"BLOOD LIBEL"

A commentary by Editor-in-Chief Roger West

**CAUTION THIS BLOG HAS ADULT LANGUAGE**

If you haven't heard by now Sarah "snowbilly" Palin is now the "victim".

Today via Facebook the half Governor posted a narcissistic video claiming that America has it wrong, and political pundits are guilty of "blood libel".

A pretty "ballsy" move to say the least. In her woe is me speech today Palin trying to clear and rid herself of guilt or any wrong doing, failed to say "hey maybe I was wrong" to post gun sights on Democratic politicians, which may or may not have been a variable in the Tucson massacre.

Readers should not be shocked that Sarah maintains the "all about me" mentality, as this genome or DNA structure is the mainstay of the tea bag.

While most of the video was more republican "who me" attitude, we at NFTOS feel that two lone words in Palin's diatribe cut like the 31 bullets sprayed by the lunatic Jared Loughner.

"BLOOD LIBEL" is as bad as the "n" word. For Palin to use this choice of vocabulary means she either dropped out of high school, or she is just a spineless diabolical evil kobold. Nothing is more incendiary than this type of verbiage. If she was trying to purport her intelligence by using such terminology, she failed miserably, maybe if she thought before she spoke, or maybe if those handling her thought first, then maybe they would have chosen a better choice of words.

These inflammatory, grotesque, vile words, cost thousands of Jews their lives.

BLOOD LIBEL - Blood libel (also blood accusation) refers to a false accusation or claim that religious minorities, almost always Jews, murder children to use their blood in certain aspects of their religious rituals and holidays. Historically, these claims have–alongside those of well poisoning and host desecration–been a major theme in European persecution of Jews.

The libels typically allege that Jews require human blood for the baking of matzos for Passover. The accusations often assert that the blood of Christian children is especially coveted, and historically blood libel claims have often been made to account for otherwise unexplained deaths of children. In some cases, the alleged victim of human sacrifice has become venerated as a martyr, a holy figure around whom a martyr cult might arise. A few of these have been even canonized as saints, like Gavriil Belostoksky.

In Jewish lore, blood libels were the impetus for the creation in the 16th century of the Golem of Prague by Rabbi Judah Loew ben Bezalel. Many popes have either directly or indirectly condemned the blood accusation, and no pope has ever sanctioned it. These libels have persisted among some segments of Christians to the present time.

We have said this a million times if not once, freedom of speech has consequences, and in the hands of the ignorant or less intelligent, it is just as dangerous as Jared Loughner toting a gun.

 Freedom of speech also has limititations... for instance, I cant say fire in a crowded theater ~ in the same breath extreme gun toting republicans should not be able to rant "lock", "reload", and be "armed and dangerous" in political theaters or gatherings.

While Palin's choice of words are reprehensible in their own right, the kick in the ass, or the oppps I really fucked up moment, better yet, the foot-in-mouth disease moment is, hold on to your hats here readers, as this is very disturbing and disgusting -

Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords is JEWISH!!

As if the through and through bullet wound was not enough!

BLOOD LIBEL is not common in rebound video grievances, and never is it used in such generic political rants. BLOOD LIBEL is very specific in where its intent is to be made!

No matter how you slice this story, Palin is either an idiot of epic proportions, or she is as callous as Adolph Hitler himself. Insensitive is an understatement! Stupid, absolutely, moronic also seems suitable verbiage for Palin.

She certainly had a fit (and she was entitled) when those senseless journalist attack her mongoloid child, this type of nasty rhetoric by Palin is know different!

Whether Palin had a brain fart moment, or knowingly placed BLOOD LIBEL verbiage in her pity me speech is irrelevant. Stupidly is no excuse for comments like this, especially from a woman whom has visions of owning the right to nuclear key codes. There is no doubt this last expedition by the snowbilly solidifies her never getting to the oval office, that is unless she chooses to take the five cent White House tour.

Palin got caught in the political storm by a "maverick" whom needed a pretty face to aid his deflating presidential candidacy. Palin was just in wrong place at right time. She is out of her element in this arena, and these last few days have showed us how far out she really is. Truly she was just a pretty face, and to this blogger that's a stretch.

An old Paul Harvey quote so eloquently fits here, "gonads are certainly useful for their purpose, but the are no substitute for brains"!

If the crosshair fiasco didn't require an apology, (one could question why did she immediately remove the sights from her Sarah PAC website) then certainly this cretinous, contemptible, degrading, detestable, dirty, disgraceful, disreputable, ignominious, loathsome, low-life, mean, no-good, pitiful, shameful, slimy, sordid, vile, worthless, wretched, comment does!

Palin receives "asshat" of the year award, and we are only 12 days in!



NFTOS

THE TEA PARTY MOVEMENT AND WHAT IT MEANS TO TEA BAG

**Caution, Videos contained in this blog are of adult nature and are not intended for little ones under the age of 18**



TEA BAGS AND HEALTHCARE

What they really know!



TEA BAGS, ARE THEY REALLY RACIST?


Bill Maher on Tea Bagging








ARE TEA BAGS ANGRY?






LEARN TO SPEAK THE LANGUAGE




A POEM DEDICATED TO TEA BAG CENTRAL AKA FAUX NEWS



TEA BAGS VERSUS SCIENCE
"Science is not to be trusted, only we @ Faux News are to be trusted"



TEA PARTY VERSUS MATH




TEA BAGGING DEFINED BY A TEA BAGGER




FINALLY TEA BAG SPIN FROM MSNBC

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While the above videos are both funny and graphic, they provide us with the full spectrum of really how off keel and extreme they republican tea party movement folks really are.

Anderson Cooper of AC360 was quoted saying "its hard to talk when your tea bagging", and that term resonates and reverberates strongly between the Pacific and Atlantic oceans. Yes indeed Anderson, tea bagging is a mouthful.

"Tea baggers" terminology is for the followers of Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity, Sarah Plain, Instapundit, Joe the Plumber, and other miscreants who cannot stand big government spending when liberals are in power, but yet somehow they couldn't find the time to protest big government spending when their party was in power. They adopted the name because they liken their hypocritical "Tea bagging Party" protests to the original Boston Tea Party.

They have created a hilarious backronym for "tea" to use as their slogan: "taxed enough already".

It is unclear whether any relationship exists between the sexual definition and the republican party definition. Probably so, as most tea baggers would, in fact, teabag one of the leaders mentioned above, thus is the strength of the personality cult that started it.

The above videos explicitly explain why we at NFTOS will not be tea bagging anytime soon.


NFTOS

To Control Or Not To Control

Gun control has never been at higher pitch than today, and Gun violence in the United States is an intensely debated political issue in the United States.

Yesterday we discussed why the extreme right needs to pipe down the venomous vitriol. The massive shootings in Tucson was a festering pimple ready to pop.

We also disclosed other reasons for this shooting, while the angry nut cases from the right certainly own their portion to this tragedy, guns and how they are managed is another.

First off let me say I am both a proponent of the right to bear arms and the constitution, but both are not free of errors and or flaws.

