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It Is About Women

Posted by: SayNoToTea, 5:16 PM GMT on April 27, 2012

It's not that the left or the middle is making this election cycle about women. The right is doing it and the outcome they want would put women as lesser than men. Take some time to read studies of the fears of the middle aged anglo male and what is being done by the far right will not surprise you. It's a shame but this isn't the Republican Party of the Reagan era. It's a very sad state of affairs indeed.

Updated: 5:17 PM GMT on April 27, 2012

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The Right are Wrong........Again!

Posted by: SayNoToTea, 7:51 PM GMT on April 25, 2012

MY side is hurting from laughing so long and hard as I read the far right blog on this site. Please enjoy a moment of hilarity and go there and read the posts about new child labor laws as they pertain to farms and then come back for the facts. Time and time again the far right nut jobs ignore the actual facts as the facts get in the way of their pre-programmed thinking and agendas.

Here are the facts the new proposed changes to the laws and please note the sentence I have bolded. Hey granny, your folks still won't be arrested LMAO.

Enjoy the laugh.

New Child Labor Laws proposed
— filed under: Fairfield County
Recently the Department of Labor issued a proposed ruling to change the kinds of agricultural equipment and agricultural chores young people would be permitted to perform

GENERAL INFORMATION ABOUT THE DOL PROPOSED CHANGES TO THE CHILD LABOR REGULATIONS - Dee Jepsen, Agricultural State Safety Leader

Farm employers and agricultural businesses are encouraged to read more about the proposed changes to the Department of Labor Child Labor Regulations and how these changes will affect youth working in agricultural settings. The opportunity for public comment is open through December 1.

To access the complete document, visit the US DOL website: http://webapps.dol.gov/FederalRegister/HtmlDisplay .aspx?DocId=25286&Month=9&Year=2011

To comment on the ruling or read reviews of others, visit the Regulations.gov Website:
http://www.regulations.gov/#!docketDetail;dct=FR%2 BPR%2BN%2BO%2BSR%2BPS;rpp=10;po=0;D=WHD-2011-0001

These proposed changes will be the first update since 1970. They are designed to bring agricultural jobs in line with other guidelines required of employers in non-agricultural areas. NOTE: The proposed rules would continue to exempt children working on family farms.

A summary of the changes include:

1) Regulatory changes to the Child Labor Laws for Agriculture.
o Tractors operated by 14 and 15-year old youth be equipped with approved Roll-Over Protective Structures (ROPS) and seatbelts; and that seatbelt use be mandated.

o Prohibit the use of tractors of any horse power, including small garden-tractors; whereby the training exemption will either be removed or changed to 90 hours of study.

o Require that student learners operating tractors & farm machinery on public roads have a valid state driver's license.

o Prohibit use of electronic devices, including communication devices, while operating tractors, power-driven equipment, and motor vehicles.

o Restrict use of all power-driven equipment (similar to that of non-agricultural industries).

o Prohibit minors from riding as passengers on all farm machines when on public roads, and all student learners riding as passengers must have an "approved seat and seatbelt" with a mandatory use seat belt policy.

o Prohibit employment in occupations involving operation of non-powered driven hoisting apparatus and conveyers; no student-learner exemption would be permitted.

o Prohibit certain occupations involving working with or around animals: includes handling animals with known dangerous behaviors; assisting in animal husbandry practices that inflict pain upon animal or result in unpredictable behavior (such as branding, breeding, dehorning, vaccinating, castrating, and treating sick/injured animals); poultry catching or cooping in preparation for market; working in a yard, pen, or stall of an intact (non-castrated) male animals or with female animals with suckling offspring or umbilical cords present; herding animals in confined spaces or on horseback, or using motorized vehicles such as trucks or all terrain vehicles.

o Prohibit the felling, bucking, skidding, loading, or unloading timber of any size; and prohibit the removal of stumps except by manual means.

o Prevent the employment in construction, communications, wrecking, demolition, and excavation for youth 14-15 years of age.

