GOP-Romney: Romney said. “And I listened to him speak and said whether you agree or disagree with him, this is a man of wisdom and judgment, and he could have been president of the United States. That’s the kind of person I’d like to have — a person of wisdom and judgment.” The man is talking about Richard Cheney! Who knew Romney is that desperate!

Michele Bachmann, mother of 6 children said about social security: “It’s a tremendous fraud,” Bachmann told Fox Business host David Asman after he called the program “one of the biggest frauds ever perpetrated on the American public.” Bear in mind that the Bachmann house hold has enough money to live very well on so it is easy for her to say it…like Perry!

GOP-Rick Snyder, governor of the great state of Michigan upped the ante in the quiet competition between Michigan and Wisconsin as to who can be the most extreme in support of big business by eliminating or hurting middle income and African American workers. Either that or Michigan Republican conservatives hate welfare recipients. Although, in fairness, Snyder actually amended a bill originally passed in 2007 by then Democratic governor Jennifer Granholm. However, as a way of understanding just how different the thinking is between a Democrat trying to wrestle with a budget and a conservative Republican trying to make a political statement, Granholm exempted recipients for understandable reasons such recipients whose caseworkers said they were making progress toward finding employment.

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Sarah Palin – Speaking at a tribute to military veterans in Colorado about the Bin Laden mission, Sarah Palin referred to President Obama as “the president.” She did however, refer to Bush by name, saying: “We thank President Bush for having made the right calls to set up this victory,” Typical of just how uninformed she is, she seems to have forgotten that when asked about going after Osama during his presidency, Bush once implied that Osama was not important enough to go after. In addition, this killer of moose would also go on to say: “We can’t fight every war, We can’t undo every injustice in the world. We don’t go looking for dragons to slay.” Of course she is reversing her previous position when she embraced aggressive use of force when calling out Obama as having a weak foreign policy. But the really great remark Sarah had to offer in a tweet was that the photos should be released as a “warning to others seeking America’s destruction,” adding “No pussyfooting around.” Wait…”No pussyfooting around?????”

Rep. Allen West (R-Fla.) – who is the 800lb African American in the Republican Party, agreed with Sen. Lindsey Graham’s (R-SC) remarks to POLITICO, that it was a mistake for Obama not to make the photos of bin Laden public. He attacked Obama on confronting terrorism, the United States by saying Obama tries to deal with al-Qaeda as though they think like we do, instead of thinking like them. Is he saying we should blow up something?

Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) also said he was dismayed with the president’s decision. Releasing photos would “quell the rumors that are bound to spread globally.” Does he know how easy it is to photo-shop these days? If you release the pictures, how many do you think will be quick to say they are not bin Laden?

Rep. Duncan Hunter, (R-Ca), said on CBS’s “The Early Show” that the pictures would help bring “closure” for the families of 9/11 victims. Yet; when interviewed, many 9/11 families said the announcement was enough to bring closure. Then again, Duncan is in California and the interviews were 3000 miles away…

Get this, Republicans Sen. Scott Brown, (Ma), Sen. Saxby Chambliss (Ga), Sen. Kelly Ayotte, (NH), all stated emphatically that they had seen the photos of bin Laden. What they saw was the photos that appeared on the internet of people killed during entry into the compound. These are United States Senators with a foot in their mouth.

The real cost of world hunger is certainly not the $18 billion a year the UN said it needs. The real cost lies in the depression, agony, daily hunger and disease that going to sleep with an empty stomach brings out in those who live it with them every day. It is hard trying to get someone who just ate a sumptuous meal to listen to the problems of people in some remote part of the world who cannot remember eating more than a meager ration of food.

Nothing on earth is a greater catalyst for creating a pandemic of bad things sown in the minds of the young who survive. That’s the real problem of hunger! In the book I wrote titled “One People, One World, One Accord. I asked a very basic question. It was simply: “How can anyone face their children knowing that somewhere on earth a child born to parents who also love their children just as much as those whit full bellies do are condemned to watch them suffer with malnutrition or even die of starvation. Their child’s death is not the fault of your children, nor the parents of the dead child. It is the indifference of everyone in the world who can lavish expensive gifts and other good things on their children with full knowledge that someone else’s child is starving to death.

The criticism here goes further than well-to-do parents living in well-to-do countries or leaders of countries living well-to-do lives. It goes to the definition of what it means to be human. It goes to prove whether we are a human family or a predatory specie of individual haves and have-nots. In other words, the criticism emanates from the most basic commandments written in the Bible, Quran, and every other Holy Scripture. Nor does it does it advocate or condemn any form of government. I am attacking whether one truly loves their neighbor or not, for the future of the world is directly proportional to the number of hungry bellies to full bellies because a child’s suffering is also a testament to the commitments to the basic tenets of every religion. If a child is suffering anywhere in the world, it proves that religion does not believe in its own scriptures and therefore, forms the basis for our individual worthiness of going to the kingdom of heaven. After all, the mere fact that a child can grow up hungry every day is proof of the failure of every form of government and…every form of religion.

