Coalition

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) Powerful and Continuing Nationalism: Fascist regimes tend to make constant use of patriotic mottos, slogans, symbols, songs, and other paraphernalia. Flags are seen everywhere, as are flag symbols on clothing and in public displays.

September 11 Freedom Walk

New Majority Leader: Iraq War “May Be The Greatest Gift That We Give” Our Grandchildren

Headstones of soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan are inscribed with the Pentagons war-marketing slogans

White House and the RNC are going to make a habit of using uniformed military personnel as props at Republican political rallies, despite the fact that it is a plain violation of military regulations banning politicization of the armed forces.

"You must glorify war in order to get the public to accept the fact that your going to send their sons and daughters to die." The inside story of the cozy relationship between big box office American war movies and the Pentagon

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2.) Disdain for the Recognition of Human Rights: Because of fear of enemies and the need for security, the people in fascist regimes are persuaded that human rights can be ignored in certain cases because of "need." The people tend to look the other way or even approve of torture, summary executions, assassinations, long incarcerations of prisoners, etc.
Bush threatens to veto $442b defense bill if Congress investigates detainee abuses.
Guantanamo Judge: “I don’t care about international law. I don’t want to hear the words ‘international law’ again. We are not concerned with international law.”
Rumsfeld to approve new guidelines that will formalize the administration’s policy of imprisoning without the protections of the Geneva Conventions and enable the Pentagon to legally hold "ghost detainees,"
US ‘preparing to detain terror suspects for life without trial’
U.S. oks evidence gained through torture
July 1, 2003: U.S. Suspends Military Aid to Nearly 50 Countries: because they have supported the International Criminal Court and failed to exempt Americans from possible prosecution.
US has at least 9000 prisoners in secret detention
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3.) Identification of Enemies/Scapegoats as a Unifying Cause: The people are rallied into a unifying patriotic frenzy over the need to eliminate a perceived common threat or foe: racial, ethnic or religious minorities; liberals; communists; socialists, terrorists, etc.

Congressman: Muslims ‘enemy amongst us’
SB 24, Ohio law to muzzle "liberals"
World history textbook used by seventh-graders at Scottsdale’s Mohave Middle School was pulled from classrooms mid-semester amid growing right criticism of the book’s unbiased portrayal of Islam
Rallies planned against ‘Islamofacism’: Event to ‘unify all Americans behind common goal’

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4.) Supremacy of the Military: Even when there are widespread domestic problems, the military is given a disproportionate amount of government funding, and the domestic agenda is neglected. Soldiers and military service are glamorized.
If you haven’t seen the Oreo flash animation yet, see it here

Bush’s Domestic Program Hit List

Bush slashes domestic programs, boosts defense. Arlen Spector calls it "scandalous"

Funding for job training, rural health care, low-income schools and help for people lacking health insurance would face big cuts under a bill passed Friday by the House

Pentagon to spend 75 billion for three new brigades

Three cable channels now feed news, information and entertainment about the armed services into millions of living rooms 24 hours a day, seven days a week: The Military Channel, the Military History Channel and the Pentagon Channel.
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5.) Rampant Sexism: The governments of fascist nations tend to be almost exclusively male-dominated. Under fascist regimes, traditional gender roles are made more rigid. Opposition to abortion is high, as is homophobia and anti-gay legislation and national policy.
It’s legal again, to fire gov’t workers for being gay
Bush calls for Constitutional ban on same-sex marriages
Bush refuses to sign U.N proposal on women’s "sexual" rights
W. David Hager chairman of the FDA’s Reproductive Health Drugs Advisory Committee does not prescribe contraceptives for single women, does not do abortions, will not prescribe RU-486 and will not insert IUDs.
The State Department has awarded an explicitly anti-feminist U.S. group part of a US$10 million grant to train Iraqi women in political participation and democracy.
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6.) Controlled Mass Media: Sometimes the media is directly controlled by the government, but in other cases, the media is indirectly controlled by government regulation, or sympathetic media spokespeople and executives. Censorship, especially in war time, is very common.
FBI Acknowledges: Journalists Phone Records are Fair Game
Report shows U.S. government has been engaged in illegal propaganda aimed at its own citizens and the story gets only 41 mentions in the media
Free Press details recent governmental propaganda efforts, from faux-correspondent Jeff Gannon to paid-off pundit Armstrong Williams, and from the demise of FOIA to video news releases passed off as news. also… See a Whitehouse fake news release here (opens realplayer)
US seizes webservers from independent media sites
Bush’s war on information: US editors forbidden to publish certain foreign writers