o Prevent the employment while working on roofs, scaffolds, ladders, and elevations greater than 6 feet, including elevated farm structures like grain bins, silos, windmills, and towers, as well as elevated farm equipment and implements.

o Prohibit driving all motor vehicles and off-road vehicles by youth younger than 16.

o Prohibit work inside a fruit, forage, silo, grain bin, or manure pit.

o Consistent with EPA Worker Protection Standards for pesticides, ban all work that falls within the EPA classification of pesticide handler.

o Prohibit the employment of young workers in tobacco processes - includes planting, cultivating, topping, harvesting, baling, barning, and curing.

o A new non-agricultural regulation prohibiting the employment of youth in occupations containing farm-product raw materials and wholesale trade industries - includes work performed at country grain elevators, grain elevators, grain bins, silos, feed lots, feed yards, stockyards, livestock exchanges, and livestock auctions.

2) Changes to the training exemption - commonly known as the Tractor Certification Program - Eliminates training offered through Cooperative Extension programs. Recognizes programs taught through school-based agricultural education programs and their instructors. The proposal also seeks to increase training from 24 hours to 90 hours.

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tea party A Class - Less Act

Posted by: SayNoToTea, 6:55 PM GMT on April 24, 2012

Tea Party Supporter Convicted of Raping His 7 Year Old DaughterOklahoma City : OK : USA | Apr 23, 2012 at 12:47 PM PDT By Amee Ellsworth 4
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1 of 1 Tea Party Supporter Convicted of Raping His 7 Year Old Daughter

Ex-Marine, Charles Dyer has been convicted of raping his 7 year old daughter with a recommendation of a 30 year sentence by the jury. Dyer, who has posted videos on YouTube under his July4Patriot channel, was convicted during his third trial stemming from charges of rape and forcible sodomy. The first trial ended with no verdict and a mistrial was called in April 2011.
According to ABC News, prior to the second trial “The sheriff also said that Dyer had been seen hanging around the courthouse in the days leading up to the trial, wearing a thigh holster and backpack and carrying a Bible. McKinney said the behavior was meant to intimidate people at the court.”
ABC News reports “Dyer is part of a controversial group called Oath Keepers that includes current and former law enforcement and military members who take an oath to obey the Constitution rather than the president. Dyer has posted videos on YouTube talking about a "New World Order" and calling for people to "rise up" against "tyrannical government."”
Dyer is a member of a group that supports the Tea Party movement known as the Oath Keepers. Members of the Oath Keepers are former military and police. Their website say, “Oath Keepers is a non-partisan association of currently serving military, reserves, National Guard, peace officers, and veterans who swore an oath to support and defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic … and meant it.”

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Ted Nugent a Great American (Cough Cough)

Posted by: SayNoToTea, 2:35 PM GMT on April 21, 2012

I find the right sadly amusing, just as the obnoxious family member you run into on holidays and family gatherings. The one that you wish was not part of your family just as I wish the right wing nut jobs were not part of our country.

One example is the Zimmerman/Martin case. Zimmerman's guilt or not guilt is not necessary to state that it is being exploited by the likes of Sharpton and Jackson, however is it not as much exploited by the right wing nut jobs? We don't need articles by the right or the left to tell us that their still is rampant rascism in our country. The right wing blogs on this sight show us that daily.

Another new champion of the right wing is Ted Nugent. I believe it was Hannity who recently called him a great American. I always thought great Americans were those that upheld the law, gave to their country. Not some alchohol and drug addicted ex rocker who crapped his pants to avoid military duty and believes laws are for the other guys and not himself, but I guess that describes many of the right wing nut jobs so maybe it's not so surprising they flock to him and his ilk.

Ted Nugent agrees to plead guilty in illegal kill
April 20, 2012, 11:19 PM EST
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) -- Rocker and wildlife hunter Ted Nugent has agreed to plead guilty to transporting a black bear he illegally killed in southeast Alaska.

Nugent made the admission in signing a plea agreement with federal prosecutors that was filed Friday in U.S. District Court.