There is no light at the end of the tunnel because there are not enough of us that genuinely want to change what the less fortunate must contend with even though Christian fund raising television shows graphically shows what children in places like Africa and Central and South America must contend with every day. Relatively little is being done to cure these ills. Every year the United Nations releases numbers that show the number of people on the edge of total starvation is growing in spite of humanitarian programs and NGOs because their efforts cannot keep pace with the magnitude of the problem. I believe that the reason they cannot keep up is because there are not enough people willing to make a difference. After all, the quality of life in theocracies like several Arab states ranges from desperate poverty to lavish wealth and yet a handful of leaders can simply mandate an end to poverty. It is time to make a choice. We can end human suffering and misery if we want to…if we want to…if we want to… because 10% of the wealth of the top 5%t of the wealthiest people could feed more than 500 million people a year. Don’t take my word for it. Check out the Gates Foundation and other programs like that.

In the book I wrote titled “Relentless Self-Righteousness. I asked a very basic question. It was simply: “How anyone can face their children knowing that somewhere on earth a child is born to parents who love their children as much as anyone else are condemned to watch them die of starvation. Their death is not the fault of your children, nor the parents of the dead children. It is the fault of everyone in the world who can feel good about the well-being of their children while knowing that someone else’s is starving to death.  Comment: The mere fact that a child can starve to death is proof of the moral failure of every form of government and every form of religion. Do you agree?  Mel Reed

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A CHRISTMAS MESSAGE FOR 2010:

It is written that one day a child was born unto the world. And the child was said to have been the Word that was made flesh. And when he was grown and about to baptized, God would proclaim to all who stood round about that this man is his son. And from the life and teaching of Jesus begun in an obscure Roman province would come forth a religion that would influence every other religion and even convert the mightiest nation on earth to its gentle teachings. And the whole of his words was to simply show us how to know if we truly love our neighbor as we love ourselves. But one thing is certain, Jesus was not come to bring the world Christianity because the requirements Jesus gave us for entry into Heaven are consistent with every major religion. How is it that we have gotten so far away from something as simple as loving our neighbor as we love ourselves? Could it be that we discovered it is easier more convenient and more comfortable for ourselves only to serve mammon than God whereby we feel obligated to do something for someone else!

I hope this message helps us live as one people, one world according to the common teachings found in the Holy Scriptures of all religions. I hope it will cause us to revisit the lessons of people like Dr. King, Malcolm X, Rosa Parks, Anwar Sadat, Menachem Begin, Mahatma Ghandi, Eleanor Roosevelt, Abraham Lincoln, Justice Joseph Story, Crazy Horse, Frank Sinatra, Sala Hudin, Bishop Tutu and others who defended equality and freedom. I pray it will help our children to become one in love and unity. I pray it will be received in the spirit of Acts 2:46, where many from different faiths, races and lands, filled with joy and brotherly love, went from house-to-house breaking bread and making their homes into churches by doing so.

Celebrating the birth of Christ should be a commitment to love and goodwill for one’s neighbor. It should not be a time for any child to wake up to wondrous toys and good things to eat unless every child in the world can wake up to them. Would Jesus approve of 70% of the world’s children waking up hungry and abused on a day commemorating His birth because of who they were born to, or where they live? Let us celebrate the unifying message of Jesus truthfully. The salvation of our children depends on our ability to learn to love each other as we love ourselves.

In celebration of the birth of JESUS CHRIST, from all of us to all of you, have a MERRY CHRISTMAS and a HAPPY NEW YEAR, for unto all mankind, a savior was born! We should all vow to do better -yes?

MEL & MARGE, ERIKA & BRITTANY, LaDAVIA AND STEPHANIE

Uh-Oh, there is a rumor going around that young adults are dropping out of church. If it is true, why would it surprise anyone? For the last twenty years they have witnessed bad changes in their parents…who attend church every week. And, has anyone checked out the social sites lately? The rise of social communications has allowed young adults to discover that, in fact, there were millions of others who are also dissatisfied with the same things they are. Isn’t that what the 2009 election told us?

If anyone wants to understand young adults, tell them to check out Obama’s campaign strategy. The turnout for President Obama was the clearest message ever sent to churches, parents, politicians and the education system in the history of the United States. And what I find most remarkable about it is that the only thing Obama’s people did was give them an opportunity to say what they thought ought to be changed and then invite them to help do it. In other words, Obama’s campaign managers brought them into the process. More than any other group in the United States, young adults are responsible for his election.