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7.) Obsession with National Security: Fear is used as a motivational tool by the government over the masses
Bush Aides ADMIT ’stoking fear’ for political gain: Bush adviser said the president hopes to change the dynamics of the race. The strategy is aimed at stoking public fears about terrorism, raising new concerns about Kerry’s ability to protect Americans and reinforcing Bush’s image as the steady anti-terrorism candidate, aides said.
The Bush administration periodically put the USA on high alert for terrorist attacks even though then-Homeland Security chief Tom Ridge argued there was only flimsy evidence to justify raising the threat level.

Keith Olbermann: "The Nexus of Politics and Terror."
Cheney warns that if Kerry is elected, the USA will suffer a "devastating attack"
GOP convention in a nutshell (quicktime)

Rove: GOP to Use Terror As Campaign Issue in 2006
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8.) Religion and Government are Intertwined: Governments in fascist nations tend to use the most common religion in the nation as a tool to manipulate public opinion. Religious rhetoric and terminology is common from government leaders, even when the major tenets of the religion are diametrically opposed to the government’s policies or actions.
Jerry Falwell cleared of charges that he broke federal election law by urging followers to vote for Bush
NC congressman proposes law making it ok to preach politics from the pulpit
Texas Governor Mobilizes Evangelicals
Family research council: Justice Sunday
Thou shalt be like Bush: What makes this recently established, right-wing Christian college unique are the increasingly close – critics say alarmingly close – links it has with the Bush administration and the Republican establishment.
Park Service Continues to Push Creationist Theory at Grand Canyon and other nat’l parks
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9.) Corporate Power is Protected: The industrial and business aristocracy of a fascist nation often are the ones who put the government leaders into power, creating a mutually beneficial business/government relationship and power elite.
The K Street Project is a project by the Republican party to pressure Washington lobbying firms to hire Republicans in top positions, and to reward loyal GOP lobbyists with access to influential officials. It was launched in 1995, by Republican strategist Grover Norquist and House majority leader Tom DeLay.
American Conservative Magazine: One U.S. contractor received $2 million in a duffel bag… and a U.S. official was given $7 million in cash in the waning days of the CPA and told to spend it “before the Iraqis take over.”
There are 6 Congressional Committees investigating the Oil-for-Food (UN) scandal, yet not a single Republican Committee Chairman will call a hearing to investigate the whereabouts of 9 billion dollars missing in Iraq
Bush money network rooted in Florida, Texas: Since Mr. Bush took office in 2001, the federal government has awarded more than $3 billion in contracts to the President’s elite 2004 Texas fund-raisers, their businesses, and lobbying clients
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10.) Labor Power is Suppressed: Because the organizing power of labor is the only real threat to a fascist government, labor unions are either eliminated entirely, or are severely suppressed.
Labor Department warns unions against using their money politically
President Bush Attacks Organized Labor: Bush attacked organized labor Saturday, issuing orders effectively reducing how much money unions can spend for political activities and opening up government contracts to non-union bidding.
March 2001: President Bush signed his name to four executive orders on organized labor last month, including one that cuts the money unions will have for political campaign spending.
Congress and the Department of Labor are trying to change the rules on overtime pay, eliminating the 40 hour work week, taking eligibility for overtime pay away from millions of workers, and replacing time and a half pay with comp days.
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11.) Disdain for Intellectuals and the Arts: Fascist nations tend to promote and tolerate open hostility to higher education, and academia. It is not uncommon for professors and other academics to be censored or even arrested. Free expression in the arts is openly attacked, and governments often refuse to fund the arts.
Bush’s new economic plan cuts funding for arts, education
Artists from all over the world are being refused entry to the US on security grounds.
A group of more than 60 top U.S. scientists, including 20 Nobel laureates and several science advisers to past Republican presidents, on Wednesday accused the Bush administration of manipulating and censoring science for political purposes
Freedom of Repression: New ruling will allow censorship of campus publications
