Today's Menu:
* Mitt Romney grandstanding disingenuously playing the Martyr at N.A.A.C.P Convention.
* George Will and Fox News : drought what Drought???
George argues Summers were hot when he was a kid therefore ipso facto ergo climate change is bunkum.
* States' rights advocates M.I.A as US Federal Government helps states devastated by imaginary drought.
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USDA Declares 'Natural Disaster' in 26 States as Drought Devastates - Common Dreams staff at Common Dreams.org, July 13, 2012
The US Department of Agriculture declared a natural disaster on Thursday as a widespread drought stretched over 1,016 counties in 26 states, covering over half the country. The natural disaster is said to be the largest in US history due to its breadth.
As Matt Taibbi at Rolling Stone aptly characterizes Mitt Romney's speech at The NAACP convention
...like a man expecting, maybe even wanting to get booed. And sure enough, after the event, it was hard not to notice how gleefully Fox and Hannity and the like played and replayed the video of the Mittster gamely dying on the cross of racial outreach. The rhetorical theme on those outlets was something like, “This is what happens when you promote the cause of free enterprise and self-sufficiency in front of the N.A.A.C.P.!” As Charles Blow in the New York Times put it:
The speech sounded like it was designed not for the audience in the room, but for those in Republican living rooms.
It sounded as though he wanted to show force and fearlessness: “Look folks, I walked into hostile territory unafraid and unbowed.” This was his version of a Daniel in the lions’ den speech.
Talk tough. Get heckled and booed for telling the truth to those who don’t want to hear it. Take the president down a couple of pegs in front of the most loyal segment of his supporters…
So Romney did that, and then the next night he went to Montana and he discussed the experience in front of a friendlier audience. And this is what he said:
When I mentioned I am going to get rid of Obamacare they weren’t happy, I didn’t get the same response. That’s O.K, I want people to know what I stand for and if I don’t stand for what they want, go vote for someone else, that’s just fine…
But I hope people understand this, your friends who like Obamacare, you remind them of this, if they want more stuff from government tell them to go vote for the other guy — more free stuff.
So now this is the message: I tried to reason with the blacks, I really did, but it turns out they just want a free lunch.
Mitt Romney's speech at the NAACP convention was really a bit of grandstanding for his white Republican base proving he believes that Black Americans cannot be reasoned with.
Maybe Mitt Romney like Glenn Beck and the Mormon Church is preparing for an all out apocalyptic race war . According to the racist stereotype of all Black Americans Mitt Romney, the Mormons and Neocons and the Tea Party Gang and Sean Hannity and Fox News Channel and the KKK Black Americans are characterized as those whom Hitler referred to as "Useless Eaters".
Romney's 'Free Stuff' Speech Is a New Low by Matt Taibbi at Rolling Stone via CommonDreams,July 13, 2012
Wow. If you live long enough, you’ll see some truly gross things in politics, but Mitt Romney’s work this past week "courting black support" was enough to turn even the strongest stomach.
Romney really showed us something in his luridly self-congratulating N.A.A.C.P. gambit, followed by the awesomely disgusting "free stuff" post-mortem speech he delivered the next night in front of friendlier audiences.
The twin appearances revealed the candidate to be not merely unlikable, and not merely a fatuous, unoriginal hack of politician, but also a genuinely repugnant human being, a grasping corporate hypocrite with so little feel for how to get along with people that he has to dream up elaborate schemes just to try to pander to the mob.
Now, it would have been one thing if Romney had put some real thought into this, if he had taken a day or two or three and really pondered the question of why 90% of black voters vote Democratic. That’s a serious question, and it would have been something if Romney had really attempted to bridge what has turned into a disturbingly ugly gap between most nonwhite Americans and political conservatives.
Without accepting blame or admitting guilt, he could have talked about the increasingly strident tone of the national debate over racially charged issues, and wondered aloud if politicians on both sides perhaps needed to find a new way to talk about these things without fearmongering, stereotyping, or trading accusations. He could have met the racial-tension issue head on, in other words, and simply declared it to be something that both parties need to work on. This was an opportunity to make history as a peacemaker, just by saying out loud the simple truth that white and nonwhite Americans, and Democrats and Republicans both, need to find more civilized ways to talk about their political concerns. If he had owned the problem, that would have been a big step forward, for all of us.
Of course, that’s expecting a lot. But even if he had just come up with a fresh, earnest new way to articulate the conservative argument, something beyond the usual sloganeering, that would have been really interesting.
But he didn’t. He came out with the same half-assed, platitude-filled stump speech he usually doles out at campaign stops, literally the same exact speech, only he added quotes from Frederick Douglass, Benjamin Hooks, and Dr. King. As he told a mostly white audience in Montana the next night: “I gave them the same speech I am giving you.” He seemed almost proud of the fact that he didn’t put any extra thought into what he was going to say in his first big address to black America. If some speeches feel like a verbal embrace, Romney’s felt like a stack of cardboard emptied from the bay of a dump truck.
