All on a Friday!

Yo, this weird-looking white man in a dress with the funny “Italian-Wetback” accent needs to come around more often!. Clearly, shit get done when Pap Frankie is around

At this rate, we black people might get reparations for slavery, jobs, and even a shutdown of BET by friggin’ Monday! Okay, so maybe not by Monday, but you get the picture.

I’m not really a believer of miracles, folks. But et’s just say that after today, I’m going o be looking for images of Jesus in every slice of bread I eat. Either that or my used-to-be practicing Catholic ass might go back to eating those wafers and sippin’ on that wine to wash it down.

And to think here I was this entire week so uninterested in Pope Francis’s visit to America. I mean, as far as I knew, it wasn’t like he had any plans of visiting te hood to kiss black babies, buy Pampers, or buy a struggling sista a T-bone steak, eggs-cheese, with Welch’s grape on his itinerary.

But, of course, I was kind of wrong.

U.S. Speaker of the House John Boehner (R) wipes away tear as he listens to Pope Francis with House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (C) from the Speaker’s Balcony after concluding his address before a joint meeting of the U.S. Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington September 24, 2015. REUTERS/Carlos Barria – RTX1SA9P

You see, after delivering the most epic chin-check to the moral conscience on the floor of Congress. Pope Francis decided to skip a scheduled lunch with our elected politicians, and opted to feed homeless people instead.

Pope Francis stepped away from the pomp and pageantry of Capitol Hill to be with the poor and homeless on Thursday.

 

Passing on the opportunityto dine with politicians after addressing Congress this morning, Francis instead said a prayer blessing a meal for homeless clients of St. Maria’s Meals, a food program run by Catholic Charities in Washington, D.C.

 

Just before the meal, Francis drew a powerful comparison between the plight of the homeless and the Christmas story about Jesus’ birth in a stable.

 

“The son of God knew what it was to be a homeless person,” Francis said, during a speech at nearby St. Patrick’s Catholic Church. “What it was to start life without a roof over his head.”

 

“I want to be very clear. We can’t find any social or moral justification,  no justification whatsoever for lack of housing,” he continued. “We know that Jesus wanted to show solidarity with every person. He wanted everyone to experience his companionship, his help and his love. He identified with all those who suffer, who weep, who suffer any kind of injustice. He tells us this clearly, ‘I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me.’”

There’s some irony to the message of Pope Francis here. This week, the mayor of  the city of Los Angeles, California, has declared a state of emergency over the size of its homeless population.

Yes, in this country’s second-largest city, there are an estimated 26,000 homeless residents.

Now I know California has suffered a historic drought for the last five years, and that the state is literally on fire. Yet and still, there’s no reason or excuse other than government failure for the current crisis of homelessness in Los Angeles and across the country.

Which, when you think about how little Congress has done in he wake of the most destructive economic meltdown in modern U.S. history. Or, when you think about how much Republican obstructionism has assisted in fueling the prolonged suffering of Americans. Once you take this all into consideration, Pope Francis skipping lunch with politicians makes perfect sense.

After all, they cut food stamps, as well as an unemployment insurance extension and expected Pope Francis to have lunch with them after his speech?

Nah, instead, he fed homeless people.

Yes, he served food to homeless people. Which, might not be a big deal to some. I mean it;s not like the Catholic church isn’t wealthy enough from all of its raping and pillaging back in the day to put more than a few homeless bums in hotels for a night or two.

But hey, it ain’t like Pope Francis has a GoFundMe account to raise money to purchase a new jet to replace his existing not-so-new jet or anything.

Yep, how’s that for your moral conscience?

I don’t like playing in the weeds of conspiracy theories, so I won’t suggest that Pope Francis showing up on Capitol Hill and his subsequent low-key shade thrown at Republicans in Congress speech led to Boehner’s removal as House Speaker.

For all I know there may be an opening for a weepy “Franciscan Monk Bartender” at the Vatican that Boehner feels compelled to fill. I mean, it’s not like Boehner isn’t Catholic nor does he have the necessary skill set. However, after presiding as Speaker for the two least productive sessions of the House of Representatives. Let’s just say that the only way is up; and, when it comes to gettin’ into heaven, you gotta do what you gotta do.

