In recent months it has become clear on the vine that many people are starting to use Biblical passages to get a point accross. This is and attempt to get my point accross about our political leaders, both Democratic and Republican, so that when the folks on the vine go to the voting booth they are not mislead by what has been said on the campaign trail, but, instead, will know their candidates by their records. We have been fooled many times by what a candidate says on the trail to the White House and to the Congress, but this time we need to THINK before we vote for anyone.

In the Bible there is one section that holds these truths that we need to take into account when ever we look at our leaders, it is Proverbs Chapters twenty-six through twenty-nine. I will put some of the relevant verses in here. Understand that I am not a Christian in the sense that I go to any church, or worship the god that most church's today worship, I am a professed Wiccan and I will continue to follow that creed until something better comes along.

Proverbs Chapter twenty-six:

verse 24) A malicious man disguises himself with his lips, but in his heart he harbors deceit.

I say in this passage that what we need to do is look at the members of our government who are running or who hold office and decide which ones fit this bill.

verse 25) Though his speech is charming, do not believe him, for seven abominations fill his heart.

This should be obvious to the reader, but, knowing that some readers will put names in place of his or him in this passage I will state that this is not the case. Listen to what is being said by the candidates and the members of congress and decide from their records, (not what is on the news, but, look at their records online) and then decide if these men and women mean what they say.

verse 26) His malice may be concealed by deception, but his wickedness will be exposed in the assembly.

This too is simple to understand, who has been saying one thing in congress and doing something totally different?

verse 27) if a man digs a pit, he will fall into it; if a man rolls a stone, it will roll back on him.

Sounds a little confusing, but, if you think about it it makes sense. If you dig a hole then you are going to fall into that hole, lately congress has been digging a hole and according to the latest polls they have fallen in.

verse 28) A lying tongue hates those it hurts, and a flattering mouth works ruin.

Think for a moment, who in the government has been telling the most lies. Who according to politicheck or any of those groups out there that fact check the politicians has been lying the most. You know as well as I do that there are a lot of people right now that are out of work and need the welfare and social programs just to get by, but, some of the politicians that are out there are telling us that these people, (us) don't need these programs, that we are just being lazy. These same people want us to believe that Corporations are people and they deserve to be on welfare, but we don't deserve to be on welfare.

Chapter 27;

verse 1) Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring forth.

Yes, this is in the Bible. Tell me, who amongst the politicians has boasted about what they can do tomorrow. The answer is simple all of them at one point or another.

verse 2) Let another praise you, and not your own mouth; someone else, and not your own lips.

This is another simple one and this is the only time that I will use a politicians name, Rick Perry has been praising himself since he hit the campaign trail.

verse 12) The prudent see danger and take refuge, but the simple keep going and suffer for it.

There are some policians out there right now with all the natural disasters, Irene, the earthquake in the east, that are still saying that we need even smaller government. We don't need FEMA, or the EPA according to them, we just need to worry about these things destroying our homes and business's and then trusting the insurance companies to do what is right. Heck we don't even need NOAA.

verse 13) Take the garment of one who puts up security for a stranger; hold it in pledge if he does it for a wayward woman.

Lately the candidates and politicians have been debating whether we should keep any of the laws on the books concerning womens rights, or if we should continue to finance any of the programs for womens health. I think this verse in the Bible speaks to that issue.

Chapter 28;

verse 2) When a country is rebellious, it has many rulers, but a man of understanding and knowledge maintains order.

How does this fit into what I want you to understand? It can be put into a few words. How many rulers do we have right now? There's President Obama, Speaker Boehner, Mitch McConnell, Mitt Romney, Rick Perry, Ron Paul, Michelle Bachman, everyone of these people have an idea of how this country should be run and none of them except Barack Obama holds the real title, we are in rebellion against God according to this, and according to this we need to take a step back and let President Obama lead us.

verse 3) A ruler who oppresses the poor is like a driving rain that leaves no crops.

Well, I can't get away from this one, the Tea Party and the Republicans have been trying to oppress the poor since 2009.

verse 4) Those who forsake the law praise the wicked but those who keep the law resist them.