So given that he didn’t say anything new in the speech besides what he always says – government is the enemy of all life forms, we can’t blame the rich, etc. – the true meaning of the speech had to be in the very fact that he gave it in the first place. So what was he trying to accomplish? Surely he didn’t think he was going to be getting converts by promising to repeal “Obamacare,” crush teachers’ unions, and “help those who need help.”
No, he delivered those lines like a man expecting, maybe even wanting to get booed. And sure enough, after the event, it was hard not to notice how gleefully Fox and Hannity and the like played and replayed the video of the Mittster gamely dying on the cross of racial outreach. The rhetorical theme on those outlets was something like, “This is what happens when you promote the cause of free enterprise and self-sufficiency in front of the N.A.A.C.P.!” As Charles Blow in the New York Times put it:
The speech sounded like it was designed not for the audience in the room, but for those in Republican living rooms.
It sounded as though he wanted to show force and fearlessness: “Look folks, I walked into hostile territory unafraid and unbowed.” This was his version of a Daniel in the lions’ den speech.
Talk tough. Get heckled and booed for telling the truth to those who don’t want to hear it. Take the president down a couple of pegs in front of the most loyal segment of his supporters…
So Romney did that, and then the next night he went to Montana and he discussed the experience in front of a friendlier audience. And this is what he said:
When I mentioned I am going to get rid of Obamacare they weren’t happy, I didn’t get the same response. That’s O.K, I want people to know what I stand for and if I don’t stand for what they want, go vote for someone else, that’s just fine…
But I hope people understand this, your friends who like Obamacare, you remind them of this, if they want more stuff from government tell them to go vote for the other guy — more free stuff.So now this is the message: I tried to reason with the blacks, I really did, but it turns out they just want a free lunch.
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George Will and the Mainstream Media say there is no severe drought it is just stuff made up by President Obama and the leftist environmentalists. Therefore if George is right then these states should not receive financial help from the US government . Besides as George Will and Mitt Romney and Fox News argue that the federal government has no duty or right to help out states. And why is that,You ask? Because the Feds by giving financial aid to drought devastated states are thereby denying the absolute right of state sovereignty.
George Will climate change is not a scientific fact because when George was a kid the summers were always hot. This is merely a trite argument from anecdotal evidence.
George Will and his Neocon friends and the anti-science mainstream media deny climate change and Evolution and offer scientific proof for the Noahic Flood and that Wall Street Banks and financiers and speculators have only best interest of the public in mind and of course Blacks vote for Obama just to get "Free Stuff" and rob their so called rich White Superiors.
USDA Declares 'Natural Disaster' in 26 States as Drought Devastates - Common Dreams staff at Common Dreams.org, July 13, 2012
The US Department of Agriculture declared a natural disaster on Thursday as a widespread drought stretched over 1,016 counties in 26 states, covering over half the country. The natural disaster is said to be the largest in US history due to its breadth.
The declaration will initiate a series of emergency loans for farmers in drought stricken areas; however, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said the low-interest loans and penalty reductions are only “limited tools” for relief.
According to the National Climatic Data Center, some parts of the Midwest have experienced the worst conditions since 1988 as crops and pastures continue to sizzle.
And the record setting drought does not seem to be easing any time soon. Scientists for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) recently released a report which ties extreme weather events such as prolonged heat waves and drought to the broader implications of climate change. June temperatures revealed that once again the past 12 months have been the warmest on record in the US since the National Climatic Data Center began recording temperatures in 1895.
Subsequently, roughly 56% of the country is currently experiencing extreme drought conditions, the farthest reaching drought in over a decade, according to the US Drought Monitor.
Meanwhile George Will and Mainstream Media claim Climate Change scientific theory is laughable so get over it. As George Will succinctly and idiotically argues last Sunday on ABC's infotainment style of distortion and propaganda and " feel good News" as reported by FAIR's article The Future of the Planet? Get Over It by Peter Hart ,July 9,2012:
You asked us — how do we explain the heat? One word: summer. I grew up in central Illinois in a house without air conditioning. What is so unusual about this?
Now, come the winter, there will be a cold snap, lots of snow, and the same guys, like E.J., will start lecturing us. There's a difference between the weather and the climate. I agree with that. We're having some hot weather. Get over it.
George Will has been distorting climate science for a long time–long enough to see the scientific consensus on the issue only strengthen, and predictions of rising global temperatures born out. As the evidence mounts, his own views do not appear to change in the slightest. He's entitled to that, of course. But does this embarrass anyone at ABC? The panelists didn't seem fazed–Will's "get over it" quip got a good laugh.
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