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One has to feel a bit of sympathy for a guy like Nugent. I mean it can’t be easy to grow older and lose the one skill you have in life. To realize that you no longer have any real worth or meaning. Nugent does realize this, I mean he could do one thing well and if you really think about it, his music would be considered horseshit in any country that has real culture. But here in America he was once considered an artist…but not anymore.

Now Nugent just spews hate filled bile about the President while his former shit kicker fans eat it up. Well, not just his fans but many Tea Party politicians as well. They have him at their rallies and he has become the new poster boy for the NRA. One only has to look at Nugent and you automatically see everything that is wrong with America. The secret service even had to pay him a visit after he made that remark about dying (I guess he meant being killed by a good guy with a gun) or ending up in jail if Obama was re-elected. They discovered he was just full of shit. He doesn’t have the courage to do anything but talk and talk and talk. He is just another coward who tries to talk tough. A nobody.

We know this because he pretended to be crazy by shitting and pissing on himself to avoid Vietnam. Yet of course he loves war and guns and other people’s children dying. That’s OK.

He is also a pedophile. We now know this because of a song he sang in 1981 called “Jailbait.” Here are some of the lyrics..

Jailbait you look so good to me..Jailbait won’t you set me free ..Jailbait you look fine fine fine.. I know I’ve got to have you in a matter of time

Well I don’t care if you’re just thirteen.. You look too good to be true.. I just know that you’re probably clean.. There’s one lil’ thing I got to do to you.

Yes this is the face of the NRA and the Tea Party Republicans. How proud they obviously are.

John Boehner on the other hand doesn’t want to go to jail. He would just rather die than raise the minimum wage. You see paying a barely living wage to those who work 100 times harder than him and his colleagues, while trying to support their families, is just too much for a guy making over $200,000 a year to deal with. He gets heart palpitations just thinking about it.

He is so stuck on the lie that raising the minimum wage kills jobs, even though there is no proof whatsoever that is the case, that he just couldn’t live through such an injustice. Obama should respond to this nonsense by saying exactly what F.D.R. said about the issue. That if a business won’t pay a living wage to its workers, they have no business in this country. Obama can update that statement by saying these companies can simply get the fuck out. Good riddance. Don’t let the door hit you in the ass.

For Boehner the answer is simple. A nice warm bath, a couple of razor blades, and a nice glass of Merlot. Just like Michael V. Gazzo in “The Godfather, Part II” it might be time to sacrifice himself for the better good of everyone else. I mean if he really just can’t live in a country that pays its citizens enough money to do things like buy food and keep a roof over their heads then it could just be time to end it all.

I wouldn’t want him to be in pain. It’s just not right.

Yes Ted Nugent and John Boehner just want to die. Their words. To live in a civilized society is just way too much for either of them to bare.

Something tells me life would go on for the rest of us. Just a hunch.

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If you listen to the noise, what you’ll hear is that the IRS egregiously “targeted” Tea Party groups attempting to gain tax exemptions by registering as 501c(4) nonprofit organizations. What you’re not hearing — aside from an opportunity to bash President Obama — is the real reason why they’re exploiting what I refuse to see as a scandal. But today, Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-Texas), a senior member of the House Ways and Means Committee spoke to the real issues (video below). That would be, the lack of evidence to support the idea of a grand conspiracy with ties to the White House. The truth not being heard and promoted by the mainstream media, is that given the current statute, there’s nothing wrong with scrutiny of groups who allegedly act in the interest of “Social Welfare”. Last night on The Last Word, Lawrence O’Donnell broke this all down.

Tea Party groups have quickly lined up this week to tell reporters about receiving intrusive questions from the Internal Revenue Service after applying for tax-exempt status. But some of those same groups have close ties to Republican politics. That reality underlines what a growing number of good government advocates and others are saying: The problem isn’t too much scrutiny from the IRS, it’s too little.

Karen Kenney, the coordinator for the San Fernando Valley Patriots, told The Washington Post this week that after applying for nonprofit status, her group received “pretty much a proctology exam through your earlobe.”

