Ca$h Money & Glitter Tuxes

As we've watched these GOP clowns drop out of the race we have to ask ourselves, what happens to all that ca$h money they raised during their campaigns?

These fancy moving pictures weren't cheap y'all

After researching it sounds like there isn't much ca$h money around after the election is over, but what about Perry or Bachmann who never saw the finish line?

Let's call a spade a spade : campaigns = EXPEN$IVE, with travel (those jets don't fly themselves folks), accommodations, chow at a local diner, lip balm for ass kissing, loads of advertising. This all adds up to some pretty big cheddar. However there are times when there is a surplus when the candidate is given the boot back to the homeland. How is this money distributed then?

Donate to charity vs. political party to get a seat at the big table.. hmmm.. what's a candidate to do?

There are many options in this situation.  An unlimited amount of ca$h money can be donated to a charity or a political party. They can donate a limited amount ($2000) directly to other candidates in cases of an abandoned campaign ala' Tim Pawlenty (wow, we forgot this guy even ran). A campaign committee can become a PAC and donate up to $5000 per candidate. There are rules established by the Federal Election Commission (FEC) regarding all of this. Are there loopholes? Another post, another time, moving on.

You people do not appreciate the difficulty of being a Romney

One stipulation is the candidate cannot use the money for personal use. Back in the day retiring federal lawmakers could use the money for cars or vacations and other personal use. Thanks to the Ethics Reform Act of 1989 this was nipped in the bud. Sorry Marcus Bachmann that glitter tux will have to wait until Christmas.

Source:  (http://www.factcheck.org/2008/02/leftover-campaign-funds/)

Citizenship 101 : What Happened In 1787?

Could you pass The US Citizenship Test? Take a stab at a few of these questions and see what folks are up against.

1. What is the most important right granted to United States citizens?

(The right to vote)

2. Who was the principal author of the Declaration of Independence?

(Thomas Jefferson)

'Merica.. F*CK YEAH!!

3. How many amendments are there to the U.S. Constitution?

(27)

4. If both the president and the vice president die, who becomes president?
(The Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives) Who at one point was a guy named Newt Gingrich, how terrifying is that prospect?

5. Name the original thirteen colonies.

(Virginia. New Hampshire. Massachusetts. Rhode Island. Connecticut. North Carolina. South Carolina. Pennsylvania. New Jersey. New York. Maryland. Delaware. Georgia)

6. What three qualifications does the U.S. Constitution require of candidates for president?

(1. Native born citizen 2. 35 years of age 3. lived in the U.S. for at least 14 years)

7. In what year was the U.S. Constitution written?

(1787)

8. Name your U.S. representative and your two senators.

(We have no idea where you live.. good luck with this one)

9. Name the four amendments that guarantee or address voting rights.

(15th, 19th, 24th, 26th)

10. What officials and departments make up the executive branch of the federal government?

(President. Cabinet. Departments under the cabinet members)

11. What is the introduction to the U.S. Constitution called?

(Preamble)

12. Whose rights are guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights?

(Everyone who lives in the United States, whether they are citizens or not)

13. Who was president during the Civil War?

(Abe Lincoln)

14.  Name the river running north to south that divides the United States.

(The Mississippi River)

15. What type of democratic government does the U.S. have?

(A republican form of government or representative democracy)

16. What is the basic belief of the Declaration of Independence?

(That all men are created equal)

17. Where is the White House located? (Include the street address)

(1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Washington DC) 

Woof Saturday

 Saturday Dopamine Discharge : Westie Edition

oh&my&goooooodness

Quick.. Romney is coming!!

I wanted to get spayed and Rush Limbaugh called me a...

As always.. DON'T SHOP.. ADOPT!! Check out your local shelter or RESCUE one of these adorable lil' critters bub.

Rush To The Radio & Throw It At The Wall

It isn't a shocker that Rush Limbaugh has been a lightening rod of controversy for years. This time he may have gone to far when he referred to Georgetown University student Sandra Fluke as " slut" and a "prostitute".  Ms. Fluke is a 30 year old woman studying law at GU and is being demonized by the right for her activism on issues regarding ladybits and women's rights.  They claim we are being played by her because she is really an activist nothing more.. what this means, we really have no idea.

Let's really talk about who is being played here.  The zealots with their ears pitched in the direction of Rush were treated to his claims that birth control mandated to be supplied by health care companies as " another welfare entitlement".  You know, something a "welfare queen" would utilize. So now we have a bunch o' zealots with ears being fed yet another lie by this drug riddled miscreant in a pant suit. 

ohgoodgollywowzers.. where do we get one?

Another part to this nightmare via Limbaugh is now we have people believing that Joe Public is going to paying for contraception for women through taxes (be on the lookout for their misspelled protest signage). This is man who wants to deny women the right to choose if and when to bear children. Remember he has been married four times, by the grace of God.. WHO would marry this warlock? Thankfully he doesn't have any children with these brave and clinically insane ladies, could you image his demon seed running about at the park, throwing children into oncoming traffic? We've strayed from the topic at hand, one could conclude that he himself uses contraception, yes, we too shudder at the mere thought.