Calls seeking comment from Nugent, his Anchorage attorney, Wayne Anthony Ross, and assistant U.S. Attorney Jack Schmidt were not immediately returned.

The plea agreement says Nugent illegally shot and killed the bear in May 2009 on Sukkwan Island days after wounding a bear in a bow hunt, which counted toward a state seasonal limit of one bear.

According to the agreement, first reported by the Anchorage Daily News, the six-day hunt was filmed for his Outdoor Channel television show, "Spirit of the Wild." In the hunt, Nugent used a number of bear-baiting sites on U.S. Forest Service property, according to the agreement.

The document says Nugent knowingly possessed and transported the bear in misdemeanor violation of the federal Lacey Act.

Nugent, identified in the agreement as Theodore A. Nugent, agreed to pay a $10,000 fine, according to the agreement, which says he also agreed with a two-year probation, including a special condition that he not hunt or fish in Alaska or Forest Service properties for one year. He also agreed to create a public service announcement that would be broadcast on his show every second week for one year, the document states.

"This PSA will discuss the importance of a hunter's responsibility in knowing the rules and regulations of the hunting activities that they engage in, which is subject to the review and final approval, prior to any broadcast, by a representative of the United States Attorney's Office in the District of Alaska," the agreement says.

Nugent, who signed the document April 14, also agreed to pay the state $600 for the bear that was taken illegally, according to the agreement. He would still need to enter the plea in court and have the plea be approved by a judge.

Nugent — a conservative activist famed for his 1977 hit "Cat Scratch Fever" — drew the attention of the Secret Service after he rallied support last weekend for Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney and said of the Obama administration: "We need to ride into that battlefield and chop their heads off in November." His comments were made during a National Rifle Association meeting in St. Louis.

Nugent said on his website Thursday that he discussed the matter with two agents on Thursday while in Oklahoma.

"The meeting could not have gone better," he said. "I thanked them for their service, we shook hands and went about our business. God bless the good federal agents wherever they may be."

Nugent said he was just speaking figuratively and that he didn't threaten anyone's life or advocate violence.

"Metaphors needn't be explained to educated people," he said.

A Secret Service spokesman has said the issue has been resolved.

With hunting, Nugent has run afoul of the law before.

In August 2010, California revoked Nugent's deer hunting license after he pleaded no contest to misdemeanor charges of deer-baiting and not having a properly signed tag.

Nugent's loss of that deer hunting license through June 2012 allows 34 other states to revoke the same privilege under the Interstate Wildlife Violator Compact. Each state, however, can interpret and enforce the agreement

Updated: 2:37 PM GMT on April 21, 2012

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More American's Saying NO to tea

Posted by: SayNoToTea, 9:00 PM GMT on April 17, 2012

ABC released a poll last week detailing how the more American's hear about the tea party the more they don't want to have anything to do with it. That makes it no surprise that in just two years attendance of the much touted tea party tax day demonstrations has dropped by about 75 percent. Yes, 75 percent. I laughingly think my blog isn't needed to counter the hatred spread by another blog on this site. Sebastian, you keep posting your hate filled pieces. You're doing a good job showing the majority why they want to stay away from your kind of thininking.

Here's a partial laundry list of what troubles American's with the tea party.

THE TEA PARTY HAS A HIGHER AMOUNT OF RASCIST MEMBERS THAN THE POPULACE AT LARGE;

A new survey by the University of Washington Institute for the Study of Ethnicity, Race & Sexuality offers fresh insight into the racial attitudes of Tea Party sympathizers. "The data suggests that people who are Tea Party supporters have a higher probability"—25 percent, to be exact—"of being racially resentful than those who are not Tea Party supporters," says Christopher Parker, who directed the study. "The Tea Party is not just about politics and size of government. The data suggests it may also be about race

THE TEA PARTY HAS LED THE CHARGE AGAINST WOMEN'S RIGHTS;

1) Right Wing Republicans not only want to reduce women's access to abortion care, they're actually trying to redefine rape. After a major backlash, they promised to stop. But they haven't yet. Shocker.

