Who Owns The Star Spangled Banner?

Leave it to the scumbag corporate gangsters to steal the Star Spangled Banner and profit from it. Call me a crazy liberal but I for one hold our the national anthem sacred and believe it belongs to the people of the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.... NO EXCEPTIONS!! 



NO ONE SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO PROFIT IN ANY WAY SHAPE OR FORM FROM THE STAR SPANGLED BANNER... PERIOD! ANYONE WHO DOES IS A FUCKING TRAITOR!

My shock is not that great because the corporations and the criminal elite also have made the Constitution and its Bill of Rights mostly null and void. Will the next step be them owning design patents on Old Glory?

IMO any proceeds from the Star Spangled Banner should go to the American people or the descendants of Francis Scott Key and the people of England because the tune was originally an English drinking song. 
Censoring the National Anthem for Copyright Violation


Performing rights: These are held by (ASCAP, BMI, SESAC etc.) as registered by the publisher. These organizations reserve the right to act on behalf of the publisher to obtain monies from the performance or broadcast of a sound recording. 

Mechanical rights: These are held by the person or persons who's performance was recorded (i.e. vocalist, intrumentalist, comedian etc.) 

Copyright: These are held by anyone that had anything to do with the creative work that was recorded. (i. e. composer, lyricist, arranger etc.) 

Publishing rights: These are the intellectual property rights to the sound recording that can be bought or sold to parties that may or may not have anything to do with the recording. The owner of these rights have control of where and how the recording is obtained or broadcast. 


Television and radio stations stopped using the Star Spangled Banner when they signed off the air because if they used it they would have to pay royalties so they stopped using it.

Any time the anthem is sung at an NFL game, recorded by NFL engineers and broadcast during NFL TV time, the mechanicals, publishing, and performance rights belong to the NFL for that specific performance even if the song was originally written and recorded by U2 or Green Day. If it is sung at an NBA or MLB game, those respective organizations control the same rights. 

Imagine: The NFL owns the rights to Whitney Houston's version of the Star-Spangled Banner while MLB owns the rights to Rosanne Barr's version!

North Carolina's Anti LGBT Law

At the end of this video is an explanation of the NC anti GLBT law.


The CCC's Conservative Christian Cocksuckers aka Conservative Christian Koch Suckers in North Carolina passed an unconstitutional law that among other things prevents transgender folks from using public restrooms.  The law passed by the General Assembly and signed that same night by Gov. Pat McCrory goes further than a narrow elimination of Charlotte’s ordinance, which had generated the most controversy by a change that protected transgender people who use public restrooms based on their gender identity. The new law also nullified local ordinances around the state that would have expanded protections for the LGBT community.

The state has long had laws regulating workplace discrimination, use of public accommodations, minimum wage standards and other business issues. The new law – known as HB2, the Charlotte bathroom bill or, more officially, as the Public Facilities Privacy and Security Act – makes it illegal for cities to expand upon those state laws, as more than a dozen cities had done including Charlotte, Raleigh, Chapel Hill and Durham. 

The CCC's Conservative Christian Cocksuckers constantly whine about state rights but apparently they don't care about the rights of counties, towns and municipalities let alone the US Constitution. 

Please take the time to contact these Bible Banging Koch whores and give them a piece of your mind by contacting Who Represents Me?   Other filthy red states are trying the same fascist antics. Let's stop this sort of theocratic evil in North Carolina before it spreads.

Take the time to sign this petition and share it. Tell criminal Pat McCrory and his Koch owned Rethuglicans to repeal this illegal and immoral law. 

Work hard to put trash like Pat McCrory and his thugs in the   North Carolina General Assembly out of government for good. 

Read more here: http://www.cha

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Read more here: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politics-government/article68401147.html#storylink=cpy

Pedophile Priests

The sex abuse scandals in the Roman Catholic Church and cover ups are common knowledge. The church is so powerful and dangerous that most victims were too frightened to come forward but eventually enough of the did to blow the lid off the centuries long pedophile problem in the RCC.

The Catholic church is not alone in its pedophilia problem. Other members of the Christian and Muslim clergy molest children and a much higher rate than the national average.

Contrasts: Admitted Molesters vs. All American Men

	Admitted Child Molesters	American Men
Married or formerly married	77%	73%
Some College	46%	49%
High School only	30%	32%
Working	69%	64%
Religious	93%	93%

Catholic priests no guiltier of sex abuse than other clergy

The Zika Virus

FUCK YOU GOD

Thank you for the world so sweet,
Thank you for the food we eat.
Thank you for the birds that sing,
Thank you God for everything.

