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getoffmedz

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  • Trump threatens Sec. Clinton with Gun Nuts, imitates Tinpot 3rd World Regimes
    • getoffmedz 08/14/2016 at 7:37 pm

      The “IT” here is Trump would like one of his 2nd Amendment patriots to shoot Mrs.Clinton to protect their right to bear arms. since she is a lying criminal warmonger who will pick up their guns, anyway and is solidly blocking his heist of our White House. In Trumpists ‘ought” world that is “IT.” Feigning ignorance and obfuscating Professor Cole”s well-made assertion is weak. Clearly decoded, Trump wants someone to shoot her. Got it?

    • get offmedz 08/14/2016 at 6:39 pm

      Trump wants his red hats to police our elections.

      What could possibly go wrong with that?

    • getoffmedz 08/10/2016 at 2:02 pm

      According to faux-Republican Paul Ryan the shooting of Mrs Clinton would be A Republican joke gone bad.

    • getoffmedz 08/10/2016 at 10:53 am

      Trump supporters are a greater threat to our country than the media-created •••clown they spawned.

      Mr Trump had better hope no one tries something stupid against Mrs. Clinton with a firearm - he is fully complicit.

  • Obama not only did not pay Iran Ransom, he denied Iran Billions it had Coming to It
    • getoffmedz 08/05/2016 at 10:43 am

      Could Trump have made as good a deal?

  • Donald "Dr. Strangelove" Trump and some of the Times We almost had a Nuclear War
    • getoffmedz 08/05/2016 at 11:30 am with 3 replies

      "while Hillary is likely to start us on a path that will lead to all-out war"

      Please, get a grip? Stating extremist talking points as fact is weak and a waste of your obvious concern.

      End of patronizing.

    • getoffmedz 08/04/2016 at 2:04 pm

      As the much vaunted businessman that he claims to be, the concept of using nuclear weapons IS BAD FOR BUSINESS!! escapes him?

      The man may be an idiot as are his factually adverse followers.

  • 6 Signs the Big Global Switch to Solar has already Begun
    • getoffmedz 08/04/2016 at 12:33 pm

      B. "Or in order to monopolize and profitize all-for-themselves the post-fossil future they see coming?"

      By extracting a higher lease rate for use of their transmission lines they can make wind and solar power less profitable. Bear in mind Texas has the worst air in our country. We need cleaner sources of energy.

  • After Yawning Racial Divide exposed in US, Peaceful Protests Continue
    • getoffmedz 07/13/2016 at 12:18 pm

      Not yet. Currently they have lots of steroids, military- grade weaponry and instigators in the squad rooms.

  • Is Religion really Driving Middle East Violence?
    • getoffmedz 07/13/2016 at 11:57 am

      Implementing any system where religion and government are intermingled is certain to promote hostilities and strife. Theocracy works in small tribal settings but fails miserably when confronted with large diverse populations.
      Attempting to unify under the auspices of any obscure 5 millennia-old desert tribal god is the errand of fools and pretenders and yes, psychopaths.

  • Syrian Troops foil al-Qaeda riposte in Aleppo as France warns al-Qaeda could replace ISIL
    • getoffmedz 07/13/2016 at 12:12 pm

      "After all, there is oversight of the CIA, right?" - JFK was the last President who tried.

  • 8,124 Murders by Firearm in US vs. 29 (144 equiv.) in UK
    • getoffmedz 07/10/2016 at 1:32 pm

      it’s a very good thing the NRA concept of gun control didn’t happen that night in Dallas. The carnage would have been much worse.

      Events like this always happen in Texas. JFK, UT Austin beltower sniper., both Waco shoot-outs, Ft Bliss terrorist shooting and now this. Media -clown Trump’s wall should go around Texas. To protect SANE Americans from the state which repeatedly proves itself unworthy of U.S. statehood.

    • getoffmedz 07/09/2016 at 12:14 pm with 2 replies

      According to 2nd Amendment paranoids, dimwitted pandering politicians and the NRA, the only solution to the current widespread U.S. slaughter by firearms is MORE GUNS!

  • The Real Problem with the Iraq War: It was Illegal
    • getoffmedz 07/07/2016 at 11:16 am with 1 replies

      The Iraq War is a U.S.-driven international conspiracy which deprived ordinary Iraqi citizens of anything like the Constitutional Rights we Americans enjoy. The crimes perpetrated by the dog•••• Bush Administration still saturates our foreign policy with unending war, continuous high levels of wealth gobbling by total •••holes and their befouled attendants embedded in Congress like fat ticks aka Paul Ryan.

      Aside from utterly destabilizing the entire region into war for the unforeseeable future, displacing MILLIONS OF INNOCENT PEOPLE in the process, the non-indicted CRIMINAL Bush Administration LIED to Congress and the good people of our country making every U.S. citizen a fully complicit defacto war criminal thereby ENDANGERING every U.S. citizen for terrorist attacks in clear violation of our Constitution. There is the crime which puts George W. Bush and his evil puppet-master Dick Cheney on the docket.

  • H. Clinton and Ed Snowden: Some Animals are more Equal than others
    • getoffmedz 07/10/2016 at 4:21 pm

      Your factual comment serves only to cut down on the Hillary ClInton email hysteria rampant here. Where is the fun in that?

    • getoffmedz 07/07/2016 at 5:29 pm

      Archie 1954 - GET A GRIP! And call you mom - seriously.

