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As a rule, Conservatives show the following qualities:

Xenophobia: a hatred of those groups thought to threaten or oppress that ideal heritage.

Militarism and authoritarianism: a central tenet of the Republican Party is that people of the correct heritage need to band together and reassert their dominance.

Policies of expansionism: The Republican Party claims of a superior heritage naturally lead to the desire to demonstrate their superiority through both internal and external dominance. Often this is militaristic, through conquest, external excursions, or internal pogroms; but it may also appear as a drive to create economic or scientific superiority.

Masculinism: The same claims of superior heritage lead to a male-centered worldview in which it is merely accepted that superior heritage implies superior physical and/or moral qualities that entitle men to greater sexual freedom. Women, by contrast, are expected to breed to help increase the numbers of that superior group.

Advertising: the Republican Party relies on public advertising to promote their ideals and reinforce a perception of their group’s superiority, while simultaneously demonizing any groups that interfere with their progress or serve as targets of hatred.

Found my new limit yesterday. 2 hours work, then breakfast and a video, then 45 minutes, and hour’s rest then another 30 minutes and into a cold shower, then bed. So I guess my practical limit is now two hours a day while the day is still cool. Still, better than before the refresh.

What is wrong with our elected officials? Did Oklahoma state Rep. Pat Ownbey, R-Ardmore even read this story before posting it to his Facebook page? C’mon! A “Final solution” for people following Islam? ”

. . . we have no long term alternative but to quarantine them… prohibiting them from residing anywhere within the civilized nations of the Earth . . .”

Seriously? Defending The Donald’s proposed Muslim ban by citing the Communist Control Act of 1954? Legislatively removing the right of dissent from a group of US citizens?

Oklahoma Lawmaker Shares Article Arguing Islam Isn’t A Religion, Calls For ‘Final Solution’

Today is the 22 of June 2016 and its been about 6 weeks since I had my heart looked at and the results are better than I expected. Going in I hoped to have my medications adjusted to relieve my chest pains. Coming out, well I’m never going to be young again but I can work comfortably in the south Georgia summer heat.

Two weeks out from the surgery I over did it a bit with a motorcycle trip to Camilla, GA to pick up a whip antenna. On the way home I began to realize that I’d bitten off more than I could chew and when I laid my head down for the night I knew it was going to be an interesting night. Lynn woke me up from a nightmare, I was dreaming of a fat man sitting on my chest. Waking up and changing position relieved the symptoms and my heart settled back into its normal rhythm. At my 3 week check up the good Doctor added a beta blocker to my medication list and that’s done the trick for me.

I still sleep at least 10 hours a night and I take an afternoon nap. Any outdoor work is accomplished before noon. I can live this way.

As for how Obama should spend his remaining time in office, McConnell said, “If the President has trouble doing nothing, we will be more than happy to show him how it is done.”

16 FEB 2016 G.O.P. Warns Obama Against Doing Anything for Next Three Hundred and Forty Days – The New Yorker

Original New Yorker Story

When the Justice Department says “We’ve reached an agreement” you really shouldn’t argue with them.

When your argument is that your revenues are down because “we don’t pull over people at the rate we used to pull people over. We don’t issue tickets like we used to issue tickets.”

When your argument is that “we began changing things in our courts, which we felt were onerous, which were probably burdensome on the people who are going through our court system.”

And finally when “those things which the Department of Justice alleges” is part of your thought process, you really need to step aside or go to jail.

The legal system is not meant to be a revenue generator for your city. For any city.

If you really “don’t believe the Department of Justice should tell us how much we have to pay our city staff.”

Then, how can you believe that you have the right to remove a persons liberty and them shake them by their ankles to see how much money fall out of their pockets?

Ari Shapiro, NPR. Ferguson, Missouri Mayor says there was no agreement with the Justice Department.

Amid the flurry of “Obama Care Raised My Insurance Premium So Much I Can’t Afford It.” comes this:

I receive Medicaid benefits because I qualify for Social Security Supplemental Income. So I live comfortably thanks to socialism.

On the 25th of January past, I went to the emergency room at the local hospital, my blood pressure was 169/97. On the following Tuesday I went to the local sliding fee scale clinic and was seen by a physician’s assistant who put me in the system for blood work and a visit with a cardiologist, paid for by Medicaid. I will be seen by the cardiologist on the 7th of March next with a follow up at the clinic on the following 10th.

FWIW Overhead on the Medicaid program is 3%. You go look up the profit margin of a health insurance corporation yourself because you won’t believe me if I tell you myself.

So, that is my experience. Here is how Senator Ted Cruz frames the same information for public consumption:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/ted-cruz-debate-health-care_us_56b6b6dee4b01d80b246974a?ncid=txtlnkusaolp00000592