What conservative Republicans should have learned is that American politics is a very close cousin to American churches. The same kind of zealous radicalism one finds in religion, one also finds in politics because both are generally controlled by charismatic leaders more so than those possessing good leadership skills. That’s why if I was a preacher, the most important thing I would worry about is just how much is true about what I am told in the seminaries of every faith!

I think young adults know that two and two is four. They know about the many contradictions between sermons and scriptures. They know about the outrageous statements made by supposedly religious people like those of the conservative Republicans. That’s why I think young adults are dropping out; no one is able to answer a simple question. They want to know why worship is not just a matter of a person raising their face to heaven because God is in all of us. They want to know why a preacher wears a costume in the pulpit. They want to know why there are so many preachers who aspire to so much materiality while preaching about a Messiah who did not even have a fox hole. They want to know why it states in the Bible that Jesus said he came for the poor whom he found rich in faith yet; every church aspires to lavish surroundings.

If the church wants to reclaim them, it had better change. It had better adopt an agenda to wipe poverty off the face of the earth. It had better learn to love every human being on earth as though they were members of their own family…because they are! And if these words seem harsh, the church had better re-read the words spoken by Jesus so they can tell me where I have said anything that is not true. And it had better do these things in a hurry!

Imagine this; Sarah Palin is so desperate to appeal to people like herself (limited intellect) that she got herself a gun, called in two camera crews and ‘went a-hunting’. And wouldn’t ya know it, it just so happens that a local caribou just happened to appear beautifully silhouetted against the horizon directly in front of her for her to gun down.

I don’t know about anybody else but I think Sarah Palin would do anything…anything…to become the first woman President of the United States…even if for only about two years. She might even want to create other ‘firsts’ such as being the first President to leave office after two years, then become the first President to write a book about going rogue to get elected. And to wrap it all up, she could become the first President to make another ten or fifteen million from those people out there who admire that a woman who can kill a caribou that was herded in front of her sights.

Is it time for the President Obama to make a direct attack?

Here is what is going on right now… Rupe Murdock is giving large sums of money to the United States Chamber of Commerce. Overseas companies (some backed by their governments) are also giving large sums of money to the United States Chamber of Commerce.

The United States Chamber so openly and unashamedly advocates outsourcing American jobs that it actually provides intelligence to companies in China, India and Russia in the form of alerts to them when American businesses may be planning to bring work back that is currently being outsourced. For the money, foreign interests expect them to lobby to keep our dollars and jobs flowing.

The foreign companies (and countries) are really only concerned with our jobs. They know the money will catch up eventually when they actually take over providing more and more of the goods and services we once owned.  Any idiot can see that tomorrow they will own much of the business we send them and who knows, they may in turn graciously outsource to us. I guess I am the only one who is aware that we are in competition with the people who are a huge contributor to our economic woes. We are getting in so deep, we will not become a solvent until our children pay China what we borrowed.

Meanwhile, here in the United States Rupe is paying salaries to his favorite Republican candidates to keep the rhetoric of attack dogs like Sean Hannity and Glenn Beck flowing from the mouths of GOP Presidential candidates like Palin, Gingrich, and Huckabee to an American population that has not yet grasped the size of the hole Bush left us in. In fact, he uses his ‘news room’ to further the views of knuckleheads like Angle, Rand and the other radical candidates who openly advocate the overthrow of the spirit of the unity of one for all and all for one inculcated in our constitution. After all, isn’t capitalism supposed to ensure the health of the nation and not the wealth of the few privileged. When the driving force of any society is to gorge on the wealth of a nation at the individual level, the society collapses under the weight of the division…not socialism or communism…but benevolence and sharing. Can you say Rome?

The purpose of this little outburst is to shout out as loud as I can: “President Obama, why aren’t you telling the people what is really happening? American greed has evolved to the point where it directly threatens us where we are most vulnerable…jobs. Tell the American people about the  jobs bills being held up by conservative Republicans bent on destroying you personally that will help put millions of white blue collar workers to work. Why isn’t this kind of information showing up in their mail boxes?”

CNN is not going to make a compelling argument for anything said here. MSNBC is busy preaching to the choir. Fox…is going to deny everything implied here. They are the reason so many misguided people feel empowered because theirs is the only message many white middle and blue collar workers hear and they know it! My guess is that at least 50% of Fox viewers are not aware that candidates like Angle, O’Donnell and Rand are fearful of programs like NBC’s Meet The Press, CBS’s Face The Nation or CNN’s State of The Union.

