Sounds of Silence - Simon and Garfunkel

I started a Joke - Bee Gees

McDonald’s Corporate Profits Built On Government Subsidies (Food Stamps) for Slave Wage Workers?

Get the Government out of my pockets!

Get McDonald’s out of the Government’s pockets!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/24/mcdonalds-food-stamps_n_4151647.html

McDonald's workers struggling to get by on poverty wages should apply for food stamps and Medicaid. 

 That's the advice one activist McDonald's worker received when she called the company's "McResource Line," a service provided to McDonald's workers who need help with issues like child and health care. 

 "You can ask about things like food pantries. Are you on SNAP? SNAP is Supplemental Nutritional Assistance [Program] -- food stamps ... You would most likely be eligible for SNAP benefits," a McResource representative told 27-year-old Nancy Salgado, who works at a Chicago McDonald's. "Did you try and get on Medicaid? Medicaid is a federal program. It's health coverage for low income or no income adults -- and children."

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B 4 Drones, There Was Save J.P.Morgan and His British War Bonds’ American “War To End All Wars” – Triumphant Return of Pennsylvania Troops in Roman Pagan Style Parade 1919

Philadelphiain the World War 1914-1918

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Ted Cruz Cuban Grandmom Still Waiting For Visa, Plane Ticket, Section 8 Certificate and Food Stamps Card ? Nigerian Racist Remarks Moot? - Look at his Roots?

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Ted Cruz's racist joke about Nigerians running the computer scam on ObamaCare has nothing to do with racism considering all the black Cuban blood in his Canadian born veins? 

If he was going to make jokes about computer scammers, why not make jokes about Goldman Sachs, where Ted gets his healthcare insurance off his wife's dime. 


http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2013/10/ted-cruz-angers-nigerian-americans-with-obamacare-remarks/

“You may have noticed that all the Nigerian email scammers have become a lot less active lately,” Cruz said at a gathering with supporters in Houston, according to the Houston Chronicle. 

“They all have been hired to run the Obamacare website,” he joked. 

But the Christian Association of Nigerian-Americans, also known as CANAN, isn’t laughing. The group blasted Cruz, calling his comments distasteful and disparaging. 

“Cruz has maligned all hardworking, decent and outstanding Nigerian-Americans who add value and bring goodwill to their different communities, especially in Texas, with the largest concentration of Nigerian-Americans in this country,” the group said in a statement released Thursday. 

And that’s not the only place where Cruz’s joke fell flat. 

The Nigerian ambassador to the United States also wants an apology from the senator.

*Cuban Woman Photo

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American Right Wing Jesus Idol/ology – Guns, Violence, Racism – Not Faith But Fear – False Christianity

Ted Cruz and Entourage at Media (prayer)

With Inspiration from this blog article:

http://austinisafecker.wordpress.com/2013/10/21/the-right-and-their-false-christianity/

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Frankford Mutual Fire Insurance Company - Philadelphia - Illustration - 1912

http://www.scribd.com/doc/106409142/For-a-Greater-Frankford-1912

Present - Bing Maps


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Doctor Riley Writes Her Second Essay – Is Fined Again for Whatever? – Licensing of Bricklayers, Doctors and Other Professionals in Utah

I have to apologize a bit here. I have, since the inconvenience of the recent government shutdown on a federal level, been researching many things related to the anger in the Republic against big government and the reality of the “less government” crowd who really mean less government for you but "more government" and contracts for us (and cronies) kind of scenario.

I see from public documents that Doctor Riley is finished with Maryland so to speak and that now Utah wants a second grade-school essay from Doctor Riley. Nicola Riley is no saint. Just read the SL Tribune or Deseret news to get that certain PC POV toward her. Public Square in Utah is many times Temple Square btw. 

Whatever.

Feedback on Tea Party Creep Rep. Daryl Metcalfe, Pennsylvania – and other Holier than Thou Burb Bubble Land People just Like Him

We have this problem here in America Lately.  The press gives free rides to people like Ted Cruz or idiots in the Pennsylvania State (H8) Legislature like Rick Saccone and Daryl Metcalfe who pass this feel good Guido stuff that plays well in their bubble world existence in the Burbs.

