Preview of the Debate in the Mouth of the Rat

Isn't it ironic the last Presidential Debate between former Governor Willard Mitt Romney and President Barack Hussein Obama will take place in affluent Boca Raton , FL, which means Mouth of the Rat, with an emphasis on foreign policy?

These debates have taught me one thing.  In the eyes of the debate organizers and most of the viewers, the plight of Big Bird is far more important than the plight of my people.

Boca Raton, FL is where Romney was caught on tape at a $50,000 dollar a plate fundraiser making his infamous 47% of voters will vote for President Obama no matter what because they are dependent on government, feel entitled and pay no taxes remarks.

Senator Harry Reid (D. NV) says he has it on pretty good authority Romney is the one who feel entitled and paid no taxes for ten year,  but we will never know, because he won't release his tax returns.

Yes, the man who won't release his tax returns because he's afraid of what Obama will say is barking at the moon, playing the big man on campus in yet another transparent attempt to paint himself as Reagan and Obama as Carter.

Taking a play out of the Reagan vs Carter political playbook, republicans are using current crisis in Libya to paint President Obama as weak on foreign policy.

And, they can't stand they have nominated a clown with no foreign policy experience whatsoever, and who chose as his running mate a man stupid enough to say 'voting to send men to war' qualified as foreign policy experience.

Do you remember republican outrage from republicans over Katrina?

Me neither.

Preview of republican hypocrisy before the debate in the Mouth of the Rat.

God Bless America

Tahrir Square meets Occupy Oakland, California, USA! Cheryl Contee(Jill Tubman) reports;

People here in the Bay Area have pretty strong feelings about Occupy Oakland. Overall, people are not cool with it. There are real concerns among everyday people about the right of free speech and free assembly being trampled upon. Hundreds of cops used tear gas, rubber bullets and flash bang grenades against peaceful protesters. And it is not pretty. It looks like a war zone. Let this be a warning to mayors who want to bust up Occupy protests in the name of cleanliness or law & order.

The Occupation will not be televised

During the Occupy Oakland march tonight (Tuesday), ABC News in the Bay area shut cameras off on the ground and in the sky the moment police attacked.
They said the chopper needed to refuel and will be back, but we all know this was not correct. A coincidence that both CBS and ABC choppers needed to refuel at the time police started attacking?
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There was a camera on the ground for a full minute showing exploding canisters, people screaming, and gas being covered everywhere and that was shut off shortly after.
This is the constitution, protests are allowed by it. For CBS and ABC to shut the cameras off during the time police violated the rights of the American people is journalism at the worst, in fact not even close to the integrity a real media outlet should bring.

Cheryl Contee (Jill Tubman) again;

I don’t really have more to add to that. I mean, what makes us different from places like Syria and Egypt and Libya are our freedoms — including freedom of the press. Journalists’ job is to cover events not cower under police pressure to cover their brutality.

A BlackMan's View

All this "occupy" bullshit needs to be redirected towards it's roots.And the roots run directly beneath Washington DC.These "occupiers" need to take their occupation (insert city here)... to the ballot boxes of that city.
Cut the head off the snake and the body will die.
I'm just saying...

I'm just saying it's the media we have instead of the media we wish we had. If they spent their time informing the masses and telling us what we need to know instead of what they want us to know maybe we wouldn't be in this mess.

GrannyStandingforTruth asks;

Did the "Oakland Occupy Wall Street" protesters break any windows downtown Oakland or were they looters? Did they commit any violent act? Nope! They did not. In fact, they were so peaceful you would have hardly knew they were there accept for the signs and the small corner space they occupied.
Did they chant too loud or throw bricks at the police? What exactly did they do to deserve an Iraq war veteran winding up in critical condition?

