It's Time to Think Jesse Jackson 2008!

With the recent news that Islamic extremism is being bred in prisons, we need a leader who understands that mindset. Know thy enemy.

Jessie understands how crazy, fanatical lunatics think.



Like all great leaders, Jesse Jackson knows how to seize a media opportunity when presented. A crazy bible pounding Pat Robertson makes a comment about offing Venezuela's President and Jesse knows to fly to Venezuela, legitimize the comment, then to tell both nations to stop the rhetoric. Let me tell you, when Jackson says "back down," the governments of both countries know that it is time to cool it. You do not want this man's wrath!

But Jackson is also about love and he has so much love to give that he is known to spread it around and does not selfishly limit it to his wife or family as others might. Is he honored for this? Of course not, hypocritical conservatives run photos like those above with mistresses circled like that picture above of mistress Karin Stanford with whom he fathered a beautiful love child, but you cannot keep this man down.

During the Clinton impeachment trial, Jackson was Clinton's spiritual advisor. Now some would call this hypocritical given Jackson's own history of both extramarital affairs and extensive efforts to cover them up. That is small thinking. The President of the United States is the most powerful man in the world (barring the Dali Lama of course), so he can afford an experienced expert in such matters... and Jackson is the best!

A sign of Jackson's power is how far people will go to attack him even over the slightest little things (and don't forget to compare these to what George Bush is doing like taking health care away from babies and invading peaceful countries). Amongst the things people attack Jackson for:

• Referring to New York City as "Hymietown"
• Being "America's #1 Shakedown Artist"
  
• That Jackson's Claim that Dr. King died in his arms is a falsehood
• For the illegal misuse of tax-exempt funds

I don't have the time or space here to refute each and everyone of these claims, but since you are entitled to my viewpoint, let me share the following:

1. Jackson is a victim. If he is guilty of anything it is in not striking back harsher at those who have victimized him.
2. Jackson loves NY. If he called it "Hymietown" he meant it as a complement.
3. Unless you were there with Dr. King in your arms when he died, then you have no right questioning Jesse about his claims.
4. The illegal misuse of tax-exempt funds is just a mumbo-jumbo technicality. Since when is it illegal or immoral to take money that loving people have voluntarily given you and then give that money to a mother who you made love to and a child who you sired. Since this girl doesn't have a father in the truest sense, Jackson was in essence giving the money to an orphan. In my book that's called "charity" not "hush money," "bribe," "tax evasion" or anything else. If it's illegal to give money to kids without fathers why not go after everyone who's donated to "Save the Children"?

Jackson is the man in 2008. You heard it here at Blue Flypaper!

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Happy Birthday Best Friend

I know that this is a political blog and all but today is my best friend's birthday and I want to honor her with a posting. She is such an amazing person. I love her. Here's just some of what makes her sooooo incredible:

She understands gender, race, ethnicity, and class ideologies more than anyone I've ever met. She talks about them all of the time...it is so captivating. She can talk hours about culture and gender and things like that. She exhibits both feminism and feminismo. (Now you are probably getting an idea on how great she is!).

She is a 5th year senior in a prestigious Ethnic Studies program with a minor in African fiction. Fortunately almost all of her studies have been independent study because to be truthful the profs just don't understand this stuff as well as she does. Tell me this womyn won't have her pick of plumb jobs when she graduates!

Her stated goal in life is to instill an appreciation of non-Western cultural diversity and tricultural lifestyles and experiences. Talk about thinking big!

I don't want to paint a picture of her as narrowly focused on the above areas (as if you can be narrowly focused on ethnic studies, har har!). She has soooo many other interests. These include ritualism, mythology, and symbolism, cosmology, shamanism, and playing djbotto drums.

She cohabitates with a feline named Gloria Allred. (Is that cool or what?).

My friend's politics are also right on. We cried into the night when the Supreme Court stole the election from President Gore. Thank goddess I didn't have to be alone.

I could go on and on but I just want to say happy birthday comrade! We've had sooo many good times together. We've protested together, been arrested together, worked together (before I was fired by that womyn-hating Neanderthal at the co-op), and have read poetry together. You are one of a kind (which is unfortunately because if there were 100 million of you this country would rock!).