That they are thinking that what they feel good with on lily white green lawn suburbia is what I want which it ain’t.  They claim, most of these Tea Party shits to be Christian, but they do not have a clue about life or people, empathy or compassion. That many in fact if you look at them closely have lived in the burbs all their lives or they are lifers in the military and then come out and get elected to cushy little jobs to backwater burbs.

They are building the new Cardinal Wuerl North Catholic High School in Cranberry Township Pa. which is the home base of Daryl Metcalfe, there in a rich burb of Pittsburgh. That the old North Catholic there had to climb further into the burbs to escape the blacks in the inner city that want to get a better education etc. No doubt Cardinal Wuerl will be proud of the new WHITES ONLY BURB catholic high school. 

Mission of the RC in America of late seems like it is to sell off all the old immigrant built inner city real estate and locate to the white safeness of the burbs. Many of the best inner city schools and high schools in America have bit the dust in favor of locating to the burbs to escape the reality of diverse 20^th century America etc.

Daryl Metcalfe R-Pa – Another NeoCon Sucking on the Government Tit In Pennsylvania – Wants to Harass I Mean Impeach Female State Attorney General Kathleen Kane

Another Bush Era “Christian” sponge on the government tit for so long, he thinks he is entitled to his $78,000 per year gubmint job plus benefits while Lord-ing all over the rest of inferior non-white, non-burb Pennsylvania.

Rep Daryl Metcalfe is always 100% right even if his district is only 98.6% white. lol

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daryl_Metcalfe

In June 2013, after the Defense of Marriage Act had been ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court, openly gay state representative Brian Sims tried to make a speech in the Pennsylvania House supporting the decision. Metcalfe, who was one of several representatives who blocked Sims from speaking, said ”I did not believe that as a member of that body that I should allow someone to make comments such as he was preparing to make that ultimately were just open rebellion against what the word of God has said, what God has said, and just open rebellion against God’s law.”

Just another two-bit NeoCon Tea Party tin plated god. Oh Yeah!

http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/harrisburg_politics/Impeach.html

Metcalfe circulated a memo to his colleagues Monday, letting them know he plans on introducing a resolution containing articles of impeachment against Pennsylvania's Attorney General, Kathleen Kane.

 The reason: Kane's decision over the summer not to defend the state against a federal lawsuit seeking to overturn Pennsylvania's ban on same-sex marriage. At the time, Kane said she could not defend a law that she found to be "wholly unconstitutional."

 Metcalfe argues that Kane is abandoning the duties and responsibilities of her job, which include defending the state's laws, whether she agrees with them or not. Others have echoed the criticism, but no one has gone as far as seeking to impeach her.

 "Impeachment is a rarely used, but extremely important, tool to address misbehavior in office," Metcalfe wrote in the memo. "Attorney General Kane’s violation of her constitutional, statutory, and ethical duties cannot be tolerated if our system of government is to work properly."

 A spokesman for Kane could not be immediately reached for comment.

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Ted Cruz (R-Canada): "I Don't Work For The Party Bosses In Washington"

Ted Cruz (R-Canada): 

"I Don't Work For The Party Bosses In Washington" 

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Warning: Listening to Ted Cruz (R-Canada) Phony 21 Hour Long Filibuster Speech May Be Dangerous To Your Children's Health - Wayne's (LaPierre) World

“…The child may have offed herself as the result of merely being born a redneck. But unofficial reports state that the entire 21 hour DVD of the Sen.Ted Cruz's (R-Canada) phony filibuster (C-Span deluxe version) was playing on the TV when the child decided to visit Jesus. …”  T.C.C. news service.

(warning one - sarcasm)

(warning oneA - Visual Sarcasm)

(warning oneB - It takes intelligence to understand and appreciate sarcasm, and visually expressed etc.)

http://massiveenormity.blogspot.com/2013/10/see-it-works-two-year-old-with-gun.html

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Bill Donohue/Catholic League Shilling For Conservative Telemarketing Penny Anty Scam Web Site – NewsMax – Front for Out of Work (no wars going) Neo-Con Executives?