"And the United States of America government, when it came to treating her citizens of Indian descent fairly, she failed. She put them on reservations. When it came to treating her citizens of Japanese descent fairly, she failed. She put them in internment prison camps. When it came to treating her citizens of African descent fairly, America failed. She put them in chains, the government put them on slave quarters, put them on auction blocks, put them in cotton field, put them in inferior schools, put them in substandard housing, put them in scientific experiments, put them in the lowest paying jobs, put them outside the equal protection of the law, kept them out of their racist bastions of higher education and locked them into positions of hopelessness and helplessness. The government gives them the drugs, builds bigger prisons, passes a three-strike law and then wants us to sing 'God Bless America.' No, no, no, not God Bless America. God damn America — that's in the Bible — for killing innocent people. God damn America, for treating our citizens as less than human. God damn America, as long as she tries to act like she is God, and she is supreme. The United States government has failed the vast majority of her citizens of African descent.."
Reverend Jeremiah Wright

RedEye's Snark Attack

Bringing honest government to Alabama, red, racist, republiklan style!

Is the Alabama Democratic Party going to find a candidateWho will oppose
Mo Brooks, or are they going to say Eff It and let him have it? WTF is the "mean as a snake ADP Chairman the cats and other critters at Left in Alabama fought so hard for? Hate to say I told you but I tried to tell y'all Dr. Joe Reed was just what the Doctor ordered.
No body listens to me.

Somebody needs to tell Alabama Senator Jefferson Beauregard Sessions Alabama is #1 when it comes to people needing and getting Food stamps. I guess he wants the people who need food stamps to deport themselves too.

How they get away with obstruction is not a mystery. They know they can count on their uniformed and misinformed base to get out and vote to sink the ship in order to destroy the captain. Poor things. They don't realize they are going down with the ship too.

The Cost to taxpayers for head of one Libyan Dictator priceless. Spending for access to health care for all Americans, hiring teachers and firefighters, repairing the infrastructure and other domestic spending....cost way to much.

Lil Lindsey spilled the beans, it's about the oil stoopid!



Are you FED UP yet?

Houston County, Alabama, we've got a problem. Shhhhh! Don't tell anybody and maybe it will go away.


Now this is what I'm talking about! What's good for the poor, I mean goose, is good for the gander.

Twitter is as Twitter does.

Americans can't afford to buy homes in America but foreigners can? What's wrong with this picture?.

So, where are the tons and tons of WMD in Iraq Saddam was about to use on us?

What's on your Snark Attack radar?

What I'm reading today

Pippa Abston Blog

I don’t want to occupy Wall Street. I want to evict it from places it has no business being, namely our government. We need to Occupy Government—not by marching on it but by restoring it to what it was intended to be, a representative republic of the People. No matter what Mitt Romney says, corporations are not and never will be people.

BobNBama: They wonder why we don't like them?

We all have a choice. Don’t let yourself be treated like a sheep to be sheared. Don’t do business with companies that don’t value you as a customer.

Why poor, white voters vote against their self interest

It boggles the mind. But then again, people, especially poor people, have a long history of voting against their own self-interest because they believe that if they work hard enough, they too can be rich.

The Bribery Brothers

Exactly, how many palms have the Koch Brothers greased with moolah and how much money is it? Think about how lately progressive blogs have been flooded with trolls left and right cheer leading for the GOP trying to intimidate and harass folks to vote for a Republican candidate.

Occupy Fox News

The real protesting, however, will be going on outside the meeting as the Occupy Los Angeles crowd migrates over from their base in Downtown L.A. to give Fox a taste of what it’s like to be occupied. They will be joined by FreePress, Change to Win, Common Cause LA, Brave New Films, and others.

In Reality the Fake Center Cannot Hold

As the nation stumbles toward what could become an epic replay of the 1968 presidential election, many in the Washington political media are hunting for cover. At least that's a charitable explanation for the fad of sentimental bipartisanship among the nation's deepest-thinking pundits.

Libyan Government warns NYPD to Exercise Restraint

TRIPOLI (The Borowitz Report) – As arrests mounted in the Occupy Wall Street protest in New York City, Libya’s National Transitional Council (NTC) issued a stern statement today warning the NYPD to exercise restraint.

“The Libyan transitional government regards any attempt to infringe upon the American protesters’ right to express themselves as a violation of international standards of free speech and liberty,” the Libyan statement read. “We will not sit idly by and watch this happen.”