But that (very) up-close look may have made sense: Kenney is active in Republican politics in southern California. She ran in 2010 for an internal GOP position, and has spoken at least twicesince 2011 at the San Fernando Valley Republican club, in her capacity as a local Tea Party leader.

Kenney didn’t respond to a request for comment, but it’s not just her. The president of the Greater Phoenix Tea Party, Chris Rossiter, told Politico that after applying, his group received an inquiry from the IRS with 35 questions, and he described a phone conversation he said the group’s founder had with an IRS agent.

That founder was Kelly Townsend, who last year was elected as a Republican to the Arizona statehouse. A post on the Tea Party group’s website congratulated Townsend on her win.

In spite of what Republicans and other members of the “Obama Hate Machine” may say, there’s no evidence pf criminal wrong-doing on the part of the IRS that can be linked to Obama. But hey, don’t tell that to the noisemakers with nothing substantive to offer by way of policy to fix this slow-crawling economy. Leave it to them, everything is Obama’s fault; and this IRS scandal is yet another example of his heavy hand of government that’s akin to tyranny. The real truth is that while this is promoted, Republicans are continuing to do everything to screw “we the people”.

What the media and others are calling a scandal, I call bullshit. Hell, last time I checked, “Scandal” is the name of a very popular show on television. This Benghazi, IRS scandal, and the AP phone record thing? As much as the media — and right-wing knuckle-draggers — say they are, and would like them to be, those aren’t scandals. Yep, call me when Barack’s semen is found on a dress that doesn’t belong to Michelle. Until then, have a hot cup of STFU and miss me with this nonsense. What we really need to be talking about is more economic stimulus and job creation. But I’m sure doing so is antithetical to the interest of Republicans and Tea Party groups who are only interested in “social welfare” and not politics.

Listen to Rep. Doggett below:

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The Artful Dodger – or How NOT to get Drafted as told by Ted Nugent

 Let’s also stop the insanity by suspending the right to vote of any American who is on welfare. Once they get off welfare and are self-sustaining, they get their right to vote restored. No American on welfare should have the right to vote for tax increases on those Americans who are working and paying taxes to support them. That’s insane. (Read More)

While you are marinating on this, also know that the sentiment to eradicate Social Security and Medicare is real and not just some tin foil hat wearing topic on an obscure message board out in the internet. Paul Ryan, who was Mitt Romney’s  Vice Presidential running mate has as one of his major claims to fame a budget that guts both programs and this budget has broad support in the Republican party and with some so-called democrats who’s humanity is in question.

What Paul Ryan’s Budget Actually Cuts – and by How much -Washington Post

The Ryan budget, amongst other things, proposes changing  Medicare to a voucher program where people will get issued a voucher that they then can take and shop around to try and FIND medical coverage and care.

Det. Thorn: It’s people. Soylent Green is made out of people. They’re making our food out of people. Next thing they’ll be breeding us like cattle for food. You’ve gotta tell them. You’ve gotta tell them!

What I would like to know and what no one  who throws up these concepts has been able to explain is what happens to those people who are currently receiving aid to dependent children, food stamps, social security, or medicare when you gut these programs and there is nothing to help them.

What do people who have been on assistance for 10, 20 years or more who have no job skills, might be illiterate and have never had to balance a checkbook do if these programs are “gutted” or shut down completely. What happens to these people who suddenly have the rug pulled from underneath them with no means at all to find a job that will pay enough money to pay rent,  buy food  and transportation.

As one of the millions of Americans searching for a job with over 20 years of work experience, and unable to find employment right now, I would really like to know what people who  have no work experience who are suddenly forced to go “get a job” are supposed to do when they can’t and there is no help for them in the meantime to exist?