These radical self-serving people could get elected to positions of national consequence without ever having faced the scrutiny their opponents face. We are no longer ‘by the people’. Let us at least level the playing field. Dammit, tell the people! Do you agree? Mel Reed

The United States of Newt’s America
What is an American? That answer no longer holds the clarity it did a mere 15 years ago. After all, school superintendents in many districts across America denied their students an opportunity for them to hear the President of the United States of America tell them among other things…to study hard to do well. Let’s see if we can conclude how many readers there are who feel that the reason they did not want to their students to hear President Obama was because they desperately do not want to validate President Obama being the president of the United States of America because he is a mere African American. C’mon now…admit it. The United States made a mistake…right?

Well, how about this…denying his study hard and succeed message to our children to the children of the conservative Republican movement is the mildest slap down. The name of the game of the majority of the Republican leadership is to make that nigger fail real bad so no white person will ever be tempted to vote for another nigger. After all, every red blooded American knows that niggers can’t do anything but shine shoes and clean houses…right.

For his part, I heard that Newt said to NR’s Robert Costa that Obama is so outside our comprehension, that one needs to understand Kenyan anti-colonial behavior to understand him. Hey Newt is a white man from Georgia trying to reclaim his constituency. Incredibly to right thinking people, I heard he went on to say that Obama is out of touch with how the world works but he was able to con the United States and get himself elected. Damn, he is mad that Obama is not white!

Put another way, Obama is supposed to be serving mint juleps in a smart red jacket. How dare he call himself President of the United States just because a bunch of misguided white people made a really bad mistake! In case some of you out there doubt whether I am merely a disgruntled LIBERAL, How about this: Did a leading “Republican” named Sarah Palin come to the defense of Dr. Laura Schlessinger after Dr. Laura used the word “nigger” in a condescending, almost punitive way to a caller whom she later acknowledged in her apology that she did not even get to help because they got hung up on Dr Laura saying the “n” word. And oh, by the way, DOCTOR Laura’s faux pas of there blacks being only 12% of the population also did not go unnoticed.

Frankly, the idiocy of these fine upstanding Republicans and the others…(you know who they are), is a sweet music to me because it is bringing them out of the closet of racism and out in the open for the first time since the 1950s. Hey, they are going to take America back to segregated schools, water fountains and the like as soon as possible. If you don’t believe what I am saying, read the statements by the members of the royal Republican court like “Newt the Beaut”, Rush (into the sewer), and Beck- (on the KKK)

I think we can really put them back into the box if we want to. Who’s with me? And no I do not apologize for complimenting them. This is classic wrong-think. Do you agree?

Hey, do whatever it takes…God wills it!
Consider this, Al-Qaeda and the Taliban in particular are noted for outright violence which they squared with Allah as being not only okay, but their holy duty. Thankfully, they are a small percent of the Islam population. Because of them, there is a large population of white American conservatives who also hate them in much the same way they hate any colored American…especially white conservative Christians.

Where am I going with this…?

Well, in April, the Pew Research Center conducted a survey of 742 adults who were white non-Hispanic Catholics, Protestants and others who claimed to be religious but are unaffiliated. I’ll bet they were very surprised by what they found because nearly half of the 742 Christians surveyed agreed torturing someone can be justified. Of course a number of questions immediately flooded my brain as soon as I read what the report found.

The first was obvious:
• “Don’t the half that could support torturing another human being sound like conservative republicans to you”?
• “Does the law really protect us from white conservative Christians from conducting with hunts”?
• “Does the separation of church and state in our constitution prevent white conservative Christians from conducting ‘faith trials’ to determine who believes in God the right way and who does not”?
• “Could the United States of America be forced to live under a system of government controlled by conservative right-wing fanatics like those in congress”?
• “Aren’t these things a part of their political agenda?

How many people believe that we are a nation who trusts in God? Do you believe we trust in God? If we do trust in him and we lied to the world about why we went into Iraq, was it because we have made Christianity what we want it to be like the Crusades? Do Tea Party Christians who can spit on a black person or call a gay person a derogatory name – trust in God? We already know that many Christians are capable of supporting torture.

Are we becoming an ugly country? Only the Defense Department knows how many of the staff at Abu Ghraib or Guantanamo who tortured Iraqi and Al-Qaeda prisoners were Christians. Why is there is no great outcry in the land as to how wrong it was for us to have gone into Iraq under false pretenses in the first place? Is it because people with money want to make sure they have more and more money no matter what it takes to get it. And no…I am not referring to capitalism! I am referring to human and often criminal greed.

Hasn’t anyone been paying attention to what the Republicans are doing? If they can win over the greedy rich – who cause daily survival pressure on the lower middle income and are now able to spend vast sums to sway elections by influencing votes through dubious claims that employ fear much like false advertising, they can literally own the United States of America and every living person living in it. The United States of America is in big trouble. Do you agree? Do YOU want to see this happen?