What you are reading today

Update; The sad, sorry state of public education in Huntsville, Alabama

What Obama doesn't understand about the Professional Left

RedEye's Week in Review

Craven is as Craven does

Always the help never an equal

Read On. Read often.

Sunday Shorts

Congress Critter Mo Brooks making Sweet Home Alabama's 5th district proud! Not.

Yes, I'll dare call it Treason enabled by the mainstream media.

What is a Patriot? You won't find any on TeeVee.

Is the gop infused, media enabled, Tea Party a promoter of economic anarchy? Let me think about that for a minute....

Libya=Iraq

Peace be with you and yours~RedEye

"A Ball of confusion, that's what the world is today"

And the band played on.

The 3 Wings of the Republican Party: The Crazies, the Corporatists ... and Democrats
Democrats must endorse progressive principles again and hammer home the distinction between the party that cares about everyday Americans, not just the wealthy.

If Congress didn't impeach Bush and Dick for sending our troops to war based on DEAD WRONG Intelligence then they shouldn't be talking about impeaching President Obama for Libya. Just cut the funding for Libya, Afghanistan and Iraq and bring our troops and our tax dollars HOME.

Maybe they did kill the dream. Decades after King's assassination Memphis reignites labor struggle.

The plight of Memphis sanitation workers is still an emotional issue four decades after the strike, which was sparked by the death of two workers due to a faulty trash compactor. The strike developed into a rallying point for the African-American community in their struggle against the city's white establishment.

Racial overtones surfaced again in the privatization fight, which appeared suddenly last month. One councilman dismissed the 1968 struggle as belonging to another era. Another said privatization represented the next step of "change" for which King -- and President Obama -- fought, a suggestion that horrified civil-rights veterans.

The city faces a $60 million budget shortfall and council members are selling the privatization proposal with claims it could save about $18 million a year. Local media support the bid uncritically.

At the council meeting, a Firefighters official called for the city to restore a property tax worth $20 million a year, which was eliminated three years ago. He accused white council members of looking out for their gated communities and not the city as a whole.

Texas Gov. Rick Perry (r. secessionist) is polishing off his Bats#it crazy credentials so he can join the rest of the Bats#it crazies.

White privilege and arrogance on full display. Watch Andrew Breitbart get confronted after he crashes Netroots Nation. H/T to the Beer Party for the video.

Keep an eye on this debate. The South Huntsville righty's are trying to convince themselves HUD (Housing and Urban Development) are a bunch of Thugs who are trying to *snicker* intimidate them because they exercised their first amendment and criticized the government. This is rich coming from a gang that bans speech they don't like. Oh well, you know what they say...it takes one to know one.

People moving out
People moving in
Why? Because of the color of their skin
Run, run, run, but you sure can't hide!

Redeye's Weekend Round Up

Won't be watching THIS.

The House Negro Cometh. O-tay?

Where are the J-O-B-S the TeaPublicans said they were going to create?

All war all the time, UNfair and UNbalanced.

There's a whole lot of U-G-L-Y going on.

About that ongoing oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico....

I swear that you just don't know who to trust these days.

Word. You just don't know who to trust these days. *Sigh*

O.I.L.

The Bush Doctrine reared it's ugly head again last week. You know, the doctirne that says we (The United States of America) must kill innocent men, women children in Libya to protect them from an evil dictator. The United States of America must spend millions of tax dollars for bombs but not a penny for books, health care, or heating for the elderly. It's all war all the time, Unfair and Unbalanced.

The UN Security Council voted on Thursday to authorize a “no-fly zone” over Libya – a surprise to the author, who had predicted in the this column on Tuesday that China and/or Russia would veto the move. The measure gives the OK to “all necessary measures" to protect civilians from attacks by Moammar Gadhafi's forces – wording the U.S. and its allies will undoubtedly treat as a mandate to apply as much force as they wish.

The righty's are already calling the US led enforcement of the UN sanctioned No Fly Zone Obama's War in a lame attempt to equate Bush using our grief over 911 to send our sons and daughters to Iraq and Afghanistan, and firing cruise missiles.