    • getoffmedz 07/07/2016 at 5:24 pm with 3 replies

      WIlliam - Got some facts? The Bush Administration admits to "losing 15 MILLION emails during a Congressional investigation. How is it possible to know what went over what server during that maladministration? Whatever she may have done is not a crime.

    • getoffmedz 07/06/2016 at 1:15 pm

      "..in reality was more secure than the actual classified information system, which has had multiple breaches.' a very important point often overlooked by those with "mommy-issues".

      Thank you.

    • getoffmedz 07/06/2016 at 1:07 pm with 3 replies

      Prosecuting Secretary Clinton for email oversights would open the door to break the unwritten rule protecting the Criminal Bush Administration from charges of treason and for war crimes including the mass murder of tens o thousands innocent civilians .

      Secretaries Rice and Powell used private (not U.S. government controlled) email servers in the Bush Years as secretary Clinton did, Where is the public and very partisan outcry for equality there?

  • What Would Trump Fascism Look Like? Eight Most Likely Traits
    • getoffmedz 07/06/2016 at 4:48 pm

      GREAT POINT! NEVER underestimate the stupid.

    • getoffmedz 07/06/2016 at 1:22 pm

      Presumptive Republican Presidential Nominee Donald Trump, that raging NPD thug by enticements with very small hands and a lot of money who uses the 21st Century equivalent to CB radio , Twitter, to get his pitiful and h8fful spew out.

      The Trump Effect bears witness too the living truth that access to high-speed internet for the trailer parks of America was a very bad idea.

  • The Palmer Raids: When Trump's Grandfather and Wives could have been Profiled
    • getoffmedz 06/22/2016 at 7:20 pm

      Speaking of the 4th (cough!) Amendment - And in case no one noticed because of falsehood spewmeister Trump dominating the news - Remember when it was necessary to get a warrant to search?

      The dumb••• EXTREME RIGHT WING SCOTUS has now made it procedure to SEARCH for warrants upon routine contact with law enforcement, turning our laws upside-down and further reducing the average (read - poor or dark skin) citizen in the eyes of the law.

      PROFILING by another name.

      Utah v. Strieff - Writing in dissent, Justice Sonia Sotomayor on undermining the Fourth Amendment. "This case tells everyone, white and black, guilty and innocent, that an officer can verify your legal status at any time," Sotomayor wrote. "It says that your body is subject to invasion while courts excuse the violation of your rights. It implies that you are not a citizen of a democracy but the subject of a carceral state, just waiting to be cataloged."

      link to supremecourt.gov

      Average citizens rights trampled by SCOTUS - BORING!

      Donald Trump expectorates something - Lede!

  • Kochs' Victory: House of Reps. Votes to Protect Anonymous 'Dark Money' Donors
    • getoffmedz 06/18/2016 at 11:13 am

      Corruption and 1% money invading Congressional elections accounts for the current population of the House of Representatives including public enemy #1 of at least 93% of our total populations standard of living, Speaker Paul Ryan.

      No wonder this bill which is the complete opposite of “campaign reform” is so popular there?

  • British Trumpism? Anti-Immigrant "Britain First" White Terrorist kills Member of Parliament
    • getoffmedz 06/18/2016 at 12:09 pm with 1 replies

      How is it that egomaniacs and random homicidal maniacs now steer important narratives in the U.S. and Europe? Mateen, Mair or Trump at the wheel.

      Who puts them there?

  • Trump's response to Orlando massacre proves just how dangerous he is
    • getoffmedz 06/18/2016 at 9:19 am

      So, historically, the Donald Trump sideshow is “white man’s burden?” Good point.

      I was thinking that tacit agreements by persons of wealth where certain things are left unsaid and BILLION$$$ in free prime time exposure is bestowed gratis may be the immediate 21st Century reason he is there?

    • getoffmedz 06/16/2016 at 12:26 pm with 2 replies

      Corporate-controlled media has consistently ceded Donald Trump BILLION$$ in free coverage since the odious quest was announced - far more than any Presidential candidate in history. Why? Trump is no less an erratic reactionary, nativist pandering and h8mongering demagogue than any number of media •••clowns. And Trump is very DISTURBING to see and hear in action.

      Corporate-owned and controlled media is solely responsible for swapping out the GOP/Republican brand for the “take the pledge” Donald Trump brand in the coming Presidential election. Again, why?

      The much vaunted businessman image is tarnished at best with excessive litigation, tax evasions, enterprise failures and posing quasi-ethical sales training in a “Scientology-esque ruse” deceptively designated as a “University.” Donald Trump is not a thoughtful leader, his business dealings belies a grasping, risk-taking BS-artist by nature.

      There is not one justification to make this person actually qualified to be a Presidential candidate.

      Why is Donald Trump even there?

  • Orlando and the Future of Terrorism
    • getoffmedz 06/18/2016 at 11:27 am

      Any over-stimulated psychotic in Florida (no offense to Florida psychotics intended) can easily bumble on down to a friendly local 2nd Amendment Store and purchase a 30 round magazine NATO assault carbine specifically designed to do only one thing - KILL AND CRUELLY MAIM OTHER HUMAN BEINGS! with little or no effort.

      The fact that a over-stimulated psychotic in Florida did just that and went on to mutilate-to-death 49 completely innocent people and viciously damage 53 others and is somehow protected by a Constitutional Right to easily acquire a flat-out killing machine is MORE PSYCHOTIC than the deranged homophobe, himself.

      States where “Christian” officials pander to firearms extremism for political favor and campaign gain are no less psychotic than any lone h8ful zealot of any stripe.