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Blue Flypaper's Plan for Fixing NASA

Republicans pride themselves for being able to run wars. (What a horrible thing to be good at!)

But give them a peaceful task, say like "peace" in Iraq or managing NASA, and it's a big disaster. With regard to NASA, Challenger and Columbia both happened with Republicans at the helm.

You think that is partisan? Well, there has never been a space disaster during a Democratic administration.

Since we are stuck with the Republicans in the White House until 2008 (barring impeachment for war crimes like illegally invading someone else's country), Blue Flypaper believes that it has the answer...put NASA under Democratic leadership. John Kerry would do a phenomenal job with it and here are just some of the things Democrats could do to improve NASA:

1. Stop the blatant discrimination in picking astronauts. People-of-size make up half of this country and yet have never been selected to go to space? (I smell a discrimination lawsuit here). Let's fix this before half our country (and even more if you go on a weighted average) feel disenfranchised from the whole space thing.

2. Stop giving all of the plumb Space Shuttle contracts to the same "Beltway Bandits." Since the Republicans are quick to point out the importance of small business in America, then let's give the small guy the job of building future Shuttles and other space craft. Not just small business, but womyn-owned businesses, minority-owned businesses, and co-ops. Since the program is funded by the people, it should benefit all the people by being a job training program. Experienced engineers and scientists certainly don't need another opportunity so let's use NASA to employ people who've never had a chance to do these jobs or any other job for that matter. What a great way to learn on the job.

3. Double the NASA budget and raise the national minimum wage to a level that people can live without having to worry how they spend their money. We could easily pay for this by raising taxes on the top 1% of rich people who won't even notice that the money isn't in their Swiss bank accounts.

Why do the Republicans always make it so hard?

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Blueflypaper Warns Alphecca to Disarm Now!

Warning: This man is armed and he doesn't like liberals!!!

I just learned of the existence of a website that promotes guns and ammo. Can you believe that? They might as well be promoting the safe and personal use of car bombs. I am not going to get into a debate about guns. I think we all know that if you look at the last 100 years of our country, the number of people who have guns has gone up and so has the number of people getting shot! Do the math: More guns = more people getting shot. It's that simple. Do you want to get shot? I don't!

The website that I'm referring to is called Aphecca. I have to admit that I haven't really read anything on their site because it is clear that it is conservative and my readers know that I do not read conservative literature. (I don't drink bleach either!). Furthermore, there is a picture of a guy with a gun right on the front. How can so-called patriots promote guns? What great American patriot has ever held a gun throughout our entire history? It just doesn't happen.

I'm going to give Alphecca (which is probably a Greek word for ammunition) a chance to improve themselves and drop the whole gun thing. If they don't then I'm going to put them on the Blue Flypaper Black List.

For those thinking that this might be too harsh, I'm sure given the chance they would just put a couple of rounds in our rear-ends and call it a warning. What bums me out is that this guy is from Vermont. Based on Howard Dean, I thought everyone in Vermont would be cool. It's not that big of a state so a sample size of one should be sort of accurate. But I don't ever picture Howard Dean posing with a rifle like that guy above. Scary!

I really hate to take this negative tone and go all Columbine on someone I don't really know, but if we don't get guns off of web sites then we might as well accept the fact that there will be crime. Remember guns = crime. Nuff said. I'm off to my womyn's fiction reading group where I'm pretty sure there will be no guns! Just incense, Indian hymym tea, and lots of love in the room.

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Blue Flypaper Gives a High-Five To Rev. Sharpton

What can I not say about Rev. Sharpton?

Sharpton is a unifier, not a divider. He is color blind to race and I swear he can't tell the difference between a fellow African American on one hand and a minority-hating white pig on the other.

The good Reverend never ever makes race an issue and instead talks solely of the objective merits of an issue. He certainly never allows base emotions to play a role in his actions.

A great example of his love for fair play is the Twana Brawley case. Even though it wasn't absolutely proven that she was raped by a white policeman, I think we all know that she was. Furthermore, we all know that white District Attorney was somehow responsible for the whole thing.

Sharpton has been magnanimous in lending his name and his fame to pretty much every racially charged protest in New York over the last 30 years.