Words, policies, and personal Rights, all have consequences.

The constitution while a phenomenal document has flaws. It was written when a time was different. And in some cases time has passed the document by. Republicans cling to this document like it was there soul. If Americans where as loyal and resolved about the bible like they where with the constitution, halleluiah all the worlds woes would be gone. Certainly we can agree (if your a progressive) that gun laws need to be modified.



Human rights is clearly defined in the First Amendment. For the less than educated republican, here is the first amendment:

The First Amendment (Amendment I) to the United States Constitution is part of the Bill of Rights. The amendment prohibits the making of any law "respecting an establishment of religion", impeding the free exercise of religion, infringing on the freedom of speech, infringing on the freedom of the press, interfering with the right to peaceably assemble or prohibiting the petitioning for a governmental redress of grievances. The Establishment Clause of the First Amendment has been interpreted by the Supreme Court as erecting a separation of church and state.

Freedom of assembly, sometimes used interchangeably with the freedom of association, is the individual right to come together and collectively express, promote, pursue and defend common interests. The right to freedom of association is recognized as a human right, a political freedom and a civil liberty.

The second amendment goes like this:

The Second Amendment (Amendment II) to the United States Constitution is the part of the United States Bill of Rights that protects the right of the people to keep and bear arms. It was adopted on December 15, 1791, along with the rest of the Bill of Rights. "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."

Where does the rubber meet the road with regards to guns and control?

Right's - While the gun slinging republican is screaming about their right to bear arms, we in our infamous wisdom forget that Congresswoman Giffords had rights' as well, that right, a part of the first amendment that enabled her to gather at corners, That right we speak of, "the freedom of assembly". So the congresswoman and 20 others lost their right, and in some instances lost their lives so that others had the right to carry a weapon for mass murder. Some how the scales of justice didn't equalize here.

Most Americans are a after-the-fact, downstream, reactionary society, three terrible qualities for success. If businesses, space flight, and military troops used these methods of operation, they wouldn't be in existence.

We can know longer sit idly back and allow congresswomen and precious nine year old daughters to die in vain, in the "right to bear arms" vain.

Some astonishing facts about guns:

Guns were used in 12,632 homicides in 2007, comprising over 40% of all gun deaths, and nearly 69% of all homicides.

On average, 33 gun homicides were committed each day for the years 2002-2007.7

Regions and States with higher rates of gun ownership have significantly higher rates of homicide than States with lower rates of gun ownership. Where guns are prevalent, there are significantly more homicides, particularly gun homicides.

For the five point seven year run (2001 -2007.7) that's 72,002.4 deaths.

Costs of Gun Violence

Firearm-related deaths and injuries result in estimated medical costs of $2.3 billion each year – half of which are borne by U.S. taxpayers.

Once all the direct and indirect medical, legal and societal costs are factored together, the annual cost of gun violence in America amounts to $100 billion.

Gun Ownership
Americans own an estimated 270 million firearms – approximately 90 guns for every 100 people.

Gun Crimes
In 2007, nearly 70% of all murders nationwide were committed with a firearm.

In 2007, 385,178 total firearm crimes were committed, including 11,512 murders, 190,514 robberies, and 183,153 aggravated assaults.

Wikipedia also has a plethora of information on Gun Violence http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_violence_in_the_United_States

There are a variety of ways of dealing with the problems caused by guns in society, and legislation is one of the methods most commonly used.

Attempting to legislate for the complex realities of gun-related violence is a daunting task. The ideal gun control measure would be one that would "prevent all crime and violence involving guns without interfering with their legitimate use in contemporary life." In reality, the best we are likely to achieve is to reduce the problems caused by the illegitimate use of firearms while "minimizing the restraints on the legitimate uses of guns".

Constantly we continue to debate the efficacy and constitutionality of federal regulation of firearms and ammunition. Various federal laws have been enacted since 1934 to promote such regulation.

According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, data from 1987 to 1992 indicate that in each of those years, roughly about .01% used guns to defend themselves, yet republicans maintain the need for the weapons as a means of self-defense. Your chances are greater for being struck by lightning than for you to use your weapon in self defense.

It should be noted that no right is absolute, even those supposedly granted by God and guaranteed in the Bill of Rights.

NFTOS' has a proposal for a rational gun control system:

Although we would personally like to see as many civilian-owned guns eliminated from mainstream society as possible, we realize that this is not a politically realistic goal. Thus, we present our own plans for gun control that we would consider a valid compromise. Perhaps policy discussions can start from these.

1. A national system for registering guns and ammunition. Part of the reason New York City has stiff gun laws and high gun death rates is that anybody can go from New York to a state with less restrictive laws, get a friend who lives in the state to buy the guns for them, and take those guns back to NYC. (Yes, I am aware this is illegal, but it happens.) First, a national system would prevent this by scaring those "friends" into not buying the guns legally and selling them illegally, for if the guns are used in an illegal crime, that person can be held accountable. Second, a national system would be more helpful in tracking crimes after they have happened, to bring the perpetrators to justice.

2. Instant background checks on people attempting to buy guns or ammunition. Brady is still patchwork, and does indeed have its flaws in tracking felons. Felons and ex-cons should not have access to weapons, and many misdemeanors and juvenile crimes should also count against a person's record.

3. Stiffer sentences for gun crimes. This has been the position of the NRA for quite some time, and it is certainly one with which we agree.

4. Gun education. Many guns are involved in accidents that could easily have been prevented by a little care or forethought. Perhaps gun purchasers should be required to take lessons in gun safety, at the purchaser's expense. Again, the NRA has long been a proponent of gun education.

5. General education. Study after study has concluded that there is a direct correlation between lack of education and violent crime. Every dollar spent on education now will prevent countless dollars worth of crime damage in the future. Think of all the private and public funds used to pay for gun violence -- hospital bills, funerals, insurance bills, the actual cost of buying firearms. Now invest that money in education, and watch the crime rate drop.

6. Hand grip ID tagging. This is technologically probably still in the future, but it would be a good goal to work for. The theory is, each gun is "registered" to one's person palm prints (the legal purchaser of the gun), and only that person can fire that gun. If another person tries, the gun simply will not fire. Thus, stolen guns become useless, and cannot be used to harm anybody in the course of a crime. Biometrics is used everywhere and certainly has a place with weapons.

7. Ammunition coding which allows police to trace and solve crimes.

8. End gun-show loop hole

9. Limit ammunition capacity

These nine steps towards gun control are only the beginning. Much work is needed to be done, and until we do so, any further death that is a product of gun violence is on our hands.

** Gun information provided by Legal Community Against Violence.**



NFTOS

Many Places To Point Fingers

gWith the recent mass murder and attempted assignation of Congresswoman Giffords and other Federal officials this past Saturday, we at NFTOS find the blame all around us.

Being a alumni of the University of Arizona (Class of 85) I have never been more prouder of both my second home (Tucson) and the universities medical center. Bar none both top shelf entities.

