The saga of Gary the Great is by no means over, and the rest of the story is truly fun, but right now i am busting at the seams over this Mosque thing. Not just the Lower Manhattan one in New York City, but the
arson in Murfreesboro, and similar situations all over the country. That paranoid idiot who thinks it's fun
to burn the Koran -- who the hell does he think he is? Any book burning is sacrilege. Why haven't we learned these lessons already!?! My late father in law, a presbyterian minister and noted antiquarian Decherd Turner would be rolling over in his grave (except that we actually scattered his ashes as he wished) at such a horrible thought. I loved him and miss him, a great deal. And since i knew him in my adulthood as i never had the chance with my own Dad, I will no doubt be drawing on his wisdom and strength here in these cyberpages.
True Story. I may be fuzzy on the details, but why take all the fun out of fact-checking? (What, you don't look stuff up after reading about it in the first place?) Anyway, way back in the Renaissance, I think maybe in Florence, Italy, there was a priest (or a monk, or a bishop, whatever) named Savonarola. He had a lot of serious, um, emotional issues, and was not a particularly happy person. At any rate, he grew to be rather influential with the powers that were and and he gained popular approval by capitalizing on the already miserable conditions generally of that period. Through fear and the threat of eternal damnation, he convinced quite a number of otherwise intelligent people that the way to salvation was to discard knowledge. So he had gathered from high places the oldest and most beautifully decorated scrolls to the lowest scrawling on scraps of vellum, all the books and paintings and drawings and such as he could. There were books of medicine, art, mathematics, astronomy, engineering -- who now knows what wonderful things were contained in the thousands of ancient and contemporary works that he gathered up. And burned.
Yep. Right there in the middle of the city. Burned it all. To ash. Who knows how advanced our sciences, our medicines, might be had we not lost what those works contained? For many years, SMU's Bridwell Library held an annual tongue-in-cheek salute to Savonarola that actually celebrated books......cheeky. I like that.
If this is too much history for ya (and i hope i didn't bore you) then read Bradbury's Farenheit 451 and the same lesson is taught. Or see the movie (not as good, have a snack handy). Anybody have any other works along this vein that they think are worthwhile? There was a good book out a few years ago, kind of a DaVinci Code kinda thing, called The Rule of Four which a fun read.
So The Angry White Mom is furious with these Jackwagons who hide good ol fashioned racism and
bigotry behind faith. This is exactly what gives religion a bad name. Religion aside, and just speaking as a fellow American, this anti-Muslim spate of hate has got to stop. In the first place, how dare these guys demand rights for themselves that they are unwilling to extend to their neighbor (and who next- you? me?)! There is no Patriotism in acting out of mindless hate.
And if you have personal issues -- I mean like your sister was knocked up by a guy from Bahrain -- don't drag that baggage into the body politic.
This kind of anti-Islam activity just plays into the hands of our enemies -- who, incidentally, happen to also be the enemies of most Muslims. I cannot believe I actually agree with Bushie on something (I will check my medications again) but he was right about focusing our outrage on the ones who deserve it. Our enemies feel justified by these morons' blind hatred of this religion -- they can point to these horrible events, these nasty rallies and such and say "see? All Americans hate the Islamic world and we are right to hate them back."
How come these Christians don't burn the Book of Mormon after finding out about the systematic child
predation going one with that Warren Jeffs and his "congregation"-- and that's just the latest. Read Under the Banner of Heaven (i can't recall the author) for more on Mormon outrages. How come nobody went
out and torched Seventh Day Adventists Churches after Vernon Howell (I refuse to call that child molester by his play name David Koresh) slaughtered his own followers, including children?
Whoa. I have nothing against Mormons. Or Seventh Day Adventists, for that matter. But I hate the hypocrisy. Here's a thought. I have never heard of anyone (well, there is that Scottish legend of the brother of St. Columba -- another fact-checking tease) who came back from the dead to tell us for sure -- nobody Nobody NOBODY has a real handle on anykind of afterlife. So any religion, or none of our religions, may have it right.
Maybe it is a good time for all religious leaders to urge their believers to step back from the brink, and take a second look at working out a future that we can actually have a say in. I think we need to take a look at what we all have in common and stop zeroing in on the things that divide us.
True Americans of all faiths are ashamed of this behavior. Americans must set the standard for tolerance -- no matter what pain or agony we FEEL -- we always must ACT like Americans. It's hard. But the high is like no other. My guidepost is WWJWD -- What Would John Wayne Do?