Sharpton did his best to avoid the riots in Crown Heights in 1991, as well as an 1995 arson attack on a Jewish Harlem jeweler that resulted in 8 deaths. Without his involvement things could have gotten really ugly.

He's also a great friend of fellow African American Michael Jackson and helped him protest the racism so prevalent at Sony Music.

Please join Blue Flypaper in giving Rev. Sharpton a big ole High-Five!

Blue Flypaper Proclaims Ted Kennedy is one of us!

Ted represents America the way we are and not some idealized portrayal of people in conservative Hollywood movies. We are not a nation of perfectly looking people. We are not a a nation of thin people or a nation of athletic e people. Our minority-hating President may exercise and concern himself with physical fitness, dietary discipline, etc., but the rest of us don't. We're focused on more important things than physical health and appearance! Look at Ted and you see America--all of it!

Teddy is like America in other ways. Unlike President I'm-so-perfect-aren't-I Bush, we are a people who make mistakes; that's how we learn. Kennedy had Chappaquiddick, and that was a really good learning experience as evidenced by it never happened again. How do you learn if you don't make a small mistake like that once in awhile and who of us can't say that we haven't had our own little Chappaquiddicks that in the end left us as better people?

We are a nation that has a passion for our heritage. That's why Kennedy has been such a good and loyal supporter of Sinn Fein and the freedom fighters of the IRA. Ted is just being American in this regard and what have those British ever done for us anyway compared to those Fightin' Irish!

We are a nation who stands by our family members in times of need. Think about how Teddy and the Kennedy clan pulled together to support William Kennedy Smith with those nasty rape allegations. Ted was right there the whole time starting with the night the girl was raped (sporting the "no trouser" look as I remember) and never left William's side through the whole matter.

Teddy is America and America is Teddy. Let's never forget that and rejoice that he's just like us!

Dan Rather Where Are You?

Blue Flypaper is calling Dan Rather to come back to network news. The day you left, CBS started just reporting the news and stopped interpreting the news. Dan you got to the bottom of Bush's military record and you were part of the team that nailed General Westmoreland. We need this type of reporting now more than ever!

Losing Mary Mapes was also a blow. No one could rush a story through the system like her. Her "gut instinct" did what other producers required fact checkers to do. As a team, you both understood that you don't sit around and wait for news to happen, losers do that. No if you want a story bad enough, you go out and make the story.

Dan, you would be so perfect as an embedded reporter at Camp Casey. Without you we are hardly hearing anything about Cindy Sheehan. This poor woman is suffering from obscurity and that isn't right. And it isn't just her. Did you know that Joan Baez sang at Camp Casey? This was basically a USO show for anti-war zealots and it was practically ignored.

Think about it, Joan Baez is one of today's hottest and most relevant talents and she does a rare, exclusive show and no one seems to care.

Dan, I'd say that over 90% of the TV viewing audience wants and needs you back and Blue Flypaper is going to start a letter writing campaign to the other 10% to show them how wrong they are. We'll do that by writing to the blogs that spread lies and talk poorly about you. If they fail to heed our warnings, we are going to put them on the Blueflypaper Black List, which will effectively shut them down.

Here is a copy of the first email which is going to Rathergate. (What a hateful name!).

Dear Rathergate:

You are very mean people. But you already know that. What you are doing goes beyond mean and is in fact inappropriate. There are so many wrong things about you that I could fill up a blog (heck, maybe I just will some day!) but for now I'll list a few of the issues I have with you and then my demands.

1. You use Dan Rather's name even though you are not related to him. I see from your website that your names are "Kevin" and "Mike". How would you like it if I created a website called "Kevingate" or "Mikegate," not so funny is it?

2. You act as though those stupid Killian documents have been proven to be falsified. Nothing has ever been proven on those and if they were good enough for Dan Rather they should be good enough for you.

3. Speaking of good enough, nothing Dan does seems to be good enough for you. If Rush Limbaugh signed off with the word "courage," you'd say brilliant. When Dan Rather does it you say "hackneyed." If George Bush were to walk off camera and leave 6 minutes of dead air you'd call it "assertive", when Rather does it you call him a "self-righteous cry baby".

4. You kick people when they are down. Dan inherited a newscast that was in first place when he took over and 3rd when he retired. Do you give him any slack for that? No sireee!

