However, for these benefits, sometimes you should show some appreciation of the fact that you got lucky as shit when you were born into this country. It’s like saying thank you when someone gives you a gift for no reason.

Arlington High School fails badly at showing their appreciation living in the greatest country on Earth. More importantly, they fail their students.

The Arlington, Mass., school committee has rejected the 17-year-old’s request to allow students to voluntarily recite the Pledge of Allegiance, because some educators are concerned that it would be hard to find teachers willing to recite it, according to a report in the Arlington Patch.

Harrington had presented school officials with a petition signed by 700 people, along with letters of support from lawmakers including Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., and Sen. Joe Lieberman, I-Conn. 

One committee member spoke.

Some committee members voiced concerns about forcing people to do something that might violate their beliefs – including religious beliefs. Among the no-votes was committee member Leba Heigham.

“Patriotism is a very personal thing for all of us, but I do not think it is in the school committee’s best interest to mandate that any of our employees recite the pledge,” she told the Patch.

Heigham’s understanding of voluntary must go back to when peowot was more commonly referred as a nominative, accusative or genitive translation.

The student that has caused so much of the commotion in Arlington High School is named Sean Harrington and when he was a freshman, he noticed that the school didn’t have any American flags and didn’t recite the Pledge of Allegiance. Three years later, he raised a little army of students that petitioned to bring flags to classrooms and to recite the Pledge. He won with the flags but not the Pledge. Learning of the failed vote, Harrington will enter his senior year clearly still ambitious enough to fight on.

“I’m not a person who quits and I don’t back down. It’s a very righteous cause and needs to be followed through until the end.”

Good choice.

In this video, a General Electric Executive faints during a Joe Biden speech. Maybe faint isn’t the proper word. Maybe he’s sleepy. Are you sleepy? Take a nap. There, there.

Then the graceful politician of the people went to a custard shop (he called it an ice cream shop), helped out the crew and when the manager said to Biden that he could "lower our taxes" in exchange for getting a free Ice Cream, Biden did what he does best. Be all dickish and stuff.

Former President George Bush may have made up words in the English dictionary, but at least he was smooth doing his own gaffs, actually making us believe that he knew something we didn’t. Biden? He’s just wrecking machine, causing us to laugh while holding our guts. Thanks god for Joe Biden.

Madison County Democratic Party Chairman T. Robert Hill, a dope by all measures of common sense, wonders why he should apologize for calling Republicans “brown shirts”.

“I want to know where they get off telling me I should apologize for calling them ‘brown shirts’ and them calling my president Hitler and my congressmen Nazis,” Hill said. “Where’s the difference? … Where do they get off asking for an apology? Where do they get off asking anybody for an apology?”

I guess you could first point out that anyone using an initial as a first name, is an immediate assclown. But wondering the difference between Brown Shirts and Republicans? That’s just not a stretch, but it’s embarrassing negligence on one man’s intelligence and obvious ignorance to history.

So remember, if you appear at a Town Hall, speak your position against Health Care Reform as the Democrats see it. Be prepared, however, to be associated with Nazis, KKK and the mafia. It’s the Democrats we’re talking about. What are they going to do? Actually persuade us about Health Care reform or just throw out names because they can’t fend off a few pissed off people who likely voted for them?

President Obama attended a “town hall” this week, that was very clearly staged. The White House banned anyone that was against Reform, writes the Boston Globe:

As usual for such events, the White House controlled the distribution of the free tickets to get into the gym at Portsmouth High School. And, per usual, the Secret Service will take care of any unruliness.

This was the same event in which Obama said:

“I mean, if you think about it, UPS and FedEx are doing just fine, right? No, they are. It’s the post office that’s always having problems.”

Obama just tried persuade you that privately-run companies are much better than government-run organizations. This is what happens when we fall of the teleprompter wagon. This is also what happens when we momentarily lapse into a coma of common sense.

Representative Sheila Jackson Lee on her cell phone, claiming to be calling a hotline to get answers for her constituents.

One television anchor said that Socialism is the new N word.

Today I want to talk about a word that we’re hearing more and more, and that’s the word socialist. You hear it from a lot of conservatives these days, that’s usually critiquing the President, or more broadly Democrats. And while that’s certainly a legitimate critique, there certainly is an ideology that can and should be critiqued at certain times, it also some times is just a kind of a generic conservative bludgeoning tool. And that’s alright, too, because you hear it on the Democratic side as well: rightwingnut, what have you.