2) A state legislator in Georgia wants to change the legal term for victims of rape, stalking, and domestic violence to "accuser." But victims of other less gendered crimes, like burglary, would remain "victims."

3) In South Dakota, Right Wing Conservatives proposed a bill that could make it legal to murder a doctor who provides abortion care. (Yep, for real.)

4) Right Wing Conservatives want to cut nearly a billion dollars of food and other aid to low-income pregnant women, mothers, babies, and kids.

5) In Congress, Republicans have a bill that would let hospitals allow a woman to die rather than perform an abortion necessary to save her life.

6) Maryland Right Wing Republicans ended all county money for a low-income kids' preschool program. Why? No need, they said. Women should really be home with the kids, not out working.

7) And at the federal level, Right Wing Conservatives want to cut that same program, Head Start, by $1 billion. That means over 200,000 kids could lose their spots in preschool.

8) Two-thirds of the elderly poor are women, and Right Wing Conservatives are taking aim at them too. A spending bill would cut funding for employment services, meals, and housing for senior citizens.

9) Congress just voted for a Republican amendment to cut all federal funding from Planned Parenthood health centers, one of the most trusted providers of basic health care and family planning in our country.

10) And if that wasn't enough, Right Wing Conservatives are pushing to eliminate all funds for the only federal family planning program. (For humans. But Republican Dan Burton has a bill to provide contraception for wild horses. You can't make this stuff up).

THE TEA PARTY IS ANTI-GAY;

In an email last month to its members, Tea Party Nation distributed a blog posting from Right wing activist Alan Caruba on the dangers of marriage equality and anti-bullying programs – urging members to fight against the “the queering of America” and recognize the gay rights movement as “a distinct threat to the fabric of a society based on the undisputed normality of heterosexuality.”

Tea Party Nation’s endorsement of the sure-to-be short-lived candidacy of Michele Bachmann; an endorsement gained largely due to the Congresswoman’s stance against gay rights and her husband’s previous work in “gay reparative therapy” – or better known as “praying the gay away.”

According to Tea Party Nation president Judson Phillips, the gay rights movement is part of a larger “liberal freak show” and that “most Americans do not believe homosexuality is a good thing

Anti-gay bullying is not bullying at all; in fact, it is “peer pressure and is healthy.” That’s according to Rich Swier, an activist with the Tea Party Nation.

THE TEA PARTY IS PRO PORK;

Remember all those grand promises by the tea party-backed Republicans who promised to put an end to wasteful spending and pork-barrel earmarks?

Just more hypocritical political posturing.

While talking the big plan to be fiscally responsible the Republican freshmen have packed a huge $553 billion spending bill with millions of pet defense projects for their home districts.

Yep. Pork barrel is still alive in the halls of Congress and the pigs at the trough are the ones voters sent to Washington to end the wasteful practice.

Of course, Republicans claim the money for the projects aren’t pork. Of course not. Pork is when the money is spent by the other guys in someone else’s district. If it’s in your own district it’s necessary.

None of the projects were included in the defense budget submitted to Congress by the Obama administration.

For example, freshman GOP Rep. Bobby Shilling put in $2.5 million for weapons and munitions advanced technology for the Quad City Manufacturing Lab at Rock Island Arsenal, which just happens to be in his district.

During his campaign against Democrat Phil Hare last year, Schilling criticized Hare for adding money to defense budgets for the same facility.

GOP frosh Vicky Hartzler of Missouri packed the bill with $20 million for “mixed conventional load capability for Air Force bombers,” for Whiteman Air Force Base in her district.

Hartlzler backed the GOP moratorium on earmarks during her campaign. Now she says she didn’t think the moratorium applied to defense spending.

Republican Steven Palazzo used anti-pork barrel spending rhetoric and tea party backing to beat Democratic conservative Gene Taylor in Mississippi. He added $10 million to buy land to expand a National Guard facility in his district and another $19.9 million to “ship preliminary design and feasibility studies” at Ingalls Shipbuilding in Pascagoula — also part of his district.