I hear the Confections in Iran are far superior to North Korean Sweets.
But we won't know until we contract out there, will we?

Like I said the other day about how neo-cons get to land in easy cushy no show jobs in between American Global Wars of Genocide and Profit for White Republicans, like St. Vincent’s College in Latrobe Pa., Bill Donohue over at Catholic League has a nasty article about NYC mayoral candidate that thumbs his nose at Catholic Cuddling that Bill has come to expect sitting at the feet of American high level clerics and giving them free pedicures too I hear (bishops and above only – holy foot fetish, don’t ya know, lol).  And lets not forget the unofficial Catholic views on male waxing. 

I go into Bill's least offensive sounding “defen$e” of Catholicism tax free web site article at Catholic League that leads to a (wink,nod) link to NewsMax, a west Palm Beach neo-con News sites that supposedly makes over 24 million a year, doing what? I have to wonder why a tax free Catholic employee at the Catholic League is hanging out at a right wing political "newspaper".

Makes you think that maybe separation of church and state and the tax free jerk off thing does not matter anymore in the shiny city on a hill republic of Ronald Reagan that now has sunk into the adjoining swamp land below? When it comes to the Catholic League and Doctor Donohue that is. Quack! Quack!

Stephen Fry - BBC "Out There" - Human Dignity - Gay RIghts

Ran into this video over at Bill Lindsey’s Bilgrimage and his eternal campaign for human rights and human dignity – all human dignity. 

Very interesting video of Stephen Fry. I have to admit that the same video word for word from an American openly gay actor produced by PBS would not have the same impact on myself. Something about the mother tongue and the mother culture that on some level has true stage presence in the documentary side of English speaking common cultures.

Ted Cruz Family Tree

Updates: April 6, 2015

Updates: August 29, 2015

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Was Sen. Ted Cruz born out of wedlock? #tedcruz,#rafaelCruz, #birther http://t.co/p7rIdxWIf5
— Mike McShea (@mc_shea1) August 28, 2013

Six Degrees of Separation Between Rick Saccone and an Eight Dollar Cup of Faith Based Soup in a Soupline given to a Homeless Man or Woman or Child, paid for at taxpayers’ expense

I tried to find a picture of the old Lipton’s Onion Soup Mix with a picture of onion soup on the box. Somewhere along the timeline, nobody eats onion soup out of a box anymore.  The Lipton Onion Soup Mix has a picture of onion flavored sour cream dip made from the box. A hell of a lot of salt and or calories for all the fat ass obese people on welfare eating with Gubmint food stamps. A hell of lot of poison being fed to America but that is another story.

Somewhere along the time line Compassionate Conservative got mixed up with politics and religion and leeches on the government dole selling an outsourced – it is cheaper to pay churches to feed the poor tag – which is a lie – but it sounds good in a soundbite. 

Whatever.

I see that the godless Tea Party, wrapped in the flag and inhumane bubble of ethnic Catholicism in Pennsylvania has had a “Year of the Bible” in 2012 resolution passed in the Pennsylvania Legislature. 

Now “Year of the Bible” Rick Saccone after a lifetime of living on the public dole, of never having a private sector job before 2002 or so wants to forcefully indoctrinate all public school students with an “In God We Trust” metaphoric tattoo on children’s foreheads for a feel good Guido kind of thing. I think perhaps he is passing or proposing all these greasy Dago Catholic patriotic sounding shit things in the Assembly rather as a resume builder to step up to a teaching job at Ave Maria University in Florida.

But I look at these corporate welfare people like Rick Santorum, Ken Cuccinelli or Rick Saccone living most of their lives on the top end of the stick of government handouts and see them in their tight little Italian culture bubbles looking down on an Anglo like me and having them try to expand their guinea catholic bubble around me and my private concerns.

I read about a hypocrite like Rick Santorum homeschooling his kids and then having then forced to be driven by a bunch of groupies to daily mass at a Opus Dei parish like St. Catherine of Sienna in Great Falls Virginia and I want to free those slaves of his children from his patriarchal tyranny.

Or I hear Ken Cuccinelli rant about God should punish this nation more because of Abortion. Man, get a life. Stop beating your wife etc.

