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Posted on June 2, 2016 by rikyrah

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  5. Ametia says:
    June 2, 2016 at 2:20 pm

    Language: A Key Mechanism of Control

    Newt Gingrich’s 1996 GOPAC memo

    As you know, one of the key points in the GOPAC tapes is that “language matters.” In the video “We are a Majority,” Language is listed as a key mechanism of control used by a majority party, along with Agenda, Rules, Attitude and Learning. As the tapes have been used in training sessions across the country and mailed to candidates we have heard a plaintive plea: “I wish I could speak like Newt.”

    That takes years of practice. But, we believe that you could have a significant impact on your campaign and the way you communicate if we help a little. That is why we have created this list of words and phrases.

    This list is prepared so that you might have a directory of words to use in writing literature and mail, in preparing speeches, and in producing electronic media. The words and phrases are powerful. Read them. Memorize as many as possible. And remember that like any tool, these words will not help if they are not used.

    While the list could be the size of the latest “College Edition” dictionary, we have attempted to keep it small enough to be readily useful yet large enough to be broadly functional. The list is divided into two sections: Optimistic Positive Governing words and phrases to help describe your vision for the future of your community (your message) and Contrasting words to help you clearly define the policies and record of your opponent and the Democratic party.

    Please let us know if you have any other suggestions or additions. We would also like to know how you use the list. Call us at GOPAC or write with your suggestions and comments. We may include them in the next tape mailing so that others can benefit from your knowledge and experience.

    LIST HERE: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4443.htm

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  6. SouthernGirl2 says:
    June 2, 2016 at 1:27 pm

    Well, I discovered a leak in one of my bedrooms and the wind damaged the screen door on the front door. Screen door won’t stay closed. The front door is hard to open. Ugh!

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  7. rikyrah says:
    June 2, 2016 at 1:05 pm

    should be charged. Lying got that person KILLED.

    BE RESPONSIBLE FOR YOUR ACTIONS.

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  8. rikyrah says:
    June 2, 2016 at 1:03 pm

    A Question of Racism
    What’s behind the vitriol in the opposition to Obama?
    By Michael A. Fletcher

    ……………….

    The First Black President

    A series exploring the cultural impact of Obama’s White House

    “You lie!”

    The words cut through the air as President Obama, not eight months into his first term, laid out his signature health care proposal in a prime-time speech to a joint session of Congress.

    The outburst by South Carolina Republican Rep. Joe Wilson, challenging the president’s factual assertion that the health care law would not extend coverage to illegal immigrants, drew audible gasps in the room and withering stares from Obama as well as Vice President Joe Biden and then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who were sitting behind the president on the rostrum.

    It’s unprecedented for a president addressing Congress to be heckled like a referee at a summer league basketball game. Not surprisingly, the incident still rankles Obama supporters, including some of his closest confidants.

    “Somebody should have smacked his a–,” former Attorney General Eric Holder said of Wilson in an interview. “They should have . . . told him to sit the f— down.”

    Wilson apologized and was formally rebuked by Congress. Still, for many the incident stands as a prime example of how the unwritten rules dictating public respect for the nation’s chief executive and his family have shifted for the worse since the nation’s first black president took office. Instances of obstruction, scorn and outright insult have mounted over his seven-year tenure.

    “There is a unique feeling of fear — hatred is too strong a word — but a feeling of anger, dissatisfaction with this president,” Holder said.

    All of which raises a disturbing question: Is racism to blame?

    The continuous challenges to the president’s legitimacy and authority offer a troubling counterpoint to the shimmering achievement his election and re-election represent for a nation founded on both the dream of equality and the reality of white supremacy. They evoke a shameful history, when whites routinely addressed blacks by their first names and adult men were called “boy” and otherwise diminished without a second thought, no matter their age or standing.

    Any one or two or three of the slights to Obama could be dismissed as insignificant one-offs, the last gasps of a dying order that relegated people of color to a lesser place.

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    • Ametia says:
      June 2, 2016 at 1:46 pm

      BLACK FOLKS IN AMERICA DON’T NEED SURVEYS, RESEARCH AND SUCH TO TELL US AMERCIA IS A RACIST COUNTRY

      YES

      RACISM IS TO BLAME FOR THE UGLY, POISON, OBSTRUCTIONISM LEVIED AGAINST THE FIRST BLACK POTUS.

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    • Ametia says:
      June 2, 2016 at 2:10 pm

      But, but…BUT, LOOK OVER THERE>>>>>>>>Bernie BAD THO!

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    • Liza says:
      June 2, 2016 at 2:48 pm

      Ha. There is so much nonsense being spewed about Hillary’s computer skills and her “Am I doing this right?” image her supporters are hawking. This is her defense? It is the year 2016 and Hillary cannot operate a desktop computer. So, apparently lacking the technical skills of a six year old, she is the most qualified person in the country for the presidency? Yes, put her in charge of the world, she is “wicked smart.”

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  11. SouthernGirl2 says:
    June 2, 2016 at 11:33 am

    This is why I can’t stand Hillary and her fake azz hugging of Potus.

    https://twitter.com/BKcolin/status/693238108817596416

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  12. Ametia says:
    June 2, 2016 at 11:20 am

    and this one right HEE-YA!

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  13. Ametia says:
    June 2, 2016 at 11:18 am

    OOP! THERE IT IS!