None of the rabid purveyors of shutting all the entitlement programs in this country down has ever come forth with a clear concise answer to this question.  Enormous amounts of vitriol are reserved for the ” lazy, moochers who will not take responsibility” – see Mitt Romney 47% speech to donors

I would like to say to Mitt Romney, Paul Ryan, Ted Nugent, Donald Trump and all the other  willfully ignorant and oblivious people who claim to be Americans – and that feel like an individual without a job CHOOSES to be that way; that a person  who isn’t working is LAZY; or even better that those  47% who don’t pay taxes should have their rights to vote and participate in the process of government that has a say in THEIR lives – if the direction this country is going in is not amenable to you and you are at your wits end  trying to figure out how to “FIX” the direction of this country – don’t stress yourself. Follow in the footsteps of those founding fathers you seem to invoke incorrectly at the most convenient moments. Since lack of funds are not an issue for you, I suggest you pool your resources and build a ship and provision it for a long journey. Then carry your asses away from this country and go discover another country where there are people living there already. Like you did with this one.  Better yet take Gingrich’s advice and take a rocket to the moon. Plenty of space up there for you, your bigoted beliefs, your intolerance and your lack of humanity for your fellow man.  Kindly take your inhumanity, greed avarice and ignorance and LEAVE.

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If it wasn't for the record number of filibusters, the GOP would have been able to create more jobs

You see, Boehner’s brand of leadership is just what America needs right now.

Let’s be honest: without him and the House Republicans, where would we be today?

So, I’d like to say a heartfelt thank you to Speaker Boehner — a man who not only asked, “Where are the jobs?” But a man who actually went out and created them. And for that, we owe him a wealth of gratitude for his effective leadership, and commitment to America, and the millions of jobless workers oppressed from the moment Obama took the oath of office back in January, 2009.

But of course, left-wing haters are trying to make Republican patriots look bad:

The economy added 114,000 jobs in September and unemployment declined to 7.8 percent. Not great numbers, but paired with major upward revisions to previous monthly reports and taken in the context of a slowly recovering economy, the report was viewed as good news for America.

Unless, of course, you were hoping for bad news. And apparently quite a few of President Obama’s critics were — so much so that they suggested the Bureau of Labor Statistics was part of a vast conspiracy.

The leader of the “job truther” movement: former GE CEO Jack Welch.

“Unbelievable jobs numbers..these Chicago guys will do anything..can’t debate so change numbers,” he said on Twitter.

He had some friends in Congress too. Rep. Allen West (R-FL) tweeted “I agree with former GE CEO Jack Welch, Chicago style politics is at work here.” He added on Facebook that the jobs report was “Orwellian to say the least and representative of Saul Alinsky tactics from the book ‘Rules for Radicals.’” FOX News’ Stuart Varney apparently sensed where his audience was going. Within minutes of their release he told viewers that “there is widespread mistrust of this report and these numbers.” “How convenient the rate drops below 8% [for the] first time in 43 months, five weeks before the election,” he added later.

As you could expect, Obama’s pro-socialist minions were easily swayed (as always) by the lamestream media as they slapped high-fives to celebrate America’s do-nothing lazy president. Like all Obama Kool Aid drinkers, they were quick to defend his obvious attempt to smear Jack Welch on Twitter rather than congratulate Boehner as I have. I mean, isn’t it pretty obvious that Obama has hacked into Welch’s Twitter account, and Allen West’s Facebook account for political expediency? I mean, that’s what a desperate man who was recently embarrassed in a debate on national television would do, right?Exactly! He’d rig things to make himself not look like an abject failure that he is.

But, don’t tell that to the Obamabots:

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The more I read up on the pipeline, the more I feel like I am reading the outline to a new John Grisham or Sidney Sheldon novel. I mean it’s all right there, the scandal, the greedy politicians with their propaganda, the powerful corporate, land seizing, the evil oil industry, the pawn of a President, and poor fuckin’ peasants who are gonna get a few temporary jobs for a few months to compensate for a lifetime illness. Except, Erin Brockovich won’t be swooping in at the end to save anyone’s ass because if this shit goes down and they put a big ass pipe full of dirty oil down the middle of this country, it will be because we didn’t fight hard enough to stop it.

At www.tarsands.com they promise this: “TransCanada is poised to put 13,000 Americans to work to construct the pipeline – pipefitters, welders, mechanics, electricians, heavy equipment operators, among other jobs – in addition to 7,000 manufacturing jobs that would be created across the U.S. Additionally, local businesses along the pipeline route will benefit from the 118,000 spin-off jobs Keystone XL will create through increased business for local goods and service providers.”