Everyone in Washington is to blame for this in one way or another. Since 2003 our government has been praising the wicked by forsaking the law.

verse 5) Evil men to not understand justice, but those who seek the Lord understand it fully.

Think on this one for a moment, who has been paying to get their own form of justice from the government lately? Who has been buying up elections left and right lately? These are the evil men this passage speaks of.

verse 6) Better a poor man whose walk is blameless than a rich man whose ways are perverse.

This could speak to a lot of people in our country at this time, many of them claim to be Christian.

verse 7) He who keeps the law is a discerning son, but a companion of gluttons discraces his father.

You have to ask yourself a question with this one. Who are the gluttons that I am speaking of and who are their companions?

verse 8) He who increases his wealth by exorbitant interest amasses it for another, who will be kind to the poor.

We are asking a question here, "Who will be kind to the poor?" It is our job as a society to help the poor, but our politicians want to be kind to the rich only. Are we doing what the Bible says we should be doing? No.

verse 9) If anyone turns a deaf ear to the law, even his prayers are detestable.

This is simple, turn a deaf ear to the Constitution and even your prayers will become detestable in the ears of God.

verse 10) He who leads the upright along an evil path will fall into his own trap, but the blameless will recieve a good inheritance.

Uhmm, I think that we have a winner here. If the upright voter is lead down the wrong path, it is the polician doing the leading that will have to answer to God for it.

verse 11) A rich man may be wise in his own eyes, but a poor man who has discernment sees through him.

This is simple enough, the rich think that they are wise, but, a discerning man of any stripe can see right through the rich mans BS. Look out Koch Brothers we are on to you.

Even though I have more here to put into this article I think I will stop here for now, this is a lot to digest and I don't want to give any of you heart burn, just remember that we need to use our brains this time around and not use, "Oh, he sounds good, I'll vote for him." The big question is, "Where do we want our country to go, and is it heading there right now?" 

John Boehner in an interview with FOX News's Cris Wallace, revealed the truth about what the Republicans really wanted to do to the U.S. economy.

Now we can see what they really planned, in order to get rid of the POTUS the Republicans are willing to destroy the economy and the credit rating of the United States.

John Boehner in a rare moment speaks a part of the truth, "Oil subsidies need to be cut." Accually they need to be ended. Boehner in this rare moment admits he likes the idea of revenue added to cutting the deficit!

The debt ceiling debate is a false debate created by the Tea Party and certain right wing Republicans to throw a bad light on President Obama and the Democratic Party. The question is why would the Republicans want to do this to the president and his party? Well, since this is an opinion piece I can state my opinion as long as I'm within the CoH of Newsvine, so here goes. In January of 2009 Mitch McConnell stated in an interview that the Republicans would "do everything in their power to make sure this president was a one term president." this me means that even if it destroy's the economy or gets rid of Medicare, or causes us to default on our debts the Republicans would get rid of Obama by 2012. Most Democrats in the country know this already, many Republicans know it as well, it is just the few misinformed among the Republicans and Tea Party that don't know this so here's a link that has this statement in McConnells own words for the uninformed, http://blackamericans.com/blogs/news/archive/2010/11/01/senator-mitch-mcconnell-make-obama-a-one-term-president.aspx.

Now, let's take a look at the Debt Ceiling debate, this debate is a non-starter first of all, because according to every person out there in Pundit land every president and congress has voted on raising the debt ceiling since it was first inacted over a hundred years ago and none of them have voted no, Reagan voted eighteen times to raise the ceiling during his presidentcy and Bush II voted on it seven times and both voted to raise it each and every time. So, why the problem now? It's simple really, we have a bunch of freshman Representives in office that think that this is something new, they don't know what will happen if they don't raise the ceiling before the deadline, but, I do.

First all interest rates in the U.S. will rise, that means car loans will cost more, home loans will cost more, credit cards will cost more, school loans for college will cost more, business loans will cost more, everything in the United States will cost more. Not only this will happen but, our soldiers won't get paid, seniors won't get paid, the government will shut down, cities that have a triple A rating will lose their rating and the U.S. will not be trusted in the world market any longer. The stock market might crash and all of this will make the recession of 2008 look like a tea party, excuse the reference. You complain about a 9.1% unemployment rate, how about one that is double, or triple that. This is what we are looking at.