      The Right-to-Bear-Arms of the 18th century United States of America has morphed into the dangerous and grotesque 21st century moneygrubbing h8 machine feeding on FUD (fear, uncertainty and doubt) and white male insecurity.

      Reign in the NRA and their minions, the real terrorists in our country.

  • Obama: Hating on Muslim-Americans makes you an ally of ISIL, & Unamerican
    • getoffmedz 06/15/2016 at 12:36 pm

      All the slicing and dicing of the lone shooter Orlando Massacre is well and good. But it clouds the fact Trump and his ilk want to actively exclude brown-skin people and LGBT from their Trumpmania dream of a white male dominated racist Christian pseudo-theocracy.

      Media •••clown Donald Trump is a toon for a far more odious movement of extremism in our country.

      Our President is very correct in calling presumptive Republican nominee Trump out for his naive stupidity and anti-American treachery.

  • Should President Obama have Apologized to the Victims of Hiroshima?
    • getoffmedz 06/15/2016 at 11:52 am

      It’s easy to be critical after the fact. Without any doubt, firebombing cities and the use of “atomic bombs” are blatant acts of state initiated terrorism by today’s measure.

      By WWII measure, these acts served notice to pending “Imperial Japans” or “Nazi Germanys” that the war weary U.S. will “•••• you over” for any such future endeavors. Aside from realtime nuclear weapons testing on a once live population in Japan, the U.S. proclaimed to the rest of the world of our global dominance circa 1945.

      All this discussion of “apologies” for actually winning a war (today, “winning” is really bad for bidness) and who owes who any apology is naive and out-of-step with history. Merely, political correctness ad absurdum.

      However, the U.S. radioactive chest-pounding of 1945 initiated the concept of MAD (mutually assured destruction), where there is now enough thermonuclear firepower available globally to kill every single person (YOU AND YOUR KIN) three times over at any given moment.

      This is a CRIME for which every country, large or tiny, who now possesses such ABSURD weapons can make no apology.

  • In consumer victory over Telcoms, Fed Appeals court Upholds Net Neutrality
    • getoffmedz 06/18/2016 at 11:43 am

      All of the ISPs are now legally justified to make YOU pay for these "rights" and to offset their legal costs for fighting THEIR battle.

      Gotcha coming and going.

  • Top 7 ways to tell if Someone is lying about being a 'Salafi Jihadi'
    • getoffmedz 06/14/2016 at 2:06 pm

      ANYONE as unstable and angry as Omar Mateen can purchase a KILLING MACHINE in Florida and repeat or exceed this infamous slaughter with very little effort or expense.

  • Chomsky: Nuclear Weapons, Climate Change, and the Prospects for Survival
    • getoffmedz 06/14/2016 at 10:34 am

      Few people alive today can recall a time when the threat of instant incineration and terrible annihilation was not in the back of their minds.

      All it takes is for some “patriot” to press that button.

      Civilization armed with nuclear weapons is doomed, eventually.

  • Omar Mateen and Rightwing Homophobia: Hate Crime or Domestic Terrorism?
    • getoffmedz 06/15/2016 at 10:28 am

      And the NRA, “firearms enthusiasts” and half-wits answer to fix this - MORE MORE GUNS!!

      Until the fully conscious citizens of our country find a way to curtail BILLION$$ the NRA spreads across Congress and state governments, nothing will change.

      There are simply TOO MANY GUNS in our country for anyone to be safe.

    • getoffmedz 06/14/2016 at 9:34 am

      "even to the point of violent confrontations?"

      We are at that very point in time, now.

      This from Pastor Roger Jimenez of Verity Baptist Church - "Are you sad that 50 pedophiles were killed today?" asked Jimenez. "Um no. I think that’s great. I think that helps society. I think Orlando, Florida, is a little safer tonight. The tragedy is that more of them didn’t die. The tragedy is I’m kind of upset he didn’t finish the job — because these people are predators. They are abusers."

      Or this - "I wish the government would round them all up, put them up against a firing wall, put the firing squad in front of them and blow their brains out," Jimenez preached.

      There is very little difference between the homophobic Pastor and Assassin Mateen except zealot Mateen actually did it.

      Quoting the Pastor, "they deserve what they got.” . . . . . . on a mission from God.

      link to usatoday.com

    • getoffmedz 06/13/2016 at 7:00 pm

      Crisis in leadership on the far right? A few Orlando Massacre reactions -

      • Lt.Governor of Texas Dan Patrick blames the victims by turning scriptures into anti-LGBT biblical horsepucky -

      “ ‘Do not be deceived:
      God cannot be mocked.
      A man reaps what he sows’ (Galatians 6:7)”

      • Media toon Trump says he was “right all along” and demands the President resign because he is somehow complicit.

      * Canadian-born former Senadate Ted Cruz played his FUD (fear, uncertainty and doubt) card against all Muslims with his “radical Islamic terrorists” broad brushed pontifications.

      * In step with Canadian Ted Cruz, State of Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller offered this in a deep blue graphic -

      “How to end Terrorism
      1) Buy a gun
      2) Learn how to use it
      3) Carry it EVERYWHERE
      If you aren’t willing to defend your life,
      what makes you think someone else is?”

      YEEHAW!!

      None of these extreme right-wing “leaders” offer anything sensible or useful. Serving only to whip up more fear of and h8tred against our brown-skinned citizens and ignoring the victims because “God cannot be mocked . . . . ”

    • getoffmedz 06/13/2016 at 1:07 pm

      What grossly misinterpreted Constitutional Right allows a U.S. citizen to possess a killing machine so powerful that scores of innocent victims can suffer and die on a whim? Whatever the motivation.