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12.) Obsession with Crime and Punishment: Under fascist regimes, the police are given almost limitless power to enforce laws. The people are often willing to overlook police abuses and even forego civil liberties in the name of patriotism. There is often a national police force with virtually unlimited power in fascist nations
American Gestapo is here: "There is hereby created and established a permanent police force, to be known as the ‘United States Secret Service Uniformed Division.’"
America: secret jails, secret courts, secret arrests, and now secret laws
Snitch-or-Go-to-Jail bill will make pretty much anything short of reporting on everyone you see for doing just about anything a jailable offense. With minimum sentences, up to and including life without parole.
The problem with Gonzales is that he has been deeply involved in developing some of the most sweeping claims of near-dictatorial presidential power in our nation’s history, allowing him to imprison and even (at least in theory) torture anyone in the world, at any time
Police officers don’t have to give a reason at the time they arrest someone, the U.S. Supreme Court said in a ruling that shields officers from false-arrest lawsuits.
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13.) Rampant Cronyism and Corruption: Fascist regimes almost always are governed by groups of friends and associates who appoint each other to government positions and use governmental power and authority to protect their friends from accountability. It is not uncommon in fascist regimes for national resources and even treasures to be appropriated or even outright stolen by government leaders.
Bush Cronyism: Foxes Guarding the henhouse
Making Sense of the Abramoff Scandal
If Bush’s pick is confirmed, that will mean the five top appointees at Justice have zero prosecutorial experience among them.
Iran-Contra Felons Get Good Jobs from Bush
Big Iraq Reconstruction Contracts Went To Big Donors
Bush Wars — Crooks Get Contracts : The main companies that were awarded billions of dollars worth of contracts in Iraq have paid more than $300 million in fines since 2000, to resolve allegations of fraud, bid rigging, delivery of faulty military equipment, and environmental damage.
US Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) lost track of $9 billion
"Contracting in the aftermath of the hurricanes has been marked by waste, corruption and cronyism"
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14. Fraudulent Elections: Sometimes elections in fascist nations are a complete sham. Other times elections are manipulated by smear campaigns against or even assassination of opposition candidates, use of legislation to control voting numbers or political district boundaries, and manipulation of the media. Fascist nations also typically use their judiciaries to manipulate or control elections.
Rolling Stone does some investigative and rather exhaustive digging into public documents and says we’re almost guaranteed the 2004 election results were massively rigged
Powerful Government Accounting Office report confirms key 2004 stolen election findings
Conyers hearing in which Clinton Curtis testifies that he was hired to create hackable voting machines (.wmv)
The Republican Party has quietly paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to provide private defense lawyers for a former Bush campaign official charged with conspiring to keep Democrats from voting in New Hampshire.
The Conyers Report (.pdf)
No explanation for the machines in Mahoning County that recorded Kerry votes for Bush, the improper purging in Cuyahoga County, the lock down in Warren County, the 99% voter turnout in Miami County, the machine tampering in Hocking County
Less access than Kazakhstan. Fewer fail-safes than Venezuela. Not as simple Republic of Georgia. The 2004 Elections according to international observers.
This picture is what stopped the ballot recounts in Florida shortly after it seemed that legitimate President Gore had a lead. The "citizens" started what was later called "the preppy riot". Screaming, yelling, pounding on the walls, these "outraged citizens" intimidated the polling officials to halt the court mandated recount. A closer look reveals who they really were. They were bussed and flown in at Republican lawmakers expense. Some even flew in on Tom Delay’s private plane.

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If Mussolini defines fascism as "the merger of corporate and government power" what does that make the K Street project?

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You can’t reclaim the media until you reclaim the political process. George Bush has destroyed this country, and has turned our ‘Fourth Estate’ into nothing more than a puppet for his puppet regime (that’s really controlled by Big Dick Cheney).

Thomas Jefferson once said: "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." That time is way past due!

