RNC fires finance director & deputy director following spending scandals

By GottaLaff

Heads are rolling... because, hey, that's how the RNC, well, rolls:

The Republican National Committee has fired Finance Director Rob Bickhart in the wake of a two embarrassing scandals that originated in the committee's fundraising department.

Deputy Finance Director Debbie LeHardy has also been removed from her post.

Remember that powerpoint presentation to Republican donors that stooped to the usual fear tactics, calling Obama a socialist, blahblah spewspew? That would be the same powerpoint in which they referred to GOP donors as "ego-driven". Bickhart was reportedly the one behind it.

VIDEO- Lawrence O'Donnell: "The Republicans... really like scaring you."

By GottaLaff

Lawrence O'Donnell takes Jim DeMint down... and out... with facts:

Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy

"The penalty for not paying the tax penalty... is nothing... There isn't a real individual mandate in this bill, because there isn't a real penalty for violating an individual mandate.

The Republicans.... reeeaallly like scaring you."

Wham.

H/t: Susie May

Obama pollster: U.S. will like healthcare bill, despite poll numbers

By GottaLaff

Once the "misinformation" (aka lying) is corrected, once Americans understand what's actually in the bill, it's likely the U.S. will like what it sees better than they do now:

President Barack Obama's pollster said the healthcare bill will win over public support once it becomes law despite polls showing Americans against the plan. [...]

"When it comes to health care and insurance, once reform passes, the tangible benefits Americans will realize will trump the fear-mongering rhetoric opponents are stoking today," Benenson wrote in a Washington Post op-ed Saturday. [...]

At the very least, the numbers show a public more wary than not of the healthcare bill. But the surveys indeed have something for everybody.

"Despite polls showing Americans against the plan." But, again, they're not against what is in the plan, once the details are explained to them. And a strong majority is for a public option, too, but you sure don't hear that story bandied about.

Fear mongering is an easy, effective tool the Rushpublics know how to use all too well. It will be nice to see something as beneficial as health care reform counter the despicable tactics that are used, and overused, by the opposition.

Republicans Will Run on Fear of Obama and Socialism

By GottaLaff

Why would they stop their fear tactics now? And once and for all, I wish they'd get out their dictionaries and look up the word "socialism".

While they're at it, they might look up the words "ethical" and "democracy":

The RNC plans to raise money this election cycle through an aggressive campaign capitalizing on "fear" of President Obama and a promise to "save the country from trending toward socialism," Politico reports.

"The strategy was detailed in a confidential party fundraising presentation which also outlines how 'ego-driven' wealthy donors can be tapped with offers of access and 'tchochkes.'"

And by "tchochkes" they mean apologies for calling them "ego-driven".

I'm so glad I'm a Marxist Commie fascist so they can't lump me in with all those evil socialist types.

VIDEO- Keith Olbermann's Special Comment on Fear and Racism

By GottaLaff

Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy

Here you go!

Guess who Pioneered Miranda Attack On Obama? Cheney & Ridge

By GottaLaff

It always starts with you-know-who:

It turns out that the criticism surrounding the decision to read Miranda rights to the attempted Christmas bombing suspect didn't originally come from any office-holding Republican.

Rather, it was pioneered by Tom Ridge and Dick Cheney in the days after Christmas, and only later picked up by members of Congress like Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R-MI) and Sen. Kit Bond (R-MO).

For a tick-tock, go here. These snakes stayed true to form.

Yes, Dickless McHeartStent strikes again... and his little dog, too!

H/t: Gr8RDH

VIDEO- Terrorist Lockup: Tough or Wuss?

By GottaLaff



Hippie_Cyndi just brought this video to my attention. Thanks, Cyn, it hit the spot:

Are you tough or a wuss? Take a look at what it takes to put terrorists away for good, starting with Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. (Oh, and the 195 others who have already been put on trial in the U.S.) A Mark Fiore political animation.

Video- King: Obama Should Have Put Flight 253 Suspect In Military Tribunal

Richard Reid, "The Shoe Bomber"-

In January 2003, he pleaded guilty to terrorism charges at a federal court in Boston, Massachusetts. During the sentencing hearing he stated that he was an Islamic fundamentalist and declared himself an enemy of the United States and in league with Al-Qaeda and Osama bin Laden.