Okay, our demand. If you do not shut down your blog, plus issue an immediate apology to Dan Rather and all of his fans for all of the hateful things that Rathergate has written, then we will have no choice but to put you on the Blue Flypaper Black List. I'm sorry it has come to this.

Sincerely,

Blue Flypaper

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Rathergate is not alone in the not-nice-to-Dan category. Independent Sources has a story called "Independent Sources would Rather Dan Worked for Us" where they purport to offer the down and out Dan a job. (Not nice!), W.C. Varones has a generally negative tone about CBS, The Bennelli Brothers has an inappropriate drawing of Dan, and there are many others out there. You should all watch out because we'll track you down!

Blueflypaper Salutes (the sort of) Mrs. Tim Robbins!

First off, any woman who can land Tim Robbins is a real womym! (Yes, I know that they are not officially married. So what?).

Second, she doesn't just rest on her laurels of being Tim Robbins' squeeze, as she has done some acting too.

But, most importantly, this womyn is a leading political pundit. She doesn't make statements often, instead she waits until she has all of the facts, all of the back-up, so that her statements are irrefutable. For example:

"We stand a chance of getting a president who has probably killed more people before he gets into office than any president in the history of the United States."

"How will the bombing of Baghdad, a city of five million, accomplish a regime change?"

You simply cannot argue against this logic.

Plus, by being a celebrity, Sarandon has access to high-level information not available to non-celebrities. But instead of remaining silent, Sarandon talks to all Americans who are willing to listen to her. And I quote:

"Now should I be quiet because I have information other people don't have? No."

Thank goddess she does!. Furthermore, Sarandon also has the brass balls to call it like it is, for example equating al-Qaeda with U.S. businesses. When you think of it parallels are so obvious, however no one before had the nerve to say it. In her words:

"“Let us find a way to resist fundamentalism that leads to violence. Fundamentalism of all kinds, in al-Qaeda and within our government. And what is our fundamentalism? Cloaked in patriotism and our doctrine of spreading democracy throughout the world, our fundamentalism is business.”

Most importantly, Sarandon has the secret for achieving ever-lasting peace in the world:

Dialogue makes peace possible.

Now if we'd do more dialoguing and less warring in Palestine, Iraq, Chechnya, and with Osama bin Laden, then we could go back to the times when there were no wars (ie., before Bush & his Dad).

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Blue Flypaper Proudly Reads the Los Angeles Times

We in Hollywood are so lucky for so many reasons, just one of which is that we are served by the Los Angeles Times. What a great paper! The Times has done a brilliant job of attacking Governator Arnold and his pro-steroid, anti-women agenda. If not for the LAT, the Governor would have fired every teacher and fire fighter in the state. In fact, if I want to know what Gov. Arnold is doing wrong at any given time all I have to do is pick up an issue and I am assured that they will have an anti-Arnold story with all of the sordid details. They are consistently so good to the Democrats of Los Angeles and our causes leading to our honoring them today.

Unfortunately, not everyone is aware how lucky we are to have one of the fairest and least biased papers in the world right here in Southern California. Surprisingly not everyone agrees with this obviously true fact. A quick Google and Technorati search turned up a few a few regular critics of the paper and its employees.

First are those hate mongers at Independent Sources, charter member of the Blue Flypaper Black List.

A second heinous blog is something called Patterico's Pontifications. Whoa. This guy's home delivery must have gone into the bushes a few too many times as he needs to chill out LA Times-wise. He calls the LA Times the "Dog Trainer"--which I guess is a play on words for dogs to do you-know-what. That level of crass analogy combined with his unfounded declarations that the LA Times is too liberally-biased also lands Patterico on our Blue Flypaper Black List.

I shouldn't have to defend the Los Angeles Times, any of the 3.5 million people who love the paper can attest to its brilliance. The paper does so many good things for the people of LA. They help people sell their homes and buy their cars, they help people get jobs and find yard sales. Does Patterico do any of this? How about the homeless? Without the LA Times, I'm not sure anyone would even know that we have a homeless problem.

The LA Times deserves our respect and reverence and not nitpicking for silly issues that no one cares about anyway.

Blue Flypaper is proud to read the Los Angeles Times, and you can quote us on that.

Blue Flypaper Adds Area417 to the Black List!