While every township, county, State, city, metropolis in the Unites States has is share of lunatics, what transpired this past weekend in Tucson is an ever present threat in our society. Why is that?
Four main issues seem to come to the forefront:

1. Extreme political vitriol
2. U.S. Gun Laws and the lax thereof - for later blog
3. How the US deals with the lunatic - for later blog
4. Parental (supervision, child raising, monitoring)

NFTOS fully believes that these above issues in their order are the reasons for the shooting that occurred in Tucson.



National temperament, political discourse, political climate, all contribute to the incendiary volatile political arena we now see today.

Gifford's herself in March 2010 spoke to MSNBC about the Sarah Palin (crosshair) webpage. Certainly a full circle moment for Gifford's.



Clearly Jared Loughner's intent was to first assassinate Congresswoman Giffords, and while the right-wing's violent rhetoric is not directly responsible for the tragic shooting in AZ, the current political rhetoric has reached an unacceptable level. Yet, the right-wing media has consistently downplayed its displays of violence toward Democrats, portraying Democrats who received threats following the health care vote as overreacting or lying, while also downplaying the significance of protesters who attended rallies and events while armed.

Follow this link to see a plethora of gaseous, unstable, inciting "freedoms of speech" blurted by right-wing extremist. http://mediamatters.org/research/201101100003

Right-Wing has media mocked concerns about violent rhetoric during health care debate and once the health bill {obamacare} passed, Democrats saw a increase rise in threats and here is a example: http://mediamatters.org/research/201101100005

Queen tea party activist Dana Loesch posted today this rhyme, reason and justification for the Sarah Palin "crosshair" posting. http://bigjournalism.com/dloesch/2011/01/09/the-difference-between-purveyor-symbols-and-crosshairs/

Whether the symbol is or is not a crosshair is irrelevant, and we wouldn't expect the uneducated Loesch to know any better. Not surprising to NFTOS Dana's response is yet more denial from right-wing extremism. "Apologize" really Dana?! We have posted a myriad of times a email to Dana Loesch explaining that her hate and anger would on day cause innocent deaths. That days has come to Dana.

NFTOS has emailed both Glenn Beck and Dana Loesch regarding one, the email in question, two asking both to either tone down the garbage talk or either resign their positions on air.

This would be just a start as Faux News itself daily regurgitates hate and discontent toward progressives.

Glenn Beck, Sharon Angel, Sarah Palin, Allen West, Dana Loesch, Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, Sean Hannity, Bill O'Reilly, frequently encourage the "old west" mentality.

Extreme GOP Vitriol started or gave birth around the time of the ACORN issue. Andrew Breitbart and company (Biggovernment and bigjournalism) have been the leaders of political discourse, and vitriol. (Visit their website and read some comments as see for yourself http://bigjournalism.com/). Breitbart and Co are also not exclusive to trouble and controversaries.

At the end of the day whether all the hate and discontent distributed from Faux and any of its by products are responsible for the tragedy in Tucson are inappurtenant and inapropos.

When did debate and political differences turn to hate, violence, and mayhem? Why are republicans so angry? Why do they incite anger and then turn the other cheek, or completely ignore the ramifications of the fruits of their labor.

We do not intend to ignore the other 'issues' listed above. Gun control and controlling the insane are just as important as quashing the "hate freedom of speech" of the right.

I have predicted this tragedy or one like it since day one of this blog, some 8 months ago.

There is literally 100's of thousands of videos, soundbites, and information regarding the vitriol from the right. We choose only to post a smattering of some of the most disgusting from camp right wing. Our staff combed 18 hours of video alone today. Why is there so much out there? Because it actually exists, so for those of the right to refudiate it is utterly riduculous!

Until the extreme right tones down the second amendment old west carry em and shoot em up mentality, then we as a society can only expect those with less than half a brain cell to be angered and act upon that anger.

Unequivocally "freedom of speech" has its ramifications, and until we learn that all "unalienable rights" come with severe consequences when they are abused, then and only then shall we become the "United States"!


NFTOS

DEMOCRATIC CONGRESSWOMAN SHOT!

BREAKING NEWS: EDITED 21:28 1/8/11

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Here is a copy of an ad that Giffords opponent ran. Very, Very disturbing. Caution when viewing!

Here is Sarah Palin encouraging or inciting as well!

U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was critically wounded today in a shooting at a Tucson, Arizona, Safeway store. At least 11 other people were injured, officials say. The hospital says Giffords is in surgery for a gunshot wound to the head.


This is the very anger and discontent that Dana Loesch {pictured below}, Andy Breitbart, Glenn Beck and other extreme tea bags encourage!

We have posted this email from photographer Steven Treusdell to Dana Loesch. Here it is again for about the 50 time via NFTOS:

{Our researchers came up with this quote from a left wing friend of Loesch's (which honesty astonishes the bloggers of NFTOS that she has Democratic pals). Quoting photographer Steven Treusdell who has no problem calling out dear Dana... "You have the character of a hate radio DJ down pat," Truesdell wrote in an e-mail to Loesch in October. "Your continued rise in this arena will be fun to watch. You have the aggression, the looks, and the vocab to go far in 'Hate broadcasting' and right wing idolatry. Do be careful though, one day the outrage you urge in others will turn to violence and innocent people will die in your name. This is assured. That is a lot to live with, even when one has Religious righteousness and a fervent belief in their absolute rightness. I hope when that day comes you can live with the results of what you have sown."}

"Republican National Temperament" is completely out of control! Its fine to disagree with parties, but to take things to this level, Dana Loesch and Glenn Beck need to be held accountable, PERIOD!

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NFTOS

WHAT"S THIS?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

BREAKINGN NEWS:

OBAMA CREATES MORE JOBS IN ONE YEAR THAN G.W. BUSH DOES IN EIGHT

This morning, the Labor Department released its employment data for December, showing that the U.S. economy ended the year by adding 113,000 private sector jobs, knocking the unemployment rate down sharply from 9.8 percent to 9.4 percent — its lowest rate since July 2009. The “surprising drop — which was far better than the modest step-down economists had forecast — was the steepest one-month fall since 1998.” October and November’s jobs numbers were also revised upward by almost 80,000 each. Still, 14.5 million Americans remain unemployed, and jobs will have to be created much faster in coming months for the country to pull itself out of the economic doldrums.


Responding the jobs report, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) noted that President Obama and the Democratic Congress have created “more jobs in 2010 than President Bush did over eight years.”

Indeed, from February 2001, Bush’s first full month in office, through January 2009, his last, the economy added just 1 million jobs. By contrast, in 2010 alone, the economy added at least 1.1 million jobs. This chart, produced by Pelosi’s office {which was created from data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics}, demonstrates the difference between the Bush administration and the Obama administration on jobs:

As the Wall Street Journal noted in the last month of Bush’s term, the former president had the “worst track record for job creation since the government began keeping records.” And job creation under Bush was anemic long before the recession began. Bush’s supply-side economics “fostered the weakest jobs and income growth in more than six decades,” along with “sluggish business investment and weak gross domestic product growth,” the Center for American Progress’ Joshua Picker explained. “On every major measurement” of income and employment, “the country lost ground during Bush’s two terms,” the National Journal’s Ron Brownstein observed, parsing Census data.