What do you think? (And if you have any ideas on what John Wayne would actually do, that could be fun)
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Monday, August 30, 2010
Mr. Hubbell's Highly-Praised Letter
The following in red is what arrived unsolicited in my inbox. Now I really hate to distribute this kind of garbage but i really think you might want to know why i started this forum. I have changed nothing from the original.
THIS CAME BACK TO ME FROM KANSAS
This guy is right on…must be that clean air in Colorado!!!
If this guy is right, there's hope! Plus, he's legit !!! He gives his personal info below. Long, but worth it..
A friend of mine received this email. He wasn't sure it was for real so he went to Snopes and they had no reference to it, so he emailed this guy, Gary Hubbell, to see if he wrote it. Here is his reply:
Yes, indeed, I did write that. Thanks for your compliments.
Regards,
Gary Hubbell, Broker/Owner
United Country Colorado Brokers
Hotchkiss, CO 81419
970 872 3322 970 872 3322 office
970 988 2122 970 988 2122 cell
970 921 5588 970 921 5588 home
970 872 3323 office fax
email: grandviewranch@gmail.com
web: www.uccoloradobrokers.com
web: www.aspenranchrealestate.com
EXCELLENT ARTICLE! NEVER EVER WOULD I HAVE THOUGHT THIS WOULD COME OUT OF ASPEN , CO .....
http://www.aspentimes/ .com/article/20100228/ASPENWEEKLY/100229854/
Barack Obama has awakened a sleeping nation
Gary Hubbell
Aspen Times Weekly February 2010
Barack Obama is the best thing that has happened to America in the last 100 years. Truly, he is the savior of America's future. He is the best thing ever.
Despite the fact that he has some of the lowest approval ratings among recent presidents, history will see Barack Obama as the source of America 's resurrection. Barack Obama has plunged the country into levels of debt that we could not have previously imagined; his efforts to nationalize health care have been met with fierce resistance nationwide; TARP bailouts and stimulus spending have shown little positive effect on the national economy; unemployment is unacceptably high and looks to remain that way for most of a decade; legacy entitlement programs have ballooned to unsustainable levels, and there is a seething anger in the populace.
That's why Barack Obama is such a good thing for America .
Obama is the symbol of a creeping liberalism that has infected our society like a cancer for the last 100 years. Just as Hitler is the face of fascism, Obama will go down in history as the face of unchecked liberalism. The cancer metastasized to the point where it could no longer be ignored.
Average Americans who have quietly gone about their lives, earning a paycheck, contributing to their favorite charities, going to high school football games on Friday night, spending their weekends at the beach or on hunting trips - they've gotten off the fence. They've woken up. There is a level of political activism in this country that we haven't seen since the American Revolution, and Barack Obama has been the catalyst that has sparked a restructuring of the American political and social consciousness.
Think of the crap we've slowly learned to tolerate over the past 50 years as liberalism sought to re-structure the America that was the symbol of freedom and liberty to all the people of the world. Immigration laws were ignored on the basis of compassion. Welfare policies encouraged irresponsibility, the fracturing of families, and a cycle of generations of dependency. Debt was regarded as a tonic to lubricate the economy. Our children left school having been taught that they are exceptional and special, while great numbers of them cannot perform basic functions of mathematics and literacy. Legislators decided that people could not be trusted to defend their own homes, and stripped citizens of their rights to own firearms. Productive members of society have been penalized with a heavy burden of taxes in order to support legions of do-nothings who loll around, reveling in their addictions, obesity, indolence, ignorance and "disabilities." Criminals have been arrested and re-arrested, coddled and set free to pillage the citizenry yet again. Lawyers routinely extort fortunes from doctors, contractors and business people with dubious torts.
We slowly learned to tolerate these outrages, shaking our heads in disbelief, and we went on with our lives.
But Barack Obama has ripped the lid off a seething cauldron of dissatisfaction and unrest.
A former Communist is given a paid government position in the White House as an advisor to the president. Auto companies are taken over by the government, and the auto workers' union - whose contracts are completely insupportable in any economic sense - is rewarded with a stake in the company. Government bails out Wall Street investment bankers and insurance companies, who pay their executives outrageous bonuses as thanks for the public support. Terrorists are read their Miranda rights and given free lawyers. And, despite overwhelming public disapproval, Barack Obama has pushed forward with a health care plan that would re-structure one-sixth of the American economy.
