Jonathan Butler (born October 10, 1961, Athlone, Cape Town, South Africa) is a singer-songwriter and guitarist. His music is often classified as R&B, jazz fusion or worship music.
Born and raised in Cape Town during Apartheid, Butler started singing and playing acoustic guitar as a child. Racial segregation and poverty during Apartheid has been the subject of many of his records.[1] His first single was the first by a black artist played by white radio stations in the racially segregated South Africa and earned a Sarie Award, South Africa’s equivalent to the Grammy Awards.
Pathetic. These politicians are not well educated, not CULTURED, and I’m sure by choice. Not surprising Rick the Ruthless Santorum has no clue about poetry, and the great poet Langston Huges at that. Shocking… NOT.
DEBT CEILING: Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner says he’s “absolutely” sure that Congress will raise the debt limit in time to prevent a default by the federal government. “Congress will raise the debt ceiling,” Geithner predicted in an interview aired Sunday on ABC’s “This Week.”
“You sure about that?” host Christiane Amanpour asked.
“Absolutely,” Geithner replied.
Geithner said the consequences of failing to raise the debt limit, and an ensuing default, would be worse than the deep recession the country is still climbing out of. “We’d tip the U.S. economy and the world economy back into recession, depression,” he said. “It would make the last crisis look like a tame, modest crisis. It would have a permanent devastating damage on our creditworthiness as a country.”
Geithner said “no responsible person” would court that kind of “tragedy,” but in what may have been an allusion to President Barack Obama’s 2006 vote as an Illinois senator against increasing the debt limit, the Treasury secretary added: “There’s been a little bit of a tradition that people play politics with this.” Last week, Obama said his opposition to a debt limit raise in 2006 was a mistake.
– Josh Gerstein
http://www.politico.com/politico44/
Why IS CNN engaging in this bs w/ Orly Taitz?
04.15.2011. Orly Taitz interview with CNN John King
Unfreakingbelievable!
CNN=FOX THE.END.
The fact that this bish who isn’t American can be given a platform to spew this nonsense, tell you how much white people fear their BLACK PRESIDENT. Pathetic.
X’s 10!
Nailed it! Ain’t that some ish?
Peggy Noonan Pretends That Birthers Only Make Up a Small Part of the GOP Base
http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/heather/peggy-noonan-pretends-birthers-only-make-s
While discussing whether this birther nonsense is ultimately going to harm the Republican Party once their presidential candidates get through the primary race and have to start campaigning in the general election, Peggy Noonan did her best to downplay just how much of the Republican base believes that Barack Obama was not born in the United States. She also tried to blame the media for “whipping up” the story to make the conservative base look bad.
NOONAN: I think it is an issue that speaks to a small but passionate part of the anti-Obama base. I’m a little surprised over the years at how it’s taken off. I think Donald Trump has taken to whipping it up and so people talk about it. But I don’t think that it is a serious issue that will make anybody feel pro or anti-Obama. It doesn’t change anything.
It’s too bad that no one on the panel asked Peggy Noonan if she’d seen this recent report from Public Policy Polling:
Birthers make a majority among those voters who say they’re likely to participate in a Republican primary next year. 51% say they don’t think Barack Obama was born in the United States to just 28% who firmly believe that he was and 21% who are unsure. The GOP birther majority is a new development. The last time PPP tested this question nationally, in August of 2009, only 44% of Republicans said they thought Obama was born outside the country while 36% said that he definitely was born in the United States. If anything birtherism is on the rise.
And I’d love for her to explain why Donald Trump is seeing a huge rise in the polls since he started going out there spouting this birther nonsense — Obama Birth Certificate Issue Turns Trump into Big Problem for GOP:
The Barack Obama birth certificate controversy may or may not impact the 2012 election. Since those outside of the tea party aren’t focused that much on the birth certificate — or alleged lack thereof — it probably won’t get anyone elected president. However, the Republican primary is only for GOP voters, so if the issue is going to resonate, it would do so there. As such, new numbers about Donald Trump’s rise in the polls, after outing himself as a “birther” send a troubling message to the mainstream GOP.
Republicans as a whole are being blamed for the issue, as asking these questions about Obama strikes many as racist. But most Republican candidates who aren’t tea party icons aren’t touching it since they know it is unlikely to come off well in a wider presidential election. Yet it now seems it can help someone in a Republican primary, however.
My head hurts reading this bullshit.
After Pledging To Not Raise Taxes, Walker Proposes Hiking Taxes And Fees On The Poor And Students
http://thinkprogress.org/2011/04/16/walker-tax-hike/#comments
One of the most important ideological commitments of the modern conservative movement is an opposition to tax increases. It is with this ideology that then-Wisconsin gubernatorial candidate Scott Walker signed Americans For Tax Reforms’ “Taxpayer Protection Pledge,” a vow not to raise taxes on the people of his state.
Yet in his newly proposed budget, now-governor Walker appears to have already broken this pledge. While the budget would lower taxes overall — it includes $83.3 million in tax cuts “primarily for businesses and investors” — it would make up for lost revenue by eliminating tax credits and exemptions that primarily benefit the poor and even some in the middle class.
Wisconsin’s Legislative Fiscal Bureau — the state’s equivalent of the Congressional Budget Office — finds that this would amount to a $49.9 million tax increase on people who receive these credits over the next two years:
Low and middle income people would lose tax credits worth about $49.4 million over two years, the new Legislative Fiscal Bureau report said.