      Florida does not ban such KILLING MACHINES and in fact places few limits on this type of weapon. The need for a 100 round clip to bring down Bambi is the lie of cowards - making the AR-15 the choice of self-styled mass murdering “terrorists,” assassins who disembowel little helpless children en mass and psychopaths who open fire in darkened theaters throughout this GUN OBSESSED country.

      Colt markets the gun as a military grade weapon “engineered to deliver maximum carnage with extreme efficiency.” No false advertising here.

      Quoting the poster “You're not a ‘real’ man without one.” So, if one has a severe shortage of testicular fortitude or courage, buy the AR-15. Still tiny but well-armed is better than not. Right?

      There are MILLIONS of AR-15s floating around in our country which raises the question - why so many NOT “real men?

  • World More violent in past Year, but Middle East drives Deterioration
    • getoffmedz 06/10/2016 at 2:54 pm

      As long as the fossil fuel assets and systems of distribution in Mesopotamia are up for grabs - nothing will change.

      Too many spiders in the web.

  • Nile Valley Water Conflict: Can Egypt live with Ethiopia's Grand Renaissance Dam?
    • getoffmedz 06/10/2016 at 4:02 pm

      As global climate collapse progresses, control of fresh water, e.g., aquifers, rivers and glaciers will become more war-worthy than fossil fuel is today.

  • How Trump's Real and Actual Racism has Thrived
    • getoffmedz 06/10/2016 at 11:19 am

      Media charlatan Donald Trump is merely the head of the distended perineal fistula that is ingrained racism and h8 in our country.

      What is of actual worry are those who constitute the contents of the embarrassing and uncomfortable eruption known as Trump.

  • Trump 'a thin-skinned racist bully': Elizabeth Warren's Full Evisceration
    • getoffmedz 06/10/2016 at 3:32 pm

      Donald Trump supporters are those who have fumed about persons-of-color living in their White House for eight long years. The same supporters h8 Hispanics, Muslims and brown people in general. Wall, exclude, take that pledge!

      So, it is no surprise these very same h8ful supporters have serious “mommy issues” when reacting to the eventuality that a person of the female gender will be our President and perhaps the Vice President, as well.

  • Why doesn't Syria's biggest city have any Windows?
    • getoffmedz 06/09/2016 at 12:21 pm

      Cleveland, Ohio on July 16th?

  • Clash Looming? Russia-backed Syrian Army heading for ISIL's al-Raqqa in race with US-backed Kurds
    • getoffmedz 06/10/2016 at 6:36 pm with 1 replies

      Russia is becoming bogged-down in Syria. History offers strategies to handle this situation.

      Mr. Putin can don a cod-piece, land on a close-by aircraft carrier and declare - VICTORY

  • Welcome to the Party, America! 11 Muslim women who have been PM or President
    • getoffmedz 06/09/2016 at 11:48 am with 1 replies

      Mrs. Clinton lived in the White House as First Lady for eight years and is “famous” in her own right.

      Before the shrub became Governor of Texas BASED ON THE FAMILY NAME, here are the accomplishments -

      • Deuce FANG washout
      • AWOL
      • Yale Skull&Bones
      • Snotty-nosed powerful man’s son phase
      • Cokehead
      • Alcoholic

  • Sen. Lindsey Graham: Can't Support Trump b/c of 'Un-American' Racism re: Latino Judge
    • getoffmedz 06/09/2016 at 12:12 pm

      Wonderful Texas satire.

      Thanks.

    • getoffmedz 06/08/2016 at 11:19 am

      The Republican Party has self-destructed by allowing proudly racist media •••clown Donald Trump to wear the label, “Republican.”

      With “textbook racist” Paul Ryan terming Trump as a “textbook racist,” any leadership Republicans had in the House has been exposed as a vacuous dribbler of duplicity, totally unworthy of public office. As proof, “textbook racist” Paul Ryan is unwavering in his support for a much more obvious “textbook racist.”

      Those claiming to be “Republican” but endorsing racist candidates are not real Republicans but are, in-fact, dangerous right-wing extremists who have attached themselves to the label like a festering of Hämorrhoiden waiting for relief. (No offense to Hämorrhoiden intended.)

      The disassembly of the Republican Party over the last generation into a gaggle of 1% toadies, h8ers, Un-American extremists and egomaniacal media ***clowns has been alarming to witness.

  • Media calls Election for Hillary before California: Superdelegate System under Fire
    • getoffmedz 06/07/2016 at 6:40 pm

      In other actual news - The Republican Party will nominate a "textbook racist" •••clown as their candidate for President.

  • Dear Graduates: We're Leaving you a Trumpian America; Please Fix It
    • getoffmedz 06/09/2016 at 10:31 am

      If the blatant greed and lack of foresight in the private sector is not changed and soon, those graduating in 2016 will be far less likely to see their 50th year.

  • Crisis and Climate Change Driving Unprecedented Migration
    • getoffmedz 06/07/2016 at 4:56 pm

      The root cause of global climate collapse is the simple fact there are far too many people living on Earth for the planet to support using early 20th Century methodology. The onset of mass human migrations and warring over control of dwindling natural resources are the early effects.

      Primitive pyro-deforestation, inefficient overuse of fossil fuels and pipeline wars simply must stop. The lack of rational and effective PRIVATE SECTOR stewardship by those who can actually control our future is appalling in their greed and utter lack of foresight.

