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GOP = Liar, Fear-Monger, Liar, Fear-Monger

January 07, 2010 By: Godless American Category: Home, politics, religion

Politicians lie.  We’ve all known that since we the moment we grew up and became adults, or sooner for some of you that gain wisdom early.  Lying comes in many forms.  There’s simply withholding the truth, or maybe not correcting other people’s lies.  There’s giving half-truths so what you’re saying is mostly true.  Then there’s a complete unequivocal lie whereby someone states one thing with the full knowledge that the opposite is true.

Filtering through these different types of lies is exactly what you have to do when listening to almost any rhetoric be it originating from the media, politicians, our acquaintances… More and more I’m coming to the conclusion that people that support the GOP (along with fundamentalist Christians) have no idea how to distinguish between these types of lying.  This is a failure in critical thinking skills.  Once a person believes that so-and-so tells the truth, they no longer try to distinguish between when they’re telling the whole truth or half-truths.  They no longer question if the person would ever lie.  It just simply isn’t done.  It’s my theory that GOP supporters, Tea Baggers, and Fundies are all part of this group of people that have little to know critical thinking skills.

Now, with that in mind the GOP continues to abuse their constituents low critical thinking skills by lying and fear-mongering.  Case in point:

1) Dems should be afraid of losing their majority in 2010 because it’s almost certainly going to happen.  How do we know, because there are so many Dems retiring.

2) The failure of TSA and Homeland Security and Obama is that no one is saying “terrorism” enough.  We need to say “terrorism” as often as possible in order to remind everyone that we are at war with “terrorists.”  America is at war with drugs communism Iraq Afghanistan Terror.

First off, the Dems losing seats and thereby their majority may happen.  There’s an election, who knows what the results will be.  You could argue that the majority isn’t even important considering how well the Dems have used it up to now.  What you can’t argue, legitimately, is that the Dems have more to fear than the Reps when it comes to losing seats because the numbers don’t even suggest that.  If anything they suggest the exact opposite.  Polls show that Dems are more in favor than the Reps; both have low scores but Reps’ tend to score a good ten points or more lower.  Also, there’s more Reps Representatives and Senators retiring than there are Dems.  I know Faux viewers are pulling their hair out by now because this simply can’t be true; Glenn Beck never mentioned this!  No, of course not.  He’s off ranting about how African-American is a bullshit term for… what?  Black, Negro, Afro-American,… or would Beck prefer Nigger?

Democrats

FAV UNFAV NO OPINION
ALL 42 54 4
MEN 33 63 4
WOMEN 51 45 4
DEM 75 22 3
REP 5 94 1
IND 36 62 2
OTHER 32 64 4
NON VOTE 42 46 12
WHITE 33 65 2
BLACK 79 12 9
LATINO 51 40 9
OTH/REF 51 39 10
18-29 59 33 8
30-44 28 66 6
45-59 49 50 1
60+ 40 58 2
NORTHEAST 61 29 10
SOUTH 24 72 4
MIDWEST 45 53 2
WEST 44 55 1

Republicans

FAV UNFAV NO OPINION
ALL 29 61 10
MEN 39 51 10
WOMEN 19 71 10
DEM 9 87 4
REP 84 4 12
IND 19 69 12
OTHER 21 68 11
NON VOTE 11 73 16
WHITE 37 53 10
BLACK 6 88 6
LATINO 12 74 14
OTH/REF 11 75 14
18-29 10 84 6
30-44 47 41 12
45-59 23 69 8
60+ 26 61 13
NORTHEAST 10 83 7
SOUTH 58 30 12
MIDWEST 19 71 10
WEST 20 70                     10

These figures are taken from Research 2000.

Second, WTF does using the word “terrorism” have to do with keeping the country safe?  Let’s just skip over that fact that Obama and his appointees have been using the term over and over again for months.  But, in what way would it benefit the American people, how would it help keep us safer, if Obama said the word “terrorism” more?  Of course, it couldn’t be the GOP or Dickhead Cheney’s repeated international statements saying that America is weak that would instigate an attack, would it?  No, it wouldn’t be the continued use of Holy Warriors trying to convert Afghanistan and Iraq people to Christianity, would it?  It wouldn’t be that America has killed thousands of innocent civilians and tortured thousands more and many Americans support these actions that would create animosity towards America, would it?  Nah, it’s because Obama doesn’t say the word “terrorism” enough.  Got it?

What’s sad is how many people believe this crap spewing from Faux News and the GOP.  Let me set the record straight, whether you call yourself Conservative, Libertarian, Republican, etc. you’re either a complete idiot for believing their drivel, you’re one of the people lying for your own benefit, or you’re a complete asshole that believes the American Dream is to care only about yourself and never about anyone else.  I’m betting it’s one of the first two.

Pro-Lifers (Read Anti-Choicers) Lie, Again, to Take Away Women’s Rights

June 05, 2009 By: Godless American Category: Home, politics, religion

Dr. Tiller’s death this past weekend was shocking enough.  Many on the Right continue to be against abortion, which is fine, but some on the far Right believe it justified to lie and kill to support their beliefs.  Why is that?  Is it the ‘eye for an eye’ bit from the Bible?  I don’t know why, nor have ever understood, those that continue to go against scientific theory.  Especially when they resort to their ‘good book’ instead of science.  Oh well, a liar is a liar is a liar; whatever they have ‘faith’ in or not.  So, back to their lying because that’s exactly what this post is about.

While many pro-life Anti-Choice groups continue to lie about the uses of late-term abortion that’s not all they lie about.  So, though many on the Right would have us believe that those that participate in late-term abortion are evil child killers, instead it tends to be something completely different and wholly more compassionate than anything those Anti-Choicers have ever done.

Now, while these Anti-Choicers are fighting tooth and nail against women’s reproductive rights they also are trying to scare people into not using birth control.  The American Life League is holding its second annual lie fest, or Protest the Pill Day, where they will be setting up protests around the country and telling women that birth control kills.  This insanity is multiplied by the prayer festivities, explained in last year’s pamphlet:

About two dozen prayerful witnesses testified to the facts of death about the pill.

These Pro-lifers Anti-Choicers say:

This year, we will expose the sordid details surrounding the tragic effects these chemicals have on women. We will emphasize the truth about how the pill kills women.

Let me get this straight.  

-First off, these Right wing fanatics want to make sure that none of America’s children are given any advice on contraception nor its uses; they continuously push abstinence only education.  

-Then when young women find out on their own how to keep themselves from getting pregnant while still having a healthy sexual lifestyle, these same bastards attempt to scare said women into not using birth control by lying to them about its effects.  

-Of course condoms are available without seeing a doctor so many women use those, but they sometimes break or come off, thus a second plan or a Plan B, if you will, is available for those mishaps; oh yeah, those Right wing nutjobs can’t stand that either.  

-And then, of course, if a women does get pregnant and decides to not carry the child to term those same Right wing lunatics, want to keep her from ever having an abortion no matter how early it is.

Yeah, they completely support a women’s choice.  A women’s choice to either live according to the Right’s morals or… live by their morals.  Wow!  What a choice.  Women can either do as they’re told or live with the consequences.  

Pro-lifers Anti-Choicers, you disgust me.  Go back to your caves.  

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