Bernie Sanders Sayings

The CEO's of major American corporations now earn 170 times what their workers make, the largest gap between CEO and worker of any major nation.

Just another republican hypocrite

Yes, this would be Marco Rubio, who has repeatedly tried to sabotage the Affordable Care Act, yet is insured with his family under the program. He even "benefits from a taxpayer-funded subsidy offered only to members of Congress and their staff valued at $10,000, far greater than the subsidies offered to most Americans who purchase insurance on the exchanges." And he's not alone. Other phonies in the GOP who are covered by Obamacare include, Sen. Rand Paul and Ted Cruz. It's bad enough to seek coverage under a program you have fought hard to repeal but taking a subsidy of $10,000 on the backs of tax paying Americans, including his own Florida constituents, is downright obscene. 

Today's NRA Congressional Gun Whore

Toda's NRA Congressional Gun Whore is former Speaker of the House John Boehner, who took at least $4,950 from the National Rifle Assn. in 2014.

Bernie Sanders Sayings

Between 1983 and 1989, 62% of the increased wealth of this country went to the top one percent, and 99% of the increased wealth went to the top 20 percent.

Today's NRA Congressional Gun Whore

Today's NRA Congressional Gun Whore is (R) Sen. Thom Tillis of Florida who received at least $9,900 from the NRA in 2014. Call him: (202) 224-6342.

Donald Trump reflects sad state of American public

USA Today said a poll shows that 68% of Donald Trump supporters would vote for him if he bolts the GOP. One Republican analyst calculates that his support in the GOP Primary would peak out at about 32%. Salon says Trump supporters are the same people who superimposed President Barack Obama's face onto the body of a chimpanzee or suicide bomber. Many of these same people still feel he's a Muslim.

Are you beginning to get the feel for the IQ level of Trump followers? Somewhere in the low double-digits, right? To be concise, Trump appeals to simple minds.

Come on America, we're better than this. I know you are desperate for your government to return to sanity but the place to start is not the Presidency. The place to start is Congress. And we certainly don't want a moron like Trump running this country as well. We already have enough of those in the U.S. Senate and House of representatives. And now the man has come out for banning all Muslims from the U.S., even if they are citizens, clearly contrary to what our Constitution stands for.

I certainly don't want to suggest how the public should vote, but I sure wouldn't want to be caught in the polling booth with my hand on the Trump handle. That is, of course, if there is one, the idea of which seems laughable.

Bernie Sanders Sayings

The top one percent [of Americans] own more than the bottom 90 percent.

The NRA's Congressional gun whores

Tom Cotton

Today's NRA Congressional gun whore is Tom Cotton, (R) Sen. from Arkansas. He received at least $9,900 from the NRA in 2014. Call him: 202(224-2353.

NRA's Congressional Gun Whores

Today's NRA Congressional Gun Whore is Sen. Joni Errnst from Iowa. She received at least $9,900 from the NRA in 2014. Call her: (202) 224-3254

Bernie Sanders sayings

The richest one percent of Americans now own 42% of the nation's wealth, compared with 19% in 1976.

Famous people who are Democratic Socialists

Did you know that Noam Chomsky is a Democratic Socialist?

Bernie Sanders Sayings

Our democratic system of education, once the gateway to economic and political equality, often fails to provide children with even the rudimentary skills and may soon be dismantled.

Famous people who are Democratic Socialists

Did you know that Gloria Steinem is a Democratic Socialist?

The NRA's Congressional gun whores named

To begin with I am going to list those Congressional bimbos that have taken at least $9,900 from the National Rifle Assn. to block all reasonable gun control legislation. The first is Sen. Mitch McConnell, a Republican from Kentucky. His phone number is (202) 224-2541. Call him today.

Get rid of the Congressional gun whores

When 82% of the guns purchased for mass shootings since 1982 are legal, you know you have a problem. The question is posed in an MSNBC article by Elizabeth Chuck, of just how preventable gun violence is under current gun laws? The gun rights advocates have been screaming for years, backed by the leading gun nut, the NRA's head Wayne LaPierre, that more guns means less violence. Well it ain't happened and it ain't going to. Until we pass new reasonable gun legislation. But that won't happen as long as the Congressional gun whores have their way.

It would be nice if we did not have to wait for 2016 or 2018 elections and start a recall process for those in Congress (House and Senate) that are in a strangulation hold of the National Rifle Assn. But unfortunately there is no way to do this for there is no means set forth to do so in the Constitution. But there are names available of who the Congressional gun whores are, some even rated by how much money they have taken from the NRA. I will be posting these names starting on Monday. If you spot your Congress person, write it down and put it away for next November and in the future.

New York Times berates Congress over inaction on gun laws

The New York Times front page editorial starts with, "All decent people feel sorrow and righteous fury about the latest slaughter of innocents, in California." Although, perhaps, not meant, but possibly implied, this would not apply to the members of Congress who are the cowards of the NRA's controlled minions of gun control opposition. They call these gun whores, "...elected leaders whose job is to keep us safe but who place a higher premium on the money and political power of an industry dedicated to profiting from the unfettered spread of ever more powerful firearms." WOW!