But what concerns me is when in some of those town hall meetings including the one that we saw in Missouri recently where there were jokes made about lynching, etc., you start to wonder whether in fact the word socialist is becoming a code word, whether or not socialist is becoming the new N-word for frankly for some angry upset birthers and others. I hope that’s not the case, but it sure does say to you what David Brooks said the other day on T.V. which is that more credible conservatives have to stand up and say that there’s a line that has to be drawn, that there’s a line of responsibility that’s important, and that extends to the words that we choose including how choose even legitimate words like socialist.

You have the creative intellect of a bull frog in heat, sir.

Republican Sue Lowden would defeat incumbent Democratic Sen. Harry Reid by 6 percentage points in a head-to-head matchup, according to a poll of likely Nevada voters.

This would be very significant if the Majority leader in the Senate lost; maybe even change the dynamic of the Democrats’ platform. If Reid loses his election, but the Democrats remain in power of the Senate, then the party will vote for a new Majority Leader. The hope is that they select someone with moderate positions, rather than the extreme left that we see on display today. Then again, the Democrats will get bitch-slapped by the militant arm of their own party of paid supporters to take on more extreme views.

“I think you see a heightened emotion and passion and, you say anger, because people are scared,” said Hawaii GOP Gov. Linda Lingle, during a conference call with reporters organized by the Republican Governors Association.

“You’re talking about hundreds of billions of dollars in cuts in spending on Medicare, and that’s why you see members of the AARP separated from their leadership on this issue, because they’re scared,” the Hawaii governor said. “The heightened anger is out of fear for what it’s going to mean for their lives and the lives of their families.”

+ You have to wonder where the timid have gone. Perhaps they’re sitting at home, checking out Craigs List for a job — more on that later. First, Health Care for America Now (HCAN) is a:

…national grassroots campaign of more than 1,000 organizations in 46 states representing 30 million people dedicated to winning quality, affordable health care we all can count on in 2009… HCAN believes that everyone in this country should have accessible, quality health care they can afford.  We are fighting for a uniquely American solution that gives you a guarantee of coverage and real choice: keep your private insurance plan or join a new public health insurance plan so you are no longer at the mercy of the private insurance industry.

Like most liberals organizations, HCAN has a backup plan, listing several listings on Craigs List offering a job for those that want to "fight for health care". Big, whoop, right?

All the listings lead to this site, the Fund for the Public Interest. According to this page, they mostly work on environmental issues, partnering with groups like the Sierra Club.

Verumserum concludes:

Just to sum up the big picture here based on what we know now… One of HCAN’s partners is mobilizing people nationwide to “fight” against opponents of reform and is partnering with a group that has put ads for paid canvassers ($4,000 to $6,000 for the summer) on Craigslist nationwide. In effect, HCAN is hiring people to literally get in people’s faces and push Obama’s agenda.

This is what the left considers “grassroots.” Meanwhile, a memo written by a guy in Connecticut which was sent out to 10 people is proof that reform opponents of Obama Care are part of a deceptive astroturf campaign. Hopefully that’s all making perfect sense now.

Basically the idea you should have is that many Obama supporters are getting paid, roughly $10-15 an hour, while protestors against Health Care reform are genuinely concerned — at least until Nancy Pelosi can prove that there’s Swastikas at Town Halls. Unlike thugs beating up on older people outside of Town Halls.

+ The Service Employees International Union is "an organization of 2 million members united by the belief in the dignity and worth of workers and the services they provide and dedicated to improving the lives of workers and their families and creating a more just and humane society." The video you saw above was outside the SEIU St. Louis headquarters.

Recently, SEIU President Andy Stern claims that they spent $60.7 million to get President Obama elected. Michelle Malkin writes:

Through a series of local chapter takeovers, corporate shakedowns, and bully campaigns to destroy the reputation of executives who refuse to submit to their will, Stern and his scandal-plagued lieutenants have consolidated low-skill service workers to create a 21st century labor empire. The ubiquitous Stern now enjoys a prominent seat at the table of every major policy discussion at the White House, including economic recovery and health care radicalization.

Obama champions the SEIU’s top legislative priorities: expansive government health care (paid for with regressive sin taxes) and the Orwellian-titled “Employee Free Choice Act” to do away with private-ballot union elections in the workplace. (The initiative is “alive and well,” Stern said this week.) Obama has SEIU-blessed bureaucrats installed in every corner of his administration to carry out the agenda.

SEIU President Stern summed up his organizing philosophy:

“[W]e prefer to use the power of persuasion, but if that doesn’t work we use the persuasion of power.”

The White House’s claim that large and boisterous protests against health care reform over the past week have been scripted performances, underwritten by industry lobbyists and the Republican Party, continues to run into a stubborn reality check: public polling on the matter.