With the graph above we would love to see tea bag central debunk these real facts! These are the facts that the extreme right would rather you not know about. These hard facts once again depict how much balderdash, baloney, bilge, bunkum, claptrap, crap, tea bags distort and twist with regards to the current admins work.


NFTOS

No Rhyme Or Reason, Republicans Just Make It Up As They Go

nThis blog piggybacks yesterdays reading of the constitution by the house of representatives.

We at NFTOS are amazed at the below Maddow snippet! Cleary the right is oblivious to what's right and wrong, and clearly they just make up {expletive} fecal matter as they go.

Rachael starts out with the constitution and how the right skirts and omits sections of the constitution. (which we depicted in detail yesterday prior to this Maddow release) While this alone is disturbing, the further facts in her segment regarding the republicans and their platitudinous, bromidic, hypocritical, ways make us here at the West Media Group want to regurgitate!

We at NFTOS hashed out whether to dissect Rachael's segment, or to let it speak for itself. Editor-in-Chief Roger A. West made the decision at the horseshoe ( meeting desk for news room execs) to allow the video to run without commentary.

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Upon further review, we will leave this small comment. After seeing this video whether right of left, any and every American should be livid at this mentality! Bottom line, the malfeasance of the republican party is unacceptable! "Cut-as-you-go", "open rule", repeal Obama care to a tune of $230 Billion dollars, cut spending, but don' pick a program to cut, "pledge to America", "constitutional citation". Can we really take a republican at their word?!

We at NFTOS title the tea bags "the know-nothings" for a reason, {like we needed further ammunition}, this video segment solidifies the nail in the coffin for the tools of the right!

"Two house republicans were not present inside the chamber. Congressman Pete Sessions and congressman Mike Fitzpatrick. Where were they? Attending a Mike Fitzpatrick swearing-in ceremony somewhere else in the capitol. If you are not officially sworn in, you are not an official member of congress. Despite the fact they were not technically congressmen because they skipped the swearing in, in favor of a party that was about the swearing in, Mr. Sessions and Mr. Fitzpatrick went on to pass votes in the house. Mr. Sessions even presided over a rules committee hearing when he wasn't technically a member of congress. Why did they think this was okay? Reportedly and I'm and quoting here, the pair watched the swearing-in on television from the capitol visitor center with their hands raised. Raise your hand at the TV? You can't get sworn in by a TV. You have to be there in person. If you could become a congressman by raising your hand at the TV, everyone simultaneously watching c-span yesterday and reaching for something on a high shelf or waving to a friend would be a congressman right now. The two not yet really congressman who faked their swearing-in had to be properly sworn in after the fact today. The first 33 hours in power is not going well today. These are self-inflicted things. republicans carefully laid out these rakes on the floor inside the front door. They've been stepping on them one after the other since they got in."...............

Readers we just can't make this stuff up. To know the republican is to love them.


NFTOS

They Can Read, But Can They Comprehend?

It is unclear this hour whether Republican House Representatives will read the constitution today as if they wrote it, or as if they own it.


As we blog, house republicans intend to skip those little amended clauses, like the part about slaves being three--fifths of a person.

Progressives have seen an opening, and they relish the incoming tea party republicans ideology to forced House Representatives to read aloud from the constitution - the proof that their ideas about the constitution are wrong. This ongoing reading is embraced by the new speaker of the house, but was originated by tea party nut-jobs with the intent of these founding father worshippers who think that today's reading will somehow part the seas for their vision of the country to emerge.

Republicans might be in for a shock today, that is, if they even understand the words they will read. The ability to understand the constitution relies on the ability to understand words and that ability is by no means certain, especially with the hear no evil, see no evil ideology of republicans.

Mr. Boehner himself said last fall that we always hear members talking about swearing an oath to represent their constituents, when in reality the only oath we take is to the constitution.

Right now, at least, they hear the words of reality. What they will learn about the constitution, will they see the founders' original intent, for if they do, they may be surprise.

After ten years of the founding fathers' original plan, the articles of confederation which let the states run the show, was trashed, the thing substituting the constitution to create a stronger central government with powers was left both vague and specific.

Governmental power specifically is to raise your taxes and then to spend it on pretty much whatever the government wants. The power to regulate commerce across national borders and across state borders, the power to write the rules of naturalizing citizens, the federal power has even more power to ensure voting rights.

The 17th amendment took away the power of state legislatures to elect U.S. Senators adding to existing constitutional limits on the states, no separate foreign policies, no state currency, no taxing goods to or from other states and the list goes on.

During the mid-term elections we learned that many "tea party" extremist lack the very fundamentals of understanding the basics of the US Constitution. O'Donnell, Bachmann, ( Bachmann teaches Constitution understanding to newly elected tea bags) Angel, struggled daily while on the campaign trail with regards to the United States Constitution.

Most educated Americans learned the constitution in 6th grade, or at least by the time they graduated high school most had a firm understanding of the document. Apparently republicans missed these classes when given.

224 years ago, the U.S. Constitution was born, giving Americans the freedoms that they hold dear, the freedoms that men and women have died to defend.

And yet, despite its brevity (slightly more than 7,500 words, compared to the roughly 77,000 words of the first Harry Potter book) very few republicans know about the document which is the cornerstone of their way of life.

According to a recent survey by the National Constitution Center of 6000 republicans, 58 percent know that Bill Gates is the father of Microsoft, but only 2 percent know that James Madison is the father of the Constitution. About 64 percent of respondents know that “The Club” protects against car theft, but just 25 percent understand that the Fifth Amendment protects important legal rights. A whopping 59 percent can name the Three Stooges, while 41 percent can name the three branches of government.

And yet the republicans want to read the document today, which commences the first day of work for the 112th congress.

Republican Ignorance exists everywhere. I witnessed this lack of understanding recently when I was standing in line at a tea party movement event where a woman who objected to the gatherings policy of searching purses and backpacks. She indignantly told a organizer that her purse could not be inspected, citing the Fourth Amendment’s protection against illegal searches.

She did not know that, in general, the Fourth Amendment does not apply to private organization – only to governments. The tea bag organizer has a right to require a bag search.

Her mistake must be forgivable when you consider that even President Obama cannot get it right. During his first State of the Union address, Mr. Obama said, “...we find unity in our incredible diversity, drawing on the promise enshrined in our Constitution: the notion that we’re all created equal.”

Those words are great ones, BUT they are in the Declaration of Independence.

During his speech last year before the Conservative Political Action Conference, talk show host Rush Limbaugh said, “We believe that the preamble to the Constitution contains an inarguable truth that we are all endowed by our creator with certain inalienable rights, among them life, liberty, freedom and the pursuit of happiness.”

Again, that’s the Declaration of Independence.

There is no good reason for the Constitution to be misquoted or misunderstood. Its genius is its simplicity. In slightly more than 7,500 words, it lays out the framework for the greatest way of life and most just legal system in the world. And its 39 courageous signers, in their wisdom, handed the nation’s ordinary citizens tremendous power. But never absolute power.