Literally millions of Americans have had enough. They're organizing, they're studying the Constitution and the Federalist Papers, they're reading history and case law, they're showing up at rallies and meetings, and a slew of conservative candidates are throwing their hats into the ring. Is there a revolution brewing? Yes, in the sense that there is a keen awareness that our priorities and sensibilities must be radically re-structured. Will it be a violent revolution? No. It will be done through the interpretation of the original document that has guided us for 220 years - the Constitution. Just as the pendulum swung to embrace political correctness and liberalism, there will be a backlash, a complete repudiation of a hundred years of nonsense. A hundred years from now, history will perceive the year 2010 as the time when America got back on the right track. And for that, we can thank Barack Hussein Obama.
Gary Hubbell is a hunter, rancher, and former hunting and fly-fishing guide. Gary works as a Colorado ranch real estate broker. He can be reached through his website,aspenranchrealestate.com
IF YOU AGREE, PASS THIS ON AND BECOME ACTIVE. IF YOU DON'T, DO NOTHING AND KEEP YOUR HEAD IN THE SAND.
Well, I don't agree, so I wrote him back. What I wrote to his email address is below I have changed nothing.
Gary Hubbell
Realtor/Rich White Guy
Aspen, Colo.
Auguest 27, 2010
Dear Mr. Hubbell:
You are right, Mr. Hubbell, Barack Obama is a great president and I, too, am totally outraged. I am completely and thoroughly tired of reading letters like yours that are forged solely on misguided opinions targeting vague accusations based on outright lies and misrepresentations about our President Barack Obama. Letters that are then published and promoted by a pandering press staffed by bought-and -paid -for shills for the Republican Party, as evidenced by Fox News’ parent corporation Newscorp’s recent donation of a million dollars to the Republican Governors’ Association.
So let us take a look at your February 2010 letter. First, your sneering tone and sad attempt at sarcasm should best be left to the professional hate-mongerers like O’Reilly and Hannity. Surely as a fine, upright and moral Christian you follow the Ten Commandments – especially the one that goes “you shall not bear false witness.” That means lying, you know.
But let’s look at what you actually wrote. You wrote that President Obama “has plunged the country into levels of debt that we could not possibly imagined.”
FACT: The Bush administration in fact took us from a surplus left by Clinton to the overwhelming debt inherited by Obama He also inherited the OBLIGATED FUTURE DEBT of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, which, along with the Bush Tax Cuts for the Very Rich ( folks making MORE than $250,000/year) have been the main additions to the debt.
Let us continue: You say “his efforts at health care have been met with fierce resistance
nationwide.”
FACT: Now that the scare-mongering such as “death panels” and other such unbelievable
crap dished out by rich white guys who already have great health care, the provisions enacted by Health Care Reform have already saved Medicare money, according to a recent CAO report. Look it up if you don’t believe me.
Let’s go on:
FACT: TARP was passed and signed BY BUSH. Get it straight. And stop smearing Obama with it.
FACT: Entitlement programs have remained relatively stable in relation to population growth and economic need. Look it up. And be specific about the some twenty or more
“entitlement” programs you are smearing.
FACT: Unemployment rose when the housing market fell BEFORE OBAMA TOOK OFFICE. . I know because my brother is a master carpenter in Colorado and he is still unemployed. Gee. You’re a realtor. In Aspen, one of the highest income per capita places in the country. How many bad loans did you know about and still carve out your commission?
And your “creeping liberalism”. What does that mean? Can you please be specific about how and where this is happening? And please tell me why do you guys always always always follow the vague socio-cultural epithet “liberal” with a comparison reference to Hitler? Do you even KNOW what socialism is? Based on your letter, I suspect not, because Obama has not signed or even sponsored one single piece of legislation that is socialist. Maybe a college course in political science or even world history would do you a world of good. But you take your ignorance even farther, with a scary analogy to dread disease. Well, that is enlightening, I must say.
Your “restructuring of American political and social consciousness” is nothing more than media-coddled upper middle class and upper class whining about losing control over the ways they have stuck it to the poor for yes, these past 50 years. It was Eisenhower who warned us as he left office to be wary of the “military industrial complex.” Look into the midst of those thieves in corporate clothing and their Wall Street buddies to find the core of rot that plagues our nation.
Your paragraph describing all the “crap” we have learned to tolerate needs a few corrections. For example, “Immigration laws were ignored” to provide cheap labor for agribusiness. And, absolutely no evidence exists to the claim that “welfare policies encouraged irresponsibility, etc..” This is simply an emotional-charged way of directing anger at the less fortunate. Really Christian, that.
