A Warmed Planet--the Death Knell Tolls for Thee

Science Rules.  It always has and always will.  Those who do not live by science will die because of it. There is NO doubt about the warming of our planet and man's contribution to it promoting the severe weather this planet and this country are now experiencing.  It is mind numbing. 

If those who think that 98% of scientists are wrong then take a seat next to the flat earthers and those who thought god mad at them for not sacrificing the right goat.  The religionists who promote ignorance like a car salesman promotes cars will perish.  It is as simple as that.  Evolution and survival of the fittest will prevail as it has for billions of years.  Those who believe in hocus pocus instead of the irrefutable laws of science will NOT survive. 

The CNN article here or below is yet another example of climate change.  Read it and weep  then sort out the latest who cares "scandal" and rest easy they will not matter because if it is too late to change a warmed planet then take a good look at New York City because soon it will be under water. The rest of us will go down with the ship.  The death knell is sounding.  Ask not for whom that bell tolls.  It tolls for thee!

http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/19/us/severe-weather/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

My Loves

Recently, the Globe asked its readers why they loved Boston.  I contributed to its blog.

I not only love Boston I love Massachusetts.  The combination of its contributory history creating the Republic and its history in support of progressive causes, Massachusetts has won my heart.  From the Transcendentalists Emerson and Thoreau to the nation's Federalist Founders its beginning combined brilliant political thought with a civil libertarian creed.  The humanitarian anti slavery movements and anti war free speech with its attendant bluest of blue Democratic political climate makes me so proud to be from Massachusetts.  I am an unabashed lover of the state.  

Boston is unique and diverse in its neighborhoods.  Its history encompasses the reflection of our nation.  Nothing is perfect and we had our racial eruptions but through it all Boston and Massachusetts remains the pinnacle of a freedom loving nation.  It has the best most prestigious universities and academics in the world with its sidecar of the best that medicine has to offer.  

Despite the horrendous Boston Marathon bombing I feel safe in the city and state I love.  I would not even think about living anywhere else!

YET STILL OTHER REASONS TO KEEP MASSACHUSETTS DEMOCRATIC BLUE.  ENCOURAGE EVERYONE YOU KNOW TO VOTE ED MARKEY TO THE US SENATE AND IF YOU CAN WORK FOR THAT AS WELL. 

A Bottomless Pit -- The Search for Republican Lies

If you did not watch Rachel Maddow last night May 17 you ought to today.  She exposed the so called "exclusive" ABC story about Benghazi that tried to tie the Obama/Clinton State Department to emails showing many revisions in so called "talking points" after the attack. 

Problem?  The White House never sent those emails to ABC but ALL the major news sources took them from ABC and reported them as truth.  Those emails ABC received were FALSE constructed by Congressional Republican staff and given to ABC News to ratchet up the issue.   Like fish to bate ABC bought it and ran with an "exclusive."  They did NOT have the emails because the REAL White House emails were NOT the ones sent to ABC as Republican fabricated ones. It is fantastic reporting by Rachel. " I link "Media Not Unscathed by Media Scandal Frenzy" http://www.nbcnews.com/id/26315908/#51923619 or here.  She explains it much better than I could.  I urge you to click on it and pass this or it around to all you know.

The one thing we do KNOW about Republicans is THEY LIE and they LIE ALL the time because they know a disinterested and uninformed American electorate will believe what they say.  Rachel had the proof of their lies to ABC about Benghazi.

My suspicious thoughts about the IRS so called "scandal":  In view of Benghazi my cerebral wheels turn. Douglas Shulman was the head of the IRS before Miller.  He was put in by Bush.  Since Republicans lie SO much and since they surely did re: Benghazi, how about looking into Republican ties to the IRS "scandal."  Why do I think it may not be beneath the immoral unethical Republicans to have begun the Tea Bag search instructing underlings to do it then hanging that search on the administration?   Because they have fabricated before.  I am not saying Shulman who was put in by Bush did that or that my suspicions are even true but I would like Republicans at the IRS to be investigated.  Further and maybe the fuel for all of this is it could help Republicans sink Obamacare which is, after all, administered by the now tainted IRS.

If they can fabricate emails that led to inflating and lying about Benghazi trying to hang it on the administration then SURELY they could have instructed this mess as well.  I am not saying they did without proof but I am saying it is rational thought about Republicans so investigate it.  Look and hard at Republicans who may have wanted to entrap ultimately the WH which would lead to if not impeachment then a vote ultimately by the Congress if God forbid more Republicans get there in 2014, against Obamacare.   I would put NOTHING past the mendacious Republicans.   We know what their nefarious proclivities and will stop at nothing to do them.

Make sure the IRS investigation looks at Shulman and other Republicans as to who instructed the beginning of the Tea Bag Party search to get to the bottom of this seemingly bottomless pit! 