He was sentenced by Judge Young to life imprisonment on each of the three charges, 20 years imprisonment on four other charges, and 30 years on four other counts, to be served consecutively, followed by five years of supervised release. Eight fines of $250,000, restitution of $298.17, and $5,784,800 special assessment were imposed. There is no parole in the federal prison system. He is serving his sentences in the ADX Florence, a Supermax prison in Florence, Colorado.

Will anybody EVER call them on their bullshit?

Gitmo detainees likely to end up in Illinois supermax prison

By GottaLaff

(Lane Christiansen/chicago Tribune Via Associated Press)

That sound you hear is the hair being ripped out of Rushpublic heads:

Despite opposition from congressional Republicans, the Obama administration is signaling that a state prison in rural Thomson, Ill., will probably become the new home for scores of terrorism suspects now housed at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Oh noes! Batten down the hatches! The terrorists will be released the second they hit Illinois soil and make a mad rush for your children's swing sets!

What-oh-what will the president do to calm frayed GOP nerves and paranoia? Xanax? Valium?

To reassure skeptical Republicans, they emphasized security.

Oh... that.

If all goes well, administration sources involved in closing the Guantanamo Bay prison anticipate a handover of the Thomson facility by late winter. It would then take several months to prepare the prison to a level "beyond supermax" and put the staff in place, according to federal estimates.

That's it. Thomson will be Ground Zero for Bad Guy Central. Plot after evil plot will be hatched. Never mind that we already have convicted terrorists safely locked away with no escapes, no havoc, no Al Qaeda recruitment offices opening up within prison walls.

In other words, politicizing as usual is a big fat waste of time:

"We can defeat Republican efforts to stop this," said Schakowsky, who contends the GOP is "'absolutely politicizing the situation. They're looking for any angle that would make the president somehow look soft on terrorists. Fear, in the past, has been their friend."

So it's true: You can judge a person by who their friends are.

Cartoon of the Day

Click to enlarge, via.

GOP Launches Strategy to Trip Up Health Bill

I just might be worried if this wasn't the bazillionteenth "strategy to trip up health bill" they've proposed...

Senate Republicans**, acknowledging they lack the votes to block a health care reform bill outright, have implemented a comprehensive political strategy to delay, define and derail.

With Democratic leaders and White House officials holed up in Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s (D-Nev.) office negotiating a final bill, Republicans are demanding a deceleration of the process and moving to define whatever plan that emerges as a combination of Medicare cuts, tax increases, higher insurance premiums and rising overall costs.

“Where they’re headed is inconsistent with the American people, so I’m not sure it’s as much about us as it is about making sure that the American people express their deep concerns over this,” Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.) said last week. “Certainly they’ve got the votes, but they’re going to have to hold every one of them in the United States Senate to make it through this.”

Senate Democrats are rejecting Republicans’ demands to slow things down, charging that the GOP isn’t interested in working with the majority to craft a bipartisan health care bill. Rather, Reid said repeatedly last week, the Republicans’ primary goal is to sink reform in order to undercut President Barack Obama.

**This is a link to Roll Call, which for some reason I have access to, but is usually behind a paywall so link may not work.

VIDEO- Sen. DeMint: "This is a socialist agenda, plain and simple, demanding control."

By GottaLaff

Gaaaa! Stop the evil socialist commie Marxist fascist liberal progressive hippies before they control the whole wide world!

I'm sorry, what's that coming through my non-existent socialist earpiece? It's too late?... just ask Greece? I don't understand. That must be some kind of ultra super duper double whammy secret lefty code:



Via Taegan:

"Liberal doesn't even touch it. This is a socialist agenda, plain and simple, demanding control. So we've got to stop them."

-- Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC), in an interview over the weekend, on the Obama administration.

We've got to stop us!

Video clip via Hot Air.

RNC Survey in Virginia Suggests Draft, Welfare Expansion on 'Obama Agenda'

They're given license to lie and no one gives a shit.

The Republican National Committee has sent some Virginia voters a questionnaire suggesting that the president and Congressional Democrats want to expand welfare benefits with "no time, education or work requirements" and reinstitute the military draft -- while raising the budget deficit well beyond what is projected by nonpartisan experts.