What they don’t tell you is that these jobs are temporary, during the construction phase of the pipeline. A third of those construction jobs would be in Canada since a third of the pipeline would be there. According to CNN, The U.S. State Department, which must green light the project, forecasts just 5,000 direct U.S. jobs over a two year construction period.

CNN also reports that even Transcanada admits the real number for permanent jobs would only be in the hundreds. One study from Cornell University shows that KXL will actually lead to a declines in the job market due to crop losses, environmental and pollution issues, and higher fuel prices in the Midwest-which would slow consumer spending and count for more job loss.

Wait, higher fuel? In the Midwest? How is that possible when they are running a big ass pipe full of dirty oil down the middle of tornado alley?
Here is the direct quote from the Cornell University report:

“KXL will divert Tar Sands oil now supplying Midwest refineries, so it can be sold at higher prices to the Gulf Coast and export markets. As a result, consumers in the Midwest could be paying 10 to 20 cents more per gallon for gasoline and diesel fuel. These additional costs (estimated to total $2–4 billion) will suppress other spending and will therefore cost jobs.”

Photo Credit Milan Ilnyckyj: Clayton Thomas Muller, Cree, delivering letter to Canadian Consulate in DC

This isn’t even scratching the surface of the dangers of the potential oil spills, clean up, dangers of explosions, the toxic levels of emissions caused by crude oil, not to mention all the health hazards caused by crude emissions and the possible health costs this could have in the future. And all the dirty waste water used since it takes 3 barrels of water to clean one barrel of the tarsands oil. And I haven’t even mentioned the Ogallala Aquifier which provides drinking water to my reservation plus surrounding states and is directly under the route of KXL. This is a direct violation of treaty rights.

I almost forgot to mention the land seizing. According to The New York Times, the Canadian company has yet to receive federal approval but is already threatening land owners from South Dakota to the Gulf of Mexico. They have been threatened to sell or the land will be condemned. The company currently has 34 eminent domain actions against landowners in Texas and an additional 22 in South Dakota. That seems crazy right? How can someone not even from this land, this country come here and just “seize land” and pretend it’s theirs all in the name of money? Ask any member of any tribe, this can and will happen.

House Speaker Boehner launched a countdown clock, ticking off the minutes until the February 21 deadline that was slyly added into the payroll tax cut extension with a pipeline provision. He also made a youtube video just dripping with propaganda. I was thinking, wow this guy really cares about these temp jobs, right? I mean when the fuck did they (GOP) ever care about jobs, much less temp jobs. For real?

Then I found this tidbit on the Washington Post. They list Boehner’s financial disclosure forms. In December of 2010, Boehner invested 10,000 to 50,000 dollars in each of the seven firms that have stake in the Canadian sands oil. Among these firms are six oil companies, including BP, Canadian Natural Resources, Chevron, Conoco Phillips, Devon Energy and Exxon. And the one firm that is not an oil company Emerson Electric, but it does have a contract to provide digital automation for the first phase of a $9.4 billion dollar Horizon Oil Sands Project in Canada.

But get this, that is not CONFLICT OF INTEREST!

“Boehner spokesman Michael Steel said in an interview that an investment adviser chooses Boehner’s financial investments. “He doesn’t have any control over day-to-day trades, so there’s no conflict of interest on this or any other investment,” Steel said of the speaker, adding that when it comes to the upcoming decision on Keystone XL, “We hope the president will do the right thing and approve the permit, and create American jobs.”” -Washington Post

I’m sorry, but if my waitress is related to my dinner partner and they get a bigger portion than me, that’s a freaking conflict of interest in my eyes.

Sadly there are no laws for “conflict of interest” or “insider trading” for the people we put in office, because they are the ones who have the power to change those laws. So until then and if ever-politics isn’t as dirty as the oil they are pushing on us as a “jobs package” the rich bitches will get richer while we vote them in.

And that is the Real Deal Holyfield, in the end there is no cheap gas, no jobs, oils spills from here to heaven knows where, health problems up the wazoo and House Speaker Boehner will be a fat cat, drinking his highballs, shining in the sun on a beach somewhere…that fucker.

Unless we stop it.