There are ways to affect Rush and punish him for his behavior and incendiary remarks. There is a great blog with a list of whom to boycott, check it out PRONTO! Contact his sponsors and tell them, you are done using their products unless they discontinue supporting such vile person, be sure to remind some of them they also sponsor Progressive radio.

Secondly, Ms. Fluke can sue him for defamation of character and force him to show up to court and prove why he referred to her as "slut". This vote this to be a kick ass option. Make this bastard explain why he would refer to an innocent woman in this manner and give her a public apology.  Rush you are a hot mess of a drug addict (no offense to other addicts). You attack women in general with your delusional rants summoning them to hell for wanting to choose what to do with their bodies, now you single one out publicly? You have cojones you disgusting, vile, filthy, scumbag of an asshole. The ladies are taking notice, the ladies stand united and the ladies have bigger cojones then you could even imagine.

Save The 1%!!

Finally, someone recognizes the struggle of the uber elite. Someone notify those folks at Unicef, we've got a real crisis on our hands over here.

Blunt Votes

We spot a trend.. 
How did you Senator vote for the Blunt Amendment? 

 Keep in mind, a YEA vote are in favor of insurance coverage for birth control :

Grouped by Home State

Alabama:	Sessions (R-AL), Nay	Shelby (R-AL), Nay
Alaska:	Begich (D-AK), Yea	Murkowski (R-AK), Nay
Arizona:	Kyl (R-AZ), Nay	McCain (R-AZ), Nay
Arkansas:	Boozman (R-AR), Nay	Pryor (D-AR), Yea
California:	Boxer (D-CA), Yea	Feinstein (D-CA), Yea
Colorado:	Bennet (D-CO), Yea	Udall (D-CO), Yea
Connecticut:	Blumenthal (D-CT), Yea	Lieberman (ID-CT), Yea
Delaware:	Carper (D-DE), Yea	Coons (D-DE), Yea
Florida:	Nelson (D-FL), Yea	Rubio (R-FL), Nay
Georgia:	Chambliss (R-GA), Nay	Isakson (R-GA), Nay
Hawaii:	Akaka (D-HI), Yea	Inouye (D-HI), Yea
Idaho:	Crapo (R-ID), Nay	Risch (R-ID), Nay
Illinois:	Durbin (D-IL), Yea	Kirk (R-IL), Not Voting
Indiana:	Coats (R-IN), Nay	Lugar (R-IN), Nay
Iowa:	Grassley (R-IA), Nay	Harkin (D-IA), Yea
Kansas:	Moran (R-KS), Nay	Roberts (R-KS), Nay
Kentucky:	McConnell (R-KY), Nay	Paul (R-KY), Nay
Louisiana:	Landrieu (D-LA), Yea	Vitter (R-LA), Nay
Maine:	Collins (R-ME), Nay	Snowe (R-ME), Yea
Maryland:	Cardin (D-MD), Yea	Mikulski (D-MD), Yea
Massachusetts:	Brown (R-MA), Nay	Kerry (D-MA), Yea
Michigan:	Levin (D-MI), Yea	Stabenow (D-MI), Yea
Minnesota:	Franken (D-MN), Yea	Klobuchar (D-MN), Yea
Mississippi:	Cochran (R-MS), Nay	Wicker (R-MS), Nay
Missouri:	Blunt (R-MO), Nay	McCaskill (D-MO), Yea
Montana:	Baucus (D-MT), Yea	Tester (D-MT), Yea
Nebraska:	Johanns (R-NE), Nay	Nelson (D-NE), Nay
Nevada:	Heller (R-NV), Nay	Reid (D-NV), Yea
New Hampshire:	Ayotte (R-NH), Nay	Shaheen (D-NH), Yea
New Jersey:	Lautenberg (D-NJ), Yea	Menendez (D-NJ), Yea
New Mexico:	Bingaman (D-NM), Yea	Udall (D-NM), Yea
New York:	Gillibrand (D-NY), Yea	Schumer (D-NY), Yea
North Carolina:	Burr (R-NC), Nay	Hagan (D-NC), Yea
North Dakota:	Conrad (D-ND), Yea	Hoeven (R-ND), Nay
Ohio:	Brown (D-OH), Yea	Portman (R-OH), Nay
Oklahoma:	Coburn (R-OK), Nay	Inhofe (R-OK), Nay
Oregon:	Merkley (D-OR), Yea	Wyden (D-OR), Yea
Pennsylvania:	Casey (D-PA), Nay	Toomey (R-PA), Nay
Rhode Island:	Reed (D-RI), Yea	Whitehouse (D-RI), Yea
South Carolina:	DeMint (R-SC), Nay	Graham (R-SC), Nay
South Dakota:	Johnson (D-SD), Yea	Thune (R-SD), Nay
Tennessee:	Alexander (R-TN), Nay	Corker (R-TN), Nay
Texas:	Cornyn (R-TX), Nay	Hutchison (R-TX), Nay
Utah:	Hatch (R-UT), Nay	Lee (R-UT), Nay
Vermont:	Leahy (D-VT), Yea	Sanders (I-VT), Yea
Virginia:	Warner (D-VA), Yea	Webb (D-VA), Yea
Washington:	Cantwell (D-WA), Yea	Murray (D-WA), Yea
West Virginia:	Manchin (D-WV), Nay	Rockefeller (D-WV), Yea
Wisconsin:	Johnson (R-WI), Nay	Kohl (D-WI), Yea
Wyoming:	Barrasso (R-WY), Nay	Enzi (R-WY), Nay