Well anyway, I am thinking about how George W Bush got the fundies all on the same page to back him and get him elected and his promise of a bribe in return with the White House Faith Based Free Blow Jobs for people with a collar office of parasitic opportunies. Which is illegal under the constitution. Obama gave it a slight name change but the eight dollars a cup Liption Onion Soup still gets doled out to the poor because of the horseshit PR moniker of “Compassionate Conservative” (an oxymoron – emphasis on the moron part).

So you gots Rick Saccone wanting to probably trade up once he’s made Pennsylvania a theocracy to move on to greener pastures in Florida. Does not have a complete bio. Do not know where he was born. A carpetbagger in Pennsylvania, a retired military lifer, consultant on torture to the military when needed and hired at St. Vincent’s College in Latrobe Pa..

I can remember when the best beer in America was made in Latrobe, Rolling Rock, before it got bought out and is now being churned out under that same label at the Budweiser MEGA Brewery in Newark New Jersey across from the airport.

Like the gone before quality of beer, I somehow doubt the quality at St Vincent’s is the same since carpetbaggers like Rick Saccone or Jim Towey arrived like locusts on that once great teaching institution.

Something about price and quality. While an eight dollar cup of onion soup at a trendy restaurant sounds appetizing, the poor in America get the eight dollar cup of onion soup out of a paper packet and through the filter, laundered fee based Faith Based Circle Jerk for rich clerics organization.

Here are six degrees of separation between the poor and the uncle sugar paying for many people’s dimes.

One – You got Ted Cruz organizing the fundies into a Bush for Christ President campaign.

http://thisculturalchristian.blogspot.com/2013/10/ted-cruz-chad-counting-lawyer-behind.html

Two – You got the White House Faith Based bogus thing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_House_Office_of_Faith-Based_and_Community_Initiatives

Three – You got Jim Towey, first real head of the WH Faith Based Free Blow Job for Christ thing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Towey

Four – Now Jim Towey gets a temporary job at St. Vincent’s (Why? Fuck if I Know.)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Vincent_College

Five – You got out of work lifer Rick Saccone finding a job at St. Vincent’s before Jim’s arrival but Jim leaves in 2010, and no doubt told Rick before he left to go south that it was Okay to teach at St. Vincent’s and run for a part time job in the State Legislature to help pay the bills etc.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Saccone

Six – Ave Maria University – UberCatholic Heaven on Earth depending on you own personal twisted POV where Jim now is and no doubt would like a good church militant type like Rick Saccone to whip the Florida State Leigislature into shape to reestablish the “theocracy of our founding fathers?” there.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ave_Maria_University

Whatever.

Where are the poor in there? Anywhere there is a paycheck from the government and a bunch of faith based parasites to serve the luke warm make with LUV Liption’s powdered Onion Soup Mix.

Hijos de Puta!

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World Trade Center Views - October 18, 2013

View - North to South

Click on Photos to get Bigger Image

View from Staten Island - Bayonne / Jersey City center left - Manhattan center top

http://wirednewyork.com/forum/showthread.php?t=3672&page=923



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Tea Party Holy Card Deux - Saint Sarah Palin and Baby Cruz - Great White Racist Hope of America

With special thanks for inspiration in our shared interest and artform of Visual Sarcasm – to who else? - Al Tecacca

http://massiveenormity.blogspot.com/2013/10/despite-setbacks-cult-manages-to-retain.html

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Koch Brothers = Jim Demint = Heritage Foundation Shutdown Fails

http://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/207838/koch-brothers-shutdown-just-failed-hard-and-they-are-pissed/

The Koch brothers have denied having any skin in the shutdown game, but the simple fact is their own groups were instrumental in orchestrating it, from lobbying congressmen to take a hard line on defunding Obamacare to harassing those who didn’t get on board. The New York Times points to a Heritage Foundation effort to run internet ads in North Carolina districts against 100 candidates who didn’t sign a pledge from NC Rep Mark Meadows urging Boehner to push for defunding. Eventually 80 of them got on board. 

 Both FreedomWorks and the Heritage Foundation urged the House to vote “no” on the final deal that came from Senate and was resoundingly passed. So how do they feel now that their shutdown was squashed? Bitter. 