YET ANOTHER REASON WHY ED MARKEY IS A MUST FOR THE MASSACHUSETTS US SENATE.  THOSE OF YOU IN MASS. VOTE MARKEY ON JUNE 25 AND TELL ALL YOUR FRIENDS TO DO SO AS WELL!

THANK YOU Rachel Maddow, what you should know about the AP issue

This AP story I KNEW had legs and Richard Engel along with Rachel Maddow revealed why the president was SO determined to find the AP leak and still is posted below or here I urge you to go to Rachel Maddow and learn the details as it is too late for me to compose an opus maximus.  Suffice it to say our president KNOWS what he is doing and my questioning his prudence in doing what he did regarding the AP evaporates with the knowledge of why he did it.  Richard Engel on Rachel's show explains the entire issue.  I dashed off a quick kudo to her for finally telling the whole story behind the AP apoplectic stroke.  The snooping press need to know the difference between what should be public knowledge and what in fact harms the country and us in it.  Here is what I said to her.

Rachel, that story with Richard Engel was WONDERFUL.  What a great explanation that was.  That is EXACTLY why I have been so adamant in my support of the president.  He KNEW what he was doing and what Richard said was VITAL to be kept secret.  Getting some top secret knowledge into the hands of the press can be DANGEROUS and this time we were lucky.This president KNOWS the dangers and sees it every day.  I am CONVINCED this civil libertarian attorney is doing what he is doing because the stakes are SO high.  

Getting an informant in Al Qaeda itself is a MONUMENTAL thing.  To me it shows just how competent the president is!  AP was digging for that story with the names in it.

We are playing a high stakes game.  Lives are at stake as are true WMD's getting into the wrong hands.  Sure let's wax effusive about our civil liberties at a time when it does not matter, when no one can be hurt or killed or a nation cannot be severely damaged.  So they have a cell phone number or a wife's number who cares?  

The Republicans are UNCONSCIONABLE and will use anything even IF they were in power they would do exactly the same thing.  So glad you told the president's side. I KNEW there was one.  I urge all of those I know to link onto the site and hear his explanation.  It's a good one.

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/26315908/ns/msnbc_tv-rachel_maddow_show/#51912405

Digging for Dirt--A Note to NBC News

Pardon the lack of creativity.  Sometimes time forces one to simply flood one's brain and expel the red hot anger from unjust events.  After listening to the repelling NBC Chuck Todd light his match, I want to pull out my hair so instead of going bald I write a stream of conscious! 

It is hard to fathom how skewed especially Chuck Todd's reporting is.  Actually most of NBC News simply wants to ratchet up the controversies as much as they can. They want to make an already powder keg on the right public create discord so why?  Your RATINGS will go up.  No controversy no ratings.  

Benghazi -- It is crystal clear that there is NOTHING in Benghazi that touches the White House, it was a dispute concerning State and the CIA but sure NBC News why don't you just fuel the anger already on the irrational, crank right wingnut base to CREATE a Fox News fuel that will beat it to a pulp.  And then you will have more to report.

IRS -- again NOT touching the WH.  Watch Larry O'Donnell last night for the answers to THAT story.  WH not only attempted to stop the bleeding but did.  Will  that stop the rancid right from beating the president up?  NO of course not.  So why don't you exploit that a little more too until the country cannot take it and the president's enemies work their dastardly magic.  Without YOU this goes no where.

AP "scandal"  -- Do you want to live?  Then the president has a right to stop those who would attack us by any means necessary and freedom of the press comes second.  This is NOT about digging for oil this is about digging for dirt! And on the president's end it is about saving our lives.

Cut this man some slack.  Who deserves a break more than he?  My heart breaks for him having to endure such insulting angry mantras from the right, the all-about-a-buck press and even a few on the left who do not realize the right is out to crush them too.  Shame on you NBC for the incendiary device YOU are.

Mr. President, I LOVE you and appreciate you.  I say forgive them Father for they know NOT what they do.  And I am a white Jewish woman who says that!

NO PLACE TO GO

NBC News never ceases to amaze me by its corporatist agenda.  The Today Show interviewed one "scientist" who said he does not care if C02 pollution reaches 500 ppm.  He says it will not matter. It is now 400 ppm the highest ever recorded since 3 MILLION years ago in the Pliocene Epoch.   Yes, so called scientists, mouthpieces for big oil like big tobacco before them, yet again dismiss the inevitable truth science denying know nothings and corporate cronies refuse to acknowledge.   

 

NBC offered a scientist on the truth side about 20 seconds to give a rather feeble argument.  The correct view is NOT feeble it is truth and takes time to explain so explain it, NBC News!