Now everyone wants to blame everyone else for this, but, I blame the voters in the last election, we had a choice in that election, to vote or not to vote, most of us chose not to vote and the Tea Party gained seats in the House of Representatives, enough that they can tell John Boehner how to vote. Boehner doesn't run the House, the Tea Party does, he is the Speaker of the Tea Party, not the Speaker of the House. Boehner could have come to the Democrats in the House and dealt with them, but he was too afraid of the Tea Party members to go against them. So, were do we stand today, we are two days away from defaulting on the debt ceiling for the first time in history, way to go voters.

My mother used to tell me to "Be careful of what you wish for, you just might get it." Well, I didn't wish for this to happen and I didn't vote for any of the Tea Party members in the House either, but, they are there and they are not leaving until they are voted out of office. I have said this many times in different posts on the vine and I haven't been dinged for it yet, so, I'll try it here and see what happens. Washington needs an enima, and the American voter is the only one who can give it one.

Recently Michelle Bachman decided to join the 2012 presidential race and most Democrats have decided to take this as a sign that the Republicans have lost their collective minds, I on the other hand have a different take on this. In recent news interviews, some with Ms. Bachman in them and others with Pundents talking about her in them I have come to realize that Ms. Bachman is not as much of a flake as people might think, and that she could in fact be a threat to President Obama in 2012. First let me say that I am a Democrat and I will vote for Barack Obama in 2012, but I think that Bachman is not as flaky as some might think and that she is lulling the Democrats into a stuper with her ditzy ways, take a recent interview on FAUX News with Chris Wallace for example, in the interview Chris asked her point blank, "Are you as flaky as you seem?" Michelles answer was to point out that she has a PHD. and that she is a tax attorney, and she told Chris that she didn't think it was nice of him to say that she was flaky. Of course it is my opinion, but I think she does have her flaky moments, and I hope that during the campaign they come rather often. http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/fox-news-sunday/index.html#/v/1025286407001/bachmann-talks-earmarks-obamacare-and-gay-marriage/?playlist_id=86913

In another show a Pundent was asked if Michelle Bachman was a real threat to Barack Obama and the answer from the Pundent was that in the past people had taken Ms. Bachman less seriously than they should and have ended up regretting it. To be honest about it I don't know if Michelle Bachman stands a chance in the primary's but, as the Pundent said, "I wouldn't count her out." Bachman is rising in the polls and right now she is right on Mitt Romneys heels, let's watch her and see how she does.

Gabby Giffords was a centrist Democrat one of the Blue Dogs in congress, she voted against Nancy Pelosi for Speaker of the house and in favor of Healthcare Reform. In an interview she said that people like Sarah Palin needed to end the vitriol and the rhetoric because it could insite violence. Just a few months later it did, Rep. giffords was shot.

I had a hard time finding this and decided how to list it on the vine, but i think that I have it right.

This video is Sarah Palin "explaining herself" and Keith Olberman commenting on what she is saying. It also has an interview with the second cousin of Gabby Giffords on it as well as comments from Representative Giffords in an interview a few months ago. It is worth watching.

Some in Congress have been talking about the creation of new gun laws in the wake of the shooting at Gabby Giffords rally last Saturday, it is not the gun that is responsible for Saturdays tragedy, it is the person who used the gun who is responsible. Laughner is allegedly guilty of murder, his Glock is not guilty of murder, it is time to think about how laws concerning guns are put together, so let us think. Laughner is obviously mentally ill, the question is, is he too ill to stand trial for the murder, I don't know about that I am not a psychiatrist, I am someone that supports the second amendment. I believe that a person has the right to defend their home, and to use guns in a responsible manner, that being said, I also believe that it is irresponsible to allow certain people to buy guns.

