Bernie Madoff, who had vast quantities of blow and topless waitresses at his New York headquarters - and ruined thousands of people's lives - is now sharing a cell with a drug offender and eating pizza cooked by a child molester.
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Debating Burns' Thesis on National Parks' Value: http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/10/27-2
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Lt. Junior Grade Pee Bush, 33, joined the Navy Reserve in 2007 as an intelligence officer. Seriously. That's what you can get when your uncle is an unqualified Commander in Thief. The Navy recently
told him that the two ongoing wars required him to go active-duty overseas, potentially in Iraq or Afghanistan. "They said that it's not a question of 'if,' it's a question of 'when,'" Bush told The Daily Beast. "It's just a matter of time."
Bush, who claims he was inspired by his grandfather H.W. Bush getting shot down at sea, as well as murdered NFL star Pat Tillman, signed up for an eight-year term in the Navy Reserve in 2007. When word got out about his enlistment, Pee told Politico that he was "disappointed" as he'd intended to keep it under wraps, saying, "I was hoping to keep this as confidential as possible. I'm not doing it for political purposes or anything along those lines," he said with a straight face.
Glenn Beck
Fact Engineer
Dear Brother Beck,
Although I can't fault the work you've done promoting the teaching of biblical science in our schools, you've done nothing to expose our nation's children to the Mormon science of the Book of Mormon and Pearl of Great Price. That's a shame. As one of America's most influential Mormons, you should be working hard to ensure that an LDS-based science curriculum receives the same consideration as intelligent design.
Nor will they be taught that God cursed the Lamanites by giving them dark skin. And who will tell them that the Book of Mormon promises Lamanites that they'll become "white and delightsome" again, after they've embraced the Gospel? Or that the Prophet, Spencer W Kimball, saw the delightsoming begining in the Sixties:
I saw a striking contrast in the progress of the Indian people today.... The day of the Lamanites is nigh. For years they have been growing delightsome, and they are now becoming white and delightsome, as they were promised. In this picture of the twenty Lamanite missionaries, fifteen of the twenty were as light as Anglos, five were darker but equally delightsome The children in the home placement program in Utah are often lighter than their brothers and sisters in the hogans on the reservation.
Our nation's children will never know about this wondrous miracle, because gentiles won't allow Mormon anthropology to be taught in our schools.
At one meeting a father and mother and their sixteen-year-old daughter were present, the little member girl--sixteen--sitting between the dark father and mother, and it was evident she was several shades lighter than her parents--on the same reservation, in the same hogan, subject to the same sun and wind and weather....These young members of the Church are changing to whiteness and to delightsomeness. One white elder jokingly said that he and his companion were donating blood regularly to the hospital in the hope that the process might be accelerated.
The same holds true for LDS astronomy and physics. You won't find a map of God's home solar system, the Kolob System, on a classroom wall. And no student will learn that God was able to create the earth in 6 days because he was on Kolob time (1 Kolob day equals 1000 Earth years).
But you have the ability to change all that. All you need to do is get on your TV show and demand that our fellow conservatives work as hard to promote the teaching of Mormon science as they do to promote biblical science instruction.
Once we've taken care of science, we can begin promoting an LDS-based history curricula. That'll be where the real fun begins. As I once told Brother Buttars:
Imagine if you will, the many hours of joy we could provide to our children if we taught true, Latter Day Saint history. Kids love to hear the story of the 2000 brave stripling warriors riding their heroic tapirs into battle against their iniquitous Nephite brethren. Why shouldn't they have the opportunity to learn about it in our schools.Let me know if I can lend a hand.
Heterosexually yours,
Gen. JC Christian, patriot
Asked whether he's still working to get Republican support for a healthcare bill, Harry Reid said that Republicans simply aren't willing to cooperate.
"You can't dance if your partner is unwilling to get off the chair," Reid told reporters. "It's like when I was in high school, I wanted to dance but she wouldn't get up. OK?"
The always nasty and clueless Mika Brzezinski on Morning Joe today, "What's Harry Reid doing? My God, I feel that there's an election coming up in his future and that perhaps some of his actions have more to do with that."
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Connecticut: Thanks for Nothing
Well, he is at it again, lining up with his asswipe buddies in the GOP to protect the interests of the health insurers and, as is the pattern and practice of Republicans, giving a hearty "fuck you" to the working people.
So thanks for nothing, Connecticut. If you want to redeem yourselves, call that little fucktard's office at (202) 224-4041 or (860) 549-8463 and politely explain to the soulless troll who answers the line that you strongly disagree with the
If not, then go fuck yourselves.
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One thing I've become aware of during my lifetime is that while the federal government has been touting its "war on drugs" for the last four decades, there's also a curious evolution of what the particular drug problem is at any given time in this country. While we were in Vietnam, the government focused on marijuana, which grows easily in that country's hot, moist climate. During our proxy war with the Soviet Union in Afghanistan in the late 1970's to early 1980's, in which we armed the mujehadeen that later became Al-Qaeda, there was an uptick in heroin use. During our involvement in Central America during the Reagan years, we saw cocaine use rise. And ever since we've been back in Afghanistan, it's been heroin again.
Kind of a coinkydink, don't you think?
So why is it any surprise that Hamid Karzai's brother is simultaneously an opium trader AND working for the CIA?
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I only wish this were from the Onion
A version of the anti-abortion initiative soundly defeated by Colorado voters in 2008 is making its way to the 2010 ballot, this time reworked as an "egg-as-a-person" initiative.This new version would move the legal definition of a person further back into the reproductive cycle, granting cells the full spectrum of citizen rights. Opposition groups, including Colorado genetic and fertilization researchers, say the law would have spiraling consequences, that it would put women at risk and freeze current work in medicine and reproduction.
Colorado Right to Life and Personhood USA, the groups behind proposed Initiative 25, are undeterred by the fact that Coloradans voted against the test-run amendment last year by a margin of three to one. The new amendment is even farther reaching, moving the initial marker for the beginning of life from "fertilization" to "the beginning of the biological development of a human being."
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Think, don't react when you read Matt Taibbi's latest essay. And remember Molly Ivin's principle: don't listen to what they say, look at the record of what they do.
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Wormwood's Doxy shares a letter she sent to Blue Cross/Blue Shield. Heh.
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Insurance stocks plunged as Reid announced public option, spiked after Lieberman vowed to filibuster it: http://thinkprogress.org/2009/10/27/insurance-stocks-lieberman/