I cannot argue your points about our children and our schools. They are in trouble. But that’s because our schools have been forced to operate in the 20th and 21st centuries using a century old funding method. Our schools need more funds to hire teachers who want to teach and who actually like teaching, as opposed to hiring warm bodies as cheap as possible because they will work for that wage. Our children “cannot function” because when teachers and administrators attempt to discipline or punish them for behavior that is counterproductive, the PARENTS of these precious lil’ darlins’ yank them out and homeschool them leaving them stupid, rude, superstitious and self-centered, just like their parents. Neither Barack Obama, nor “creeping liberalism” has had ANYTHING TO DO WITH THIS PROBLEM.
And stop with the nonsense about your second amendment rights. No one is trying to take your toys away. Grow up. I personally am acquainted with our County Sheriff. I find it enormously unlikely that he will come for my guns.
Your next paragraph is just a mash of disjointed grievances. Boohoo. A former communist gets a job. What happened to American the Land of Opportunity? Huh?
Auto companies are bailed out. Oh waaaaaah! Read the news Cowboy, they are paying and have already paid the government back. Government bails our Wall Street – hey,
Hubbell, how many times do we have to tell you this -- the BUSH ADMINISTRATION, NOT OBAMA, BAILED OUT WALL STREET. And then, congressional republicans tried to block financial reform that BENEFITS us all (except wall street bankers, brokers and other slime). Incidentally, those executive bonuses are the fault of the decisions of these companies’ boards of directors, not Obama, who are funny thing, rich white guys. You might want to take a college-level finance course too to see how corporations get things done.
And who is letting out criminals? Come on, this scare technique is as old as Willie Horton (don’t get it? you can google this one easy).
But you are right about one thing. Millions of Americans have had enough. Sadly though, they are being led to believe by some who are perhaps misguided and others who are certainly not looking out for the Average Person’s well-being, that the enemy is our president and his policies. In fact, they should be very careful who they listen to.
Beware of the people who want to go backwards , who warn of progress despite its pains, and who desire the good ol’ days when those days were not so good at all. I am not afraid of my government,. I am afraid of people like you who want “a complete repudiation of a hundred years” --- years that were not so good for us folks who don’t happen to be white, rich and male.
Let us list a few things that President Obama has managed to accomplish in the face of an unyielding wall of hatred and stonewalling.
OBAMA PASSED CREDIT CARD REFORM TRUTH Helps consumers, hurts fat cat
bankers and other rich white guys. Surely no argument here.
OBAMA PASSED HEALTH CARE REFORM (About time!) TRUTH: the bill contained a number of Republican suggestions and is actually based on a program like the one MITT ROMNEY (the BIG rich white guy on the right) enacted as governor of Massachusetts. And as previously mentioned, the reforms already underway have begun to show up on the positive side of the ledger. And as more people are actually affected by these reforms, polls show they are more approving of its elements. When the hate-slogan
“Obamacare” is removed from the program’s description, folks are very positive about it. Learn the facts, dude, and leave off the sour-grapes griping.
Against overwhelming support by the Republican congressional members for rich, white Wall Street bankers, brokers, backstabbers and thieves, OBAMA PASSED FINANCIAL REFORM so that my and my hard working husband’s meager life savings will never be sacrificed again to greed and gullibility.
OBAMA has acted to secure our borders. TRUTH: The Obama administration has put more boots on the ground and more equipment and funding on the border that EVER BEFORE. Why don’t you get the facts from someone who would know, like say New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson?
These are the things we need to thank President Obama for. I for one, am grateful to have an intelligent, thoughtful, engaged Commander in Chief for my son, currently serving this great country in the Army.
As Americans we definitely are feeling the outrage. The outrage of being take advantage of by our neighbors, of being stepped on by corporations, of being ignored in favor of the
Rich and Near Rich, of being taxed to support the upper 2% of the income bracket. Here’s a clue for you math geniuses who complain about the Americans who pay no income tax – they DON’T MAKE ENOUGH MONEY TO PAY TAXES. THEY ARE POOR. Get it? You try living on $8 an hour. C’mon, try it for one month.
I doubt that you have the good grace to give this a glance, Mr. Hubbell. From a 53-year old wife and mother in the $40,000/year tax bracket, my advice to you is this:
Fear is the single most contributor to the inability to physically and mentally function. This is a biological fact. Keep on being afraid and you will stay behind in those good ol’ days. Mr. Obama is moving me and my family and our nation into the future. No doubt mistakes will be made. You and others like you certainly are free to hang back, with your whining and bugaboos. But in reality the rest of us would like you to either shut up and get out of the way or get behind us and push.
