It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool – or racist – than to speak and remove all doubt. The following quote shows how callous and ignorant the speaker is.
"You’re dealing with people who are professional race-baiters, who make a very good living off this kind of thing. They make more money off of race than any slave trader ever. It’s time groups like the NAACP went to the trash heap of history where they belong with all the other vile racist groups that emerged in our history," Mark Williams, a national spokesman for the Tea Party Express, said.
Is there anyone more fearful or naïve than the Madhatters? Hasn’t the Republican Party used fear forever? Gotta go puke now.
A new billboard in downtown Mason City features a photo of President Obama, flanked by pictures of German dictator Adolph Hitler and Communist leader Vladimir Lenin.
The billboard features phrases like “Live Free or Die” and “Radical leaders prey on the fearful and naive.”
It’s the same spot where a billboard last fall featured the phrase “Obama-Nation, Live Free or Die” with the Communist symbol of a hammer and sickle. The billboards were paid for by the North Iowa Tea Party.
“I think he will replace Jimmy Carter as the worst president of modern times.” [mjh: sayeth the Gingrinch] Only if you think ol’ Ronnie-baby or Georgie-boy left us in better shape than Jimmy. Carter created more jobs, and had a much smaller deficit, than all Republican Presidents since ‘80. That’s not ‘worst’ in my book. – garret p vreeland
Living in an environment rich with physical, mental and social stimulation — a setting that causes mild stress — might by itself curb cancer growth, according to a new study led by researchers at The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center — Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute.
Defense Needs To Be Part of Budget Debate By Winthrop Quigley Journal Staff Writer
The United States spends more on its military than the defense budgets of the next 17 biggest spending nations combined. China, the second biggest military spender in the world, has a military budget of $98.8 billion. Russia, our traditional rival, has budgeted $61 billion. The American military owns, leases or otherwise controls acreage approximately equal to that of the state of New York. It has 539,000 buildings and other structures located at 4,700 sites in every state in the country, plus Washington, D.C., 121 sites in American territories and 716 sites in 38 other countries.
