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		<title>Where is the outrage?  A Poisoned Ricin Letter was mailed to the President of the United States</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2013 23:07:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dee Dee Garcia Blase</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Where is the outrage from Republican officials and conservative talking heads like Senator Chuck Grassley, Rep. Steve King, Rep. Louie Gohmert, Glenn Beck, Laura Ingraham, and etc., who have been exploiting the Boston Bombings?  A ricin letter was sent to the President of the United States (POTUS) &#8212; our Commander In Chief, yet we do [...]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Where is the outrage from Republican officials and conservative talking heads like Senator Chuck Grassley, Rep. Steve King, <a href="http://tucsoncitizen.com/hispanic-politico/2013/04/23/where-is-the-far-right-outrage-a-poison-ricin-letter-was-mailed-to-the-president-of-the-united-states/usaf_tattoo_by_mabon_tail-d2yhnlp/" rel="attachment wp-att-2971"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-2971" alt="usaf_tattoo_by_mabon_tail-d2yhnlp" src="http://tucsoncitizen.com/hispanic-politico/files/2013/04/usaf_tattoo_by_mabon_tail-d2yhnlp-300x300.png" width="300" height="300" /></a>Rep. Louie Gohmert, Glenn Beck, Laura Ingraham, and etc., who have been exploiting the Boston Bombings?  A ricin letter was sent to the President of the United States (POTUS) &#8212; our Commander In Chief, yet we do not hear a peep from these people with regard to National Security.</p>
<p>Suppose the POTUS was harmed?</p>
<p>Shouldn&#8217;t these same individuals be alarmed with regard to toxic letters being sent to our officials?</p>
<p>Now we see a 3rd letter that was sent to our D.C. United State Air Force installation.  Bolling Air Force Base is the center of Air Force and Navy ceremonial support, among other missions performed by the nearly 50 military and federal agencies on the installation. Its service to the country, active-duty, reserve, retired and visiting military, as well as personnel deployed around the world, is an important one.  The <a title="Defense Intelligence Agency" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense_Intelligence_Agency">Defense Intelligence Agency</a> built its <a title="Defense Intelligence Analysis Center" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense_Intelligence_Analysis_Center">Defense Intelligence Analysis Center</a> at Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling and moved many of its operations and headquarters there in 1987.</p>
<h1 style="padding-left: 30px"><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/23/ricin-letter-air-force-base_n_3140979.html?ncid=txtlnkushpmg00000037">Ricin Letter Found At Bolling Air Force Base, Harry Reid Says </a><strong></strong></h1>
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<p>We thought we had the suspect, but the case involving ricin letters mailed to President Obama and other public official has evolved.  The initial suspect via Paul Kevin Curtis, was <a href="http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/04/23/178622842/suspect-in-ricin-letters-is-released-on-bond" target="_hplink">released on bond</a> by the U.S. Marshal&#8217;s office. The FBI has said it found <a href="http://www.clarionledger.com/viewart/20130423/NEWS01/304230032/FBI-No-ricin-found-suspect-s-home" target="_hplink">no traces of ricin </a>at the suspect&#8217;s home in Mississippi.</p>
<p>According the <a href="http://bigstory.ap.org/article/apnewsbreak-ricin-suspect-released-jail">AP</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>All the envelopes and stamps were self-adhesive, Grant said Monday, meaning they won&#8217;t yield DNA evidence. He said thus far the envelopes and letters haven&#8217;t yielded any fingerprints.</p>
<p>On Tuesday, people in hazmat suits were seen going in and out of Dutschke&#8217;s house on a quiet block in Tupelo. Investigators from the FBI, U.S. Marshals Service and U.S. Capitol Police were seen outside the house. Dutschke said he counted at least 30 law enforcement agents.</p>
<p>Dutschke said his attorney wasn&#8217;t with him and he didn&#8217;t know whether he was going to be arrested.</p>
<p>Dutschke said that he knows Curtis but that the two had a falling out. Dutschke said the last contact they had was in 2010 when Dutschke threatened to sue Curtis for saying he was a member of Mensa, a membership group for people with high IQs.</p></blockquote>
<p>The 2013 ricin letters are reminiscent the anthrax letters that were sent to officials and our media during the September 11 attacks, and stories by PBS and the <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/20/opinion/20wed2.html?_r=1&amp;th&amp;emc=th&amp;oref=slogin">New York Times</a> do not make me feel comfortable with regard to the the final anthrax investigative outcome.  Indeed I hope the FBI isolated the anthrax threats despite doubt that is out there.   The individual(s) who sent our Commander in Chief and now our military base ricin letters is an issue that ought to be taken very, very seriously.</p>
<h1 style="padding-left: 30px"><a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/criminal-justice/anthrax-files/new-evidence-adds-doubt-to-fbis-case-against-anthrax-suspect/"><em>New</em> Evidence Adds Doubt to <em>FBI&#8217;s</em> Case Against <em>Anthrax</em> <b>&#8230;</b> &#8211; <em>PBS</em></a></h1>
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		<title>2012 Presidential Debate No.1:  Romney brings up old Tea Party talking point in Killing Big Bird / Sesame Street Children educational programs</title>