The Constitution is smart enough to not trust the president, either Democrat or Republican. It eschews dictatorship, laying out a tripartite government. It safeguards justice. The Constitution pioneered the do-over, allowing for amendments dictated by the will of us, the people.

If not for the First Amendment, you might not be reading this blog. And every champagne toast should begin with a nod to the 21st Amendment. All are grateful for the 19th Amendment, which came too late but arrived just in time, giving many the right to vote.

So, today, as the newly sworn in representatives read the document, we at NFTOS leave you the preamble to the United States Constitution:

“We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”......................

NFTOS Post Script: Hopefully today is the day that the republicans finally understand the words and intent of our forefathers, and hopefully they will leave the document alone and not amend everything that doesn't align with their less than idiotic ideologies.

Reading is fundamental, and reading comprehension is a level of understanding of a writing which appears to be removed from most republicans, especially when the topic is the United States Constitution.

Everything not of the republican way is not "unconstitutional"! Hopefully this class of tea bags has more intelligence than we progressives give them credit for. Otherwise we are in for a long two years.

NFTOS might suggest to Ms. Bachmann's and her constitution classes; Use the teaching strategy/technique called SQ3R, which stands for Survey, Question, Read, Recite, and Review. Certainly America will be a better land if done so.

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REPUBLICAN BELIEFS

Things Republicans Believe   


Being a drug addict is a moral failing and a crime, unless you're a conservative radio host. Then it's an illness and you need our prayers for your recovery.

The United States should get out of the United Nations, and our highest national priority is enforcing U.N. resolutions against Iraq.

Government should relax regulation of Big Business and Big Money but crack down on individuals who use marijuana to relieve the pain of illness.

"Standing Tall for America" means firing your workers and moving their jobs to India.

A woman can't be trusted with decisions about her own body, but multi-national corporations can make decisions affecting all mankind without regulation.

Jesus loves you, and shares your hatred of homosexuals and Hillary Clinton.

The best way to improve military morale is to praise the troops in speeches while slashing veterans' benefits and combat pay.

Group sex and drug use are degenerate sins unless you someday run for governor of California as a Republican.

If condoms are kept out of schools, adolescents won't have sex.

A good way to fight terrorism is to belittle our long-time allies, then demand their cooperation and money.

HMOs and insurance companies have the interest of the public at heart.

Providing health care to all Iraqis is sound policy. Providing health care to all Americans is socialism.

Global warming and tobacco's link to cancer are junk science, but creationism should be taught in schools.

Saddam was a good guy when Reagan armed him, a bad guy when Bush's daddy made war on him, a good guy when Cheney did business with him and a bad guy when Bush needed a "we can't find Bin Laden" diversion.

A president lying about an extramarital affair is an impeachable offense. A president lying to enlist support for a war in which thousands die is solid defense policy.

Government should limit itself to the powers named in the Constitution, which include banning gay marriages and censoring the Internet.

The public has a right to know about Hillary's cattle trades, but George Bush's driving record is none of our business.

You support states' rights, which means Attorney General John Ashcroft can tell states what local voter initiatives they have a right to adopt.

What Bill Clinton did in the 1960s is of vital national interest, but what Bush did in the '80s is irrelevant.

Trade with Cuba is wrong because the country is communist, but trade with China and Vietnam is vital to a spirit of international harmony.

The 112th congress is now in session, get used to the above rule of thumb. Tea bags now rule the roost, and {"Smoke em if you got em"} Johnny "Tan Man" Boehner has his nasty repugnant tobacco stained fingers on the gavel.

They are not rude, they are Republicans.
Good  Luck America, your going to need it!

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SOUTHERN POLITICS

The deep South is rising again. Unfortunately, this paradoxical, self proclaimed group of conservative ‘rebels’ have left the rest of us confused and torn between laughter and fear. Recent events have done nothing to quell the fires circulating around these political crack heads. I present the following as proof.


Arizona is the first case scenario. Its new immigration law, written, like most reactionary documents, between paroxysms of fear and loathing, attempts to rid the Arizona borders of illegal aliens. However, it also emboldens every Sheriff Bumpkin to over reach a tad and prosecute those found without ‘papers’, profile everyone who ‘doesn’t look right’, and generally terrorize any minority lacking blue eyes and blonde hair. It is a dangerous law in that it disrespects the human element and vilifies the very constitution that most Arizonians presume they hold sacred.

Secondly, in Georgia, home of many of the most delirious politicians available to the United States, a new law has sprung up denying the US Government (or any State government, presumably) from implanting heretofore unqualified and indistinguishable microchips upon the human body for any purpose, but especially for the purpose of control (again, presumably, real or imagined), tracking, research or even protection of said body. The legislators who initiated this chicanery of a law even presented a woman of undeniable humanness who claimed that the Department of Defense implanted a microchip into her vagina for just the most evil of purposes. Of course, no such chip was ever presented as evidence, but why let a great conspiracy story pass by due to a lack of evidence. That’s how conspiracies tend to roll in Georgia.

Speaking of conspiracies, note Rep. Paul Broun, coincidentally also of Georgia, who this week called a press conference to denounce the Obama administration, which he says plans to initiate and fund a private army answerable only to Obama. This will lead to dictatorship “just like Hitler”, Broun said. Then he will come for the guns. It’s all as plain as day. I consider this man a terrorist, not just a fool.

Finally, in my beloved Virginia, has arisen a old controversy centered on that old rebel calling card, the confederate flag. Legislators here could not muster enough courage at county City Halls to remove a flag which not only costs this state millions of dollars in economic terms (Most large assemblies seeking a compatible place to hold conventions, sports events, displays and even some developers will not come here due to this flag), but also repulses huge numbers of tourists (by which this state depends), and actually causes real psychic pain to certain minorities whose ancestors suffered under this flag.

There are large numbers of real progressives in the South, but in reality they are muffled and even silenced by the jackals who call themselves conservatives and Christians. Believe me, they are neither.

An array of crazy Republican talking points has been sold by the massive Republican Spin Machine until widely believed by many uninformed citizens. Essentially these political lies can easily be debunked by simple applications of common-sense and logic.

You can probably file this under things that are not surprising but nonetheless disheartening: Southern, white Republicans are the people shaking their heads as they shut their eyes tightly and cover their ears.

They have problems with many things. They think earth is thousands of years old, not billions. They believe dinosaurs walked the earth concurrently with man. And now tectonic plates don't shift and the puzzle piece-shaped continents of the world were never, in fact, as one. You know, Pangaea.

This information is according to one of the endlessly entertaining Daily Kos polls that examined belief and non-belief in continental shifting by political affiliation and region.
The head-shaking results:

7 percent of Republicans apparently think the continents are fixed and there never was a Pangaea.

37 percent of Southerners believe this whole tectonic plate thing is hooey! (The other regions fell into the teens and twenties)

30 percent of white people believe this scientific fact we all learned in grade school is unadulterated commie BS. (Blacks, Latinos and others numbered in the teens)

Below are definitions segregated by translations that differ by region, For this instance we will supply supplemental translations – one for Northern Republicans (NR) and one for Southern Republicans (SR).