 Matt Kibbe, president of FreedomWorks, called Republicans’ capitulation “a total surrender.” He’s still convinced his hostage-taking shutdown strategy would have worked, if Republicans had just had the balls to take it all the way to a default: “We don’t have regrets,” Kibbe said. “This was a very winnable fight, if the Republicans had been willing to fight.”

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Cruz and Lee - Tea Party Bromance? - Or New Tea Party Vaudeville Act? - LOL

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Sarah Palin is Now The Beard For The GOP - Very Few Real Men with backbone left in the Republican Party - It is Okay to do IT if Mommy does IT on Camera - Bullsh*t!

There is Sarah Palin and Ted Cruz in his Brokeback Mountain Jacket thumbing their noses at WWII veterans telling them it was the DEMS who closed the WWII monument on the Mall on Washington DC.

My Dad, WWII Veteran is dead - rest his soul. He cannot speak on this abomination at his memorial this past Sunday. But I will say this!

Bullshit!

Somebody should take that dirty media whore and wash her mouth out with soap! Skank.


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Dysfunctional Nature of American Culture 2013

Going back to Franklin Graham’s photo-op trip to Russian Mission Alaska to “feed the poor”, I must say the then Gov. Palin’s remarks about Native American culture in Alaska were ignorant – they were not malicious – they were insular and insensitive. While many would try to make Sarah a monster, she is the typical stay at home mom type who has let her man rule the roost so to speak. 

Running a cracker jack town like Wasilla was no doubt in the part time and President of the local PTA league of things. She was close to being a stay at home mom, refusing to stay at the Governor’s mansion in Juneau and commuting back and forth by plane to work. As such she becomes an icon or a hero to all those clinging to the once familiar dad works and mom stays at home to cook, clean and take care of the kids scenario.

Working moms as a large piece of the population has peaked during wars but the idea of two working parents became a necessity in the seventies with inflation making it impossible to live on one salary. Enough said on that. 

I go back to a book on pop psychology “I’m Okay, You’re Okay” in the early seventies that said many things unpopular with the professional shrink community. I do not have an exact quote but I remember reading how a dysfunctional family might have its roots in events going back generations. When this book was written I don’t think that child abuse and such were even greatly talked about. 

Using that pop psychology idea as a model I look at United States history differently. Outsiders see one United States. There are fifty states and maybe a dozen commonly functioning regions. The original idea of putting a name on a map, of dividing a land in a distant capital is part of the present day dysfunction of America in places. 

One of the things on U.S. maps is how in a past function setting, mountains and rivers became logical lines on maps in that surveying was an impossible or costly matter. 

In modern times you see a vibrant city like New York, Philadelphia or St. Louis and because of a waterway, a line on a map, the regional potential of these cities shifts in other directions. As a result you have Newark, Camden or East St. Louis disconnected from a sister city’s prosperity and progressive function. Some cities and areas of the U.S. do prosper in a regional functional setting. Each must be taken on a situation by situation basis.

The outsider if they see the United States they will say that the U.S. was spared the direct horrors of war and destruction in WWII. True. But if one looks at the history of the U.S. you begin to see hot spots where battles between states in the Civil War has left it mark on the psyche of a state or a region. In fact Americans in the Civil War were guinea pigs for European munitions’ manufacturers' observations and design. The horrors of WWI and its anti-human technology scales got its initial designs tested in the American Civil War. 

What we may be seeing in these lean economic times are some dysfunctional aspects of America Culture that gets sidelined by mainstream historians in prosperous times but become blatantly evident now. 

Since this is a blog and not a history book I will mention a few things I have observed of late about guns, race and religion. 

One, that the obsession of guns with Americans may have started with the Indians. The original settlers from Europe pushed the native population further and further back not so much by killing the enemy so to speak, as much as over populating a region. The overflow of the European culture pushed the natives back who were not assimilated into the greater white culture. 