Until the most corrupt administration and U.S. Congress in history are either impeached or tried for high treason, the media will remain a shell of its former self, without any integrity and without any credibility.

of the democrats in her most recent salon piece…

"Why has the Democratic Party become so arrogantly detached from ordinary Americans? Though they claim to speak for the poor and dispossessed, Democrats have increasingly become the party of an upper-middle-class professional elite, top-heavy with journalists, academics and lawyers."

"As an Obama supporter and contributor, I am outraged at the slowness with which the standing army of Democratic consultants and commentators publicly expressed discontent with the administration’s strategic missteps this year."

"Had more Democrats protested, the administration would have felt less arrogantly emboldened to jam through a cap-and-trade bill whose costs have made it virtually impossible for an alarmed public to accept the gargantuan expenses of national healthcare reform. (Who is naive enough to believe that Obama’s plan would be deficit-neutral? Or that major cuts could be achieved without drastic rationing?)"

"By foolishly trying to reduce all objections to healthcare reform to the malevolence of obstructionist Republicans, Democrats have managed to destroy the national coalition that elected Obama and that is unlikely to be repaired."

"Why did it take so long for Democrats to realize that this year’s tea party and town hall uprisings were a genuine barometer of widespread public discontent and not simply a staged scenario by kooks and conspirators?"

"But affluent middle-class Democrats now seem to be complacently servile toward authority and automatically believe everything party leaders tell them. Why?"

"The top schools, from the Ivy League on down, promote "critical thinking," which sounds good but is in fact just a style of rote regurgitation of hackneyed approved terms ("racism, sexism, homophobia") when confronted with any social issue. The Democratic brain has been marinating so long in those clichés that it’s positively pickled."

wow….paglia really lays on the dems…and this lady is a supporter !!!

http://www.salon.com/opinion/paglia/2009/09/09/healthcare/index.html
bekind…i hope you had a chance to read the entire article, i was quite stunned at her scathing commentary. she also did one last month i didn’t link to….but wasn’t anywhere close to this. i’ve read her pieces for a long time, but she couldn’t have hit the nail any better than she has this time….

Orwell’s "1984" has come true in the form of Democratic Party Braindeadness due to Political Correctness. That’s what explains how the Ivy League schools can produce such Zombies. The PC shibboleths and mantras must be endlessley regurgitated, and if not the subject is taken to the Ministry of Love and made to remember things more correctly. In the meantime the past is constantly being re-written to accord better with the political needs of the Liberal Elite today.

Example: Now in the age of Howard Dean Vermont world view, gays have become extremely powerful. Anyone who lived through the early 1980’s knows that it was common knowledge that the spread of AIDS was largely the result of unprotected promiscuous gay sex (and to a much lesser extent of needle sharing).

These historical facts are not convenient to the Liberal Elite today. So let’s just re-write history, and teach that any association made between gays and AIDS is pure bigotry. After a visit to the Ministry of Love, people can be made to remember the past more correctly. So then, they will know not to be bigots.

Zombies. Being taught by people who themselves weren’t around in the early 1980’s, and don’t know shil from Shinola.

PC is a religion. It’s a false, made-up religion for people who have no religion but who really need something to believe in. It is centered around universal non-discrimination for any purpose at any time no matter what the facts are. So gays can’t be singled out at blood donor centers, and youthful Jordanian males travelling a packs of six can’t be singled out at airports. There is absolute equality in all things at all times no matter what. History does not exist, or can be re-arranged, and re-written to suit the mantra.

Paglia — a creative force of nature — is right as usual. She just tells it like it is. So she says is startling in a sonambulent society of dream walkers.

I say, Live while awake!

Camille is a cup of strong tea, but good tea. Have some Camille tea every morning if you can; and in the evening, perhaps Camomile.

Does anyone think that Lieberman will support the health care plan at the end of the day. After Lieberman backed McCain not Obama in the presidential election.

I’m guess its going to break out into a full blown fillibuster.

I find it funny that in order to secure his vote PubO had to be removed. He flipped his position, while stating that the reasons have changed in the economy as a reason. However with his wifes questionable relations as a HeathCare lobbyist previously I wonder if he wasnt securing his own interests by having it removed. Especially with 1mil in recievables from insurance lobbysist.