If you are by chance a Southern Republican and can’t read, then please skip our blog or ask someone to read this to you.

911 -Emergency services line to be used in case of, … an emergency.

NR Translation – What you use to complain about traffic.

SR Translation – Rally cry that rich white folk use to enlist your children in the army to protect their oil pipeline investment.

Community- A group of people that share common interests and are affected similarly by issues.

NR Translation – Your immediate family and fellow members of your secret college society. However it might include your illegitimate children fostered with your undocumented nanny.

SR Translation – All the trailers on your loop.

Community Organizer - An individual whose actions raise the quality of life for your community.

NR Translation – The “bleeding heart liberals” that make life better for your unwed teenage pregnant daughter.

SR Translation – The gal passing out checks at the welfare office.

Conservative -
NR Translation – Making it appear that you believe in lower taxes while you run up the national debt and pad your pockets with the money you cut from social programs.

SR Translation – Going to mega churches to listen to drug addict ministers tell you that being a gay is a sin. Google Ted Haggard.

Crusades -
World History – Two hundred years of military campaigns to gain and retain Christian control of the Holy Land.

US History – Two hundred years of propaganda campaigns to gain and retain Christian control of the US Government.

Death Panels -
What Sarah Palin and Newt Gingrich think the 2011 Health Care bill will create. Before this context, the term was used mostly to describe the cowardly redneck that sits outside National Parks to shoot starving animals as they leave in search of food.

Deficit - Basically, when you have less money than you need to pay the bills.

NR Translation – This is what you let Democrats worry about.

SR Translation – The amount you have to borrow form the payday loan place to pay rent after you went too crazy at the local Walmart.

Family Reunion -
NR Translation – Where you try to show off how much more successful you’ve been investing in Halliburton than your cousin Mary.

SR – Where you meet your next baby’s mama.

News -
The regular reporting of presumed factual information so that the public can be made aware of current events and the state of affairs. You might find “news” in publications such as Wall Street Journal, CNN, C-SPAN, BBC, etc. You will not find news on Faux News Channel.

Surplus -
For Southern Republicans, this is best described as the amount of cans of pickled okra that you have left over from last year, when you start this years harvest. This is a good thing. (Also, see Deficit)

Truth - A statement that can be proven to be accurate.

NR Translation – It doesn’t matter as long as you settle out of court.

SR Translation – You know that feeling that you get when the cartoon on the cheesy puffs commercial tells you his product is the best. Yeah, he wouldn’t lie to you.

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FAUX NEWS EARNED ITS "RIGHT" TO LIE

In February 2003, a Florida Court of Appeals unanimously agreed with an assertion by FOX News that there is no rule against distorting or falsifying the news in the United States.

Back in December of 1996, Jane Akre and her husband, Steve Wilson, were hired by FOX as a part of the Fox “Investigators” team at WTVT in Tampa Bay, Florida. In 1997 the team began work on a story about bovine growth hormone (BGH), a controversial substance manufactured by Monsanto Corporation. The couple produced a four-part series revealing that there were many health risks related to BGH and that Florida supermarket chains did little to avoid selling milk from cows treated with the hormone, despite assuring customers otherwise. {See footnote below titled Whistle Blower}

According to Akre and Wilson, the station was initially very excited about the series. But within a week, Fox executives and their attorneys wanted the reporters to use statements from Monsanto representatives that the reporters knew were false and to make other revisions to the story that were in direct conflict with the facts. Fox editors then tried to force Akre and Wilson to continue to produce the distorted story. When they refused and threatened to report Fox's actions to the FCC, they were both fired.(Project Censored #12 1997)



FOX appealed the case, and on February 14, 2003 the Florida Second District Court of Appeals unanimously overturned the settlement awarded to Akre. The Court held that Akre’s threat to report the station’s actions to the FCC did not deserve protection under Florida’s whistle blower statute, because Florida’s whistle blower law states that an employer must violate an adopted “law, rule, or regulation." In a stunningly narrow interpretation of FCC rules, the Florida Appeals court claimed that the FCC policy against falsification of the news does not rise to the level of a "law, rule, or regulation," it was simply a "policy." Therefore, it is up to the station whether or not it wants to report honestly.

During their appeal, FOX asserted that there are no written rules against distorting news in the media. They argued that, under the First Amendment, broadcasters have the right to lie or deliberately distort news reports on public airwaves. Fox attorneys did not dispute Akre’s claim that they pressured her to broadcast a false story, they simply maintained that it was their right to do so. After the appeal verdict WTVT general manager Bob Linger commented, “It’s vindication for WTVT, and we’re very pleased… It’s the case we’ve been making for two years. She never had a legal claim.”

Many news agencies lie and distort facts, but not many have the guts to admit it...in court...positioning the First Amendment as their defense!


THE WHISTLE BLOWER LAWSUIT:

Wilson and Akre planned a four part investigative report on Monsanto's use of rBGH, which prompted Monsanto to write to Roger Ailes, president of Fox News Channel, in an attempt to have the report reviewed for bias and because of the "enormous damage that can be done" as a result of the report.

WTVT did not run the report, and later argued in court that the report was not "breakthrough journalism." Wilson and Akre then claimed that Monsanto's actions constituted the news broadcast telling lies, while WTVT countered that it was looking only for fairness. According to Wilson and Akre, the two rewrote the report over 80 times over the course of 1997, and WTVT decided to exercise "its option to terminate their employment contracts without cause," and did not renew their contracts in 1998. WTVT later ran a report about Monsanto and rBGH in 1998, and the report included defenses from Monsanto.

The 2003 documentary, The Corporation, featured Wilson and Akre discussing their battle with WTVT, with Wilson claiming that the jury "determined that the story they pressured us to broadcast, the story we resisted telling, was in fact false, distorted, or slanted." Project Censored called their story one of the "Most Censored Stories" of 2003,claiming that the "Court Ruled That the Media Can Legally Lie." Robert F. Kennedy Jr. later quoted Wilson in his book, Crimes Against Nature, with Wilson asking "What reporter is going to challenge a network ... if the station can retaliate by suing the reporter to oblivion the way the courts are letting them do to us?" Wilson and Kennedy both failed to note that Wilson and Akre originally brought the suit. Following the story, Akre and Wilson won the Goldman Environmental Prize for the report, as well as an Ethics in Journalism Award from the Society of Professional Journalists. The two continue to challenge WTVT's license, the last such challenge coming in 2005.

Following Wilson and Akre's contract not being renewed, the two filed a lawsuit concerning WTVT's "news distortion" under Florida's whistleblower laws, claiming their termination was retaliation for "resisting WTVT's attempts to distort or suppress the Monsanto recombinant bovine growth hormone story." In a joint statement, Wilson claimed that he and Akre "were repeatedly ordered to go forward and broadcast demonstrably inaccurate and dishonest versions of the story," and "were given those instructions after some very high-level corporate lobbying by Monsanto (the agriculture company that makes the hormone) and also by members of Florida’s dairy and grocery industries." The trial commenced in summer 2000 with a jury dismissing all of the claims brought to trial by Wilson, but siding with one aspect of Akre's complaint, awarding Akre $425000 and agreeing that Akre was a whistleblower because she believed there were violations of the Communications Act of 1934 and because she planned on reporting WTVT to the Federal Communications Commission.