Okay, I hate to do this but Blue Flypaper has been forced to add Area417 to the Blue Flypaper Black List. (The graphic on the left is from their site and has an American flag along with people with guns, presumably invading some poor country for their oil). Think of the Blacklist as a travel advisory for blog readers. What has Area417 done to deserve this drastic action? Here's just a sample of what Area417 is guilty of:

1. Accessory to Murder. Area417 supports the war in Iraq, which along with other wars, has costs millions of lives. Remember, if no one supported the Republican war machine, there would be no wars and thus no dead soldiers, civilians, etc.

2. Treason. Area417 is against the ACLU. I have no doubt if the ACLU had been around 200+ years ago, our Founding Fathers would have all been members of the ACLU. To be against the ACLU is to be against our country, which is treason.

3. Defamation of Character. Area417 has said many bad things about this blog and other liberal leaders. By definition these character assassinations are untrue. Hence, defamation!

I could go on and on but, unlike Area417, Blue Flypaper likes to take the high road so we'll stop here.

Avoid them, Boxer Watch and (non)Indepedent Sources, and be happy.

Blue Flypaper is Moved by Blog Comment

One of the most incredible comments I have ever read on a blog comment section:

Bush hates all the little children,
All the children of world.
Red and yellow, black and white,
They're but test subjects in his sight.
G Dubya hates the little children of the world.

Powerful stuff. Wish I had written it myself. May I someday be good enough to do so.

Humbled.

Come on Blue Flypaper readers, can you top that?

Blue Flypaper gives a shout out to Janeane Garofalo

Janeanne Garofalo's words are as beautiful to the mind as she is beautiful to the eyes. Garofalo is also one of the most quotable celebrities since Mao Tse Tung. Listen to a few of her sage-like comments:

"Our country is founded on a sham: our forefathers were slave-owning rich white guys who wanted it their way. So when I see the American flag, I go, 'Oh my God, you're insulting me.' That you can have a gay parade on Christopher Street in New York, with naked men and women on a float cheering, 'We're here, we're queer!' -- that's what makes my heart swell. Not the flag, but a gay naked man or woman burning the flag. I get choked up with pride."

"... when Communist U.S.S.R. was a superpower, the world was better off."

Wow. This woman can think, talk and act, which is probably a lot harder than it sounds. How many people can educate us on how this country's forefathers were fundamentally bad people and then be in a big hit like "Mystery Men" at the same time?

Perhaps her greatest gift is the incredible number of things she can be against. It is amazing. Try it yourself and you will see that it isn't that easy.

Blue Flypaper offers a carrot/stick to BoiFromTroy

Boi From Troy is having a political identity crisis. There is a blog called Boi From Troy, and it could be the perfect liberal blog. It has nice graphics, a good font, and a clean layout (unlike the first two bloggers that we critiqued, the enemy [Independent Sources] and BoxerWatch (gag!). However the intention of the BoiFromTroy site is to snarl unsuspecting bloggers into a conservative agenda! I call them Republican Predators, and they prey on the weak and try to turn them into Republicans like themselves. It's a lot like a cult which is why we have them on the Blue Flypaper Black List.

I don't know if there is a form of counseling that helps confused conservatives revert back to liberalism where they belong. It someone (even a conservative) is open-minded enough it's pretty easy to get them away from conservatism. All you have to do is walk pretty much any conservative through a Nike plant where 8-year old girls are working 16-hour days stitching up cross-trainers for 10 cents an hour (with no medical benefits). If they are still holding out, then let them sit in on a typical cabinet meeting of George Bush where the over-riding focus is taking rights away from minorities and figuring out new ways to invade peaceful countries. After those experiences anyone with a heart and brain will come over to the liberal side quicker than you can say "Ted Kennedy".

BoiFromTroy: Come on over from the dark side before it's too late! As for the rest of you conservatives, watch out. We'll be targeting your blog next!

If someone thinks this is mean just remember two things. 1) Blue Flypaper didn't start this; and 2) Fark. Nuff said!

Do you know how much strength it takes to say NO! to everything? I didn't think so.