It is my opinion that some people with certain mental illness's should never own a gun and should not be allowed to buy guns from anyone. Don't get me wrong, I am not saying this out of any kind of fear of people with mental illness's, I have a mental illness and I take medications for that illness, but, I also like to go out and shoot my guns...at targets, and at deer and other animals. There are people out there with mental illness's that should not own even a knife, not because they are too ignorant to own such a tool, but because they will use it in a way that it wasn't meant to be used, like shooting a senator, a president or a member of the House. If we wish to get rid of a politician the easiest way to do this is to vote for his or her opponent, that is why we have the vote. If we decide to make it harder to own a handgun for everyone then all we are doing is making it easier for criminals to buy them. My reasoning for writing this last statement is obvious, making handguns illegal means that only criminals will have handguns, which means that good citizens will be at the mercy of the criminals.

There is a law maker out there that wishes to make it illegal to own clips that hold more than 10 rounds, this to me is a good idea. Why does anyone need more than 10 rounds to take down a target? I believe that anyone that needs more than ten rounds when they go hunting shouldn't even leave their house, they are not hunters and have no business owning a gun, if that is the best they can do with a gun. This would be a good law, but then again some congressmen are against this kind of law. I want to ask them why, it doesn't affect the ownership of a gun, it only prevents people from buying clips that could carry enough bullets to take out twenty or more people at a time. Let the military and the police have these clips, that will prevent alot of criminals from trying to commit crimes, it would be like, "Oh, Sh*t, the cops have twenty rounds per clip all I have is ten, I don't think I'll rob that bank today."

Now, let's look at Sarah Palin. I am not a fan of the ex-governor of Alaska and never have been. I think she is a vacuous twit that needs to go back to school and learn something about the world before she ever decides to run for a national office again. Do I think she had anything to do with what happened in Arizona? I'm not sure, I do know that she thinks she might have had something to do with it, why else would she have taken down the map with targets on it? I think that Ms. Palin is concerned about how that map makes her look now in the eyes of some of the public today, and I think that she is in hiding because she doesn't know how to handle the issue. I don't believe that Laughner knew Sarah Palin and I don't believe that he saw any of her speeches, however, he could have seen her map when it was on her website, he did use the internet to post his manafesto. Keep in mind that there is no proof that Laughner ever knew anything about Sarah Palin, but unless he was living under a rock for the past two years he had to have heard something from the right wing and the Tea Party concerning things like "Don't retreat, reload.", or "Second Amendment remedies." all of these things were played on the news more times than I can count on many networks and in the papers. No matter who said them it was wrong, no matter who reported these things, it was wrong to give these words excessive play time. The facts are these, whoever gave these words, or maps air time are just as guilty, if there is anything to be guilty about, of the shooting Saturday as Laughner.

What should be done then to prevent a tragedy like this? Pass a law preventing the ownership of clips that hold more than ten rounds in them. Pass a law that requires professionals that think that someone could be a danger to themselves or others must report these people to the police in their city. Pass a law that bans guns from any event where a politician is going to speak. Pass a law that bans vitriol speech on television or radio, anything that even suggests killing a politician, or anyone else should be banned from the airwaves.

Hey, has anyone noticed that "A Christmas Carol" is a dangerous leftist tract?

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I mean, consider the scene, early in the book, where Ebenezer Scrooge rightly refuses to contribute to a poverty relief fund. "I'm opposed to giving people money for doing nothing," he declares. Oh, wait. That wasn't Scrooge. That was Newt Gingrich — last week. What Scrooge actually says is, "Are there no prisons?" But it's pretty much the same thing.

Anyway, instead of praising Scrooge for his principled stand against the welfare state, Charles Dickens makes him out to be some kind of bad guy. How leftist is that?

Here is the greatest view of weiners I have ever seen. Senator Graham of S.C. gives a good idea of why we don't need these guys in office after 2012.

McCain really doesn't get it and he really shows it in this video.

Someone asked me to provide proof that Dick Cheney supplied Haliburton with an open ended contract in Iraq in a post on another article well here it is. Enjoy.

(CBS/AP) A report by the Congressional Research Service undermines Vice President Dick Cheney's denial of a continuing relationship with Halliburton Co., the energy company he once led, Sen. Frank Lautenberg said Thursday.

The report says a public official's unexercised stock options and deferred salary fall within the definition of "retained ties" to his former company.