So there you have it readers, while Faux News claims fair and unbalanced, the truth is that they tweak and distort to suit their needs and best interests.



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EXPECT THE RIGHT TO ATTACK OBAMA CARE IMMEDIATELY

House Republicans plan to bring up a vote to repeal the health-care overhaul early in the new Congress that opens Wednesday, at least before President Obama delivers his State of the Union address later this month, a key Republican lawmaker said Sunday.


Upton said on "Fox News Sunday" that he believes there may be enough opposition in the new House to reach the two-thirds majority required to override a presidential veto. Short of that, he said House leaders will "go after this bill piece by piece."

"As part of our pledge, we said that we would bring up a vote to repeal healthcare early," Upton said. "That will happen before the president's State of the Union address. We have 242 Republicans. There will be a significant number of Democrats, I think, that will join us. You will remember when that vote passed in the House last March, it only passed by seven votes."

Upton added: "I don't think we're going to be that far off from having the votes to actually override a veto."

When Republicans officially assume control of the House on Wednesday with the swearing-in of Speaker-designate John A. Boehner (R-Ohio), Upton will become chairman of the influential Energy and Commerce Committee.

"We will put forth a clean repeal bill of ObamaCare and you'll continue to see us make that fight, because that's what the American people want us to do," Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) said on CBS's "Face the Nation."

But while Republicans may muscle through a repeal bill in the House, its prospects are slimmer in the Senate, where Democrats and independents will enjoy a 53-47 majority.

"If we pass this [repeal] bill with a sizable vote, and I think that we will, it will put enormous pressure on the Senate to do perhaps the same thing," Upton said. "But then, after that, we're going to go after this bill piece by piece."

Upton said Republicans would look to overturn key portions of the health-care law, including the individual mandate, a requirement for businesses to complete 1099 tax forms and the so-called Stupak amendment that allows federal money to be spent on abortions in cases of rape or incest.

"We will look at these individual pieces to see if we can't have the thing crumble," Upton said.

Democrats said they plan to aggressively defend Obama's legislative accomplishments, chief among them the health-care bill.

"They're talking about wasting time repealing health care, when they know that the Senate and administration won't go along with it. Don't waste time. Create jobs," Rep. Steve Israel (D-N.Y.), chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, said on CNN's "State of the Union."

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HAPPY NEW YEAR FROM NFTOS!

A Disastrous Way Through The Serengeti

Batteries, China, and the Tanzania Government are well on their way to destroying our world in astronomical, epic proportions.

Sources close to NFTOS warns us by saying that Plans to build a highway through Tanzania's Serengeti National Park will destroy one of the world's last great wildlife sanctuaries.

Writing in the journal Nature, 27 scientists have called for a re-think on a proposed 50 kilometer (31 mile) road which they say will cause a "environmental disaster."

Under plans approved by the Tanzanian government earlier this year, the trade route would bisect a northern part of the park, forming part of the 170 kilometer-long (150 miles) Arusha-Musoma highway slated to run from the Tanzanian coast to Lake Victoria, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Construction is expected to begin in 2012.

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In "Road will ruin Serengeti," lead author Andrew Dobson, professor at the department of ecology and evolutionary biology at Princeton University, says laying a track across the park would disrupt the annual migratory patterns of tens of thousands of zebras and gazelles, and 1.3 million wildebeest.

Using computer simulations the scientists estimate that if the wildebeests' access to the Mara river in Kenya is blocked their numbers "will fall to less than 300,000."

In a phone call this morning sources told us that the ecosystem will flip into being a source of atmospheric CO2.

In addition to simulations, the scientists also cite the experience of other park ecosystems where large mammal migration has been hindered by roads and fences.

In Canada's Banff National Park in Canada, "habitat fragmentation" has led to the "collapse of at least six of the last 24 terrestrial migratory species left in the world."

In Africa, the ecosystems of Etosha National Park in Namibia and Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park in Botswana have collapsed to "a less diverse and less productive state," the scientists said.

Scientists say a different route running south of the Serengeti should be considered to preserve the 1.2 million hectare UNESCO World Heritage Site.

This alternative route could utilize an existing network of gravel roads and would only be 50 kilometers longer than the proposed northern route, the scientists said.

While they acknowledge that Tanzania needs improved infrastructure to facilitate economic development, they argue that the road would damage wildlife tourism -- "a cornerstone" of the country's economy which was worth an estimated $824 million in 2005.

The Nature article adds weight to the growing pressure on the Tanzanian government to reconsider its position regarding the road.

Last month, the Wildlife Conservation Society and the Zoological Society of London voiced their concerns and campaigns against the highway are gaining support on social networking sites Facebook ("Stop the Serengeti Highway") and Twitter ("SaveSerengeti").

Earlier this year, Tanzania's President Jakaya Kikwete tried to placate opponents of the project by announcing that the section of new road running through the Serengeti would not be tarmacked.

"I am also a conservation ally and I assure you I'm not going to allow something that will ruin the ecosystem to be built," President Kikwete said in an address to the nation in July.

Why does China dictate to the world? Evidently battery chemicals out weigh the millions of pristine wild life animals. Poaching along the Serengeti is already at a all time high. What ivory that still exist on elephants is certainly going to more threatened by the enhanced traffic through the land.

Why is it that humans destroy everything that God creates? What gives man the gumption, understanding or idea that his life is more important than the animals?

I have been pro animal much longer than pro human! To think that the Chinese and Tanzanian's greed will overrule the animal kingdom is a perversion beyond belief! There has to be a time when humans realize its not all about them. There was a reason why God placed two of everything on the Ark! Not just two humans!

Imagine. You are lying in the grass in the east African savannah, watching wildebeest fording a shallow river. You can hear the funny grunting noises they make, and as they pass by, you can feel the impact of their hooves on the ground and smell their rich animal smell. You see their kicking heels, their beautiful sleek bodies. Then you look up, and you realize that the herd stretches as far as you can see, that the plain is dark with wildebeest. If you were to wait for them all to pass, you would be there for days.

The sight is magnificent, primal and profoundly moving. It is the wildebeest migration.

Every year, more than a million wildebeest, along with hundreds of thousands of zebras and gazelles, move through the Serengeti-Mara ecosystem of Tanzania and Kenya, following the rains. In the course of a year, an individual wildebeest may cover as much as 2,100 kilometers. (That’s more than 1,300 miles — which is further than the distance between New York and New Orleans.) It is the last great migration on Earth.

But for how much longer? Should the greed of two countries take over, not very!

Roads are catastrophic for wildlife. The experiment has been done again and again all over the world: we know. Among the problems: roads allow the easy spread of invasive plant species, as car tires often carry their seeds. Roads also allow the rapid spread of animal diseases, and lead to an increase in poaching, building and other human activities.