Those affected most by Walker’s proposal would include low-income families who qualify for the earned income tax credit program, and low-income homeowners who receive tax rebates under the homestead tax credit.
And the onslaught continues… Will it be too late before Wisconsinites RECALL this puppet?
Scott Walker is on a mission to stomp all over the people of wisconsin and frankly don’t give a damn.
Pro-Life’ Alaska GOP Kills Health Bill To Insure Thousands Of Low-Income Women And Children
http://thinkprogress.org/2011/04/16/alaksa-bill-women-children-abortion/#comments
On Wednesday, the Alaska Senate shot down a health bill that would expand a program that provides medical services to the low-income children and pregnant women. The 14-year-old program, Denali Kid Care, is specifically “designed to ensure that children and teens of both working and non-working families can have the health insurance they need.” The bill seeks to “restore the original income eligibility threshold established more than a decade ago, raising it from the current 175 percent to 200 percent of the federal poverty line” — a move that bill sponsor State Sen. Bettye Davis (D) said would cover nearly 1,300 more children and about 250 pregnant women. But the bill — which passed the Senate last year 15 to 4 — failed this year. The obstacle? A woman’s right to choose.
The Alaska Supreme Court holds that the state must fund medically necessary abortions if it funds medically necessary services for others with financial needs. The mere possibility that a woman could have even a “medically necessary” abortion under this health insurance program was enough for Republicans to stall the bill in a 10 to 10 vote:
– Abortion was a key issue in floor debate Wednesday. Sen. Fred Dyson, R-Eagle River, said he believes the Senate has shown a propensity for standing up for children and families but that he in good conscience could not vote for a bill that would help some but also result in abortions.
– “I think there are just a lot of unknowns about what is ‘medically necessary,’ what is considered an abortion,” said Sen. Kevin Meyer (R-Anchorage), who did not support the bill.
Hey Beck, he’s back!
Van Jones revs up progressives
By ALEX GUILLEN | 04/16/11 11:15 AM
Standing before 10,000 college students last night, Van Jones opened his remarks with, “I’m baaaaaack!” to wild applause Friday night in Washington, D.C.
Jones, the former green jobs adviser to President Barack Obama and current fellow at the Center for American Progress, spoke at the opening of Power Shift 2011, a conference for young environmentalists, taking several shots at the federal government’s work on the green economy.
“D.C. is having a bipartisan failure to rescue this economy, to rescue this planet,” he said, adding that neither political party seems able to fix the economy.
“You may not be worried about getting a green job,” he said to the crowd made up mostly of college students. “You worry about getting a brown job or a gray job or a polka dot job or a plaid job or any kind of job in this economy, with this Congress attacking our economy the way they’re doing.”
Playing off the name of the convention, Jones said attendees need to shift power not just in Washington and the energy industry but also “at the Thanksgiving table,” saying the young activists need to rebuff relatives who “love Fox News.”
Jones resigned from his White House job last September after conservatives, led by Fox’s Glenn Beck, questioned why Jones signed a 9/11 conspiracy petition during the Bush years.
http://www.politico.com/politico44/perm/0411/hey_beck_hes_back_5096db21-114c-4185-ab78-9db5309cc1ce.html
Happy Palm Sunday, 3 Chics!
May the Blessings Be!
POLL: Support for Ryan’s plan plummets as people learn more about it. From 48/33 to 36/56.
Q.45 This week, Republicans in the House of Representatives proposed a budget for the next 10 years that they say will cut 6.2 trillion dollars from the federal budget. From what you know, do you favor or oppose this budget plan?
Total
Strongly favor…………………………………………………………….27
Somewhat favor…………………………………………………………21
Somewhat oppose………………………………………………………10
Strongly oppose…………………………………………………………23
(Don’t know/Refused)………………………………………………….19
Total favor………………………………………………………………..48
Total oppose…………………………………………………………….33
(ref:RYAN)
Q.46 Let me read you some more information about the House Republicans’ budget plan.
The plan cuts 6.2 trillion dollars below the president’s budget and reduces the debt as a percentage of the economy. It makes small cuts in defense spending. It cuts spending for domestic programs in the coming year by 72 billion dollars, almost 20 percent, and freezes it for five years. It repeals the new health care bill and the new Wall Street reform law, makes major cuts of almost 800 billion dollars to Medicaid and Medicare for seniors over the next ten years. Starting in 2022, new retirees will no longer get health coverage through Medicare, but instead will get a voucher that will partially pay for insurance they purchase from private health insurance companies. The proposal cuts taxes for corporations and people making over 370 thousand dollars a year.
Now that you’ve heard more information, do you favor or oppose this plan?
Total
Strongly favor…………………………………………………………….19
Somewhat favor…………………………………………………………18
Somewhat oppose………………………………………………………14
Strongly oppose…………………………………………………………42
(Don’t know/Refused)…………………………………………………..8
Total favor………………………………………………………………..36
Total oppose…………………………………………………………….56
http://www.democracycorps.com/wp-content/files/fq4.pdf
Music to my ears this fine Sunday Morn… HA HA HA HA
LMAO!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/…
The people of Wisconsin drowned out Sarah Palin so bad until Andrew Breitbart went on stage and told labor supporters to go to hell.
He screamed, “I’m serious”! “Go to hell! You’re trying to divide America”.
Naw, Brebarat, you and Palin are trying to divide America, AND WE’RE NOT GOING TO LET YOU!
Inspiration for today…
Bible Verse Graphics
Good morning all!
Good Morning, Laides. Happy Sunday!