      Such global-impacting irresponsible behavior can no longer be tolerated.

  • Turkish President: Muslims who use Birth Control are Traitors
    • getoffmedz 06/06/2016 at 5:07 pm

      The root cause of global climate collapse is the simple fact there are too many people living on Earth for the planet to support using existing methods, e.g., pyro-deforestation, overuse of fossil fuels and lack of rational stewardship by those who can actually control our future.

      The current BREEDING CONTEST rooted in the various religions throughout the world is not helpful and in fact threatens our future.

  • Fueling Sanders' Turnout Hope, California Reports Record Surge of New Voters
    • getoffmedz 06/08/2016 at 12:17 pm

      Hopefully, the Sanders candidacy will be the cue to push the Democratic Party away from their current 20th Century 1% - leaning toadishness?

      Our future may well hinge upon the direction chosen.

  • Hillary Clinton roasts Donald Trump on Foreign Policy
    • getoffmedz 06/08/2016 at 11:46 am

      For those with "mommy issues" - try watching the entire speech, not the edited version.

      link to youtube.com

      Nominee Clinton makes valid and correct points.

      The presumptive Republican nominee is an unqualified ***clown and Mrs. Clinton nails it.

  • Trump University Was Textbook case of Fraud (TYT)
    • getoffmedz 06/05/2016 at 4:45 pm

      From the moment Donald Trump announced candidacy, corporate-controlled media has enrolled those in need of an actual education into a distracting, media-born “Trump University” without their knowledge or permission.

      From recently unsealed sworn testimony: “I believe that Trump University was a fraudulent scheme and that it preyed upon the elderly and uneducated to separate them from their money.”

      This Trump University document speaks for itself - link to assets.documentcloud.org

      Bringing Donald Trump into current perspective - The Donald Trump presidential campaign is a fraudulent scheme which preys upon the elderly and uneducated to separate them from their country.

    • getoffmedz 06/03/2016 at 10:54 am

      From the moment Donald Trump announced candidacy, corporate-controlled media has enrolled those in need of an actual education into a distracting, media-born “Trump University” without their knowledge or permission.

      From recently unsealed sworn testimony: “I believe that Trump University was a fraudulent scheme and that it preyed upon the elderly and uneducated to separate them from their money.”

      This Trump University document speaks for itself - link to assets.documentcloud.org

      Bringing Donald Trump into current perspective - The Donald Trump presidential campaign is a fraudulent scheme which preys upon the elderly and uneducated to separate them from their country.

  • Koch Bros. Shill Glenn Beck suspended for agreeing with Brad Thor that Trump might have to be Taken Out
    • getoffmedz 06/01/2016 at 11:09 am

      Glenn who?

  • US domestic extremists a bigger risk than foreign terrorism, but guess who Trump & GOP Coddle?
    • getoffmedz 06/01/2016 at 11:55 am

      That the current GOP and their candidates have lurched so far to the right as to become anti-American extremists is not untrue.

  • Multi-Trillion Dollar Bridge to Nowhere in the Greater Middle East
    • getoffmedz 06/02/2016 at 10:40 am

      As long as the MIC has the need to control what they can of the region(s) oil and gas distribution networks, the U.S. military/CIA on behalf of strategic fossil-fuel enterprise will keep on droning, bombing, assassinating and messing up the lives of brown people whose wealth is being stolen.

      National leaders need only to be reminded of the demise of certain brothers to stay with the program.

  • Dear Mr. Holder: Why Ed Snowden can't get a Fair Trial in your National Security State
    • getoffmedz 06/01/2016 at 5:59 pm

      The current “new and improved” National Security State came into being about a decade ago. Born out of FUD (fear, uncertainty and doubt), those of evil intent in their time made it possible to criminalize privacy, diminish average citizens in the eyes of the law and to legitimatize an elite class of citizens to be above all. This same evil intent laid the groundwork for the power of our National Police State to be subsequently misused and abused by those who follow.

      We haven’t seen anything, yet.

  • Not the Onion: Trump: 'No California Drought & I will Solve it'
    • getoffmedz 05/30/2016 at 12:11 pm

      2016 U.S. is deep fertile compost for media charlatan “three-inch fish” Donald Trump.

      Trump appeals to white males of LIMITED EDUCATION and opportunists who see a Trump presidency as a way to their own self-interests.

  • Solar Surges: Renewable Energy Jobs Topped 8 Million in 2015
    • getoffmedz 05/30/2016 at 1:18 pm

      The “solar surge” will be short-lived without protection from the fossil fuel industry who is already working hard to perpetuate planet killing greed by -

      • Buying up control of transmission lines connecting solar and wind power generation sites.
      • Adding outrageous “fees” to connect solar and wind power to existing power grids
      • States legislature residential solar banning/limiting laws
      • High tariffs on imported solar panels

      Renewable energy sources are seen as a significant long-term threat to the continued use of pure poison by those who really don’t give a fuck about YOU, YOUR KIN or the future of the planet.

  • After Obama in Hiroshima: Israel’s Gigantic Nuclear Elephant
    • getoffmedz 05/29/2016 at 3:28 pm

      A tiny, little country with the equivalent population of Los Angeles County with HUNDREDS of nuclear weapons.

  • Obama in Hiroshima, Memorial Day and the Iran Deal
    • getoffmedz 05/29/2016 at 11:45 am

      Since the 1960s, silently moving in the depths of our oceans are killing machines which can annihilate every living thing on the surface of our planet, THRICE!!