Yours most sincerely,
Jeri Robison Turner
Poor Person with a College Degree
Ironically, his followers fell far short of his rally to attack me. Not one single member of his hatesite contacted me. But i did hear from several folks who tried to post encouraging comments to me on his site, which he deleted. I have invited them to share their experiences with this fine upstanding Christian example
here in this forum, and i hope they will join my voice.
THIS CAME BACK TO ME FROM KANSAS
This guy is right on…must be that clean air in Colorado!!!
If this guy is right, there's hope! Plus, he's legit !!! He gives his personal info below. Long, but worth it..
A friend of mine received this email. He wasn't sure it was for real so he went to Snopes and they had no reference to it, so he emailed this guy, Gary Hubbell, to see if he wrote it. Here is his reply:
Yes, indeed, I did write that. Thanks for your compliments.
Regards,
Gary Hubbell, Broker/Owner
United Country Colorado Brokers
Hotchkiss, CO 81419
970 872 3322 970 872 3322 office
970 988 2122 970 988 2122 cell
970 921 5588 970 921 5588 home
970 872 3323 office fax
email: grandviewranch@gmail.com
web: www.uccoloradobrokers.com
web: www.aspenranchrealestate.com
EXCELLENT ARTICLE! NEVER EVER WOULD I HAVE THOUGHT THIS WOULD COME OUT OF ASPEN , CO .....
http://www.aspentimes/ .com/article/20100228/ASPENWEEKLY/100229854/
Barack Obama has awakened a sleeping nation
Gary Hubbell
Aspen Times Weekly February 2010
Barack Obama is the best thing that has happened to America in the last 100 years. Truly, he is the savior of America's future. He is the best thing ever.
Despite the fact that he has some of the lowest approval ratings among recent presidents, history will see Barack Obama as the source of America 's resurrection. Barack Obama has plunged the country into levels of debt that we could not have previously imagined; his efforts to nationalize health care have been met with fierce resistance nationwide; TARP bailouts and stimulus spending have shown little positive effect on the national economy; unemployment is unacceptably high and looks to remain that way for most of a decade; legacy entitlement programs have ballooned to unsustainable levels, and there is a seething anger in the populace.
That's why Barack Obama is such a good thing for America .
Obama is the symbol of a creeping liberalism that has infected our society like a cancer for the last 100 years. Just as Hitler is the face of fascism, Obama will go down in history as the face of unchecked liberalism. The cancer metastasized to the point where it could no longer be ignored.
Average Americans who have quietly gone about their lives, earning a paycheck, contributing to their favorite charities, going to high school football games on Friday night, spending their weekends at the beach or on hunting trips - they've gotten off the fence. They've woken up. There is a level of political activism in this country that we haven't seen since the American Revolution, and Barack Obama has been the catalyst that has sparked a restructuring of the American political and social consciousness.
Think of the crap we've slowly learned to tolerate over the past 50 years as liberalism sought to re-structure the America that was the symbol of freedom and liberty to all the people of the world. Immigration laws were ignored on the basis of compassion. Welfare policies encouraged irresponsibility, the fracturing of families, and a cycle of generations of dependency. Debt was regarded as a tonic to lubricate the economy. Our children left school having been taught that they are exceptional and special, while great numbers of them cannot perform basic functions of mathematics and literacy. Legislators decided that people could not be trusted to defend their own homes, and stripped citizens of their rights to own firearms. Productive members of society have been penalized with a heavy burden of taxes in order to support legions of do-nothings who loll around, reveling in their addictions, obesity, indolence, ignorance and "disabilities." Criminals have been arrested and re-arrested, coddled and set free to pillage the citizenry yet again. Lawyers routinely extort fortunes from doctors, contractors and business people with dubious torts.
We slowly learned to tolerate these outrages, shaking our heads in disbelief, and we went on with our lives.
But Barack Obama has ripped the lid off a seething cauldron of dissatisfaction and unrest.
A former Communist is given a paid government position in the White House as an advisor to the president. Auto companies are taken over by the government, and the auto workers' union - whose contracts are completely insupportable in any economic sense - is rewarded with a stake in the company. Government bails out Wall Street investment bankers and insurance companies, who pay their executives outrageous bonuses as thanks for the public support. Terrorists are read their Miranda rights and given free lawyers. And, despite overwhelming public disapproval, Barack Obama has pushed forward with a health care plan that would re-structure one-sixth of the American economy.
