Comments by "silat13" (@silat13) on "Thom Hartmann Program"
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GOP PLATFORM 2016
Some tasty bits.
Below are some of the Republican Platform.
Here are 50 ... right-wing proposals in the 2016 GOP platform
Each of the following Republican planks can be evaluated using the yard-stick of the “Golden-Rule
“Do NOT do unto others that which you wish not be done unto you”
GOP PLATFORM 2016
Some tasty bits.
Below are some of the Republican Platform.
Here are 50 ... right-wing proposals in the 2016 GOP platform
Each of the following Republican planks can be evaluated using the yard-stick of the “Golden-Rule
“Do NOT do unto others that which you wish not be done unto you”
Tax cuts for the rich: (prime directive)
Deregulate the banks: (let recessions and depressions regulate the economy)
Stop consumer protection: (you don’t matter, only business)
Start repealing environmental laws: (LA was great in the early 70’s)
Start shrinking unions and union labor: (America went downhill since the weekend)
Privatize federal railway service (Amtrak): (taking profit out of the common good)
No change in federal minimum wage: (you don’t matter, only business)
Cut government salaries and benefits: (you don’t need good services; hire the cheapest)
Appoint anti-choice Supreme Court justices: (Republican activist judges are not activists)
Appoint anti-LGBT and anti-Obamacare justices: (see above)
Legalize anti-LGBT discrimination: (What ‘golden rule’?)
Make Christianity a national religion: (Violation of US Constitution)
Loosen campaign finance loopholes and dark money: (Money and guns and oligarchy)
Loosen gun controls nationwide: (Guns and money and dead mommas)
Pass an anti-choice constitutional amendment: (What ‘golden rule’?)
End federal funding for Planned Parenthood: (Women don’t matter)
Allow states to shut down abortion Clinics: (Women don’t matter)
Oppose stem cell scientific research: (Science doesn’t matter)
Oppose executive branch policy making: (Things like Bush’s preemptive war idea)
Oppose efforts to end the electoral college: (Democracy is such a bother, let the rich rule)
Require citizenship documents to register to vote: (Your papers, bitte!)
Ignore undocumented immigrants when drawing congressional districts: (Democracy is such a bother, let the rich rule)
No labeling of GMO ingredients in food products: (Science doesn’t matter, you don’t matter, only business)
Add work requirements to welfare and cut food stamps: (pyramids for porridge)
Open America’s shores to more oil and gas drilling: (Water, water, everywhere-none is fit to drink)
Build the Keystone XL Pipeline: (clean water doesn’t matter)
Expand fracking and burying nuclear waste: (air, water, health… it’s not money)
No tax on carbon products: (prime directive)
Ignore global climate change agreements: (keeping one’s pledge is not a Republican thing)
Privatize Medicare, the health plan for seniors; (taking profit out of the common good)
Turn Medicaid, the poor’s health plan, over to states: (life expectancy by zip code)
No increasing Social Security benefits by taxing the rich: (prime directive)
Repeal Obamacare: (Hey! You were born; dignity of life is for fetuses)
Give internet service providers monopoly control: (taking profit out of the common good)
Make English the official U.S. language: (‘Cuz that’s what Jesus spoke)
No amnesty for undocumented immigrants: (Kick them out; crops rotting in the fields)
Build a border wall to keep immigrants out: (Keep them out; food prices rise and shelves empty)
Require government verification of citizenship of all workers: (Your papers, bitte!)
Penalize cities that give sanctuary to migrants: (Local control is such a bother)
Puerto Rico should be a state but not Washington DC: (Local control is such a bother)
Support traditional marriage but no other families: (favoritism is so American, but you don’t matter)
Privatize government services in the name of fighting poverty: (taking profit out of the common good)
Require bible study in public schools: (Violation of US Constitution)
Replace traditional public schools with privatized options: (taking profit out of the common good)
Replace sex education with abstinence-only approaches: (Science doesn’t matter)
Privatize student loans instead of lowering interest rates: (taking profit out of the common good)
Restore the death penalty: (Daily NRAterrorist death penalties abound in America)
Dramatically increase Pentagon budget: (without violating prime directive)
Cancel Iran nuclear treaty and expand nuclear arsenal: (keeping one’s pledge is not a Republican thing)
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http://www.rawstory.com/2016/07/heres-are-50-shockingly-extreme-right-wing-proposals-in-the-2016-gop-platform/
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Thom please ask him about guns. GUNS and BERNIE
Bernie is far from perfect on guns
Sanders’ vote for a different kind of pro-gun bill is more puzzling—and profoundly disturbing. In 2005, a Republican-dominated Congress passed the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act (PLCAA). This law doesn’t protect gun owners; it protects gun manufacturers, distributors, dealers, and importers. The PLCAA was the No. 1 legislative priority of the National Rifle Association for years, because it shields gun makers and dealers from most liability when their firearms are used criminally. It is one of the most noxious pieces of pro-gun legislation ever passed. And Bernie Sanders voted for it. (Sanders’ campaign has not replied to a request for comment.)
