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Many Americans, myself included, are mad as hell because we are victimized by impersonal and greedy economic forces on the one hand, and asked to support an escalation of a war without any success strategy on the other, which is not the change we voted for.
Stories of soaring and skyrocketing Wall Street and banking bonuses are side by side on the news with stories of joblessness that is in truth higher than 15 percent, with credit card interest rates rising, with home values falling, with foreclosures mounting in a Grapes of Wrath economy that for most Americans is little different from what it was under President George W. Bush.
Even now, the president gives a speech that reminds us of how little has been achieved for change on Wall Street and banking, and even now speaks of healthcare in generic terms, not waging the fight he should on key issues while he gives speeches of "Yes, we can" and tells stories of "I'm all fired up and ready to do," which bear no similarity to Franklin Roosevelt or the Kennedys.
My column in The Hill today is tough, tough on the president for not fighting for the reforms that would have created a historic political realignment and stood up for average Americans against impersonal forces, and tough on Republicans for being the Party of No that is allowing itself to be a homepage for hate."
Brent Budowsky is another one of those formerly sane Lefties who lied his ass off to help get Obama elected. He got what he wanted and now he's not happy?
Boo freaking hoo.
Rethugs love their Porn
Because they married someone who hates sex
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Americans may paint themselves in increasingly bright shades of red and blue, but new research finds one thing that varies little across the nation: the liking for online pornography.
A new study shows that the states that consume the most porn tend to be more conservative and religious than states with lower levels of consumption. The states that consume the most porn tend to be more conservative and religious than states with lower levels of consumption, the study finds.
"Some of the people who are most outraged turn out to be consumers of the very things they claimed to be outraged by," Edelman says.
We've known this for years.
Desperate Housewives is the top show in hellholes like Mississippi and Oklahoma.
Bible thumpers love to watch soft-porn soap operas - because they live sex-free lives.
"In 2007, Blue Dog Rep. Mike Ross (D-AR) sold a piece of commercial property "for substantially more than a county assessment and an independent appraisal say it was worth." Pharmacy chain USA Drug paid Ross $420,000 for the real estate, $500,000 to $1 million for the pharmacy's assets and another $100,000 to $250,000 to Ross's wife, Holly, for a non-compete agreement." Think Progress Link
Another outright bribe - so why hasn't he been arrested like William Jefferson of Louisiana? Did Jefferson get arrested because he was Black?
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"Probably the singular vote that stands out that went against the grain, and it turns out to be the best vote that I cast cast was my "no" vote to the $51.5 billion to Katrina. That probably was my best vote." Rep Steve King, proud of letting those Louisiana ni**ers suffer - Link
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Rep. Steve King, one of the craziest of the crazy, explains to us how gay marriage is a socialist plot:
So in the end this is something that has to come with a, if there's a push for a socialist society, a society where the foundations of individual rights and liberties are undermined and everybody is thrown together, living collectively off of one pot of resources earned by everyone. That is, this is one of the goals they have to go to is same-sex marriage because it has to plow through marriage in order to get to their goal. They want public affirmation. They want access to public funds and resources. Eventually all those resources will be pooled because that's the direction we're going. And not only is it a radical social idea, it is a purely socialist concept in the final analysis.
Hey, Steve - is gay marriage more socialized than all of those farm subsidies handed out in Iowa?
This is the type of moron who is running our country. Why does anyone care what they think about health care reform? They are insane.
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Worst. Vacation. Idea. Ever.
The Titanic Memorial Cruise, coming in 2012.
Make sure you go to that lifeboat drill. You don't know just how realistic they're planning to make this.
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"The Army, the Marines do not have uniforms that fit that big an ass." - the vulgar Pigboy, railing against Hillary
"A genuine rarity - Rush shows interest in a woman's rear end." - AB-001
"Hey Rush...Mrs. Clinton is a mother in her 60s. What explains your lard bottom? ...and indeed, what explains your fixation with other people's backslides?" - epkklk851
"The Army didn't have a uniform that could fit both a fat ass and a pilonidal cyst either, eh, Rush?" - Easy to refute wingnuts
"Since when is this guy an expert on military uniforms? Like many of the leaders on the right, Rush refused to wear one." - worrierking
The best one...