"I feel like in two days max we will destroy Gadhafi," said Ezzeldin Helwani, 35, a rebel standing next to the smoldering wreckage of an armored personnel carrier, the air thick with smoke and the pungent smell of burning rubber. In a grisly sort of battle trophy, celebrating fighters hung a severed goat's head with a cigarette in its mouth from the turret of one of the gutted tanks.

I don't like it. I don't support it. I don't care who the evil Dictator or the President IS.

It's a simple point, but an important one, and one that gets overlooked. Whether or not you think a particular war is moral and good, the fact remains that war is illegal. Actual defense by a country when attacked is legal, but that only occurs once another country has actually attacked, and it must not be used as a loophole to excuse wider war that is not employed in actual defense.

There is Oil in Lybia. Black gold. Texas Tea.

Oil reserves in Libya are the largest in Africa and the ninth largest in the world with 41.5 billion barrels (6.60×10^9 m3) as of 2007. Oil production was 1.8 million barrels per day (290×10^3 m3/d) as of 2006, giving Libya 63 years of reserves at current production rates if no new reserves were to be found. Libya is considered a highly attractive oil area due to its low cost of oil production (as low as $1 per barrel at some fields), and proximity to European markets. Libya would like to increase production from 1.8 Mbbl/d (290×10^3 m3/d) in 2006 to 3 Mbbl/d (480×10^3 m3/d) by 2010–13 but with existing oil fields undergoing a 7–8% decline rate, Libya's challenge is maintaining production at mature fields, while finding and developing new oil fields. Most of Libya remains unexplored as a result of past sanctions and disagreements with foreign oil companies.[1]

Cumulative production through 2009 was 27 Gbbl.[2] Given the stated number, this would be 65% of reserves.

The drilling of oil wells in Libya was first authorised by the Petroleum Law of 1955.[3] The National Oil Corporation is the largest oil company of Libya

Speaking of O.I.L, a LARGE new OIL SLICK is under investigation in The Gulf of Mexico.

The U.S. Coast Guard is investigating reports of a large oil sheen 20 miles north of the site where BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded last April. Multiple reports indicate a sheen nearly 100 miles long and 12 miles wide originating near the site of the Matterhorn SeaStar oil rig, owned by W&T Offshore, Inc.

Country first?

An open letter to Western Leaders regarding Libya

Well here we we go again, bombing a country that did not invade, threaten to invade, attack or threaten to attack us. And for what? We couldn't help the people of New Orleans after Katrina. We couldn't help the people in Rwanda and the Congo, but the rightys love all war all the time, and if the righty's want all war all the time they get all war all the time.

H/T MES, my favorite young blogger who breaks it down in language we can all understand.~Redeye

Dear Colonial Invaders,

Let me begin by saying that Gaddafi is a heinous dictator and the world would be better off without him. With that said, Libya is a sovereign country and whatever struggle they are having, should be handled internally. The US especially should NOT be involved. We have 2 disastrous middle eastern holy wars to finish up before we go down the rabbit hole of a 3rd war. This type of interventionism is why they keep trying to bomb us. This is why they have been hell bent since the inception of Israel to destroy the US and Great Britain.

See, the allies felt guilty about the holocaust, understandably. Mostly the US, because as usual we will not get involved until our national interests are affected, i.e. Pearl Harbor. If we had intervened sooner, the war probably would have ended sooner and far fewer Jews would've died. Seeking absolution, the State of Israel was created. This had nothing to do with Biblical prophecy or anything else. Unfortunately, there was a group of people inhabiting the land where the State of Israel would be created, the Palestinians. They were forcibly removed from their homes, a place where they have lived for generations and reduced to living in tents. So, that's kind of why Palestinians want to destroy Israel. They want to reclaim their homes. The US propped up Israel with money to fund a military, tanks, planes and the Palestinians have rocks and religious zealotry. When you have nothing to lose, then anything is possible, suicide bombings, flying planes into buildings, etc...