For more than two weeks, polls have consistently shown growing resistance to President Obama’s reform proposals, largely because of concerns about the nation’s deficit and debt.

“There are a number of statistically valid public opinion polls that show that there has been a dramatic increase in public concern about escalating deficits and debt levels and our nation’s increased reliance on foreign lenders,” said David Walker, the nation’s former comptroller general.

[Washington Times]

Ross Balano wrote:

Black Panther party members in full uniform are stationed at some 300 polling places in battleground states. Are they trying to intimidate voters who would be voting for John McCain?

Obama and the Democrats are losing badly to the public in the Health Care reform bill. Recent Town Hall forums featured lawmakers that get so rattled out of their little bubble and in some cases, retort that protestors, most of whom are not affiliated with any organization, are right-wing extremists, NAZIs, pedophiles that are conjured up by the dark lords of Satan’s fiery lake. Such as this oped piece by Nancy Pelosi:

These disruptions are occurring because opponents are afraid not just of differing views — but of the facts themselves. Drowning out opposing views is simply un-American.

Why do people use this bull shit "un-American" rhetoric to install a point. It’s like calling your male classmate a girl in third grade. You’re only saying it to insult the person and by no definition, does it have any measure of weight behind it — unless you’re actually un-American, which I would classify as anyone willing to socialize any part of our economy or Health Care system. Calling someone un-American based on a debate, is cowardice and worthy of waterboarding.

And if name calling isn’t enough for liberal lawmakers, they’ll just escort your ass right out of the Town Hall. So this is Obama and the liberal Democrats — who really do put the meaning into progressivism, don’t they? — who have unleashed their mighty warriors.

Union leaders appear to have decided that their best defense, following charges that town hall protesters were roughed up, is to levy those same allegations against the opponents of reform.

“Attacking a staffer? Harassing a pregnant woman? All in a day’s work for the opposition to healthcare reform,” one post on the Web site of the Service Employees International Union stated.

The SEIU blamed conservative town hall protesters for “fear-mongering,” charging they are guilty of “harassment, intimidation, and physical violence.”

That allegation will come as a surprise to the town hall protesters who were blocked from attending a Tampa Bay town hall meeting last week by SEIU members, as well as a protester in Missouri who was beaten seriously.

And we know what happens if you’re against reform. You’re on a government list so that the White House can provide you the right information after so much misinformation is being conjured up by said Dark Lord, who moonlights as a stripper on East Hollywood. In other words, they want to present to you brain washing talking points to free educated and informed Americans because they, the White House and leading liberal Democrats, are not.

Welcome. Meet the liberal Democrats, who lactate excitement when the nation’s budget raises by $181 billion in July. These are the same people that made fun of Tea Party rallies because liberals simply can’t conform to the novel idea of having an opinion. An educated opinion no less — I know, mind-fucked again. Now. Now, liberals will just punch you in the face, categorize you in a government list and all but assure that the economy’s only way of rebounding, is forming into a bastardized version of socialism.

God I love our government.

Meet eight-year old Daniela Earnest of Tulare, California. Daniela wanted to "raise money for a family trip to Disneyland", so the young girl opened a lemonade stand on Monday. Makes sense. If you want something, you go out of your way to earn it. That seems, you know, logical? Well, unless you’re a liberal. Then you’re totally mind-fucked.

The city of Tulare shut down the girl’s lemonade stand because she didn’t have a business license. The lesson learned here is that whether you’re an eight-year old girl, Bill Gates, or Bernie Madoff, you’re not safe without a business license. That, or just stay away from California.

It’s official. The U.S. is no longer engaged in a “war on terrorism.” Neither is it fighting “jihadists” or in a “global war.”

President Obama’s top homeland security and counterterrorism official took all three terms off the table of acceptable words inside the White House during a speech Thursday at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Washington think tank.

“The President does not describe this as a ‘war on terrorism,’” said John Brennan, head of the White House homeland security office, who outlined a “new way of seeing” the fight against terrorism.

The only terminology that Mr. Brennan said the administration is using is that the U.S. is “at war with al Qaeda.”

“We are at war with al Qaeda,” he said. “We are at war with its violent extremist allies who seek to carry on al Qaeda’s murderous agenda.”

So if you’re a terrorist that doesn’t have links to Al Qaeda, you can rest easy. Continue with your bomb making, suicide killing ways because the White House no longer views you as the enemy. You’re just another group with passionate beliefs. And count yourself lucky that you’re not an American with right-wing views. Otherwise, you’d be on lists, databases while Nancy Pelosi shakes her head at the swastika that you pray to. (bitch)

Liberals know the threat to America. And it’s not terrorists. It’s those god damn informed Americans, screwing everything up.