Literally millions of Americans have had enough. They're organizing, they're studying the Constitution and the Federalist Papers, they're reading history and case law, they're showing up at rallies and meetings, and a slew of conservative candidates are throwing their hats into the ring. Is there a revolution brewing? Yes, in the sense that there is a keen awareness that our priorities and sensibilities must be radically re-structured. Will it be a violent revolution? No. It will be done through the interpretation of the original document that has guided us for 220 years - the Constitution. Just as the pendulum swung to embrace political correctness and liberalism, there will be a backlash, a complete repudiation of a hundred years of nonsense. A hundred years from now, history will perceive the year 2010 as the time when America got back on the right track. And for that, we can thank Barack Hussein Obama.
Gary Hubbell is a hunter, rancher, and former hunting and fly-fishing guide. Gary works as a Colorado ranch real estate broker. He can be reached through his website,aspenranchrealestate.com
IF YOU AGREE, PASS THIS ON AND BECOME ACTIVE. IF YOU DON'T, DO NOTHING AND KEEP YOUR HEAD IN THE SAND.
Well, I don't agree, so I wrote him back. What I wrote to his email address is below I have changed nothing.
Gary Hubbell
Realtor/Rich White Guy
Aspen, Colo.
Auguest 27, 2010
Dear Mr. Hubbell:
You are right, Mr. Hubbell, Barack Obama is a great president and I, too, am totally outraged. I am completely and thoroughly tired of reading letters like yours that are forged solely on misguided opinions targeting vague accusations based on outright lies and misrepresentations about our President Barack Obama. Letters that are then published and promoted by a pandering press staffed by bought-and -paid -for shills for the Republican Party, as evidenced by Fox News’ parent corporation Newscorp’s recent donation of a million dollars to the Republican Governors’ Association.
So let us take a look at your February 2010 letter. First, your sneering tone and sad attempt at sarcasm should best be left to the professional hate-mongerers like O’Reilly and Hannity. Surely as a fine, upright and moral Christian you follow the Ten Commandments – especially the one that goes “you shall not bear false witness.” That means lying, you know.
But let’s look at what you actually wrote. You wrote that President Obama “has plunged the country into levels of debt that we could not possibly imagined.”
FACT: The Bush administration in fact took us from a surplus left by Clinton to the overwhelming debt inherited by Obama He also inherited the OBLIGATED FUTURE DEBT of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, which, along with the Bush Tax Cuts for the Very Rich ( folks making MORE than $250,000/year) have been the main additions to the debt.
Let us continue: You say “his efforts at health care have been met with fierce resistance
nationwide.”
FACT: Now that the scare-mongering such as “death panels” and other such unbelievable
crap dished out by rich white guys who already have great health care, the provisions enacted by Health Care Reform have already saved Medicare money, according to a recent CAO report. Look it up if you don’t believe me.
Let’s go on:
FACT: TARP was passed and signed BY BUSH. Get it straight. And stop smearing Obama with it.
FACT: Entitlement programs have remained relatively stable in relation to population growth and economic need. Look it up. And be specific about the some twenty or more
“entitlement” programs you are smearing.
FACT: Unemployment rose when the housing market fell BEFORE OBAMA TOOK OFFICE. . I know because my brother is a master carpenter in Colorado and he is still unemployed. Gee. You’re a realtor. In Aspen, one of the highest income per capita places in the country. How many bad loans did you know about and still carve out your commission?
And your “creeping liberalism”. What does that mean? Can you please be specific about how and where this is happening? And please tell me why do you guys always always always follow the vague socio-cultural epithet “liberal” with a comparison reference to Hitler? Do you even KNOW what socialism is? Based on your letter, I suspect not, because Obama has not signed or even sponsored one single piece of legislation that is socialist. Maybe a college course in political science or even world history would do you a world of good. But you take your ignorance even farther, with a scary analogy to dread disease. Well, that is enlightening, I must say.
Your “restructuring of American political and social consciousness” is nothing more than media-coddled upper middle class and upper class whining about losing control over the ways they have stuck it to the poor for yes, these past 50 years. It was Eisenhower who warned us as he left office to be wary of the “military industrial complex.” Look into the midst of those thieves in corporate clothing and their Wall Street buddies to find the core of rot that plagues our nation.
Your paragraph describing all the “crap” we have learned to tolerate needs a few corrections. For example, “Immigration laws were ignored” to provide cheap labor for agribusiness. And, absolutely no evidence exists to the claim that “welfare policies encouraged irresponsibility, etc..” This is simply an emotional-charged way of directing anger at the less fortunate. Really Christian, that.