Fuck you for the world so cruel.
Fuck you God and eat my stool.
Fuck you for the pain you bring.
Fuck you God for everything.

God thought it would be a good idea to infect babies with the Zika virus. This all knowing God decided to infect new born babies with the Zika virus and give them a life time of suffering.

Zika Virus May be Linked to Surge in Rare Syndrome in Brazil

God Makes Evil People Known as Republicans

Scientists have studied for years this difficult question of why some people have a conscience and some don’t. Some people are called Democrats, and some people are called Republicans.

We've  see those deparved conscienceless Republicans in their own foul habitat on the Fox News Business stage. They will compete to become “guests” at the nearest mental institution – no, strike that, they will compete to become the Republican nominee for President of the United States. And if, Jehovah has his way and any of them makes it to the White House, you’ll want someone in the Senate with a conscience and then some to take them on. You’ll want someone with conscience, cheek, and chutzpah. You’ll want, as Chris Matthews dubbed Alan Grayson, “Captain Cojones.”

He's ready to be that Senator with Guts, if you’re ready to chip in $3 or more to help me in this fight >>

If things go south in November, and one of these GOP jackwagons ends up in the White House, I’ll be ready to fight back. Look at what I said about our last Republican President and Vice President:

When Dick Cheney attacked President Obama unjustly at the beginning of President Obama’s first term, Alan Grayson said that many Americans wished that Cheney would “STFU.”

When MSNBC publicized a photo of President Bush and a Saudi prince kissing each other, Grayson suggested that if Bush had let him get to second base, gasoline might be only a dollar a gallon.

When Dick Cheney called for US troops on the ground against ISIS, Grayson said that Cheney “never met a war he didn’t like.”

When President Bush belatedly complained that he deserved more credit for the killing of Bin Laden, Grayson adroitly suggested Bush hadn’t spoken up sooner because he might’ve been passed out drunk for the last three or four days.

With President Bush and Vice President Cheney, those were just warmup pitches. Just wait until you see what Grayson has in store for the Republican nominee – even before the November election.

He's ready and willing to call out whatever RWNJ ends up as the Republican Party nominee, and fight back against the GOP’s conscienceless, terrible policies. (Is “conscienceless” a word? Well, it is now.) Chip in $3 or more now to make sure he can do that in the Senate >>

Jose Miguel and Julio

Jesus Never Existed

The Jesus as we know him - the Jesus of Christianity - definitely did not exist. It is possible that there was no historical Jesus at all. No historians of the first century mention Jesus, despite there being authors who write (at length) about Jewish concerns. There are no Roman records that mention Jesus₁. Not only all that, but, there are no Christian eye-witnesses of Jesus. All of the Gospels are anonymous and written by friends-of-friends, and none are written in the first person; also, Paul (who authored 13 of the 27 books of the NT) never met Jesus, except in a vision₂. They're also written in very competent Greek (the language of later converts), rather than in Hebrew (the language of the original converts, excepting Paul). Early Christians didn't know when Jesus was born (his birthdate wasn't decided for hundreds of years, in 354CE)₃ and didn't know where he was buried. People have doubted his existence since the very first century, and, despite the popularity of Christianity, there is a modern resurgence of people who disbelieve in the very existence of Jesus today. The biggest problem facing such unbelievers is accounting for early Christianity. But there are multiple theories as to how Christianity may have arisen without a historical saviour. For example, it is quite possible, given the similarities of Jesus to previous saviour religions and pagan stories about god-men, that the entire story of Jesus is a rewrite, with Jewish undertones, of Roman and pagan myths that were current at the beginning of the first century_4, 5, 6.

1. Jesus Has No History
   1. No Primary Source (First-Person) Accounts of Jesus Exist
   2. There are No Christian Witnesses of Jesus
   3. The New Testament
   4. There is No Evidence for the Story of the Birth of Jesus
   5. There is No Evidence for the Story of the Crucifixion and Resurrection of Jesus
2. Where did the Stories About Jesus Come From?
   1. Jesus was a Jewish Messianic Cult Leader
   2. The Jesus Mysteries Hypothesis: Jesus was Another Mystery Religion God-Man
   3. Other Religions of the Era Placed Local Gods and Heroes at the Center of Common Stories 
   4. History Led up to Christianity
   5. Jesus and Other God-Men are Personifications of the Sun
3. Who were the First Christians?

Caveat: Nothing in the Bible was written by Jesus.