mayoral Race

It seems such a no-brainer, and yet people still don't get it.

Stephen Bach - being funded by Kock Bros millionaires for attack ads on his opponent.  He has said with pride not long ago that he brings experience of being a developer, but gets upset when called that by an opponent. He stole his opponent's passion of open spaces and parks for his own (which he has no record of).  Colorado Springs Independent paper interviewed his ex-wife and thus exposed his wife-beating past.  Oh and he is against basic gay rights.  But he wants to attract more business to the area!  Those two don't mix.  Study after study after study has said this city must stop competing to be the most anti-gay if we want to attract talent and jobs.  CLUE.

Here is why voting for Bach is stupidity exemplified.  Look at what conservatism has gotten us thus far - named the "Hate State," can't attract new creative talent here because of competing over who can be more anti-gay - we can't attract anything but more Religious Right extremists, the police force has been cut, police helicopter that was a gift to fight the growing gang problem had to be sold, firemen have been cut, street lights turned out, snow removal cut way back...and those open spaces Bach loves - well park services cut to nil.

In his debates he talks in standard rhetoric with absolutely no real solutions.  He is the same old thing that will only flush Colorado Springs further down the toilet - but then if the majority vote for this idiot that is what you deserve.  But not me!  I am a native and sick and tired of Conservatives and Focus on the Family taking a wrecking ball to this town.

Women, wake up.  This man doesn't respect women.  I came from an abusive marriage and they don't miraculously stop being abusers.  It is a sickness. 

Take a lesson from the Republicans in the rest of the nation who want to decimate our schools, restrict access to even the morning-after-pill for rape victims (HR3 they conveniently redefined rape - without asking the nation's women!)  And there is even a Republican backed state bill (not Colo.) to make a woman prove she had a miscarriage and not a coat hanger incident.  Look it up if you don't believe me.  Steve Bach will be more of that ilk.

GLBT community - WAKE the hell up.  Bach wants your taxes but wants to deny your basic rights.  He doesn't want you marrying or getting domestic partner benefits.  He doesn't want to attract businesses here if it means more GLBT might want to live here. 

Independents - don't be fooled.  Bach isn't fiscally conservative.  He will do what all the Republicans are doing throughout the nation, give huge tax cuts to the wealthiest people and large corporations and then make the working class get less services for their tax money.  Jobs - please - he doesn't have any solid solutions!  He has the same load of crap the Republicans ran on in 2010 - how is that working for you?  They threaten to shut down the government if they didn't get their way to give more to the wealthy. That is no deal.  That is robbery and true elitism and entitlement.

If Bach wins it just proves all over again P.T. Barnum was right.  There is a sucker born every minute!

THIS HAS BEEN YOUR WAKE UP CALL!

Saturday, March 26, 2011

Sunday, January 9, 2011

The Violence In Tuscon

"One who condones evil is just as guilty as the one who perpetrates it."       Martin Luther King Jr.

Ann Coulter being herself
Begin with Ann Coulter in 2006 joking that "We need somebody to put rat poison in Justice Stevens' creme brulee," because of his "liberal leaning" plus her book calling all liberals godless and her stunning "We need to execute people like John Walker in order to physically intimidate liberals, by making them realize that they can be killed, too." at her Jan 2002 address before the Conservative Political Action Conference or psychotic hatemonger Glen Beck's 2009 joking about putting poison in Nancy Pelosi's wine and O'Reilly on his high horse hammering the name "Tiller the baby-killer" spurring murder to the paragon of Christ-like gun-toting-virtue Sarah "Tea Bagger" Palin with her infamous targets on 20 key problems that included Gabriel Giffords district and her tweet "don't retreat, reload" to Byron Williams citing Glen Beck's rantings against the ACLU and Tides Foundation (at least 29 rantings against Tides) spurred his desire to start a revolution when he was stopped by police and began a shoot out.

Gabriel Gifford said it best in November 2010: "Sarah Palin's list has a gun sight over our district. They have to realize there are consequences to that."  

Now Gabriel (Arizona's first Jewish Congresswoman, married to a US Navy Captain and Astronaut and volunteer in Katrina relief ground efforts) is fighting to stay alive in a hospital after a bullet went through her brain.  Congratulations Sister Sarah, you got your wish - "problem" solved I guess.

Washington Post headline:

Tucson shooting reported globally as evidence of charged U.S. political climate



The commentators are, rightly so, calling out all these people with their Fox "news" programs or syndicated columns for their role in this incident and Dr. Tiller's murder.  The far right is already crying fowl for pointing to them.

But I am calling out every single individual who watches Fox "news", reads or listens to anything of Ann Coulter or equally vile Michelle Malkin, and for every single person who voted Republican or supports Tea Party "anger".  You are the one responsible for this shooting - the blood of 9 year old Christina Green is on your hands as well as the other five lives and 14 injured.
The violence has been just below the surface when you have signs claiming the solution to gay marriage with two nooses and you, the people weren't outraged.  

The violence was ready to spill over when Dr. Tiller was gunned down in his own church and my 60-something church going neighbor could only say "But he killed children" without any feeling for his family.  Without any empathy or sympathy whatsoever.

The violence was at the boiling point when guns were openly at Tea Party rallies and when Arizona pastor, Steven Anderson, reportedly gave a sermon in which he publicly asserted he was praying for President Barack Obama to die and go to hell.  And the logical result that Chris Broughton, after hearing pastor Anderson’s shocking prayers in his sermon, he showed up at the President Obama’s appearance the next day with an assault rifle and a hand gun.
 
But in all of this you, the American people haven't been shocked and appalled - no, you voted those "angry" tea party candidates as leaders, you voted in candidates who want to tear this country further apart.
No.  These deaths and injures and hate are ALL on your heads.

THIS IS YOUR WAKE UP CALL