(snip)

The survey, touching on an array of divisive topics, is accompanied by a letter from GOP chairman Michael S. Steele describing the items in the survey questions as "Obama's top priorities" and declaring, "I want you to know that the Republican Party is not dead."

Some of the 15 questions:

1. Do you agree with Barack Obama's budget plan that will lead to a $23.1 trillion deficit over the next ten years?

3. Do you support amnesty for illegal immigrants?

4. Should English be the official language of the United States?

6. Are you in favor of expanded welfare benefits and unlimited eligibility (no time, education or work requirements) that Democrats are pushing to pass?

9. Do you support the creation of a national health insurance plan that would be administered by bureaucrats in Washington?

13. Are you in favor of reinstituting the military draft, as Democrats in Congress have proposed?"

Surveys designed to persuade rather than survey are a common though dirty tactic in the political arena, the text equivalent of telephone push-polls. The sending of polls for fundraising purposes is also widely considered unethical, a practice known as "frugging" -- fundraising under the guise of research. In August, the RNC suggested in a similarly formatted "Future of American Health Care Survey" that "GOP voters might be discriminated against for medical treatment in a Democrat-imposed health care rationing system." Following on outcry from Democrats, a Republican Party spokesperson called that survey "inartfully worded."

Video- Jon Stewart mocks freak-out over school kids "SHOCK VIDEO"

Heads up, they found another one.

Where Will It End? Special Comment by my 72-year-old friend

By GottaLaff

My very caring, impassioned 72-year-old Twitter pal, who goes by the name 42bkdodgr, would like to share his feelings about the very scary, very hostile attitudes and actions that have been way too prevalent in this country lately. I am more than happy to post his essay here.

Take it away, 42bkdodgr:

Where Will It End

I hate to sound like a broken record always writing about the hate I see in the country today. I wrote about it in my very first Special Comment posted on this site on July 30th. At that time I said I hadn’t seen so much hate in this country since the civil rights movement.

In other commentaries I wrote about the beginning of the end of democracy in this country, the growth of hatred since the election (using a tumbling boulder metaphor), racism, McCarthyism. I said I felt the hate will only get worse until some climatic event took place that would bring the country to its senses.

I have no problem with people disagreeing with the policies of President Obama; but the expression of such differences should be done in a civil manner and with respect given to the other side’s point of view. Nothing is accomplished by addressing differences of opinion by the mob rule we saw at Town Hall meetings or by the spiteful placards, banners and T shirts that were on display at the 9/12 Project Rally in Washington D.C. It only hardens each side’s point of view.

I asked in my commentaries: When will the leadership of the Republican party find some backbone and tell the Limbaughs and Becks of this country, enough with the hate words? You are hurting the country. So far they haven’t stepped forward with any great assertiveness.

In the past week we have seen the hanging of a census worker, Limbaugh calling for segregated school buses, and last night the worst of all, on Facebook, from an unknown party, a poll on “Should Obama Be Killed”. The hate-- and now violence-- continues to grow.

In the past 8 years the country has worried about being attacked by terrorists, while at the same time the country maintains a strong defense system to protect us against attacks from other nations. What I’m beginning to realize is, we don’t have to worry about terrorists or outside forces... we are doing job for them. Unless this country gets back to some civility, we are headed for a major civil disturbance that will tear the fabric of this country apart more than any terrorist group could do.

What has to occur, before its too late, is a strong campaign directed at the Republicans in the House of Representatives and the Senate. The campaign should urge them to think of country first, asking them to work towards ending the hate in this country by taking a united stand against the hate mongers and groups. Unless something happens soon, this nation is headed for difficult times.

Many thanks again for another relevant, cogent piece, 42bkdodgr. You never disappoint.

Where will it end, indeed...

McCarthyism: Special Comment by my 72-year-old friend

By GottaLaff

My very caring, impassioned 72-year-old Twitter pal, who goes by the name 42bkdodgr, would like to share his feelings about something very scary, and sadly, making a comeback: McCarthyism. I am more than happy to post his essay here.

Take it away, 42bkdodgr:

McCarthyism

One thing that is sure to make my blood pressure rise is the mention of Joseph McCarthy and McCarthyism. Recently there have been several mentions of McCarthyism in the news.