But by far the biggest problem is that roads fragment habitats and disrupt animal movements. Many animals are reluctant to cross roads, even those with little traffic. And when there is a lot of traffic, the lives of people and animals are both at risk.

“The survival of our wildlife is a matter of grave concern to all of us in the world. These wild creatures amid the wild places they inhabit are not only important as a resource of wonder and inspiration but are an integral part of our natural resources and our future livelihood and wellbeing. In accepting the trusteeship of our wildlife we solemnly declare that we will do everything in our power to make sure that our children’s grand-children will be able to enjoy this rich and precious heritage.”

NFTOS asks our twenty some thousand readers to voice your displeasure over this for not doing so weakens our world greatly.



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Delawarean O'Donnell Up Too Neck In Cow Dung

Failed U.S. Senate candidate Christine O'Donnell said today that accusations she misspent campaign funds are politically motivated and stoked by a few disgruntled former campaign workers.


The Republican party blockhead appeared on several network morning shows to defend herself a day after The Associated Press reported federal authorities have launched a criminal probe to determine whether she broke the law by using campaign money to pay personal expenses.

"There's been no impermissible use of campaign funds whatsoever," O'Donnell told ABC's "Good Morning America."

O'Donnell, a tea party favorite who scored a surprise primary victory before losing in the general election, suggested the accusations are driven by her political opponents on the right and left, including Joe Biden. He represented Delaware in the Senate for decades before he became vice president.

"You have to look at this whole thug-politic tactic for what it is," she said.

She said she found it suspicious that she, her campaign staff and her lawyer have not been informed of a federal investigation.

Persons familiar with the investigation confirmed it Wednesday, speaking on condition of anonymity to protect the identity of a client who has been questioned as part of the probe. The case, which has been assigned to two federal prosecutors and two FBI agents in Delaware, has not been brought before a grand jury.

O'Donnell, who set a state record by raising more than $7.3 million in a tea party-fueled campaign this year, has been dogged by questions about her personal and campaign finances.

At least two former campaign workers have alleged that she routinely used political contributions to pay personal expenses including her rent as she ran for the Senate three consecutive times, starting in 2006. She acknowledged in a newspaper interview in March that she paid part of her rent with campaign money, arguing that her house doubled as a campaign headquarters.

On Thursday, O'Donnell told NBC's "Today Show" that she paid the campaign to use the townhouse as her legal residence because her home was vandalized.

O'Donnell said people making the spending allegations include a fired former staff member and a former volunteer, both of whom she described as disgruntled. She says many other workers who spent longer time with her campaigns have defended her.

Her contention that the accusations were politically motivated echoed a written statement she released the day before, which singled out Vice President Joe Biden.

"Given that the king of the Delaware political establishment just so happens to be the vice president of the most liberal presidential administration in U.S. history, it is no surprise that misuse and abuse of the FBI would not be off the table," she said in the statement.

The U.S. Attorney's office in Delaware has confirmed it is reviewing a complaint about O'Donnell's campaign spending made this year by a nonpartisan watchdog group, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington. But officials in the office and the FBI declined to say whether a criminal investigation was under way.

CREW alleged in a complaint last September that O'Donnell improperly used more than $20,000 in campaign funds to pay her rent and other personal expenses. The group also asked Delaware's federal prosecutor to investigate.

Currently Federal law prohibits candidates from spending campaign money for personal benefit. FEC rules state that this prohibition applies to the use of campaign money for a candidate's mortgage or rent "even if part of the residence is being used by the campaign," although O'Donnell's campaign maintained that it was told otherwise by someone at the agency.

O'Donnell had drew national attention in September when she upset U.S. Rep. Mike Castle for the GOP Senate nomination. She was handily defeated in November by Democrat Chris Coons following a campaign that focused largely on past controversial statements, including that she'd "dabbled into witchcraft", and "mice with fully functioning brains roamed the earth".

One former O'Donnell staffer, Kristin Murray, recorded an automated phone call for the Delaware Republican Party just before the primary, accusing O'Donnell of "living on campaign donations — using them for rent and personal expenses, while leaving her workers unpaid and piling up thousands in debt."

O'Donnell told NBC that Murray was fired from her 2008 campaign after less than two weeks because of incompetency. A pot and kettle moment if there ever was one.

Another former aide, David Keegan, said he became concerned about O'Donnell's 2008 campaign finances as she fell behind on bills and had no apparent source of income besides political contributions. He submitted an affidavit to CREW alleging that she used campaign money to cover meals, gas, a bowling outing, and rent to a landlord, Brent Vasher.

Vasher, a nephew of Keegan's and a one-time boyfriend of O'Donnell, declined comment when asked by the AP if he had been contacted by authorities. Vasher bought O'Donnell's house in 2008 after she was served with a foreclosure notice, then charged her rent to stay there, according to CREW's complaint.

In a message sent last week to AP, Keegan said he had not been questioned as part of a criminal investigation, and that he considers himself only a "catalyst" in a case in which several people must be questioned to scrutinize O'Donnell's accounting practices and alleged misuse of campaign funds.

After losing two treasurers in 2009, O'Donnell named herself campaign treasurer until this past summer. Another short-term treasurer took over in August and resigned less than two months later, at which point campaign manager Matt Moran added the treasurer's role to his responsibilities.

O'Donnell, who announced just after Election Day that she had signed a book deal, hasn't held a full-time job in many, many years if at all, and has struggled to explain how she makes a living.


Christine WHO?

Born in 1969, the 5th child of Bozo the Clown, O'Donnell initially aspired to the theatre, before realizing politics is where the exposure is at. She claimed to have graduated from Fairleigh Dickinson University in 1993, with a Degree in English Literature, and a concentration in Communication. Either due to the media's liberal bias, or because they noticed she couldn't, you know, communicate, journalists looked into her degree and found it didn't exist. It was then revealed that she had spent the summer of 2010 earning her degree amidst the controversy over her resume. Presumably she used study montage techniques learned from 80s movies like Back to School.

As an ex political lobbyist, PR geek, senior member of the "Right to Life" movement, O'Donnell is no virgin when it comes to the rough and tumble political scene. In a surprise upset for the incumbent, she gained the Republican senatorial candidacy for Delaware thanks to endorsements by the Tea Party and that other, vaguely disturbingly Right-wing nut job, Sarah Palin. Driven and determined to succeed to the Senate on this, her third attempt, her ability to make anyone give a crap about Delaware is probably her greatest accomplishment to date.

She has accomplished this mostly on the shoulders of her outspokenness. Normally, any publicity is good, right? However, when Karl Rove calls you a nut and you're on his side, you probably have a serious problem.

This queen lunatic is short many brain cells, and the party that follows and supports her is (for reason) titled the "know-nothings". Maybe the two go hand in hand when it comes to extreme right wing politics?

We at NFTOS can only hope that the FBI finds sustenance to the investigation and takes this too the grand jury. If found guilty O'Donnell would hold her first career of adulthood, that of "working on the chain gang"................









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