Cheney said Sunday on NBC that since becoming vice president, "I've severed all my ties with the company, gotten rid of all my financial interest. I have no financial interest in Halliburton of any kind and haven't had, now, for over three years."

Democrats pointed out that Cheney receives deferred compensation from Halliburton under an arrangement he made in 1998, and also retains stock options. He has pledged to give after-tax proceeds of the stock options to charity.

Cheney's aides defended the assertion on NBC, saying the financial arrangements do not constitute a tie to the company's business performance. They pointed out that Cheney took out a $15,000 insurance policy so he would collect the deferred payments over five years whether or not Halliburton remains in business.

Lautenberg, D-N.J., asked the Congressional Research Service to weigh in.
Without naming Cheney or Halliburton, the service reported that unexercised stock options and deferred salary "are among those benefits described by the Office of Government Ethics as 'retained ties' or 'linkages' to one's former employer."

Lautenberg said the report makes clear that Cheney does still have financial ties to Halliburton. "I ask the vice president to stop dodging the issue with legalese," Lautenberg said.

Cathie Martin, Cheney's spokeswoman, said the question is whether Cheney has any possible conflict of interest with Halliburton, "and the answer to that is, no."

Cheney was chief executive officer of Halliburton from 1995 through August 2000. The company's KBR subsidiary is the main government contractor working to restore Iraq's oil industry in an open-ended contract that was awarded without competitive bidding.

I was watching Lawrence O'Donnell tonight and saw something refreshing, Lawrence lashed out at a Democratic Representitive who didn't know how the new tax deal with Republicans and President Obama would work. This is an interview with like minded Democrats that would put the working people in jepardy if the new deal doesn't go through. Everyone Democrats and Republicans need to read this post.

In case you are wondering this is an opinion piece.

What do I mean by the title of this article? Plato wrote a story titled "The Cave", in this story he said there were a group of people that were held in a cave chained to the floor and the only thing they could see from the time of their birth to their death was the shadows that formed on the wall in front of them and their "keepers", the keepers told them that the world was the shadows that formed on the wall and this was what the world was. One day one of the people escaped from the cave and went out into the world, he eventually was caught by the keepers and returned to the cave were he was chained back to the floor, when he tried to tell the people what he saw none of the people believed him and they ridiculed him for saying that the world looked nothing like the shadows on the wall because that was the world, after all that is what the keepers told them, so it must be true.

Our keepers are the politicians, the news organizations and the financiers of the elections, they tell us what the world is like and we believe them. We don't bother to try to turn around and look out of the cave to see if what we are being told is true or not true, and this is the shame we all carry with us every day. We are told everyday that illegal immigration is bad, which to a point it is, but without immigration we wouldn't have the country we have today. We are told that taxes are bad, but we are also told that without taxes we won't be able to run our country. We were told 10 years ago that Al Qaeda was bad, it is, but we were told that if we didn't agree with the president at that time we were not patriots, he wanted to go to war with the Middle East, so we went to war with Iraq and Afghanistan, we're still at war, ten years later.

It is this type of ignorance that has polarized us in this last election and it is this type of polarization that will continue to cost us in the future. So, what is the answer? We must take a look out of the cave, we must turn around and look at the world for our selves and see the truth. We must never accept at face value what anyone tells us is the truth and we must examine everything we hear and think we see. The shadows on the wall are not the truth, they are an image of the truth, it is up to us to look for the truth and to seek the answers that our politicians refuse to answer.

Today there is one day before election day on one of the most important votes you can cast. In 1994 the Democrats lost their majority in congress because people didn't get out and vote, this must not happen again. I was one of those who didn't vote in that election and I had to watch from the side lines as the Newt Gingrich crew took control of congress, and President Clinton had to rally the troops while the Republicans tried to impeach him for having an affair. During that time the top story wasn't that Clinton was decreasing the deficit and that we were going to have a surplus at the end of his presidency, but the fact that a 20 something was sleeping with the president, and that all work on building the economy had come to a stop. Gingrich and friends brought our government to a grinding halt during that two year period, and it was partly my fault. Why? Because I didn't vote in the mid-terms.