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In my eyes Boehner not only denied the president’s request to speak at a joint session of Congress on September, 7th. Along with giving president Obama the, “don’t call us, we’ll call you,” treatment. He pretty much told him that when he does come to the people’s House to deliver his jobs speech on September 8th, he must enter and leave through the back door. You know, like a good Negro is supposed to. And of course, our friends on the right are loving this:

What was the plan here? I think maybe O was trying to bait Boehner or some other prominent Republican into getting angry so that he could point to it and run through his tired “adult in the room” shtick. That’s what this speech is about, after all — lecturing Congress in front of a national audience about how everything’s their fault, not his, in hopes that voters remember that next November. It almost worked too, sort of. Ron Paul was “weighing his options” on whether to object to the speech request and DeMint vowed that he’d try to block it in the Senate. Boehner played it the right way, I think, offering a logistical excuse instead of a political one to deny O a chance to whine about Republican obstructionism. As for the liberals whining that he “caved,” what was he supposed to do once Boehner said no to Wednesday? Just show up that night and start talking? Granted, he could have given the address from the Oval Office instead, but (a) that would defeat the key purpose of lecturing Congress to their faces and (b) the fact that he was forced to give the speech from a location he didn’t prefer would have only underscored his weakness. He’s better off accepting the offer for Thursday. Especially since now it gives him the chance to react to any GOP talking points from the debate the night before.

Today, when I look and think about president Obama, images of those Black kids protesting at southern lunch counters surface. Back then, those kids wanted to have the right to be treated as human beings and served at lunch counters. Often they were met with ridicule, taunting, and physical violence. But even so, with little if any emotional reaction, or confrontation with opponents to their cause, their campaign turned out to be a successful one. This is why you won’t hear me suggest that president Obama “caved again,” to Boehner and the Republicans. Caved before? Yes, he has; but not on the scheduling of his speech next week; it’s really a good move strategically.

The day that the speech is delivered isn’t important; what will be revealed as a viable plan for job creation is. If anything, this unprecedented move by Boehner to deny such a request by the president of the United States – something that has never been done before in U.S. history – will show, is that their political pettiness trumps the idea of serving “we the people” of the United States. Boehner and the Republicans have laid their cards on the table, folks. Yep, and to quote the now famous meltdown by then NFL head coach Dennis Green, the Republicans “are who we thought they were.” A bunch of assholes much like the racist degenerates at those Woolworth lunch counter sit-ins of yesteryear. One thing’s for sure: Being the first Black anything in America ain’t easy.

Just ask the first Black people at those lunch counters.

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I have a lil’ something to say about the Obama Administration’s proposed 2012 budget released a couple of days ago. But that’s gonna be in an upcoming post shortly so stay tuned. However, I’ve heard it said that Obama’s proposal plays heavily as a political move to ensure re-election. Supposedly it’s designed to pull in independent voters, who as I’m told, are more concerned about this country’s budget deficit than the jobs crisis. Who needs to work in a recession, right?

Of course this sounds ass-backwards to me, but then again, I’m not a fence-straddling independent voter. I’m just an asshole with a blog who just so happens to believe, that “we the people” (yes, even the unemployed lazy ones too tired to look for work as said by Conservatives) are what makes America great. Having said that, lets take a listen to what one professed independent voter calling in to C-SPAN’s Washington Journal thinks.

The subject of the show being the GOP’s proposed budget cuts. Viewers were asked, “What if any programs would you like to see cut from the federal budget?” The real irony here is the fact that the following response to the question comes from an Ohio resident who just so happens to live in John Boehner’s district. You know, the same Boehner who said “so be it” should the GOP spending cuts create job losses? Yes folks, Boehner will be here all week.

You gotta watch this:

Now I’m not the smartest person in the world, but even I can see a problem with this callers asinine proposal. Much like the proposed GOP spending cuts (and some of the White House’s) the idea to cut Food Stamps is an assault on the already working poor, and newly poor. But I suppose nothing is more motivational as saying, “put down the Beluga Caviar and get a job you lazy bum,” than proposing to cut food stamps; that’ll learn them teat suckers.

