God Obviously Favors Dems This Time Around

Can you imagine the comments from the Limbaughs, the Hannitys, the O'Reillys and the Coulters had Gustav hit during the Democratic Convention, and/or a rainstorm had dampened their big finale in the Denver stadium? You know, we've heard it before, they would have been all over it, saying God was exhibiting his disapproval of the Dem's "Godless" ways. In fact, Focus on the Family actually prayed for a storm of biblical proportions to disrupt Barack Obama’s outdoor acceptance speech!

But Denver weather was exceedingly beautiful for Obama's speech, and come the first day of the Republican Convention – whoa! Their prayers were answered! A hurricane! And in New Orleans, no less, site of the Republican administration's worst nightmare. Is God trying to tell us something? Perhaps even the Old Man in the Sky is so tired of the lying, the thieving, the torturing, the scandals, the desecration of nature, the murdering by the current administration, that He felt it was time for Divine Intervention? Or maybe it was just the 17-year-old daughter of Palin being 5 months pregnant that stirred His Heavenly Ire?

Hey, I don't think that way, but I'm simply applying their own logic right back on the GOP. If you dish it out, you better be ready to take it! God wants the Dems back in the White House – don't cross Him, America!

Arresting Protesters Before They Protest - in the USA!

"Are we still living in The United States of America? Is it still the land of the free? I'm a bit confused. Since when do we raid homes of possible protesters, before they even have a chance to protest?" -- Care2.com

Check out these videos of folks getting interviewed after police raids in Minneapolis. On the weekend before the Republican National Convention, law enforcement agencies detained dozens of people and issued a series of search warrants aimed at groups believed to be organizing demonstrations while delegates and Republican officials are in town. Some were charged with "conspiracy to commit riot" -- basically thought crimes. And the reason for the raids were very far off the mark -- these are young people, living in neighborhoods where everyone knows them (neighbors are interviewed as well), and thinks they are great kids. They were simply planning to demonstrate, a right of free people, enshrined in our Constitution.

Denver was bad enough, with the Orwellian "free speech" zones we've all come to know and hate, but in Minneapolis, it's getting to be gestapo-type tactics. What is this country coming to? We can't abide this. It's just not right.

Labor Day and Republicans - what a match!

Does anyone else find it funny, in a faintly nauseating way, that the GOP is starting its convention on Labor Day? The party of enriching the wealthy at the expense of the working people, using the most hallowed day for workers to launch their big party – I guess it's not so different than their last choice, in a way, of a New York convention. The audacity – not of hope – but of hubris, in selecting New York, after completely bungling (or worse, depending on who you talk to) the 9/11 attack. After it became quite clear the party in power had ignored all the warning signs of 9/11 and showed gross negligence in handling any "investigation," then afterwords told New Yorkers it was perfectly safe to venture back into an area full of asbestos and other chemical and particulate pollution, resulting in severe health problems for many – they march up there and hold their convention, as if they were some kind of heroes.

Now, they start their convention on the day that celebrates the working people and their long-lived struggles for fair and safe working conditions, a living wage, and to provide a future for their offspring – in the very year that their policies have come to their awful, predictable conclusion of an economy that is collapsing right smack on top of said workers.

Ah, but the economy is strong, says McCain. Those workers are nothing but a bunch of “whiners,” say his top economic advisers. Yes, we can add “The Party of Denial” to the many accolades they should be heaping upon themselves this coming week.

For the last few decades, Republicans in Congress and in the White House have worked feverishly to help in the massive transfer of wealth that has happened, from the working people to the very rich. Through tax cuts for the wealthy, to economic policies that benefit those on top while extracting every last drop of sweat from those at the bottom, to no-bid contracts that enrich their favored corporate buddies, as those same companies shortchange the troops on equipment and services, and endanger their lives, this party has shown they care nothing for the little guy. They’ve done their best to deny long-overdue minimum wage increases, and they’ve appointed heads to government agencies such as OSHA that refuse to enforce rules to protect workers, and in fact rewrite rules to make it easier on companies to save money at worker safety expense.

They’ve helped corporations move jobs offshore, while giving them tax breaks. When disaster strikes in a place like New Orleans, they do nothing for the workers who live in the flooded areas, but help corporations move in and take over the city. They ignore the inner cities, except for redlining them and siting polluting industries there.

I could go on and on. The point is, how brazen is this party? They should be ashamed to launch their convention on Labor Day, when they’ve done absolutely nothing for workers, and everything to bring them down to third-world levels.