People in this election say, "Oh, it's the mid-terms, I only vote in the big election." or "What's the use, they'll put who they want in office anyway." or "My candidate isn't worth more than the other guy, so why vote." The reason to vote is to let your voice be heard. I knew that there were at least 300 people in my town at the time that thought as I did, "One vote doesn't matter.", but it wasn't just one vote it was at least 300. Getting out the vote is no joke, it is your right, and there are candidates running this term that wish to take that right away from you, don't let them.

I don't care if your a Republican or a Democrat, or an Independent, if you are registered to vote go vote this term for the person you think will do the job you want done in congress. Just remember one thing, a vote for the person you want is a vote for their ideas, not yours, and if you decide not to vote then you are casting a vote for the person who does win by not voting. How is this possible? It is simple, if you don't like the persons ideas that wins, then that is one vote against that person that won't be cast, think how many opposing votes weren't cast for that person besides yours, it might be enough to have kept that person out of office. This is why everyone who can vote needs to vote in this election.

In Alaska there is a campaign that is going on that is being waged by the Republicans and the Tea Party, this campaign is an effort to block votes for one of the candidates. The Tea Party has asked people to put their names in as write-in candidates so that Lisa Murkowski won't get the votes needed to win. I think this is going to back fire on the Tea Party, but I'm the only one who does think this. My logic on this is that if Independents in that state see one hundred write-ins on the ballot they will vote for the Democrat instead of the Republican, because they won't want to see the Tea Party gain control of Alaska, and because Sarah Palin isn't as popular in Alaska as she thinks she is.

In California there has been an effort by the Republican Party to scare voters away from the polls tomorrow by using ads to discourage latinos from voting. In Colorado the Republicans and the Tea Party are saying they will have poll watchers at every precinct, "To make sure that only registered voters are voting." I'll be at my precinct to make sure that NO ONE trys to intimidate anyone wanting to vote, (I live in Colorado). What these people are doing is against the constitution and the Voters Rights Act and it needs to be stopped, but there has been no out cry in any state about this. Why?

One last thing before I go. If you choose not to vote tomorrow then what happens for the next two years is your fault, whether it is good or bad. If you choose to vote tomorrow then what happens for the next two years is your fault, whether it is good or bad. Make the election count, get out and vote this term.

In all the time I have been following politics I have never seen anything like I have seen in the past week in politics. Rand Pauls supporters stomping on a woman because she belongs to Moveon.org, Joe Millers crew handcuffing a reporter because he wanted an interview, and police at a Cantor rally using excessiveforce on a Democrat because he wanted to here what Cantor had to say. It has gotten to the point were I am asking myself when are the brown shirts going to hit the streets and start painting Juden on the walls of Jewish business's. Then again they might just start painting Democrat on business's, or Liberal, or Progressive, if the Republicans win.

When I first heard of the Tea Party I thought it might be a good thing, but in the last few months I have come to know them for what they are, thugs. In the 1930's we had a group of men in Germany that thought it was alright to stomp and kick and rape women as long as they were Jewish women, now it seems that we have a group that thinks it's ok to stomp women who are Democrats and we have store owners that think that because they have a Republican coming to their store for a rally it's ok to have Democrats arrested on bogus charges. And, let's not forget the cops that arrested the Democrat on those bogus charges and their effort to repeat what happened to Rodney King.

I have seen heated debates in the past, but this even beats what happened in the late 1850's just before Lincoln took office. At least until Ft. Sumter was attacked it was confined to the senate floor. The Republicans need to come out in force and say that the violence needs to stop, and that they will not support any candidate that allows the violence.

Are we going to have another Civil War in the country? Is this war going to be Republican against Democrat? Is this what we really want for our country? Men like Mr. Profitt shouldn't have any place in politics, and Rand Paul should have never let him into his campaign. Mr. Paul should put Mr. Profitt in his place and shouldn't have anything to do with him or any of Mr. Profitts supporters. Mr. Cantor should apologize to the gentleman that was assaulted at his rally by the police and should demand that the city council of that city investigate this crime and fire the officers involved. Joe Miller should drop out of the Alaska race and apologize to the reporter that his men assaulted.

It's time to clean up politics in this country and it should start with the Republicans who are running this year.