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		<dc:creator>Dee Dee Garcia Blase</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Remember when the extremist Tea Party Senator DeMint was pushing for legislation to defund public broadcasting like PBS and NPR in March 2011?  It appears Mitt Romney is repeating Tea Party rhetoric when he stated yesterday he wanted to &#8220;kill Big Bird&#8221; via PBS. So why is Mitt Romney repeating old tea party ideas that [...]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Remember when the extremist <a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/on-the-money/budget/147615-senate-republicans-introduces-bill-to-defund-npr-pbs">Tea Party Senator DeMint was pushing for legislation to defund public broadcasting like PBS and NPR</a> in March 2011? <a href="http://money.cnn.com/2012/05/10/news/economy/romney-defense-spending/index.htm" rel="attachment wp-att-1932"><img class="alignright  wp-image-1932" src="http://tucsoncitizen.com/hispanic-politico/files/2012/10/romney-wants-to-kill-big-bird-and-sesame-street-but-increase-war-budget-money-to-bomb-other-countries-290x300.jpg" alt="" width="244" height="252" /></a></p>
<p>It appears Mitt Romney is repeating Tea Party rhetoric when he stated yesterday he wanted to &#8220;kill Big Bird&#8221; via PBS.</p>
<p>So why is Mitt Romney repeating old tea party ideas that didn&#8217;t pass in 2011?  The Tea Party idea failed miserably, and the public made it very clear they like PBS and NPR.</p>
<p>Why would Romney want to cut programs that help poor families and children here at home in our Nation, but be hell bent in increasing defense spending by trillions of dollars?  There is something terribly sick and wrong about the money we waste bombing other countries instead of investing more of it here in our Homeland and helping poor families and American children.</p>
<p>Last night, Romney proved he is willing to continue being a zinger-filled war monger while promoting the slashing of programs that have helped American families [or the 99%].</p>
<p>Ironically enough, these same Tea Party people who ‘claim’ to be for small government are in support of millions and millions of dollars in foreign aid and war.  In addition to the <a id="itxthook1" href="http://tucsoncitizen.com/hispanic-politico/2012/08/15/today-is-day-one-for-legal-status-of-many-dream-act-children-and-youth-1-7-million-acts-of-compassion-given-by-president-obama/#" rel="nofollow">cool<img src="http://images.intellitxt.com/ast/adTypes/icon1.png" alt="" /></a> Billion$ we give in foreign aid, we see <a href="http://money.cnn.com/2012/05/10/news/economy/romney-defense-spending/index.htm">Republican Mitt Romney wanting to spike our defense spending  by $2.1 trillion</a>.  According to CNN Money, “….compared to the Pentagon’s current budget, Romney’s plan would lead to $2.1 trillion in additional spending over the next ten years, according to an analysis conducted by Travis Sharp, a budget expert at the Center for a New American Security.”</p>
<p>Now let’s imagine for a moment a situation where there are no starving children in our own country?</p>
<p><strong>Why are people hurting in our own country?  </strong></p>
<p><strong>Why do we see the hungry in our land of the free?</strong></p>
<p><strong>Shouldn’t we harness those taxpayer dollars, tell the foreign countries that we need to pause in giving them <a id="itxthook2" href="http://tucsoncitizen.com/hispanic-politico/2012/08/15/today-is-day-one-for-legal-status-of-many-dream-act-children-and-youth-1-7-million-acts-of-compassion-given-by-president-obama/#" rel="nofollow">financial<img src="http://images.intellitxt.com/ast/adTypes/icon1.png" alt="" /></a> aid for at least a year until we get ourselves out of the rut?</strong></p>
<p>What about the military defense <a id="itxthook3" href="http://tucsoncitizen.com/hispanic-politico/2012/08/15/today-is-day-one-for-legal-status-of-many-dream-act-children-and-youth-1-7-million-acts-of-compassion-given-by-president-obama/#" rel="nofollow">budget<img src="http://images.intellitxt.com/ast/adTypes/icon1.png" alt="" /></a>?  Republicans love war even though they claim to be Christian compassionate types, but why can’t we slash the military defense budget for at least one year? Aircraft fuel and bombs are expensive so why can’t we put that on hold until we help ourselves out for a year?</p>
<p>War mongering doesn’t make sense right now.</p>
<p>The Tea Party Republicans and the war mongers who don’t want to help our elderly and our own here in the United States have blood on their teeth and would rather spend billions of dollars and trillions in war than to help our own.</p>
<p>In my view there should never be ONE child living in the United States that should go to bed hungry, and we should encourage children education programs.</p>
<p>Imagine for a moment the trillion$ we spend on war and foreign aid and applying that <a id="itxthook4" href="http://tucsoncitizen.com/hispanic-politico/2012/08/15/today-is-day-one-for-legal-status-of-many-dream-act-children-and-youth-1-7-million-acts-of-compassion-given-by-president-obama/#" rel="nofollow">money<img src="http://images.intellitxt.com/ast/adTypes/icon1.png" alt="" /></a> to Americans for a year.</p>
<p>Do the math.</p>
<p>According to the U.S. Census Bureau, there are approximately<em> 311,591,917  </em>people living in the United States and with the trillions we spend in foreign aid combined with war, imagine a lot of relief that would be given to our own here in the United States.</p>
<p>Below are images that are blowing up social networks and the internet with regard to Romney&#8217;s Big Bird comment.</p>
<p><a href="http://tucsoncitizen.com/hispanic-politico/2012/10/04/2012-presidential-debate-no-1-romney-brings-up-old-tea-party-talking-point-in-killing-big-bird-sesame-street-children-educational-programs/bigbird_270x270/" rel="attachment wp-att-1929"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1929" src="http://tucsoncitizen.com/hispanic-politico/files/2012/10/bigbird_270x270.jpg" alt="" width="270" height="270" /></a></p>
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<p><a href="http://tucsoncitizen.com/hispanic-politico/2012/10/04/2012-presidential-debate-no-1-romney-brings-up-old-tea-party-talking-point-in-killing-big-bird-sesame-street-children-educational-programs/obama-romney-debate/" rel="attachment wp-att-1930"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1930" src="http://tucsoncitizen.com/hispanic-politico/files/2012/10/obama-romney-debate.jpg" alt="" width="550" height="298" /></a><br />
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<p>Que triste y que mal. Romney es un abusador.</p>
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