At the 9/12 Project Rally, in Washington D.C., the media showed a picture of a young man wearing a tee shirt with “The Cure of Obama Communism, Is A New Era Of McCarthyism” printed on it. What could this young man possibly know about McCarthyism and what it stood for?

I felt it important to write about McCarthyism, as many younger people today have no idea what it was like living in America during that time.... which was one the darkest periods in the history of this nation.

The term McCarthyism is basically associated with the period of late 1940s to late 1950s known as the Second Red Scare period, although the practice of McCarthyism could also be applied to other eras in American history. During this period, a witch hunt took place. The sole purpose was to identify and weed out suspected communists in the entertainment industry and the federal government.

The House Un-American Activity Committee (HUAC) brought people from the entertainment industry before the Committee to answer the question “Are you now or have you ever been a member of the Communist Party of the United States?”; or to name names of those who might be Communists or belong to Communist type organizations. Failure to answer the Committee’s questions, even using the First and Fifth Amendments of the Constitution, often led to a jail term or banishment from the industry.

In many instances, those who refused to name names, even if they had never been Communists, were added to a blacklist developed by the Hollywood studios. Over 300 people were placed on the blacklist that prevented them from working in the entertainment industry. Such well known names as: Charlie Chaplin, John Garfield, Paul Robeson, Carl Foreman, Arthur Miller, Burl Ives, Orson Welles, Sam Jaffe, Lee Grant were on the blacklist.

Blacklists were also at work in the universities, schools at all levels, the legal profession and television. Being on any of these blacklists had the same effect as those who were on the entertainment industry blacklist.

In some instances the stigma of being on the blacklist, even if you had done nothing wrong, resulted in divorce, financial ruin, leaving the country to earn a living, writing under an assumed name, working in other professions, and in some cases it led to suicide. The overwhelming majority of those put on the Hollywood blacklist never found work in the entertainment industry again.

During the period of McCarthyism, there was the banning of books written by Howard Fast, Dashiell Hammett, Theodore White and others deemed “un-American”, whose books were removed from U.S. Information Service Libraries.

In the early 1950s, Joseph McCarthy, through his Senate Committee on Government Operations and related sub-committee, began a witch hunt looking for infiltration by Communists or sympathizers into the State Department, other government agencies, and U.S. Army Signal Corp. It was through these witch hunts that the term “McCarthyism” was born.

The witch hunt into the Signal Corp wasn’t very successful, and it eventually led to the Army-McCarthy hearings. It was through the televised public hearings that the true meanness, brutality, and tactics used by Joseph McCarthy was exposed and seen by the American people.

It was during the Army-McCarthy hearings that the famous line "Have You No Sense of Decency?" was spoken by Joseph Welch, the Army‘s attorney. It was said during an exchange between McCarthy and Welch in discussing a young attorney’s controversial background who was working for Welch’s law firm.

The McCarthy-Army hearings were the turning point in Joseph McCarthy’s career and McCarthyism, and he was censured by the Senate in December 1954 for his actions during those hearings.

I don’t ever want to see the rise of McCarthyism in America again in my lifetime; where just knowing someone or innocently belonging to an organization during your youth could cost you the ability to earn a living in your chosen profession, lead to financial ruin, and possibly the loss of your family and friends.

That isn’t America, that’s a Nation of Fear.

To get a sense of what life was like during that period, rent the movies “The Front”, “Guilty by Suspicion” and “Good Night & Good Luck”.

Great thanks again for another relevant, cogent piece, 42bkdodgr.

You not only educated us, you dovetailed two eras, putting today's McCarthyism into perspective, especially for those who may have been unaware of the original.

The Tumbling Boulder of Racism: Special Comment by my 72-year-old friend

By GottaLaff

My very caring, impassioned 72-year-old Twitter pal, who goes by the name 42bkdodgr, would like to share his feelings about the hypocrisy, racism, and outright hostility of the -Ers, and I am more than happy to oblige.

Take it away, 42bkdodgr:

The Boulder

In 2008, many Americans and I pushed a boulder up a steep mountain from a valley to accomplish something that most of us didn’t think we would live to see in our lifetime; the election of a black man to the highest elected office in this Nation, President of the United States.

We thought the country had reached a milestone in race relations with the election, and while we all rejoiced, a small group of Americans who couldn’t accept change, started to push the boulder back down the mountain.