Keith Olberman gives a good idea to the Tea Party intentions after the election in 5 days. This is basicly a review of what you can expect from the Tea Party candidates and the Republicans.

It has been said this year that there are some candidates that would want to repeal parts of the Civil Rights act of 1968. Rand Paul has stated that he believes that a private business has the right to refuse service to anyone and that the Civil Rights act of 1968 needs to be repealed at least in part to allow private business's this right. The fact is private business's can and do on regular intervals refuse service to individuals even today. This fact tells me that the Civil Rights act of 1968 does not need to be repealed either in whole or in part.

To repeal any part of the Civil Rights act would put us back into the days of Jim Crowe, or worse back to the days when the only people in this country who had any rights at all were white men, this to me is scary beyond belief. This act would limit the right to vote to about 1/4th of the population of the U.S. Listen to me, I grew up in a single parent home, my mother tried for years to get the same pay for the same work done as a man, she was told over and over again that she had to be the head of household, she told her boss she was the head of household and her employer told her that only a man was considered head of household.

These ideas are what were believed for many years, a woman could not be head of household because a man lead the house. If a woman was not married she was expected to get married so her husband could be head of household. During the time that my Mom was working and divorced she was considered something rare and to be shunned by society. I remember being invited to a church by our mailman who was also the preacher at the church, my mother accepted for us and we went to the church. After the service was over the preacher/mailman asked us if we enjoyed the service and my mother said she had and that she would like to come back, the preacher said, "You are welcome back anytime and the next time you come bring your husband." My Mother replied, "I'm divorced." After she said that the smile on the preachers face disappeared and he replied, "Oh." and wiped his right hand on his coat after he shook my mothers hand.

The point of the previous story is to remind everyone out there that without the Civil Rights act there are things that will happen that will make it hard not just on illegals in this country but on everyone else who might be "objectionable" in the eyes of others. These people like my Irish descendedmother might be objected to because of something that is beyond their control. It is incumbent upon us to keep the constitution the way it is and to improve upon it as things arise that require an amendment to be added to the constitution, but we should never ever take away an amendment that has been added to the constitution, this act would take us back to a time before that amendment was instituted.

One more story for you before I sign off tonight. I drove trucks over the road for three years and I got to see much of this country in the time I was behind the wheel, at that time my wife was well enough to travel with me and I was able to keep a promise that I had made to her before we were married. We did a lot of traveling through the states of Indiana, Kentucky and Ohio, and we noticed something about each of these states when we stopped for fuel or something to eat, the people that we met did not like us. I don't mean that we just felt that we weren't liked we were told that we weren't liked. Why did they not like us? I am an Irish American and my wife is an African American. To the point, when my wife went into one of the truck stops to get something to snack on she was followed by the stores manager halfway back to the truck and thenshe was searched by that manager, because as he put it, "Someone saw her take something." A waitress in one of the truck stops in Indiana brought our supper to us and threw it on the table so that half of the food came off the plates and refused to appologize for it. In Ohio my wife was refused service at two truck stops because of her color, I had to go and buy what she needed, I then got on the CB and informed the other truckers what had happened and there was a mass exodus from the truck stop.

Without a Civil Rights Act intact these things would be worse than they are now. If we let anyone repeal any part of the Civil Rights act we will regret it. If we let the Republicans repeal our right in the Constitution to vote for our representives in Washington then we will regret it. If we let anyone repeal Health Care Reform we will regret it. Any of these rights are at risk this year, do we really want to lose these rights? I don't want to lose my rights, but this is what the Republicans are calling for this election. My mother worked all her life to get the rights that women enjoy today, but there are women out there right now that say they want to get rid of their rights. Their right to get an abortion, their right to vote, their right to the same pay as a man, their right to own property, yes, even the right to own property is at stake, if the Civil Rights Acts are repealed.

A new billboard in Grand Junction Colorado says everything that needs to be said about the Republicans in Colorado and the Tea Party in this state.

http://www.gjsentinel.com/news/article/antiobama_billboard_raises_eye/

This is the kind of politics this country can do without.

Rubio is toeing the party line. When will the Republicans get a clue??