Neoconnery™: February 2013

Thursday, February 28, 2013

Tuesday, February 26, 2013

What are you lookin at, Butthead?

Friday, February 22, 2013

Tired of Angry Conservatives Trying to Take Away a Woman's Constitutionally Protected Right to Choose?

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Mr. President, We the People humbly petition you to sign an Executive Order immediately requiring any member of Congress – past, present, and future – who introduces a bill in either the House of Representatives or the Senate that mandates an invasive procedure, i.e a trans-vaginal ultrasound, in order to abort a pregnancy to be required to undergo three (3) rectal probes with an instrument no less than three inches in diameter; the first procedure to be administered immediately following the introduction of the legislation, the second one hour prior to voting on the bill, and the third one hour after voting on the bill.

Thursday, February 21, 2013

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"As people do better, they start voting like Republicans - unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing." -Karl Rove

Wednesday, February 20, 2013

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Since 9/11, our Constitutional rights have been systematically dismantled:

USA Patriot Act - A 342 page document presented to Congress one day before voting on it that allows the government access to your bank and email accounts, as well as your medical and phone records with no court order. They can also search your home anytime without a warrant.
USA Patriot Act II - This one allows secret government arrests, the legal authority to seize your American citizenship, and the extraction of your DNA if you are deemed a potential terrorist.
Military Commissions Act of 2006 - Ends habeas corpus, the right to an attorney, and the right to court review of one's detention and arrest. Without this most basic right, all other rights are gone too since anyone can be detained indefinitely. Now anyone may be arrested and incarcerated and nobody would know.
NSPD 51 - A directive signed by George W. Bush on May 9, 2007, that allows the President to declare martial law, effectively transforming the U.S. into a dictatorship with no checks and balances from the Legislative or Judicial Branches. Parts of this directive are considered classified and members of Congress have been denied the right to review it.
Protect America Act of 2007 - Allows unprecedented domestic wiretapping and surveillance activities with a reduction in FISA court oversight. Probable cause is not needed.
John Warner Defense Authorization Act - Signed by George W. Bush on October 17, 2007, this act allows the President to declare a public emergency and station troops anywhere in America without the consent of the governor or local authorities to "suppress public disorder."
Homegrown Terrorism and Radicalization Act - Passed overwhelmingly by Congress on October 23, 2007. This act will beget a new crackdown on dissent and the Constitutional rights of American citizens. The definitions of "terrorism" and "extremism" are so vague that they could be used to generalize against any group that is working against the policies of the Administration. In this bill, "violent radicalization" criminalizes thought and ideology while "homegrown terrorism" is defined as "the planed use of force to coerce the government." The term, "force" could encompass political activities such as protests, marches, or any other form of non-violent resistance.

So when you add in:

It starts to get a little scary.

"Our most deadly enemies are not in caves and compounds abroad but in the corporate boardrooms and governmental offices where decisions are made that consign millions to death and misery--not deliberately, but as the collateral damage of the lust for profit and power." -Howard Zinn

"Representative democracy in the United States has broken down. Our legislators do not represent those who elected them but rather the minority who finance their poltical campaigns and who control the organs of communication- the Tee Vee, the newspapers, the billboards, the radio- that have made politics a game for the rich only." -Edward Abbey

Tuesday, February 19, 2013

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Roughly 95% of the mainstream media outlets in this country are owned by 5 companies.
Clear Channel forbid any dissenting views on the Iraq War from being spoken on the air and anti-war songs were not played on any of their radio stations.

For the first four years of the Bush Presidency, only pre-approved questions submitted at least 24 hours in advance were answered.

"One of the intentions of corporate-controlled media is to instill in people a sense of disempowerment, of immobilization and paralysis. Its outcome is to turn you into good consumers. It is to keep people isolated, to feel that there is no possibility for social change." -David Barsamian

"The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum - even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that there's free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate." -Noam Chomsky

5/14

This one was a bit of an effort to create. There is plenty of imagery in our media that illustrates sexism in our society, but there isn't much that shows how it is institutionalized through the agenda and policies of the Republican Party without utilizing memes.

One example not included in this image is the effort of a Wisconsin Republican who introduced legislation into the State Legislature last year that would have penalized single mothers for not being married.

4/14

Despite our economic woes, crumbling public infrastructure, and already obscenely bloated military budget, the Republican Party pushes to increase spending on the military while cutting funds to domestic programs.