      Very few living today have lived in a time free of being incinerated or worse at any given moment when some patriot decides to push that button.

      Mutually-Assured-Destruction or MAD is our way of life - until every single nuclear armed tribe, country and super-power openly agrees to rid our planet of these dumbass WMDs.

      And actually does it, once and for all.

  • Sanders: "Tough Guy Trump" is afraid to Debate me
    • getoffmedz 05/28/2016 at 10:26 am

      Given a worthy opponent for debate, “three-inch fish” Trump runs away.

      Thereby gaining the votes of white male shirkers and cowards, nationwide.

  • Trump too Horrifying for Stephen King
    • getoffmedz 05/29/2016 at 12:33 pm

      Great! Now, the oath-seeker Donald Trump can add at least another 8,200 names to his “enemies of the state” list.

      Better make sure “three inch fish” Donald Trump never makes it into our White House?

  • Trump accepts Climate Change threat . . . to his Golf Course
    • getoffmedz 05/25/2016 at 12:52 pm

      Here are the points Trump supporters endorse based on media •••clown Donald Trump stated positions -

      • Global climate collapse is “a total hoax,” “bullshit” and “pseudoscience.”
      • Promote white male dominance above all.
      • War on Hispanics and Muslims residing within the U.S.
      • Sanction Mexico to pay for “The Wall.”
      • Intimidate China with his “smart negotiators.”
      • Proliferate nuclear weapons in South Asia.
      • Re-institute torture as U,S, foreign policy.
      • “NATO is very obsolete.”
      • Immediately stop access to healthcare for millions of protected U.S. citizens and fully corporatize ALL U.S. healthcare as a goal.
      • A “tax plan” which allows the poor to pay no taxes but also excludes them from receiving benefits because they pay no taxes by means of “reducing the number of individuals needing access to programs like Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program.”
      • A “tax plan” that facilitates “repatriating” TRILLION$$$ in off-shore hidden, untaxed private sector assets without penalty or taxation.
      • National Right-to-Carry, no licenses, no background checks or limits for ammunition or firearm capabilities to kill and maim large numbers of people, instantly. But at the same time prohibit access to firearms by “enemies of the state.”

      From campaign experience, any and/or all of media manufacture Trump’s positions will change at any given moment. Which should be especially troubling to Second Amendment advocates.

      Must be hard to keep up with the vaporous Mr. Trump’s media persona?

      But if you own or operate a golf course, it’s all good. No matter what.

  • The Pentagon's War on Accountability: At $600 Bn a Year, Why aren't any Wars being Won?
    • getoffmedz 05/25/2016 at 12:57 pm

      "Winning wars" is bad for business.

  • The Hottest Year on Record: 12th month in a row of unprecedented heat
    • getoffmedz 05/25/2016 at 1:36 pm

      John - the planet is coming out of an Ice Age but 3 million years is not “mini.” Historic misapplication of solar cycles like the”Maunder Minimum, the Spörer Minimum” and other morphed into junk-science terms is purposely misleading.

      Human-induced climate collapse has altered millions of years of climatic history in a century of two.

      The most troubling aspect of climate collapse is the human effect is accelerating.

  • This is America! Man Facing Jail For Ripping Veil Off Muslim Woman
    • getoffmedz 05/19/2016 at 12:15 pm

      Hmm? Wonder what could have incited Gill Parker Payne, 37, of Gastonia, North Carolina, to be a complete embarrassment to the woman he assaulted, the passengers on the flight and our entire country?

  • British PM Cameron's tiff with Trump over Muslims: The Hypocrisy Factor
    • getoffmedz 05/19/2016 at 10:29 am

      Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) has always been a serious problem in the male offspring of the Trump generation. (And through no fault of their own.)

      Vastly improved detection methods and treatments are urgently needed to prevent another one from attaining high public office.

  • Trump's Politics of Whiteness and the CIA tip that Jailed Nelson Mandela
    • getoffmedz 05/16/2016 at 2:24 pm

      “Donald Trump’s politics are to a degree about racial hierarchies and the restoration of the pecking order that obtained before the Civil Rights movement . . . . . “

      By loudly denigrating minorities and women with flaccid-machismo, Trump implies the interests of white American men will be protected above all - if elected.

      Carried in corporate-controlled media every chance they get.

      Unfortunately, the odious, regurgitated 1920s implication tactic is working. Trump’s tactic had also worked to gain power in any number of horribly failed and catastrophic national movements throughout modern history.

  • No US Troops on the Ground in Iraq & Syria . . . until there Were
    • getoffmedz 05/19/2016 at 11:35 am

      Erik - yes, the acceleration of the accumulation of power and wealth into the hands of the few is very troubling.

      The Menchen implication, even more pointed today - “the few” have found that embracing “conservatism” is the most effective way to control the many.

      Paraphrasing H.L.Menchen quotes is appreciated. But some of his entire quotes are even better.

      “As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”
      ― H.L. Mencken

      That Menchen prediction was achieved under Bush, imagine what a Trump, member of “the few,” might do?

  • Michael Moore Says Flint Water Crisis Is a Racist 'Hate Crime'
    • getoffmedz 05/15/2016 at 11:14 am

      Poisoning the watering hole is an age-old trick to get those who rely on its water to leave.

      Has extreme right-wing government descended to poisoning little children of color as tacit policy?

      You bet.