These have been trying times. First I read that the number of homeless people in Los Angeles is growing. It's something like 750,000 people in LA alone and it so bothers me that we'd rather kill people in the Middle East than help the hardworking and noble souls who need homes in Los Angeles but can't have them because Republicans took them away to build mini-malls and Nike factories. Sometimes I feel that if the homeless people in LA had launched a Homeless Jihad then maybe they'd be getting the same attention that the mid-east freedom fighters are getting. I guess we ignore the good guys.

Second, I did a simple post pointing out a mean spirited blog that I think typlifies the problems we have in this country. I normally would have ignored them but they posted us on a blog called Fark (well click here for the story), anyway I was shocked and dismayed to learn that they are not alone. There are legions and legions of similarly mean and misguided sites, I'll call them conservative bloggers and the fact they even exist scares the heck out of me. If you think I am exaggerating, check out a blog called "Boxer Watch." Yikes! Now part of me thinks that it is a parody site put up by loyal Democrats just to show how stupid the fascist, McVeigh-loving right-wingers are. However, if it is a real site, then whoever is running it is someone who needs a reality check.

To them and everyone I ask, "where would this country be, if we did not have Barbara Boxer?" In the toilet I tell you. She has done more to stop, halt, delay, and obfuscate the hateful Republican agenda. Who do you think has been responsible for the gridlock we've been lucky to have? The Republicans you say? Yeah right. Repubs don't even know how to filibuster. I shiver when I think all of the things that would be getting done if Boxer wasn't there to block them.

So during trying times like this, I take a deep breath and think of all of the great Democrat leaders we have out there. Fox News and other conservative outlets may not cover them but the Ted Kennedys, Hillary Clintons, and especially the Barbara Boxers will get us away from the economic problems and terrorism all caused by Bush!

Update: Boxer Watch has been added to the Blue Flypaper Black List.

I have seen the enemy and their name is...

I am particularly upset about the Independent Sources blog because I am pretty sure that they are the ones that posted us on Total Fark. Initially I thought this was a complement and even sent them a note thanking them. However, in the end, I believe they did it to ridicule us. We never did anything to them so I don't know why they did that to us. (Karl Rove must work there!)

Most of our readers will never have heard of Independent Sources because as a true liberal you should try and stay away from reading non-liberal publications like this. How can I tell that these guys non-liberals? Well, just look at some of the articles that they have on their blog:

Hillary a Moderate? Not so fast! In this article they say Hillary is not a moderate and votes liberal, as if that is somehow bad.

"That Hissing Sound You Hear" is Paul Krugman Running Out of Ways to Denegrate the Economy. Believe it or not but Independent Sources even has a bone to pick with Paul Krugman; one of the greatest minds of this century. I have no doubt that if Krugman chose to make movies instead of write columns he could be the next Michael Bay. He's that good.

NYT and Newsweek once again the source of Fidel Castro's Talking Points. So what's wrong with that? These are great, great periodicals and what enemy of the country wouldn't want to quote from them. I do all of the time.

Anyway, you get the idea. I'm going to send Independent Sources an email and see how they like public ridicule now that the shoe is on the other foot. It's not so funny is it?

Update: Well to no one's surprise Independent Sources didn't take too well to our calling them out. They pointed to this posting and instead of an apology they labeled us the "World's Worst Liberal Blog." Now we're certain that Karl Rove works there. Even more telling to their sinister nature is that they have a new post that criticizes the ACLU. Can you believe that? The ACLU practically wrote the constitution. They protect everyone. They're great. If you are attacking them then you are attacking the people that they represent too. Speaks volumes.

Update #2: A lot of mean things being said. I think I now know where those George Bush votes came from!

Update: Blue Flypaper has added Independent Sources to the Blue Flypaper Black List.

Blue Flypaper Hat Tip to Anti-Trade Groups of the World!

Today we honor not a person, but an organization that truly understands what it means to be a Democrat. It is not enough to be for something, anyone can do that. Boldness comes from what you stand against. Anti = Virtue.

We love the fact that this group stood against free trade. Even more important is that many of the anti-CAFTA members (like Lori Wallach's Global Trade Group) understand losing = pay back!

For losing the fight but being big enough to attack, attack and attack those who won, we salute you anti-CAFTA groups! Remember if we pull together we can stop a lot! Go Blue!

Watch for an upcoming post about how we would all be better off without trade.