It started with the hateful words spewed by the right wing media following President Obama’s election, such as Rush Limbaugh saying “I hope he fails“.

The speed of the boulder increased with:

*The birther movement.
*"He’s not one of us" statement.

The speed of the boulder increased momentum with:

*Glenn Beck calling President Obama a “racist” and that he “hates white people”.
*Mob rule at Town Hall meetings.
*Open display of firearms at Town Hall meetings.
*Depicting the President as a Nazi.

The boulder continued to gain speed by:

*remarks made by Pastor Steven L. Anderson asking members of his parish to pray for the death of the President.
*Rush Limbaugh saying the Health Care logo is close to a Nazi swastika logo and
*"we want our country back" statements.

The speed of the boulder increased as it went faster down the mountain with:

* Rep. Joe Wilson yelling “you lie” during President Obama’s speech to a Joint Session of Congress on Health Care Reform.
*9/12 Protest rally where such banners and placards were on display:
--“Undocumented worker”.
--"bury Obamacare with Kennedy".
--“Hitler gave good speeches too”.
--"Joe Wilson: My hero".
--“Obama for President of Kenya”
--“Obama does Lie”
--a young lad wearing a T shirt “The Cure for Obama Communism, is a New Era of McCarthyism”
--The Zoo has an African Lion and the White House has a Lyin’ African”
--Confederate flag with “bring back we the people”, and
--Comparing Obama to the worst dictators of the 20th century.

As the boulder continues to tumble down the mountain with ever increasing speed, we are faced with a grave situation until the country regains its sanity and accepts Barack Obama as the President of the United States.

If that doesn’t happen the boulder will eventually crash into a house in the valley, dividing the house in two as it had once been before. Then the question will be: How do you put a divided house than can’t stand, back together?

I pray that the boulder crash doesn’t happen.

Great thanks again for another relevant, cogent piece, 42bkdodgr.

You're a gem.

Where Was the Outcry? Special Comment by my 72-year-old friend

By GottaLaff

My very caring, impassioned 72-year-old Twitter pal, who goes by the name 42bkdodgr, would like to share his feelings about the hypocrisy, racism, and outright hostility of the -Ers, and I am more than happy to oblige.

I took the liberty of adding a couple of graphics.

Take it away, 42bkdodgr:

The Political Carnival recently posted an article titled “ Colorado Tea Party Organizer Issues Racist Threat To Fellow Blogger” which I read with great interest. Many of you know I detest racism in all forms from my previous special comments on The Political Carnival.

I found the racist threat made by Shaun Conley, a plumber in Johnstown Colorado, to be disgusting and reprehensible. What caught my interest was his ending comment, “You can’t spend your way to prosperity, and you can’t borrow your way out of debt. That’s what we’re trying to fight as a group” (tea baggers).

I ask Shaun and the “tea baggers” the following:

Where was the outcry when President George Bush took the budget surplus given to him by the Clinton Administration and used it up and substantially increased the National Debt?

Where was the outcry when President Bush took this country into an unjust war on misinformation that his administration provided Congress and the American people?

Where was their outcry when Bush Administration violated national and international laws... and our country lost the respect of the international community?

Where was the outcry when the Bush administration didn’t include the cost of the Afghan and Iraq Wars in the annual budget, but hid it under “supplementing spending”?

Where was the outcry when President Bush signed a prescription drug plan for the elderly without being able to pay for it?

Where was the outcry in 2005, when the budget estimate for the Medicare prescription drug plan would cost more than $1.2 trillion in the coming decade? That amount is larger than the $900,000 billion to $1 trillion dollars the Obama administration is estimating the Health Care Reform (HCR) will cost over 10 years, which will be fully funded.

Where was the outcry outrage when end-of-life provision for terminally ill people was included in the 2003 Medicare Drug Bill, that was overwhelmingly approved by the Republicans in Congress? Why are you then so concerned about the so called “death panel” inclusion in the proposed HCR bill?

From Conley’s remarks, you know he was surely against any stimulus plan, so he probably would have liked the banks, brokerage firms and auto companies to fail, throwing this country into a deep depression.

Maybe if these so called “tea baggers” would have been as vigilant during the Bush Administration, as they are concerned about the birth place of Obama, whether he is “one of us”, rather than engaging in mob rule to shut down real discussion at Town Hall meetings, this country would be in better shape today.