  • Aside from Super-Rich, All Americans are poorer this century
    • getoffmedz 05/12/2016 at 9:42 am

      Hey y’all! This might help?

      Stop electing the enablers who are reallocating our money into the hands of the few.

      Congress controls all budgets and spending. Congress makes laws.

      Continue to elect these time and resource wasting •••clowns to Congress who ride in on emotional and populist issues and our standard of living will accelerate in decline.

      Those who STEAL from all of us on a continuous basis are protected by law.

      WE ARE NOT!!

  • Sea-level rise has claimed five whole islands in the Pacific: first scientific evidence
    • getoffmedz 05/14/2016 at 11:21 am

      Renewable energy sources such as solar and wind are “dry process” sources of power. Water is not required.

      Fossil fuel and nuclear power energy sources require vast amounts of surface water to operate safely and to specification. Fossil fuels also require huge quantities of fresh water eventually to be hideously polluted in extraction.

      Not only do current energy sources poison and pollute our atmosphere, land and oceans, rapidly modifying the global climate but these sources drain TRILLIONS OF GALLONS of surface water away from use by agriculture and regular human activity.

      The fossil fuel industry has also found ways by deep-drilling into subterranean aquifers miles below the surface to use aquifer water pressure to force out more product at very little cost - to this generation.

  • Sadiq Khan and Trump: Why KKK Donald's values are Unacceptable
    • getoffmedz 05/14/2016 at 11:36 am

      William - precisely WHO decides what is "news?"

    • getoffmedz 05/13/2016 at 12:11 am with 3 replies

      Pushing this •••clown into the public view 24/7 is foisting.

      A tacit endorsement. Billion$$ in free exposure.

      Every single media butt-trumpet does it.

    • getoffmedz 05/12/2016 at 10:45 am with 7 replies

      This bigoted and deceitful person-of-wealth, Donald Trump, is what corporate-controlled media wants us to believe we should elect as our next President.

      Corporate-owned and controlled media is projecting a very demeaning and destructive opinion for MOST American citizens by installing Trump. This projection is UNTRUE and an INSULT.

      We are a nation of immigrants - not xenophobic, racist clowns.

      To foist an ego-maniacal, unhinged real estate manipulator and media pseudo-personality as presidential material is an insult to EVERYONE no matter their origin, race, creed or hue.

      How embarrassing for our country!

  • Chomsky: Who Rules the World? (Hint: Not States any more)
    • getoffmedz 05/12/2016 at 11:16 am

      The United States went rogue 54 years ago and has never looked back.

      Today, the U.S. alone can obliterate every living thing on Earth, three times over.

      What good is that?

  • Media as a Shark's Pilot Fish (Political Cartoon)
    • getoffmedz 05/12/2016 at 11:25 am

      Donald Trump is the corporate-controlled media cartoon of what the world now sees of these United States.

      A foul insult to our country and the Disney ducks - Scrooge, Daffy and Donald.

  • Chomsky: Sanders Mobilizes Force That Could Change the Country
    • getoffmedz 04/29/2016 at 9:30 am

      Our country has been lurched so far to the EXTREME RIGHT, a conservative Eisenhower Republican would now be depicted as the equivalent to a “socialist,” someone far too liberal or progressive to be relevant.

  • Boehner: Ted Cruz is Lucifer, most miserable SOB I've worked with
    • getoffmedz 04/29/2016 at 8:51 am

      Former speaker of the House John Boehner owes Lucifer an apology.

  • The Collapse of the Old Oil Order
    • getoffmedz 04/29/2016 at 9:00 am

      With the entire fossil fuel distribution network in Mesopotamia up for grabs, uncertainty will continue.

  • Trump's Foreign Policy is just GOP Boilerplate, only more Confused
    • getoffmedz 04/28/2016 at 1:15 pm

      From corporate-controlled media •••clown to magically morphing into Presidential material will require some truly amazing “special effects.”

  • Big Money in Politics Doesn’t Just Drive Inequality. It Drives War.
    • getoffmedz 04/28/2016 at 1:07 pm

      What has been, by far, the largest single CONTINUOUS military expenditure since WWI?

      Who actually benefits?!!

  • Trump: Candidate of American Decline
    • getoffmedz 04/28/2016 at 10:50 am

      Trump and Cruz are merely taking full advantage of the “Dumbing-down of America” which has been a work-in-progress since Reagan.

  • Are Cruz And Kasich smart enough to stop Trump?
    • getoffmedz 04/29/2016 at 10:10 am

      According to natural-born Canadian citizen Senadate Ted Cruz of Texas, "There is no alliance.”

  • ISIL Endgame: Obama to send 250 more US Troops into Syria
    • getoffmedz 04/25/2016 at 11:20 am

      Iraq Invasion from March 19 to April 9, 2003: 130,000 U.S. ground troops were deployed.

  • It's Possible: Koch Brother Says Hillary Clinton Might Be Best Choice for Him
    • getoffmedz 04/25/2016 at 11:07 am

      What better indictment of the current faux-Republican presidential sideshow front-runners?

      The big dogs have barked. Look for Jeb Bush or Paul Ryan to materialize from Cleveland as the eventual nominee.

      But really? Trump, Cruz, Bush or Ryan - the faux-Republican elite could not insult average American citizens more profoundly than forcing such a mockery for leadership onto our country?

  • US confused over Russia’s real intentions in Syria
    • getoffmedz 04/24/2016 at 6:38 pm

      Russia has been forced to establish a permanent military presence within Syria to protect “vital Russian interests and assets” in this completely pre-destabilized region.