 

Does NBC News REALIZE what is taking place while ONE scientist claims climate warming is no big deal?  Are we looking at the same news as climate change realists who KNOW the truth?  There is a disaster-a-week in all seasons costing billions and soon to be trillions in clean-up and rescue.  We have all been witness to floods, fires, strong hurricanes, tsunamis, blizzards in April, tornadoes in places where few existed, blistering heat, drought and more like the disappearance of glaciers and the extinction of plant and animal species.  If you do not care about the polar bears in the arctic or the seals in Antarctica do you care about your own lives, your own jobs, your own children and your own country?  Envision glacial melt and a New York City completely submerged under water.

 

INTERVIEW GOOD SCIENTISTS ON NBC NEWS WHO CAN ARGUE FOR THE TRUTH!  IS GRAVITY TRUE, IS DNA TRUE, DO BAD HUMORS CAUSE DISEASE OR DO BACTERIA AND VIRUSES CAUSE DISEASE?  THE MASSIVE BURNING OF FOSSIL FUELS SINCE THE INDUSTRIAL AGE HAS CAUSED THE EXTREME WEATHER EVENTS WE NOW EXPERIENCE BECAUSE THEY HAVE WARMED THE PLANET TRAPPING C02. IT CANNOT ESCAPE THE EARTH AND IT IS UNMISTAKABLE.  IT IS FACT. ITS CONSEQUENCE ARE APPARENT. 

 

Soon it will be too late if we do not act.  No more hearings and no more fossil fuel paid scientists saying climate change does not matter.  Saving the planet requires action now!

 

Mankind has been in the dark for most of his existence by superstition, religion and myth.   Finally, science shines a light on the TRUTH and NBC News puts up one crackpot scientist probably being paid by the fossil fuel industry saying what that industry wants to hear but what 98% of scientists do NOT believe.  Fossil fuels cause global climate change and it is a big deal.  Either we or the next generation will pay a HUGE price. Strange because I have heard those oil giants, corporatist news CEO's and their stockholders have children as well.  For them there WILL BE NO PLACE TO GO TOO!

 

 WHY WE NEED TO ELECT A STRONG CLIMATE SCIENCE SUPPORTER, ED MARKEY AND ALL DEMOCRATS RUNNING FOR PUBLIC OFFICE!

 

Off the cuff remarks--IRS Tea Bagger BALONEY!

Republicans have made it difficult for President Obama to get his second-term Cabinet in place and stymied his agenda at every turn.

The dispute over his EPA nominee stems from more than 1,000 written questions Republican senators asked her after her confirmation hearing. It is a new record for the number of written questions asked of a nominee. 

An administration official said she answered every one.

Tea Baggies are nothing BUT political as there is no social welfare attached to them AT ALL.  They are anything BUT a social welfare organization.  Therefore, it was correct that the IRS target them.  They should have DENIED them a tax exempt status but instead they denied NONE of them.

This is simply yet another in a long line of actions done by RepuGlicans to make the president's life and the American people's lives impossible.  If they could NOT win an election fairly they are committed of course to gum up the works and hurt the American people.  These excuses for humanity are SLIME and they deserve EVERY IRS question they get.  White is the ONLY color Tea Baggies care about.  Social welfare organization my posterior. Give me a break.  They are know nothing political hacks. 

WHY WITHOUT QUESTION ED MARKEY MUST BE ELECTED TO THE US SENATE.  VOTE JUNE 25, 2013 AND SUPPORT ALL DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATES ACROSS THE NATION.

Man's Best Self

I recently blogged on The Guardian web page in response to an article by James Ball entitled "US government attempts to stifle 3D-printer gun designs will ultimately fail ..." I link the article here or at the hyperlink below. I addressed it in part:

 

Unfortunately, I agree with the author and add that the etiology of our nation's Wild West mentality most especially on the extreme right with media mouthpieces like Limbaugh and Beck to egg them on make violence in this nation natural.  It is compounded by an empire's perpetual war and a racism that has, historically, since the country's inception, continuously violated a minority.  The unyielding and constant present-day violence that is perpetrated because of this part of our nation's cruel animus is NOT surprising. 

 

Racist nativists and so called “white supremacists” who said "Irish need not apply," "Jews and dogs not allowed," and a culture that separated drinking fountains by skin color relegating African Americans to an inferior status are historically embedded in our nation's DNA. The savagery that accompanies the right's irrational, mendacious, mean-spirited, raving lunatic rants of hate makes the violence of our gun culture inescapable.

 

Stopping this Neanderthal mentality that exists not exclusively but most decidedly on the political right is imperative.  We, though, must be resigned to the fact that it will take a very long time for systemic progressive humanitarian change to take root.

 

Despite our entrenched racist opposition we as progressives must continue the arduous task to lift man to his best self not regress him to his worst.

 

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/may/10/3d-printing-gun-blueprint-state-department-ban?commentpage=1