Tom Schatz, president of Citizens Against Government Waste, says his group will be studying the bill to uncover all the examples of pork. The millions could add up to billions.

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George Carlin Defines the tea party

Posted by: SayNoToTea, 4:10 PM GMT on April 12, 2012

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Misanthrope has a good link to racism and the right in my last blog and I thought this part was quite telling;

Dismissing the occasional racist is one way for conservatives to deal with their racism problem. Reconsidering aspects of their ideology that repel African Americans and other minorities and attract allies with toxic views on race would be another. But that won’t happen anytime soon. So expect the occasional purges to continue.

I had to laugh as I read a right wing blog one fellow who has posted some racial pieces in the past fails to realize that even when you praise someone, if that praise is based on their race, religion and stereotype it is still rascist. Why couldn't the lady in question have just been a good entrepeneur is beyond me.

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I also had a good laugh reading far right blogs seeing how they posted a newspaper story from a writer who declared that after reflecting on more information he had reversed his earlier conclusion and now felt Travon Martin's killer was innocent. I have no problem with the article no matter if I disagree or not, but what struck me as funny was just days earlier the theme of the blog was that it should be tried in the courts and not in the press. I guess it's ok if the press agreees with your thoughts.

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Goodbye Santorum, this picture says it all,

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The far right has made a big deal about how the "free market" left alone will fix all economic ills. Regardless that this is not true, please read the following article. The problem that our right wing idiots miss most is we are a world economy and the world has adopted different rules than ours, if we are to play the game we had better adapt our game so that it is suited to theirs.

Free market failure: Isn't it time to consider a different model?By Graeme Maxton

Many news stories this week seemed depressingly familiar.

David Cameron's foolhardy let's-blame-the-Europeans (again) speech in Davos, Christine Lagarde's scaremongering about another 1930s-style crisis and Mitt Romney's desire for the rich to pay less tax than the poor show how much the Western world lacks leadership, new ideas and a moral compass right now.

When they are not trying to blame someone else, make us fearful or enrich themselves, the West's politicians, bankers and economists keep banging the same drum.

They say we should go shopping, pay less tax and print more money to solve our problems.

If we can boost spending in Europe and America by getting the banks to lend again, uncork the hidden desire for consumption in the developing world in places like China and India, and liberalise competition in countries such as Japan, France and Italy, vast new opportunities will be unleashed, they tell us.

The trouble with these ideas is not just that they contain a whiff of self-interest, it is that they are also an attempt to reimpose a model which has failed.

Logically, their suggestions will only make the situation worse - which is exactly what is happening.

Another way?

These politicians and experts are also being intellectually dishonest.

They refuse to consider a different approach, even one that seems to work better.

Many countries have avoided economic hardship in the past few years, not because they were lucky, but because they have a different economic philosophy.

If Chinese companies bid to build power plants or railways in Africa or Eastern Europe, the state or one of its banks will provide the customer with low-cost financing. The government also helps Chinese businesses gain access to valuable resources. ”
End Quote In Asia, where economic growth has been strongest, the state has played a much bigger role than in the US or UK, with big businesses explicitly supported by governments.

China's 150 biggest companies are all government directed, with four of them now among the top ten companies in the world. It has also established many of the world's biggest banks, the second-largest producer of telecoms and internet equipment and the second-largest PC maker.

And it is not just in China. Many of Singapore and Malaysia's biggest and most successful companies are also state directed, while many of the firms that dominate South Korea retain close links to the state, too.

Governments help these companies in a variety of ways. They restrict unnecessary competition to help them build economies of scale. They provide them with finance, give them favoured access to local customers or use legislation to keep foreign rivals at bay.

Because they don't have to generate endlessly rising quarterly profits and dividends, these state-backed companies have been able to reinvest and grow more quickly.

Although Westerners see this approach as unfair, it is not. It is just a different way to compete, and perhaps a better way. It also ensures that skills, jobs and wealth are kept at home, not sucked away overseas.

When Chinese, South Korean or many South East Asian companies venture abroad, though, their governments are beside them too.