"She does have more curves than the average adolescent Dominican boy." - Col Sanders
Ha ha.
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Making sense of Beck and his GOP: ever read Lord of the Flies?
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Wisco: Defunding the military industrial complex.
(The Democrats that went along with the Republicans in their goal to punish ACORN can spend the next few months regretting their stupidity in letting Glenn Beck call the tune. Maybe next time they will take some time to at least decide what should be the proper course of action when reacting to the latest "scandal" flung up by the rabble.)
P.S. How will they fund Cheney's retirement?
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FBI investigating possible anti-government lynching in death of Kentucky census worker
The AP is reporting that the FBI is investigating the hanging death earlier this month of Bill Sparkman, 51, in rural Kentucky to determine if Sparkman, a census worker, was killed because he worked for the the U.S. government.
Sparkman's body was found hanging in a tree in a cemetery in the Daniel Boone National Forest in southwest Kentucky on Sept. 12 with the word "FED" scrawled across his chest.
More: http://www.pensitoreview.com/2009/09/23/fbi-investigating-possible-anti-government-lynching-in-census-death/
As Jill says:
I am, of course, jumping to conclusions, as I freely admit. But it's difficult to imagine a random murder being decorated with the word "fed" when the victim is a census worker and there are lunatics like Michele Bachmann, a sitting U.S. Congresswoman (to the eternal shame of those who put her there), railing against the census like a crazy person on the street.
Words have consequences. Incitement to violence has consequences. People like Glenn Beck are making millions doing exactly that, their paychecks signed by executives of supposedly mainstream publications. This crime is only the beginning, because there are tens of thousands of people being whipped into a frenzy by these hatemongers of right-wing talk radio and other mouthpieces of the lunatic right. It will be interesting to see them absolve themselves of any responsibility when things get REALLY ugly.
Questioning a prospective Supreme Court justice is not a lynching. Blue Girl is right: This crime is one.
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Republicons finally attack something real
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Your right to be a deadbeat ends at the point where I have to pay for your healthcare because you decided you were too damned healthy to purchase health insurance of your own. People who can't afford insurance will get subsidies, so the only people this mandate will affect are deadbeats -- people who could afford insurance, but refuse to buy it because they feel it's their right to be a deadbeat leeching off of responsible people like myself.
Thing is, the Republicans just might have a winning issue here. Because as much as Americans want to pretend to be responsible adults, for the most part the American public still believes in a free lunch -- i.e., that it is their right to be a deadbeat leeching off of others. And the Republican base in particular, with their "don't tax me but give me plenty of government pork!" attitude that leads to welfare states like Alabama and Mississippi getting far more federal payouts than they send as tax revenue at the expense of productive states like Massachusetts and California, is particularly prone to believe that it's their right, nay, their DUTY, to be a deadbeat. Well, as long as they can wrap being a deadbeat in a bunch of excuses. And as the Republican base goes, so do a number of independents and even some Democrats. Being a deadbeat is the American way, apparently.
Rest here: http://blog.badtux.net/2009/09/republicans-finally-attack-something.html
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Project Censored has released this year's top 25 stories you should know but won't hear from the mainstream media.
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Doing everything they can to destroy health care reform for their constituents has been profitable for Repiglicans - they outraised Democrats by $1.7 million in August.
Not content to just destroy health care, Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK) also wants to destroy the planet, so is putting together a global warming "truth squad" that will travel to the Copenhagen international climate treaty negotiations in December and argue against mandated reductions in carbon emissions.
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Wealthy corporate human Carly Fiorina, the disgraced dingbat liar from John McCain's 2008 presidential campaign, is planning a run against Barbara Boxer in next year's California Senate race. Cute! And yesterday she launched a hilarious FLASH website that everybody has been making fun of because it is so cheesy. Carly for California
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Police say a worker with the activist group ACORN who was caught on video giving advice about human smuggling to a couple posing as a pimp and a prostitute had reported the incident to authorities.Oooh, look, Tom DeLay is on 'Dancing Wif the Stars'! Fuck.
National City police said Monday that Juan Carlos Vera contacted his cousin, a police detective, to get advice on what to with information on possible human smuggling. Police say he contacted law enforcement two days later.
Fux News host Jon Scott: "[I]f you come across a story that you think shows media bias, e-mail it to us, FOXnews..com.
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