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Congresswoman Giffords shooting: More reason than ever to stop Glenn Beck and his fear monger cronies!

As the nation reels from the shocking news that the Congresswoman from Arizona, Blue Dog Democrat Gabrielle Giffords and others were shot (5 killed, one a small child) outside a grocery store in Tucson, Ariz., while holding a public event, internet rabble is already casting the blame on our nations notorious fear-mongers. Giffords had been targeted before during the Health Care vote and had a brick thrown through here window. As we all remember, fear mongering was at an all time high then, with Sarah Palin accusing Obama of wanting to kill grandma with 'ObamaCare's alleged death panels. A blatant lie which should be criminal, but ironically actually has materialized by the hands of the Wicked Witch of Arizona, Gov. Jan Brewer who stubbornly lets patients die rather than pay for their transplants. With Brewer's odious law to harass brown people and after today's shooting, Arizona is now Hate ground zero. But the witch can only take credit her little death panel (and fostering racial hatred and FEAR in Arizona). But Brewer did actually give a heart-felt press conference for her friend Gabrielle, which made me realize that she is, surprisingly, a warm blooded creature like the rest of us. I only wish she felt as deeply for poor Arizona residents who only needed her signature for life-saving transplants. Sarah Palin had Giffords on her infamous "hit list" which ominously placed the offending democrats in crosshairs, while she adviced her followers to "reload". This is not to blame Palin for the actions of a nut, per se. Are others on her list being stalked by her unhinged fanbase? The connection must be made and discussed.

Mike Huckabee, gearing up for a second ill-fated run for President has been demonizing the Health Care bill and following fellow republicans working for repeal. But its the hyperbolic language he uses, claiming Americans were "kicking and screaming" that they didn't want it, but Congress jammed it through anyway. This is a lie because only the easily misled Tea Party morons didn't want a better health care system - the rest of us did, and still do. And as Rachel Maddow pointed out just last night, the republican repeal effort is an embarassment and political suicide. So long Huckabee, you would have lost anyway. But the rage and paranoia that Huckabee fosters with images of back-room deals harming Americans is also a dog-whistle to the unhinged among us, most packing guns and bibles.

Glenn Beck, formerly everyone's favorite crying clown before our new Speaker Boehner took the crown. But Beck has made a fortune selling fear to the limited intellect of his viewers on FOX 'News' - a Rupert Murdoch faux-news cudgel whose sole purpose is the smash progressive progress in America. Wake up, America. We can no longer allow the Palin's and Beck's and Huckabee's of our country to subvert our democracy by stirring up the toothless and brainless masses, while giving the finger to science, all to further the interests of corporate plutocrats who don't give a rat's ass about the forward progress of America. They don't care about climate change. They don't care about children with cancer. They only care about themselves, money, and power. Keeping Americans afraid and stupid is how they maintain control. Glenn Beck must be removed from the airwaves - go to StopBeck.com and join the fight to end his career now before more people die. Sarah Palin must not be allowed to escape from the reality-TV box she's climbed into. And Mike Huckabee must be made as politically viable a Presidential candidate as Haley (long live the confederacy) Barbour. ~

A Tea Party Patriot speaks ....

Yeah. The crazies are coming. Vote this Tuesday!!

Fear-mongering Texas voters - 'Gays will be our downfall.' Watch the video.

"Will the acceptance of homosexuality in this society be the downfall of America?” That was a question actually posed to viewers by a Texas-based NBC affiliate TV station, both on the air and online. And the flood of Texan Christofacists spoke - with a dash of smarts here and there. This is why we all have to VOTE next week. 'Cause the crazies are coming and they're hyped up on God and hate...

American Evangelical HATE spreading abroad comes home to roost

Hang 'em: Uganda paper publishes photos of Gays Yeah, "hang 'em", the paper says. Not minister or anything even remotely Christian, just "hang 'em". Meanwhile, back at the ranch, America's Christian right (and the bat-shit crazy candidates who pander to them) are poised to take control of the House and Senate. They've already taken over the Texas school board, effectively seizing control of the textbooks of America and possibly the minds of the next generation - assuring they'll get less science, more religion. Now random gay bashings are on the rise, not on dark lonely streets but taking place actually inside iconic gay bars even during the day. But we've seen this coming. Shortly after Uganda's "Kill the gays Bill" first blazed across our headlines it was exposed that the American Christian right had lit the match. The bill was introduced several months after a visit by several evangelicals including Scott Lively - author of The Pink Swastika (who writes that the Nazis were a gay movement and that gays want to overthrow Christian society) - who spoke at a conference called the "Seminar on Exposing the Homosexual Agenda." After hearing about the bill, Lively said he believes the Ugandans are better Christians because of the bill. "Better Christians." Now the GOPea-Party are pushing the gay is "a choice" theme on national news, again, with callous disregard for the rash of gay teen suicides in this country. So we just need fixin', like South Africa's corrective-rapes of lesbians. Thanks, Ken Buck. Can we arrest SCOTT LIVELY on sight ... We've advocated that evangelicals who incite genocide, like Lively, be arrested, because clearly they are using Africa as a test case for bringing those draconian laws back to America. In the meantime, they'll continue to claim they have nothing against gays while they watch random crazies culling the population abroad and at home. We may be angry at Obama and the Democrats. Understandable. With America's most visible symbol of it's own homo-hatred, DADT, gasping for air, if we allow the GOPea-Party to seize power they'll immediately put it on life support. Can the gradual erosion of our advances be far behind? The President recently told a crowd heckling him over AIDS funding (despite the fact that he increased it): "When I see all the polls, hear all the pundits, here's what I take away from it," Obama said. "The single biggest threat to our success is not the other party. It's us. It's complacency. It's apathy. It's indifference." It couldn't be clearer. Even if you've never voted in a mid-term before, vote this November.

Obama issues directive making hospitals allow Gay visitation rights

Kudos, Mr. President! (Reuters) - President Barack Obama issued a memo on Thursday that would require hospitals accepting Medicare or Medicaid funds to allow visitation rights to gay and lesbian partners. "It should be made clear that designated visitors ... should enjoy visitation privileges that are no more restrictive than those that immediate family members enjoy," the memo said. "...uniquely affected are gay and lesbian Americans who are often barred from the bedsides of the partners with whom they may have spent decades of their lives -- unable to be there for the person they love and unable to act as a legal surrogate if their partner is incapacitated," he said.