Great thanks again for another relevant, thought-provoking piece, 42bkdodgr. We need a gazillion more like you.

You never fail to make my day.

Barry Hussein's new measures: Payments for sick leave? ... or for... Death Leave??

By GottaLaff

Great. Now Obama's indoctrinating seniors! Who's next, infants? Thirtysomethings? Somebody stop him! He's out of control!!

U.S. President Barack Obama announced new measures on Saturday to encourage Americans to save more money for retirement, a move the White House said would put the economy on a stronger footing in the future.

Why? Why is he encouraging them to do that?? Because he wants...to... take... their... money? Tax their hard-earned savings??

What next?? Encouraging them to use that money for... planning their own deaths???

Obama, in his weekly radio and Internet address, said the government would enact rules making it easier for small businesses to let workers automatically enroll in Individual Retirement Accounts (IRAs) and 401(k) retirement plans.

Not...so...fast there, Barry Hussein. What does "IRA" really stand for? "Individual Resting-place Accounts"? Hmmm?

And what is the symbolism behind the number "401"? Is that code for the number of suicides per week Barry Hussein will order? Aha! So now there's a Death Quota??

Quick! Freedom Watch! Fund a new tea party for... for... Retirers! Um, no.. Suiciders! Nah... needs to be snappier. IRAers! Still thinking... Quota-ers!

Payments for unused vacation time and sick leave could be converted into retirement savings under the new measures and Americans would be able to have tax refunds directly deposited into their retirement accounts or used to buy savings bonds.

"Sick leave"?? More like.... "Death leave"! And those "tax refunds"? We all know those will be deposited into.... ::dun dun dun-n-n:: Death Accounts or used to buy Death Bonds!

The measures do not require congressional approval and most will take effect immediately.

No congressional approval required? We all know what that really means: Dictatorship!!

A Speech Can Have an Impact: Special Comment by my 72-year-old friend

By GottaLaff

My very caring, impassioned 72-year-old Twitter pal, who goes by the name 42bkdodgr, would like to share his feelings about President Obama's upcoming education speech, and I am more than happy to oblige.

This one really got to me.

Take it away, 42bkdodgr:

A Speech Can Have an Impact

I’m sure many of you have found the uproar from the right wing of the Republican party regarding President Obama upcoming speech to the students of this country about the benefits of getting a good education quite disturbing and disgusting.

In fact, in several states, school districts are blacking out the President’s televised speech and many parents aren‘t allowing their children to go to school that day. I would like to tell you how a speech can have a very positive impact on a student.

I have a friend who is a Holocaust survivor, was in six concentration camps during the war, and lost all of his family, except for a sister. He often speaks of his experiences by giving speeches to high school students; and I would like to tell you about one such event.

He recently spoke at a high school that was in a large black and Hispanic area, that has many gangs. He related to the students his experiences in the concentration camps and how he eventually became a very successful business man. He told them when he came to this country he didn’t speak the language, was basically penniless, hadn’t completed his education, and lost his teenage years; but through hard work and getting an education, he lived the American dream.

He ended his presentation by telling them how lucky they were to live in such a great country where they can accomplish anything they set their minds to through hard work and study. He encouraged them to go home and hug and kiss their parents and siblings and pursue the American dream. Over 100 hundred students, after a six hour presentation, waited outside to thank him for coming to their school.

About a week later, he received a call from one of the parents. She said, “What did you do to my son?” My friend became apprehensive thinking he did something wrong.

The parent said, my son came home kissed me, his father and brother and sister; and all he wants to do now is study and make something of himself. She said, we could never get our son motivated to do his school work; and she went on to thank my friend for the impact he had on her son's life.

I’m sure his presentation had similar impact on other students.

If my friend can have such an impact on a student, you can only imagine the effect the President will have on students when he makes his speech on Tuesday.

The uproar about the President giving the speech is another example, of the hate that is going on in this country. I wonder what effect it will have on students knowing the President is making a speech but they aren’t allowed to hear it; sure sounds like censorship to me.

Great thanks again for a relevant, heartfelt, touching, and thought-provoking piece, 42bkdodgr. We need 100 more like you.