With guns, Americans fought the British and threw them out. History will say that the loyalists or royalists went out on ships from New York city in 1781. No. Only the well to do or the lucky got shipped out. The rest lost their lands in the east coast and walked to Canada or walked out west. I cannot talk about Canadians here but I believe that paranoid obsessions of Americans in the present day has to do with Loyalists on the run and with only guns to protect themselves. What I see when I observe a fanatical NRA member is somebody still looking over their shoulders centuries after their ancestors lost in the Revolutionary war. 

When Jackson made it official federal government policy to forcibly transport Indians out west, he did so with a racist bent. Jefferson wanted Indians to live in peaceful land ghettos (apartheid) trading with the white culture. Jackson saw Jefferson’s assimilation working too well in that assimilation meant racial mixing. What’s next after you have a sizable population of mixed Indians with Europeans? Next step is mixing with Africans which were slaves. America on all levels and in all regions of the country is still dealing with the side effects of the abolition of slavery one hundred and forty four years later. 

Jackson’s idea to send Indians out west was obsolete from day one – the “Trail of Tears”, in hindsight, was unnecessary. The federal government did not get all the Indians in the east and shipping them out west would not solve anything with the railroad only a generation away from shrinking the world. 

The same way that descendents of loyalists gone out west are looking over their shoulders, you have fundamentalists that are still locked mentally into 16th and 17th century European religious warfare. The push out west was in a way, in some cases, having one past disfunctionality overlapping with another. One of the things I see most in the hotspots of American fundamentalism are places with tons of violence associated with them in American history with territorial wars, the Indians, Civil War and land grabs. 

Surely, the bible belt across the south is a place where Jesus is a code word for Robert E. Lee, the coming messiah, and such. The south along with the loyalists lost - and got lost - along the way in history.

Kansas and Oklahoma, diamonds on the fundamentalist tiara, have extreme histories of violence before, during and after the Civil War. And within the context of a population always moving on. In a way a lot of people in Oklahoma, were put there by Jackson and the invisible prison bars are still keeping them there. 

Look at history differently. When I hear these hack southern politicians, GOP and blue dogs, their thinly veiled rhetoric is something out of Gone with the Wind – which of course is code talk for the good old days of majority white rule. Majority white rule is obsolete. It goes the way of all dysfunctional matters in the next few years. 

The good future for all of us - will be for those of us who do not look back on the present dysfunctional state of the American Political, Economic and Belief establishments.

(November 19, 2009)

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Ted Cruz – The Chad Counting Lawyer Behind Bush’s “Victory” in 2000

http://www.talk2action.org/story/2013/10/11/173533/73

"As Goeglein recounts, in 1999 while working as a Bush for President campaign aide, Ted Cruz helped broker a deal with one of the top architects of the religious right - Paul Weyrich - who Cruz appears to at the time been a personal friend of. The deal Cruz brokered enabled the Bush campaign to lock down the Christian conservative vote and so edge out other contenders for the nomination, including Senator John McCain.

"The fact that Ted Cruz, then only 29 years old, helped swing the 2000 election, because he was a personal friend to Paul Weyrich - a titan of the new right and religious right who helped create much of the early infrastructure that powers the current conservative movement - including the Moral Majority, the Heritage Foundation, and the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) is astonishing. Cruz also served on the elite team of lawyers fighting the legal battle that revolved around the disputed Florida vote recount in the 2000 election."

Devil’s Dictionary (Revised) – Ambrose Bierce – Definition of White Trash Science

White Trash Science:

The ability in homeschoolin or public schoolin in any red state (or Pennsylvania) to achieve just the right level of understanding in chemistry and alchemy to make passable Meth, prove that Darwin was an A-rab, know by devine instinct and the good book that Jesus's pet dinosaur "Spike" was housebroken enough to enter any church or see Global Warming as an ideal excuse on a hot day in July as the right time to steal a cold 30 pack at the local 7/11.


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Senator Mike Lee of Utah – Martin Bormann Role as First Minister of the Tea Party – Always at the Leader’s Right Hand Side

Every educated person is a future enemy. 

~~ Martin Bormann
 

Congress has no business regulating our nation's public education system, and has created problems whenever it has attempted to do so. 

~~ Sen. Mike Lee, Utah

(left to right)  Tea Party Beard Sarah Palin, Sen.Mike Lee, Tee Party Leader Ted Cruz

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