A Closer Look At The Warrior For The Right

Look how they lust after my fancy mustard, elevate the window Jeeves!

"Pardon me, do you have any Grey Poupon?" That is a question proposed by all the elitist collegial educated breed in this great nation. The recent comments from Santorum, that "Obama is a snob because he wants everyone to go to college" strikes us funny, as in crazy funny.

There's a role model right there bubs

To preface this you must be aware the Santorum has an undergraduate degree from Penn State, a MBA from the University of Pittsburgh, and a law degree from Dickerson School of Law. Kudos Rick, it isn't Harvard, but you gave it a good shot.

Is it snootish to wish that all Americans have access to a proper education? We, as astute education types couldn't disagree more. The goal of Santorum keeping that carrot o' education dangling is he, and his cronies, would like to see the masses remain uneducated. Please hear us out, many folks are quite smart bubs that don't have a degree or some paper telling them they have sunshine spewing out of their ass. What we are referring to is something Rick & Co exploit and manipulate, called the "Survival Brain".

What Fox News and the likes of Rush-at-a-drive-thru depend on is this section of the zealot's brain. Think about that person in your life and their terrified behaviors. Does this sound familiar :

"The SB is associated with deficient intellectual functioning causing weak judgment and foresight. An important weakness, associated with SB, is the presence of psychological defence mechanisms. These are “psychological blinders” that limit or distort perception when the situation is experienced as threatening. So people with SB have significant difficulties in assessing a stressful situation in a realistic way." 

Oh I don't know, birthers? Those freaks holding the "Obummer is a Mooslem" signs? The Right Wing machine plants the seed and the survival brain takes over showing unstable, impulsive, aggressive and unsympathetic behaviors. Oh hell, we can see you are riveted and jotting notes about your younger brother so here's more information, consider it our piece in the intervention : 

• Impulsive, difficulty in controlling impulses and outbursts of anger.
• Aggressive. Not only in direct behavior, but also in attitudes to violence, like the preference for using arms and wars for solving conflicts.
• Strong egoism. Puts ones own needs above those of everybody else including even the closest ones. From this follows:
• Irresponsibility, ruthlessness in pronounced cases of SB.
• Greediness is a common consequence of the extreme need for security along with egotism.
• Low moral standards. E.g. does not hesitate to use lies to promote his interests.
• Weak integrity, changing convictions and opinions opportunistically, even in key issues.
• Weak empathy – insensitive to the suffering of people. Does not care much about the suffering and problems of poor and sick people.
• Weak judgment, with inclination to disregard or belittle important problems (this indicates the presence of reality-distorting psychological defence mechanisms).
• Insecurity – need for predictability. In situations that they cannot master, they experience much increased anxiety and considerably impaired thinking due to suppression of the fore brain. The ability to act intelligently and coherently under the stress of unprepared TV appearances may be a good test. They want to seize power – from micro (family) to macro scale because it makes them feel more secure. Or they seek jobs with a predictable rule framework, like bureaucracy, law etc
• Intolerance. People that are unfamiliar in appearance or behavior are experienced as unpredictable and unconsciously arouse anxiety, which can calls forth aggressive attitudes against them. Ethnic and religious intolerance are expressions of this weakness.       

Have you sat through any Fox News segment and felt like your anxiety was going to go through the roof and you had to start making your zombie apocalypse kit? "Oh shit guys, come on!" What, you didn't know Obama is really a zombie?

How far will the Right go to fear monger and indoctrinate their followers to say "shit, why should those wealthy folks pay more taxes, we can handle shellin' out a couple extra bucks, put in for that part time gig at Wal-Mart, 'MERICA F*CK YEAH!!"

Santorum and the likes fear an educated voter, because they know they'd have zero chance of election. Keep people afraid and keep them loyal. Educate them and bedlam ensues.


Learn more about survival brain and help the family member you love :
http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/search/detailmini.jsp?_nfpb=true&_&ERICExtSearch_SearchValue_0=EJ725769&ERICExtSearch_SearchType_0=no&accno=EJ725769