Because the PLCAA deals with tort law—not a topic of great interest for most Americans—it didn’t stir much outrage when first passed. But the act’s primary purpose is as simple as it is cold-blooded. Every state imposes liability on manufacturers who are negligent in their production and sale of products. If I crash my Prius because its accelerator malfunctions, I can sue Toyota for negligently manufacturing a faulty pedal. If my child dismembers himself with a blender at Sears, I can sue Sears for negligently leaving that blender within a child’s reach. If I get stabbed by a teenager with a switchblade, I might be able to sue the pawn shop owner who illegally sold a knife to a minor.
Before the PLCAA, most states imposed some form of tort liability on gun makers and sellers. If a gun manufacturer made an assault rifle that could slaughter dozens of people in a few seconds, for instance, one of its victims might sue the company for negligently making a gun that could foreseeably be used for mass murder. If a gun seller sold a gun to a customer without performing any kind of background check—and then the buyer opened fire on the subway—his victims might sue that seller for negligently providing a gun to a mentally unstable person. The standards in each state differed, but the bottom line remained the same: Victims of gun violence and their families could recover financially from the people and companies who negligently enabled gun violence.
The PLCAA changed all that. Remarkably, the act wiped out gun liability laws in all 50 states, rendering them invalid except for a handful of narrow exceptions. (So much for states’ rights.) Thanks to the law, victims of mass shootings are barred from suing the companies that produced a wartime weapon that no civilian could ever need. With few exceptions, victims cannot sue a gun seller for negligently providing a semiautomatic weapon to a lunatic who shoots them in a movie theater. Even if a jury decides a gun maker or seller should be liable, the PLCAA invalidates its verdict. The law tramples upon states’ rights, juries’ rights, and fundamental precepts of America’s civil justice system. And it received Bernie Sanders’ support—in both 2003 (when it was first introduced) and 2005 (when it finally passed).
Every few years, the families of mass shooting victims take gun makers to court for creating a weapon seemingly designed to kill as many people as possible in as short a time as possible. Every time, they run headfirst into the PLCAA. Right now, the families of Sandy Hook victims are searching for a loophole in the law, so they can sue Bushmaster for making the gun that sent 154 bullets through 20 children and six adults in 264 seconds. They will probably fail.
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2015/05/bernie_sanders_on_guns_vermont_independent_voted_against_gun_control_for.html
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Logan Act:
Passed under the administration of President John Adams, during tension between the U.S. and France, it was informally named for Dr. George Logan of Pennsylvania, a state legislator (and later US Senator) and pacifist who in 1798 engaged in semi-negotiations with France during the Quasi-War.
The Logan Act prohibits any “Private correspondence with foreign governments” and reads; “Any citizen of the United States, wherever he may be, who, without authority of the United States, directly or indirectly commences or carries on any correspondence or intercourse with any foreign government or any officer or agent thereof, with intent to influence the measures or conduct of any foreign government or of any officer or agent thereof, in relation to any disputes or controversies with the United States, or to defeat the measures of the United States, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both.” The Supreme Court ruled that Congress cannot and should not conduct foreign affairs; that power rests in the Executive Branch exclusively.
In the 1936 Supreme Court case, United States v. Curtiss-Wright Export Corp, the Court held that “all ability to conduct foreign policy is vested in the President. It is given implicitly and by the fact that the executive, by its very nature, is empowered to conduct foreign affairs in a way that Congress cannot and should not. The Republicans cannot, accept that yes, “all ability to conduct foreign policy is vested in the President;” regardless of the fact he is an African American man or that Republicans’ allegiance is to a foreign power; in this case Israel.
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Space Ghost You made the charge against BLM and now have nothing? Wow.
You keep making unsubstantiated charges about issues.
QUOTE on the Henderson issue:"BLM officials say they understand local residents’ concerns. But, referencing a series of court opinions, the agency says the land in question belongs neither to Texas nor Oklahoma, regardless of who has used it. The lands "were at no time held in private ownership," said Paul McGuire, an agency spokesman. He noted that the agency was not a party in any of the past litigation. Henderson, who does not stand to lose any acreage under the BLM’s plan, plans to give a tour Monday of the boundary to a group of local lawmakers and officials, including Land Commissioner Jerry Patterson and Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst.
The officials will hear a story that starts with the Louisiana Purchase, which gave the U.S. a huge swath of land including parts of North Texas. In the 1819 Adams-Onís Treaty between the U.S. and Spain, the U.S. gained all lands north of what the Spanish called the Rio Roxo."
http://www.texastribune.org/2014/04/28/blurred-lines-texas-blm-spat-has-complicated-histo/
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