Why do we really care about Gaddafi killing his own people? Answer: We don't. We didn't when Saddam did it, we didn't when Idi Amin did it, Kim Jung Il in North Korea, or our lien holder China and their numerous human rights violations or all the dictators of the world. Do we care about the oppression of women in Saudi Arabia? No, of course not. When you deal with the devil, better the devil you know. Just like we don't care anymore about Haiti, Chile, New Orleans and in about a month we won't care about Japan. It will be back to normal, more Lindsay, more Kim Kardashian, and more greed. Maybe that's my cynicism talking... So using the wording "no fly zone" is to trick people that this isn't a war. You can fool some people, but you can't fool me. A better investment might be Japan, they have a more stable economy, technologically more advanced, and they make the best video games. Plus, there aren't many terrorist cells launched from Japan. The worst they have is a half blind cult leader named Aum Shunrikyo. Aren't the global markets in a fragile state with the price of oil rising? Why would we want to add more debt to our already hefty deficits to continue and play world police? In history, every country that had a revolution and overthrew tyrannical rule were outgunned but with organization. and uniting under the banner of a just cause they were able to prevail. Except for the French who helped America during our Revolution, Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette got beheaded for their trouble and Napoleon came to power. We tried the brainless knee jerk reaction to this type of action and look what it got us, 10 yrs in Afghanistan, 8 years in Iraq, Bin Laden is still free, and America in economic, cultural, scientific, and intellectual decline.

My predictions: Gaddafi will violate the cease fire, which will cause ground troops to move in, this will probably get ugly and Gaddafi won't relinquish power unless he is killed. His flunkies will more than likely turn on him when the planes are overhead, but the loss of life will be great. Obama pledged no ground troops, but we shouldn't be there period under any circumstances. The involvement level is based on oil distribution. 32% goes to Italy, 14% to Germany, 10% to France and China and 5% to the US. That's probably why we are only playing a "supporting" role in this conflict, but of course we will bear most of the blame. These people will seethe with anger and a spectacular terrorist attack will follow that will make 9/11 seem like a tea party. We should all be sick of war, sick to death of playing nation building, spreading our corrupt brand of bastardized freedom throughout the middle east. So apparently, the deficit isn't as bad as predicted. The billions needed to send relief to Japan, and fund Holy Wars is readily available, but helping the unemployed or provide health care to AMERICANS, that's an unreasonable burden that will affect millenia of future generations. The hypocrisy is astounding. It appears that Bush actually won our hearts and minds...

Maybe Gaddafi could intervene and stop Wal-Street from the non stop assault on the American people. I mean he's a snappy dresser, his dress and hat combo look like something from my grandmothers couch and he has that caterpillar/ pubic hair sprouting on his upper lip. He could be on a website for botched celebrity plastic surgery right next to Liza Minelli, Heidi Montag, and the Cat Lady. Maybe Disney will create a "Dictators of the World" exhibit at one of the parks and have you and further war mongers sing a jaunty tune about how wonderful you guys are and how we should cower in your presence all set to the tune of "it's a small world". Thankfully this time we don't have the Sheriff from Toy Story leading the country as commander in chief. Can we just call the internal strife, battles, overthrow of dictators, etc,,,WW3 yet? Or is it too soon? There is a child born today who willbe fighting in one of these never ending conflicts when he turns 18. God bless America...I guess.

Do I think the UN or the US gives a flying fig about the civilians being fired upon or do they care more about the oil? Well, let's just say, profit is more valuable than a person, especially people that we feel technologically, racially, educationally, and religiously superior to. Why else are Native Americans living on a reservation? That's not something people will admit to out loud, but that's what the West thinks of the Middle East. These people are our gas station attendants, nothing more, all we care about is the oil, because we consume over half the world's oil. Japan was a painful reminder that nuclear energy is not only dangerous but the power of the sun can't be funneled into a car battery. The Japanese are 1000 times smarter than Americans and they were thrown for a loop, imagine what something like that could do to the US. There is no way the southeast could survive a nuclear disaster because the south is the cradle of idiocy.
I think we should have a new national anthem: From the Halls of Montezuma, To the shores of Tripoli; We fight OTHER country's battles In the air, on land, and sea.