I cannot argue your points about our children and our schools. They are in trouble. But that’s because our schools have been forced to operate in the 20th and 21st centuries using a century old funding method. Our schools need more funds to hire teachers who want to teach and who actually like teaching, as opposed to hiring warm bodies as cheap as possible because they will work for that wage. Our children “cannot function” because when teachers and administrators attempt to discipline or punish them for behavior that is counterproductive, the PARENTS of these precious lil’ darlins’ yank them out and homeschool them leaving them stupid, rude, superstitious and self-centered, just like their parents. Neither Barack Obama, nor “creeping liberalism” has had ANYTHING TO DO WITH THIS PROBLEM.
And stop with the nonsense about your second amendment rights. No one is trying to take your toys away. Grow up. I personally am acquainted with our County Sheriff. I find it enormously unlikely that he will come for my guns.
Your next paragraph is just a mash of disjointed grievances. Boohoo. A former communist gets a job. What happened to American the Land of Opportunity? Huh?
Auto companies are bailed out. Oh waaaaaah! Read the news Cowboy, they are paying and have already paid the government back. Government bails our Wall Street – hey,
Hubbell, how many times do we have to tell you this -- the BUSH ADMINISTRATION, NOT OBAMA, BAILED OUT WALL STREET. And then, congressional republicans tried to block financial reform that BENEFITS us all (except wall street bankers, brokers and other slime). Incidentally, those executive bonuses are the fault of the decisions of these companies’ boards of directors, not Obama, who are funny thing, rich white guys. You might want to take a college-level finance course too to see how corporations get things done.
And who is letting out criminals? Come on, this scare technique is as old as Willie Horton (don’t get it? you can google this one easy).
But you are right about one thing. Millions of Americans have had enough. Sadly though, they are being led to believe by some who are perhaps misguided and others who are certainly not looking out for the Average Person’s well-being, that the enemy is our president and his policies. In fact, they should be very careful who they listen to.
Beware of the people who want to go backwards , who warn of progress despite its pains, and who desire the good ol’ days when those days were not so good at all. I am not afraid of my government,. I am afraid of people like you who want “a complete repudiation of a hundred years” --- years that were not so good for us folks who don’t happen to be white, rich and male.
Let us list a few things that President Obama has managed to accomplish in the face of an unyielding wall of hatred and stonewalling.
OBAMA PASSED CREDIT CARD REFORM TRUTH Helps consumers, hurts fat cat
bankers and other rich white guys. Surely no argument here.
OBAMA PASSED HEALTH CARE REFORM (About time!) TRUTH: the bill contained a number of Republican suggestions and is actually based on a program like the one MITT ROMNEY (the BIG rich white guy on the right) enacted as governor of Massachusetts. And as previously mentioned, the reforms already underway have begun to show up on the positive side of the ledger. And as more people are actually affected by these reforms, polls show they are more approving of its elements. When the hate-slogan
“Obamacare” is removed from the program’s description, folks are very positive about it. Learn the facts, dude, and leave off the sour-grapes griping.
Against overwhelming support by the Republican congressional members for rich, white Wall Street bankers, brokers, backstabbers and thieves, OBAMA PASSED FINANCIAL REFORM so that my and my hard working husband’s meager life savings will never be sacrificed again to greed and gullibility.
OBAMA has acted to secure our borders. TRUTH: The Obama administration has put more boots on the ground and more equipment and funding on the border that EVER BEFORE. Why don’t you get the facts from someone who would know, like say New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson?
These are the things we need to thank President Obama for. I for one, am grateful to have an intelligent, thoughtful, engaged Commander in Chief for my son, currently serving this great country in the Army.
As Americans we definitely are feeling the outrage. The outrage of being take advantage of by our neighbors, of being stepped on by corporations, of being ignored in favor of the
Rich and Near Rich, of being taxed to support the upper 2% of the income bracket. Here’s a clue for you math geniuses who complain about the Americans who pay no income tax – they DON’T MAKE ENOUGH MONEY TO PAY TAXES. THEY ARE POOR. Get it? You try living on $8 an hour. C’mon, try it for one month.
I doubt that you have the good grace to give this a glance, Mr. Hubbell. From a 53-year old wife and mother in the $40,000/year tax bracket, my advice to you is this:
Fear is the single most contributor to the inability to physically and mentally function. This is a biological fact. Keep on being afraid and you will stay behind in those good ol’ days. Mr. Obama is moving me and my family and our nation into the future. No doubt mistakes will be made. You and others like you certainly are free to hang back, with your whining and bugaboos. But in reality the rest of us would like you to either shut up and get out of the way or get behind us and push.