If Chinese companies bid to build power plants or railways in Africa or Eastern Europe, the state or one of its banks will provide the customer with low-cost financing. The government also helps Chinese businesses gain access to valuable resources.

Schools, roads and bridges are built by Chinese workers in return for coal, oil and iron ore. That way, China gets the business, the jobs and the resources.

Self-interest

These countries see big international business deals as a way to win contracts and geopolitical influence at the same time. They are not just about making a quick buck - there are wider strategic interests.

Many European countries also take a different approach to economic management, notably Germany, which remains one of the strongest economies in the world.

The German government believes it has a duty to regulate markets when they get out of control, when they create bubbles or widen the gap between rich and poor. German citizens want their markets to serve the needs of society, not a few fat-cats. They prefer harmony to greed, and are willing to accept greater regulation to achieve this.

Economists, politicians and financiers in America, Britain and many other countries have become obsessed with the free-market mantra, with their belief in consumption and minimal regulation, because it served them (sometimes personally) so well for so long.

In the end though, it failed.

Instead of telling us we need more of the same, isn't it time for them to reflect on how their model should be improved?

Graeme Maxton's new book, The End of Progress, how modern economics has failed us was published by Wiley in 2011. He is a Fellow of the Club of Rome.

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You know george must have been thinking about the tea party when he spoke these lines :-)

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Americans Dislike the tea party

Posted by: SayNoToTea, 4:10 PM GMT on April 07, 2012

Not that the tea party members will understand this, nor will they care that a majority of their peers have spoken and said, "we don't like you, go away!"

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Polls: Tea party falling our of favor with Americans
BY Aaron Blake
The Washington PostSaturday, April 7,

The tea party may have won Republicans the House of Representatives in 2010, but in 2012 it’s looking like it could help Democrats retain the White House.

Now nearly three years old, the tea party has fallen out of favor with Americans, and Democrats are prepared to use it against Republicans in this year’s elections.

A recent Fox News poll showed just 30 percent of Americans had a favorable view of the tea party, compared with 51 percent who viewed it unfavorably.

A recent Washington Post/ABC News poll may be more illustrative though. It showed Americans were more evenly split on the tea party, with 44 percent supporting it and 43 percent opposing it.

But just 15 percent of Americans supported the tea party “strongly,” while 26 percent were “strongly” opposed to it.

That suggests that opposition to the tea party is more strident than the tea party itself, which means the movement may be doing the GOP more harm than good.

The numbers are similar to the ones that were seen during the health-care debate, when both sides had about the same number of supporters, but the opponents were much more motivated.

In addition, the fervor and enthusiasm spurred by the tea party in 2010 appears to have dissipated, with no major tea party rallies taking place this year and fewer Republican candidates latching on to the label. On the presidential campaign trail, the tea party is rarely mentioned.

In contrast, Democrats are starting to wield the tea party label as a tool in their campaigns.

“I’m Bill Pascrell, and this is why I’m running: To stop the tea party,” the Democratic congressman from New Jersey said in a new ad.

The tea party also is being used against Reps. Joe Walsh (R-Ill.) and Ann Marie Buerkle (R-N.Y.), two stalwart tea partiers in tough districts for the GOP, and was used in ads run by special-election-winning Rep. Suzanne Bonamici (D-Ore.) this year.

Democrats say the issue works for them as they continue to define a Republican Party whose brand is already struggling.

“It’s no longer viewed as a populist, grass-roots organization, but a dangerous group with extremist views that don’t reflect the mainstream values of America’s middle class,” Democratic media strategist John Lapp said.

The tea party was mostly a blessing for Republicans in 2010.

Some less-electable tea party candidates beat Republican establishment candidates in primaries and went on to defeat in the general election, but on the whole the tea party spurred enthusiasm against President Barack Obama and helped Republicans overcome an emerging problem with their own brand, a problem that persists today.

The Washington Post/ABC poll showed just 40 percent of Americans have a favorable view of the GOP, a new low.

Updated: 4:12 PM GMT on April 07, 2012

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