But then again, maybe I’m wrong. There were 43.6 million people on the SNAP program (Food Stamps) in November – a 400, 000 increase from the previous month, and a 5.3 million increase from a year prior. According to The Wall Street Journal, in August of 2010, there were 42.3 million Americans on Food Stamps, which was an increase of 17% from the previous year; and, a 58.5% increase from August, 2007. Oh wait, there was a recession in between there?

Clearly, anyone looking at these numbers can see that the numbers have, and are increasing with the recession, which by all accounts has officially ended. Yay! One small problem though? That lagging unemployment thingy which is an important concern for people like myself and other progressives. Conservatives and independents like the caller above? They’re more worried that lazy bums on food stamps the unemployed would more than diminish the share of steak and lobsters reserved for the wealthiest 2% earners in America.

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I really haven’t been in the mood to talk politics for a little while now; and I’m not sure if you’ve noticed that. But I hear that, with six weeks out, the president is fired up and asking for help; and, I got an email today with an invitation to sit down with House Majority Whip Jim Cyburn next Thursday.

It would appear that the good Congressman from South Carolina is performing an outreach to black bloggers. Which is a great thing considering just how active we were during the primaries, and presidential campaign in 2008. I’m not attending the event in person. However, I do intend to participate via a conference call..

So anyway, even though I’m not really feeling politics right now, I can’t ignore the one story that truly made my day. I’m not sure if I was gonna have a bad day or not. But thanks to John Boehner, I had a great laugh for my first read earlier this morning, and I’m pretty sure that it set the tone for the rest of my day.

See, my man John Boehner was hanging out on everybody’s favorite network with Chris Wallace on ‘Fox News Sunday’. And in the discussion, he had the nerve to suggest that now wasn’t the time to focus on solutions to the vast problems that plagues the nation.

No seriously; that’s what he said. Yep, we got problems, but, err, umm, now isn’t the time to talk about solutions? Yeah I know, not hardly the line to run before an election, but hey, it’s the GOP. Those guys have been bankrupt on ideas for quite some time.

That is, excluding the American Jobs Creation Act of 2004, of course; an act that provided huge tax breaks to corporate entities, who in return took jobs overseas. Uh-huh, they created jobs alright…

Now you can see why I had a great day, right? Other than having a good laugh, it really hit me that these are the ass-clowns that are predicted to gain the majority after the upcoming midterm elections.

Yep, these are the ass-wipes that people (read: independents) are going to vote for, out of their frustration with Democrats. According to Boehner, the GOP isn’t willing to call a tow truck, or even press the OnStar button!

But let them tell it, the do-nothing-president is hell bent on destroying the country, and having white people run around butt naked and broke like those Kenyans. One would think that with every damn bill the Republicans have blocked, that by now they would be willing to let voters know just what plan they envision for the country. But I guess that’s not important to know. What’s important is getting that “Kenyan Agenda” stopped.

Look, if you vote GOP or for the Tea Party this midterm election, plain and simple, you’re an idiot. Forget the car analogies of Barack Obama and listen to me. Voting for the GOP or Tea Party this November is like having unprotected sex with the same girl that gave you the crabs two weeks ago.

Yes, it’s really that stupid!

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But since we’re on the subject of birthright citizenship and John Boehner and his GOP talking points. I think he should give cation to tossing around such words that are a threat to the constitution of the United States. I mean look at him! Anybody with a discerning eye can tell that his tan was born in Kenya to a Muslim father with a funny sounding last name. So while he thinks “it’s worth considering,” repealing the cornerstone of civil rights…

I’m gonna need his tan to show its birth certificate.

The real irony of this situation is that “Coon Brother Number One”, Alan Keyes, of all people, has stepped up to condemn the idea of repealing the fourteenth amendment as he did last week at a black republican “Uni-Tea” love-fest in Washington DC. Checkout the following clip; and yes, it’s OK to question if he’s the same “brotha” who opposes Affirmative Action, and is a self avowed “Birther”, with intentions of discrediting the legitimacy of Barack Obama’s presidency:

Say what you want about Boehner’s tan, but it’s definite proof that Global Warming is real. As for Alan Keyes? Well, let’s just say that the jury is still out in the court of negro opinion. But hey, maybe the soul of his re-vitiligo did the talking.

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