Yours most sincerely,
Jeri Robison Turner
Poor Person with a College Degree
Ironically, his followers fell far short of his rally to attack me. Not one single member of his hatesite contacted me. But i did hear from several folks who tried to post encouraging comments to me on his site, which he deleted. I have invited them to share their experiences with this fine upstanding Christian example
here in this forum, and i hope they will join my voice.
So Here We Are
Well, well
Here I am -- The Angry White Mom. Never thought i would be blogging but the last two or three days I have found that I no longer can keep quiet. There are a lot of loud angry Americans out here who are just as mad as I am, and I hope you will use this forum to express that anger.
This is what set me off. Last Thursday or Friday one of my conservative acquaintances sent me a long, forwarded email that had originated with a guy named Gary Hubbell. I read his article, which had originally been published in February 2010 in an Aspen, Colorado newspaper. Thinking I had the same rights as Mr. Hubbell as well as my conservative contact, I wrote a reply, hit the "Reply All" button, and sent it off. Big Eye-Opener Here. Sometime on Saturday I find an email from some guy from Louisiana who had gotten my email off of Mr. Hubbell's site The AwakenedNation.com. Turns out Mr. Hubbell was so enchanted with my rebuttal that he actually put in on his website and then invited his members to send me their comments. They did. Unfortunately for Mr. Hubbell, more folks wrote me in support of my views. The ONLY person who wrote me to tell me they were unhappy with me was the conservative acquaintance who sent me Hubbell's diatribe in the first place. Go figure.
So back to my fun weekend. When i read that Mr. Hubbell had posted my rebuttal, I had to see it for myself.
Googling "The Awakened Nation," I found lots and lots of Nazi Germany references and in particular references to one of Hitler's favorite Marches called, you guessed it, The Awakened Nation. That should have been a clue, but curiousity drove me on. When I found the site, it was after navigating through a number of commercial websites for various Hubbell -owned businesses. Ingenious that, but i will blog about the clever marketing of Rich White Men later. Not only did Hubbell slime me, but he posted the emails of the conservative folks who sent it to me -- sliming his own supporters in his rabid, testosterone-powered hurry to
put me in my place. Well, now i have my own place. When I find the doggone thing, i will post his diatribe and my rebuttal here. Your comments are welcome. Mine were called "vicious" by my conservative "friend."
Here I am -- The Angry White Mom. Never thought i would be blogging but the last two or three days I have found that I no longer can keep quiet. There are a lot of loud angry Americans out here who are just as mad as I am, and I hope you will use this forum to express that anger.
This is what set me off. Last Thursday or Friday one of my conservative acquaintances sent me a long, forwarded email that had originated with a guy named Gary Hubbell. I read his article, which had originally been published in February 2010 in an Aspen, Colorado newspaper. Thinking I had the same rights as Mr. Hubbell as well as my conservative contact, I wrote a reply, hit the "Reply All" button, and sent it off. Big Eye-Opener Here. Sometime on Saturday I find an email from some guy from Louisiana who had gotten my email off of Mr. Hubbell's site The AwakenedNation.com. Turns out Mr. Hubbell was so enchanted with my rebuttal that he actually put in on his website and then invited his members to send me their comments. They did. Unfortunately for Mr. Hubbell, more folks wrote me in support of my views. The ONLY person who wrote me to tell me they were unhappy with me was the conservative acquaintance who sent me Hubbell's diatribe in the first place. Go figure.
So back to my fun weekend. When i read that Mr. Hubbell had posted my rebuttal, I had to see it for myself.
Googling "The Awakened Nation," I found lots and lots of Nazi Germany references and in particular references to one of Hitler's favorite Marches called, you guessed it, The Awakened Nation. That should have been a clue, but curiousity drove me on. When I found the site, it was after navigating through a number of commercial websites for various Hubbell -owned businesses. Ingenious that, but i will blog about the clever marketing of Rich White Men later. Not only did Hubbell slime me, but he posted the emails of the conservative folks who sent it to me -- sliming his own supporters in his rabid, testosterone-powered hurry to
put me in my place. Well, now i have my own place. When I find the doggone thing, i will post his diatribe and my rebuttal here. Your comments are welcome. Mine were called "vicious" by my conservative "friend."
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