US Senate To Vote On Bill That Will Allow The Military To Arrest Americans On American Soil And Hold Them Indefinitely

As we lose more and more of our constitutional rights every day, this is one that we MUST take a stand on, and immediately. A Republican sponsored bill is about to be voted on that will allow the president to authorize the military to arrest and hold indefinitely any American in the USA for no reason and for an indeterminate amount of time.

We are truly headed down a very dangerous road that has been paved with greed and the need for control of the masses by the few who pull all the strings in our country. While the president has said he would veto such legislation that literally smacks of tyranny and a dictatorial take-over of America, this is the most dangerous that could be set to relieve us of any and all rights guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution.

America is NOT a battlefield. America is a free country and American citizens should not ever be arrested by the military and certainly not without being charged or getting a trial. This provision would cast aside the Constitution and put the liberties of American citizens here at home and around the world at serious risk. Please call your senator or visit this link, because this is a risk Americans cannot afford to take.

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Pentagon Will Certify DADT Repeal Wednesday, DOMA Continues Screwing Over Gay Soldiers Indefinitely

from: gayagenda.com

Wednesday signifies the end of DADT in the armed forces of the US. It will allow LGBT soldiers to finally serve openly in the armed forces with their comrades. As predicted by supporters, the pentagon has noted that there seem to be no changes in the general moral of servicemen.

HOWEVER, with DOMA still in effect the positive change in the elimination of DADT is negated by the severe restrictions enforced by DOMA. As we reported last week in this blog,  out soldiers are still denied the benefits of same-sex marriage while enlisted. THis means that partners cannot receive military benefits, cannot be told where their partner is or, if they are killed in action, cannot be told anything. DOMA ensures that hate and bigotry fostered by the anti-gay GOP agenda will continue to restrict young men from enlisting in the service.

Bottom line is that in all reality, NOTHING HAS CHANGED for the gay soldier other than that they can now be killed in action, out, alone, and hated!

Rep. Duncan Hunter introduces legislation to keep homophobia legal in the military

These politicians just won't give up, bless their "peapickin' little" hearts.  It seems as if the homophobic Republicans have forgotten all about job creation, the lousy economy, and most all other more important issues. They're like a slug...one direction, one mind...which means that there's no multi-tasking in the GOP room.

Give it up and get to work on the real issues facing us...like getting some of that money in your pockets out to the people who really need it instead of yachts and additions to your multi-million dollar vacation homes.

The Coming Second Civil War in the United States: Will We be Enslaved by Corporate Governance? | BuzzFlash.org

This is an extremely new, but inevitable thought...one that I've been thinking and talking about for some time now. I believe that this country, now led and owned by the GOP and backed by corporate greed and lobbyists, will soon become known as a Third World country and will be replaying history with a civil war. Americans' confidence in government is at an all-time low with an estimated 80-82% of the people dissatisfied with their congressional representatives and Washington politics. In some ways it might be the best thing that could happen, but in other ways, it could be the worst. We are already at war in more countries than we ever have in the past, we have a president that supports Republican ideologies behind the backs of the people who elected him believing that he would keep his promises to make changes in Washington politics that would be favorable to the American people, and now we are more in debt to China than ever before in history. There is little to feel good about in recent months except that LGBTQ rights have advanced somewhat. But I feel, as many do, that those rights will be short-lived with extreme right-wing "religious" zealots such as Michelle Bachmann in the running for president.

Our country is now governed by the rich one percent and is being led down a path of self-destruction that, as this article talks about, will eventually lead to a repeat of one of the worst times in our history...the bloody rebellion of the people against a well equipped, well funded group of corporations (a.k.a. our government).

All of this is like watching a well staged  play as it moves forward faster and faster towards an uncertain future. This is the legacy we intended to leave our children?

We'll see if it really happens...this time...again....once more!

DADT Certification Coming Friday, Say WSJ, NBC | News

www.advocate.com

Reports from both The Wall Street Journal and NBC News say Defense secretary Leon Panetta and Adm. Mike Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, will announce Friday that the military is ready to officially repeal “don’t ask, don’t tell.”

Need to Know: One Man Army's Jeff Bloovman

For those that watch this show, Jeff faced quite a group of formidable opponents with lots of experience, but did so with determination, skill, and little laughter now and then. It was a great show and the final was a win for more than Jeff!

Excellent interview...read it when you have a chance!

(from Out Magazine-July16)

By Phillip B. Crook

The gay winner of an episode of a new Discovery Channel military competition reality series chats about his experience with DADT, defying straight “masculine” stereotypes, and his support of raising children around guns.

Discovery Channel’s new show One Man Army pits four rough-and-tumble guys against each other in a series of physical and mental exercises to determine who among them is the most bad ass. On the series premiere last week that title went to Jeff Bloovman, a 29-year-old certified firearms instructor and martial artist… who is gay. Out chatted with Bloovman about competing on the show, his experience with DADT, defying straight “masculine” stereotypes, and his support of raising children around guns.

Militarized Conservatism and the End(s) of Higher Education

Tuesday 5 April 2011
by:Henry A. Giroux, Truthout 

The Truth about our "War Machine"vs. Education and the American 99%.
The Politican's and their refusal to touch the high costs of war...and the reason our country and it's poor/middle class are suffering because of the GOP greed and need to be at war!

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The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute states, "The USA's military spending accounted for 43 per cent of the world total in 2009, followed by China with 6.6 per cent; France with 4.3 per cent and the UK with 3.8 per cent."(2) The conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan have cost Americans a staggering $1 trillion to date, second only in inflation-adjusted dollars to the $4 trillion price tag for World War II."(3) Pentagon spending for 2011 will be more than $700 billion. To make matters worse, as Tom Englehardt points out, "We dominate the global arms trade, monopolizing almost 70% of the arms business in 2008, with Italy coming in a vanishingly distant second. We put more money into the funding of war, our armed forces and the weaponry of war than the next 25 countries combined (and that's without even including Iraq and Afghan war costs)."(4) Moreover, the United States maintains a massive ring of military bases and global presence around the world, occupying "over 560 bases and other sites abroad"(5) and deploying over 300,000 troops abroad, "even as our country finds itself incapable of paying for basic services."(6) In spite of how much military expenditures drain much-needed funds from social programs, the military budget is rarely debated in Congress or a serious object of discussion among the public. Rather than avoid squandering resources and human lives on foreign wars, we avoid "the realities and costs of war."(7)