They talk about how civilians in the U.S.can go out and buy weapons of war, assault rifles like those used by the two terrorists in the San Bernardino killings. Sane thinking would tell any intelligent human being there is something very wrong with that except, of course, a gun nut. And the NYT attacks the nucleus of the problem which is the 2nd Amendment, saying, "No right is unlimited and immune from reasonable regulation." With this in mind, the right-minded people of this country should stand up and demand that the 2nd Amendment either be better defined or abolished altogether.

And it would help if someone ran the NRA's head, Wayne LaPierre, out of town...on a rail.

Bernie Sanders on gun control

This is what Bernie Sanders wants to do about gun control:

1. We can expand background checks to keep guns out of the hands of criminals and the dangerously mentally ill. This is an idea that over 80% of Americans agree with, even a majority of gun owners.2. & 3. We can renew the assault weapons ban and end the sale of high capacity magazines — military-style tools created for the purpose of killing people as efficiently as possible.4. Since 2004, over 2,000 people on the FBI’s terrorist watch list have legally purchased guns in the United States. Let’s close the “terror gap” and make sure known foreign and domestic terrorists are included on prohibited purchaser lists.5. We can close loopholes in our laws that allow perpetrators of stalking and dating violence to buy guns. In the United States, the intended targets of a majority of our mass shootings are intimate partners or family members, and over 60% of victims are women and children. Indeed, a woman is five times more likely to die in a domestic violence incident when a gun is present.6. We should close the loophole that allows prohibited purchasers to buy a gun without a completed background check after a three-day waiting period expires. Earlier this year, Dylann Roof shot and killed nine of our fellow Americans while they prayed in a historic church, simply because of the color of their skin. This act of terror was possible because of loopholes in our background check laws. Congress should act to ensure the standard for ALL gun purchases is a completed background check. No check — no sale.7. It’s time to pass federal gun trafficking laws. I support Kirsten Gillibrand’s Hadiya Pendleton and Nyasia Pryear-Yard Gun Trafficking & Crime Prevention Act of 2015, which would “make gun trafficking a federal crime and provide tools to law enforcement to get illegal guns off the streets and away from criminal networks and street gangs.”8. It’s time to strengthen penalties for straw purchasers who buy guns from licensed dealers on behalf of a prohibited purchaser.9. We must authorize resources for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to study and research the causes and effects of gun violence in the United States of America.10. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, there are over 21,000 firearm suicides every year in the United States. It’s time we expand and improve our mental health capabilities in this country so that people who need care can get care when they need it, regardless of their level of income.

Bernie Sanders sayings

Millions of Americans are uninsured, while the quality of health care delivery has declined dramatically just in the past few years.

New York Daily News blasts NRA

The gutsy NY Daily news, a conservative newspaper, has taken up the charge against the NRA and its irresponsible blocking of any kind of gun legislation. If we had more newspapers like this throughout the U.S. we might have prevented some of the 309 mass shootings so far in just 2015. One of the reactions from the NYDN earlier front page, “God Isn’t Fixing This,” was from the Fox News anchor idiot Elizabeth Hasselbeck who said,  "if you think prayer is less effective than gun control laws 'you’re lining up with the terrorists.'” It is this kind of garbage spewed from the Faux News Network that helps urge these fanatical terrorists on.

Here's another example of the New York News support of gun control with their past front page spreads:

Famous people who are Democratic Socialists

Did you know that Ed Asner is a Democratic Socialist?

NRA makes U.S. World leader in mass shootings

The United States represents only 5% of the global population but accounts for 31% of all mass shootings. With more mass shootings than days in the calendar to date, we will end 2015 admitting to the rest of the world that its supposedly most civilized country is actually run by a bunch of thugs who are gun nuts.

NRA condones terrorists buying guns

Republicans, commandeered by the NRA, are blocking a bill (The Denying Firearms and Explosives to Dangerous Terrorists Act of 2015) that would prevent "known and suspected" terrorists from buying weapons. Can you believe that? Think about the fact that were the GOP/NRA not against responsible gun legislation, the San Bernardino killing might not have happened. Get this:

"The nonpartisan Government Accountability Office recently released a report showing that from 2004 to 2014, people on terrorism watch lists successfully purchased guns no fewer than 2,043 times."

Even more: "There are 700,000 people on the terrorist watch list, and when these people tried to legally purchase guns, they had a success rate of 91%."

The NRA's creed remains...the right to guns is more important than human life.

NY Daily News hits the target

Pathetic Republican Presidential candidates Ted Cruz, Lindsey Graham and Rand Paul, plus new House Speaker Paul Ryan, rush to God for help when they should be shutting down the NRA for shootings like San Bernardino, CA and Savannah, GA.

Bernie Sanders Sayings

The media, which informs and shapes our perceptions of social problems, is owned by a very small number of powerful corporations with deeply vested special interests.

Famous people who were Democratic Socialists

Did you know that Helen Keller was a Democratic Socialist?