The fact is you cant stop the horse at the gate but you can curb what it gets.

Not that i’m politically on the ball but to me it seems that in countries like the USA and England where in politics it is one or the other, politicians of different parties are forever slagging the others off and blaming the country’s shortcoming on the other party. Lots of others there but there is only ever 2. The third one is like there for it to look right but everyone knows they will never make it to rule the country.
So what is stopping countries like the USA and England introducing a system where coalitions are part of everyday life.
To me it seems those politicians involved just ain’t man or woman enough to agree to disagree with the other side and haven’t got the integrity to admit they can’t agree? I realize there are many more countries where coalition politics are just not an option. Maybe if the ‘Leaders’ lead by example, i.e. publicly agree to disagree and start again then those other countries would eventually follow?
Before anyone mention parliaments ‘crashing’, i grew up in Belgium in the 70’s. If that makes no sense do a search on Leo Tindemans or move on to the next question please.
Ta.
Avon something … Just people like you i left the comment for. belgium had very unstable politics in the 1970’s. I was not even a teenager but the only thing ever on the news was another government crash and the only thing my parent ever told me was that the politicians couldn’t agree. I left the country at 18 but now, nearly 30 years later it is a federal kingdom where no longer there are petrol bombs thrown over linguistic issues. And parliament no longer crashes and even when one coalition wanted this power you seem to think so highly off recently, and decided to form a coalition with the Vlaams Blok it was stopped by all the other parties. No one got power in England. Other than the media that is!
been thinking, maybe compulsory is bit of a strong word. More like coalitions should just be matter of course, if i’m supposed to be living in a democracy then does that give me the democratic right to a referendum on the matter? Cause if i doesn’t then there is nothing democratic about the system. More feudal-like to me!

Maybe not forced coalition… but definitely setting up the rules better to prevent a de facto two-party system from closing out any other options. If multiple parties can compete on a level playing field, then there will end up being a coalitional system almost every time.

Specific proposals linked below.

Rumour has it that Ignatieff was against (but is now towing the party line and supporting it), Dion is a has-been and it probably doesn’t matter whether he supports it or not, Chretien and Martin have lent their support but are officially retired from politics. Who are prominent Grits who have come out in support of the coalition?

Oh come on!

We all know that the battered Liberal party has learned its lesson from past feuds and will emerge united despite a fresh round of sparring between its two principal leadership hopefuls, former prime minister Paul Martin said today.

1)Trace the declining political power of the Democratic New Deal Coalition and the increasing political power of the Republican New Right coalition from the 1940s through the 1990s. How do you explain this change? In your answer, you should consider the civil rights movement, the growing size and power of the federal government, changing cultural norms, and other factors that influenced the shift in party allegiances.

The Basic answer is that America as a whole has ALWAYS been a Center-Right Nation as far as politics and governments go. What creates the "swing" is Independent voters or at least those who claim no official party affiliation. This voting group are the cause of the swing to the left in support of FDR due to the depression and then back to the right with Eisenhower in the late 50’s going center with JFK and further to the left with LBJ. It came back toward the center with Nixon and Ford but moved back left with Carter. It swing hard right with Reagan and sort of stayed right with Bush 41. It moved slightly left with Clinton until Newt came in and moved it Center-Right. GW moved it a little further right and more so after 911 but when the Dem’s took over the Congress,it started back to the left. Now with Obama, it’s really moving left to the point that the Independent Voters will be the deciding Factor in the 2010 Elections if the political nature of this country continues left or it gets slapped back to the middle.

That is, who shares similar views to David Cameron of the Conservative Party in Britain.

Anyone know? They’d be more to the left than the Democrats, I’d assume. What I’m looking for is a party most like Finland’s National Coalition Party.

while i understand your question, in america, "liberal" and "conservative" are mutually exclusive terms. The "party" coming closest to what you ask is the (american) independent party. To be fair, this group consists of folks who don’t wish to associate themselves with either republicans or democrats, and "independents" are a larger group than either the dems or the repubes.