  • Poll: Most Russians Prefer Return of Soviet Union and Socialism
    • getoffmedz 04/25/2016 at 11:25 am

      Socialism trumps oligarchy every time.

  • What GOP New Yorkers just voted for: Torture, Syria Intervention, murder of innocents
    • getoffmedz 04/23/2016 at 3:55 pm

      As the Republican Convention nears, the leading candidates push peripheral and extremist positions which are common-sense, NOT IN THE BEST INTERESTS FOR THE VAST MAJORITY OF OUR COUNTRY. Yet, corporate-controlled media plays the nonsense at full amplitude, 24/7.

      Giving undo credibility to attention-grabbing topics and tactics with the current intensity in tone, both audibly and visually, skews the “national view” portrayed by corporate-controlled media to viewers.

      This is dangerous bu!!•••• and fits the category of a tacitly sponsored multi-billion$$ airtime PROPAGANDA BARRAGE.

  • The Euphemisms of War and Covering up American Military Failure
    • getoffmedz 04/15/2016 at 10:16 am

      Winning a war is simply not profitable.

  • Michigan faculty Support Muslim Students on Campus in face of Trumpian Hate-Chalking
    • getoffmedz 04/15/2016 at 11:32 am

      Chalk - The favored outdoor media of little children, everywhere or for some wired-up reactionary rebel-without-a-clue pretending to be a movement?

      By this time next year, Trump will be forgotten, washed off like chalk.

  • Is Hillary Clinton vulnerable to Trump over her 2002 vote for the Iraq War?
    • getoffmedz 04/15/2016 at 2:42 pm

      Neither Trump or Cruz will be nominated.

      Count on it.

      Either America-killer Ryan or TWO BUSH THREE WARS Jeb will eventually be anointed.

    • getoffmedz 04/13/2016 at 11:19 am

      Revenge-driven is easily misdirected.

      The Bush/Cheney FABRICATIONS were believed by most Americans. Very few dissented initially. (Professor Cole)

      Congress was presented “selected information” and reminded of 9/11 which was very fresh in the angry national mind. The AUMF of 2002 is the result. The public and Congress had been successfully DUPED on October 16, 2002. Mesopotamia was doomed.

      Never before had such a dimension of LIES been so widespread in our government and media-blared 24/7. 9/11 was the perfect power amplifier. The 2016 result of this FRAUD is the destabilization of entire regions, the greatest displacement of humans and tragic on-going mass migrations in recent history.

      The unparalleled-in-U.S. history betrayal of trust by an ENTIRE ADMINISTRATION still stuns, today.

  • Forget the Trump/Cruz Circus: Why Liberals are the Future of America
    • getoffmedz 04/15/2016 at 11:51 am

      Our country has lurched so far to the extreme right, the 2016 “liberal” is the equivalent to a 1954 Eisenhower/Nixon Republican.

  • Billionaire buying Election & Given Free Airtime sulks that System is Rigged
    • getoffmedz 04/12/2016 at 8:23 pm

      Unprecedented in U.S. history, corporate-controlled media coverage of Presidential primary candidates and especially the extremists embedded like ticks on the GOP, amounts to a 24/7 force-feeding of total insanity presented as normal.

      The Trump •••clown media act is allineare to a latter-day Rupert Murdoch - the best way to bring something down is to relentlessly lampoon it into the ground.

      The major problem with “lampoonist philosophy” is far too many take the never-ending Trump “reality show” to heart - much the same as what FAUXNews hurls is taken to heart.

      Fortunately, Donald Trump will NEVER be our President. The inability to separate reality from “a deal” and a glaring need for attention and validation far overarches any ability to competently lead.

      ‘You can fool all of the people, some of the time. You can fool some of the people all of the time; but you can’t fool all of the people all of the time.’ ” - spoken by Abraham Lincoln at the 1856 Republican Convention.

      Trump and his ilk are 160 years, too late.

  • The Young Turks' Cenk Uygur ARRESTED At Democracy Spring Protest In Washington D.C.
    • getoffmedz 04/13/2016 at 12:45 pm

      H.R. 347, the “Federal Restricted Buildings and Grounds Improvement Act of 2011,” which makes it a Federal crime to enter or remain knowingly in any restricted area of the White House, the Vice President’s official residence, or their respective grounds without lawful authority.

      OK great. But what is the "any restricted area" for today?

  • How Americans Hate: 8-fold increase in Islamophobic Crime since 2000
    • getoffmedz 04/11/2016 at 12:12 pm

      Potential rising leadership gaining prominence based on pure h8 and divisiveness have a dismal and often catastrophic effect on their adherents.

  • Is Cruz even Worse re: anti-Muslim Hate Speech than Trump?
    • getoffmedz 04/11/2016 at 10:59 am

      Natural-born CANADIAN citizen Senadate Ted Cruz is funded by the most repressive, radical factions found in the dingbat theocratic “Christian” Texas oil&gas money, there is:

      link to reuters.com

      Pandering to pure ignorant h8 is the stock and trade of these •••clown faux-Republican Presidential candidates.

      There is still lots of oil-stained money to be grabbed before the convention circus and rioting ahead in Cleveland.

  • Visualization: How ISIL vastly exaggerated its Influence and Everyone Bought it (The Atlantic)
    • getoffmedz 04/11/2016 at 12:43 pm

      In a world now increasingly gollywalloped by roving pirate bands, zealots and psychopaths, the vote should go to North Korea?

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