Pelosi finds her backbone – maybe

Are we watching political theater or has Pelosi read the polls and found her backbone?

“We have been very clear Democrats are not supporting — House Democrats are not supporting any cuts in benefits for Social Security or Medicare,” she said.  

Then the Governor of Louisiana continues the war on women — and I’m adding the battle statistics which show that women are really and truly dying in this war.

Every year, over 10 million women die or sustain life-threatening injuries due to complications from pregnancy, according to the World Health Organization.

In the U.S., the number of women who die from pregnancy complications on an annual basis has doubled over the last 20 years, and a full one-third of pregnant American women will suffer from some form of complication, according to Amnesty International.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control shows that black women were most likely to die during pregnancy, with 32.7 deaths per 100,000 pregnancies recorded on average. For white women that number drops to 9.5 deaths per 100,000 pregnancies, largely split along the lines of income disparity and a lack of access to women’s health services, including abortion.

 

Pasted from <http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/07/07/in-signing-anti-abortion-bill-louisiana-gov-compares-women-to-criminals/>

Here’s a poll which finds  we the people like Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.

As policymakers at the state and national level struggle with rising entitlement costs, overwhelming numbers of Americans agree that, over the years, Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid have been good for the country.

More than likely Pelosi and other Dem politicians were starting their campaigns early. It is interesting that Jane Hamster at FireDogLake feels we have reached a Breaking Point? Where was she in 2008 when she was panting over 0bowma? Interesting that the hard core 0bots have seen the light. 0bowma wanted to kill Social Security when he was running for the white house back in 2008. So Pelosi isn’t going to stand by HER man?

Jane Hamster writes: What we’re watching is the death of the Democratic Party.  Or, at least the Democratic Party as most of us have known it.  The one that has taken its identity in the modern era from FDR and the New Deal, from Keynesian and the social safety net.  Despite any of its other shortcomings (and they are myriad), the Democratic Party has stood as a symbol for commitment to these principles.   As recently as 2006, Democrats took over the House in a surprise wave election because the public feared that George Bush would destroy Social Security, and they trusted the Democrats over Republicans to secure it.  Just like George Bush, Obama now wants to “save” Social Security….by giving those who want to burn it to the ground the the very thing they’ve wanted for decades.

0bowma isn’t a democrat — he is a narcissistic Chicago politician — from the dirtiest political city in the US.

 

 

Random news highlights 6 July 2011

Dust Bowl hits Arizona. In the age of cell phone video and Flip Video we get a view into the past. Many of us have parents and grandparents who lived through the Dust Bowl. It was dry and there were no tree belts — so soil was picked up and moved by the wind at random. There are also photos of the Dust Bowl of the 1930s along side the current dust storm photos.

photo of 1930s dust storm

Ron Paul takes on the TSA. Never in a million years would I believe that I’d ever agree with Ron Paul on anything. Someone wrote on one of the blogs that hating the TSA and their sexual assault (GATE RAPE) is something that Dems and GOP can agree on. The TSA has very few supporters judging from the comments below any article about the TSA sexual molestation of passengers — but especially the young children and babies being sexually molested by TSA.

The American Traveler Dignity Act – that will address his concerns about airport security and personal privacy. The act, Ne essence, would hold Transportaion Safety Administration (TSA) employees to the same standards as average citizens in regards to physical contact, making images of another person or causing “physical harm” to another person through the use of radiation-emitting machines.

Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/2011/07/ron-paul-slams-actions-tsa#ixzz1RNW1Jplf

In another story the TSA is now claiming that they have heard that someone said (probably under torture) that passengers might try to sneak a bomb sewn into their bodies. Unless I know the source of these rumors and the credibility and truthfulness of the rumors I simply don’t believe the TSA. This announcement comes on the same day that Ron Paul is introducing the legislation making the TSA accountable to the same laws that all citizens must obey.

Below are two images — one showing a typical boob implant and another of a man-boobs of a random image from the internet — cropped to protect the innocent male.

BlackGumTree writes in response to the above news:

“The bill should also prohibit searches unless a Warrant as been issued upon probable cause supported by Oath or affirmation and particularly describing the place to be search, and the persons or things to be seized.

Those breaking the law and any superior requiring them to do so should be subject to arrest, and fined and/or imprisoned upon conviction. Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/2011/07/ron-paul-slams-actions-tsa#ixzz1RNY8XOrj

In Wisconsin Union workers are replaced with Prisoners under the wacknut Governor’s new law.  One person that this was akin to using slave labor.

The US has the second lowest corporate Tax Rate in the world.  Iceland has the lowest corporate tax rate. Seems like the GOP wants to be first in the world at something. Could this be the reason they are willing to sell out Old Folks on Social Security?

What happens when a reporter doesn’t know the difference between BDSM and rape? A female reporter sees horrible things happening to other women so she gets a case of PTSD.  Then to cure PTSD she asks a former lover for rough sex (simulated rape?) and now she claims to have been cured of PTSD. This is what happens when a female reporter doesn’t know the difference between BDSM and rape. The rough sex she had with her former lover was at her request — this is what BDSM is. BDSM personalities — Domination and submission is something that most of us know very little about. There are a few books of fiction that give some insight into this lifestyle. There is a lot of room for abusive treatment of women (some men play the submissive role) — to the point that spousal abuse is excused as “love” by some fans of BDSM. In my opinion the reporter who saw horrific things happens to helpless people as part of her job — needs help. She also needs to explore the world of BDSM.

Sky Dancing has another opinion of the body bombs — boob bombs — which has been used by the TSA to sexually molest women for the last few years. The question asked is just how far will the TSA go in their quest to search women? A woman from Alaska (reported on this blog) refused an intimate body search after an x-ray revealed the fact that she was missing a breast (removed due to cancer). She was in Seattle for cancer treatment and on her way home to Alaska. She ended up taking the ferry back to Alaska. The TSA completely lacks any common sense.