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  17. yahtzeebutterfly says:
    June 2, 2016 at 10:36 am

    http://www.koco.com/image/view/-/39844948/medRes/1/-/maxh/460/maxw/620/-/c4ok45z/-/judge-owens-jpg.jpg

    OKLAHOMA CITY —The first African-American judge in Oklahoma has died. Judge Charles L. Owens was 86.

    Owens was born and raised in Tulsa and attended law school at Tulsa University College of Law.

    In 1963, he was named the first African-American assistant attorney general in Oklahoma. Five years later, he was appointed as a District Judge in Oklahoma County. He held his seat for more than three decades.

    http://www.koco.com/news/first-africanamerican-judge-in-oklahoma-dies-at-59/39844908

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  19. Ametia says:
    June 2, 2016 at 9:25 am

    White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide Hardcover – May 31, 2016
    by Carol Anderson

    As Ferguson, Missouri, erupted in August 2014, and media commentators across the ideological spectrum referred to the angry response of African Americans as “black rage,” historian Carol Anderson wrote a remarkable op-ed in the Washington Post showing that this was, instead, “white rage at work. With so much attention on the flames,” she writes, “everyone had ignored the kindling.”

    Since 1865 and the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment, every time African Americans have made advances towards full participation in our democracy, white reaction has fueled a deliberate and relentless rollback of their gains. The end of the Civil War and Reconstruction was greeted with the Black Codes and Jim Crow; the Supreme Court’s landmark 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision was met with the shutting down of public schools throughout the South while taxpayer dollars financed segregated white private schools; the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965 triggered a coded but powerful response, the so-called Southern Strategy and the War on Drugs that disenfranchised millions of African Americans while propelling presidents Nixon and Reagan into the White House.

    Carefully linking these and other historical flashpoints when social progress for African Americans was countered by deliberate and cleverly crafted opposition, Anderson pulls back the veil that has long covered actions made in the name of protecting democracy, fiscal responsibility, or protection against fraud, rendering visible the long lineage of white rage. Compelling and dramatic in the unimpeachable history it relates, White Rage will add an important new dimension to the national conversation about race in America.

    http://www.amazon.com/White-Rage-Unspoken-Racial-Divide/dp/1632864126

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  22. rikyrah says:
    June 2, 2016 at 8:07 am

    Our President yesterday:

    So, look, here’s my main point: The primary story that Republicans have been telling about the economy is not supported by the facts. It’s just not. They repeat it a lot – but it’s not supported by the facts. But they say it anyway. Now, why is that? It’s because it has worked to get them votes, at least at the congressional level.

    Because – and here, look, I’m just being blunt with you – by telling hardworking, middle-class families that the reason they’re getting squeezed is because of some moochers at the bottom of the income ladder, because of minorities, or because of immigrants, or because of public employees, or because of feminists – because of poor folks who aren’t willing to work, they’ve been able to promote policies that protect powerful special interests and those who are at the very top of the economic pyramid. That’s just the truth.

    I hope you don’t mind me being blunt about this, but I’ve been listening to this stuff for a while now. And I’m concerned when I watch the direction of our politics. I mean, we have been hearing this story for decades. Tales about welfare queens, talking about takers, talking about the “47 percent.” It’s the story that is broadcast every day on some cable news stations, on right-wing radio, it’s pumped into cars, and bars, and VFW halls all across America, and right here in Elkhart.

    And if you’re hearing that story all the time, you start believing it. It’s no wonder people think big government is the problem. No wonder public support for unions is so low. No wonder that people think that the deficit has gone up under my presidency when it’s actually gone down. No wonder that – they did a survey, a lot of white Americans think reverse discrimination is as big a problem as discrimination against minorities, even though black unemployment is twice as high as white unemployment. And the typical Hispanic woman makes 55 cents for every dollar a white man earns, and there are only a handful of women running Fortune 500 companies.
    But that’s the story that’s been told. And I’m here to say, Elkhart, seven and a half years since I first came here, we’ve got to challenge the assumptions behind this economic story. And the reason is it has ended up dividing Americans who actually have common economic interests and should be working together for a better deal from the people who serve them. And it’s made people cynical about government, and it’s kept working families from pushing our political system to actually address our economic challenges in a realistic way. Families of all races, and all backgrounds, deserve higher wages. Families of all races, and all backgrounds, deserve quality health care and decent retirement savings. Every child in this country deserves an education that lets them dream bigger than the circumstances in which they’re born.

    You know, look, in today’s economy, we can’t put up walls around America. We’re not going to round up 11 million people. We’re not going to put technology back in the box. We’re not going to rip away hard-earned rights of women and minorities and Americans with disabilities so that they’re able to more fairly and fully participate in the workplace. These are permanent fixtures in our economy. And rolling them back will not help folks in Elkhart or anyplace else.

    And if we’re going to transform our politics so that they’re actually responsive to working families and are actually growing the middle class, then we’ve got to stop pitting working Americans against one another. We’re going to have to come together and choose a vision of America where everybody gets a fair shot, and everybody does their fair share, and everybody plays by the same set of rules. And that’s the vision that made progress possible over these last seven years. And that’s what’s going to lead us forward now.

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    • Ametia says:
      June 2, 2016 at 9:29 am

      At least these folks were civil. But how many of them will actually listen and UDNERSTAND that they need to stop voting against their own best interest in order to have a fair shot. Stop & look how far they’ve come under leadership of a president who delivers and not just talk,

      REPOST so we can read along and LISTEN to PBO from his own lips.
      https://youtu.be/XvBh2FQRkSs

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  23. rikyrah says:
    June 2, 2016 at 6:35 am

    Good Morning☺, Everyone 😉

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