1. The US Constitution and Bill of Rights will be upheld as the law of the land.
2. Secure our borders, but make it possible for needed immigration.
3. Lead coalition to clean up the United Nations.
4. Work toward a fair global approach to cleaning up the environment.
5. Let China, Japan, Eu and Russia handle North Vietnam and Iran. We will support their lead to resolve threats.
6. Flat tax or consumption tax with exemptions for the poor.
7. Improve K-12 education, provide school vouchers so that poor can get their children into better schools.
8. Pass law to provide that money collected for SS actually goes into a SS fund and not to other programs.
9. Change law so that federal district judges are elected every 6 years rather than appointed by the president for life.
10. The "line-item" veto must be secured for the president.
11. Stop payments to farmers for not growing crops.
12. You must be able to prove your ID and citizenship to vote.

Judges should never be elected, it makes them politicians and if they have to spend money to get the position they will find a way to get it back. But I’ll buy 10 year appointments, with advice and consent… (hell I’d buy six year appointments too… I’m not married to the number, but I love the concept.)

And instead of giving the poor vouchers so they can attend better schools I’d make the schools better by making the larger districts spend the money on education, not administration. Home rule for education leads to too much duplication in urban and suburban areas.

There should be a flat tax system, and if there is there is no need to exempt the poor, unless EIC is eliminated as well. Exempting the poor from paying taxes is too easy to misinterpret as redistribution of wealth.

The US should gather a coalition of countries that give the UN an ultimatum, clean themselves up or be prepared for a mass moratorium on payments. Get their attention by getting them where it hurts most.

And by the way, the line item veto for the president is long overdue.

WASHINGTON: Employers across the U.S. are preparing to fire workers with questionable Social Security government identification numbers to avoid getting snagged in a Bush administration crackdown on illegal immigrants.

The Department of Homeland Security is expected to make public soon new rules for employers notified when their worker’s name or Social Security number was flagged by the Social Security Administration.

The rule, as initially drafted, requires employers to fire people who cannot be verified as a legal worker and cannot resolve within 60 days why the name or Social Security number on their W-2 doesn’t match the government’s database.

Employers who do not comply could face fines of $250 to $10,000 (€180 to €7,300) per illegal worker and incident.

"There’s a lot of fear and anxiety about what this rule is going to mean, particularly in the agricultural sector," said Craig Regelbrugge, spokesman for the American Nursery and Landscape Association and co-chairman of the Agriculture Coalition for Immigration Reform.

The Social Security Administration has sent "no match" letters to workers and their employers notifying them of the information discrepancies for years. Its goal has been to make sure money withheld from a person’s paycheck is credited to the correct worker. http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/08/02/america/NA-GEN-US-Immigration-Employer-Crackdown.php
I know it is difficult to believe, that maybe our elected are beginning to listen to the American people. I do, however, take this news with not a grain of salt but a half ton of salt. I hope this news is correct. I too would like to see some actions, instead of words.
Removing the illegals is one way our intelligence groups can find out who and what is in here, and where these people have massed.

Lives could be saved and possibly another attack on this nation and this nation’s citizens could be averted. The averting of an attack(s), or disruption of a planned attack, is the primary reason I believe the citizens may see some movement. I too hope the nation’s citizens will see movement to secure our borders, and removal of those who broke our law(s) to be here. I hope I am correct. These types of actions would be prudent and justified at this present time, in our nation’s history.

The illegals will not leave if there are no jobs. They are used to sucking the American government teat. They suck free health care, free housing, food stamps, welfare, and free education for their huge families. The American taxpayer is stuck paying for all of this. They get benefits that Americans born here don’t get. No more anchor babies either. We need a Presidential Candidate that will build the fence. Kick out all the Mexican drug dealers, gang members, and criminals. Then start on the rest of the illegals. If they are working and not collecting any government benefits they can stay, if not they get kicked back across that fence.

when the Democratic National Convention didn’t accept them at their interfaith gathering. The atheists I talk to say atheism isn’t a faith. It’s just a question, I don’t want to challenge anyone’s beliefs. I saw it on the Colbert Report. Here is a link:

http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/180127/august-29-2008/better-know-a-lobby—atheism
I know Colbert is satire, it is pretty obvious.

Because Atheism is a legally a religion and should be treated as such, even though outside the law, it’s no more a religion then bald is a hair colour.