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USE THE REAL ARTICLE TITLE>STOP EDITORIALIZING WITH YOUR OWN> RESPECT FAIR USE
Post Date: 2010-10-15 15:28:24 by Ferret Mike
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The title of this thread states the way mature people respect fair use. If you have editorialization, put it in a post. They who's piece is being used has a right to be respected enough to use the title they want for it.
Neocon Liar Jeffrey "Dr. Goebbels" Goldberg Dishonors The Memory Of Joseph Sobran
Post Date: 2010-10-14 14:21:30 by Brian S
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Jeffrey Goldberg is the Israeli agent who is currently national correspondent for The Atlantic magazine. He helped engineer America’s invasion of Iraq based on the propagation of Goldberg’s well-publicized lie, published in the March, 2002 issue of The New Yorker and broadcast on NPR’s “All Things Considered” in February, 2003, that Saddam Hussein was an ally of the alleged 9/11 terror group, Al Qaeda. Now Goldberg is lying again. In a column published Oct. 12 on the website of The Atlantic magazine, Goldberg indicts the eminent Catholic historian and philosopher Joseph Sobran as a “Nazi.” This craven and despicable defamation had to wait until Sobran ...
Dolly Parton "Played a Whore"
Post Date: 2010-10-13 17:21:09 by Ferret Mike
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Dear Pastor Grizzard, I love your plan to burn non-KJV Bibles, Books of Mormon, and other heretical works during your Halloween celebration, but your addition of Dolly Parton records makes it perfect. There is no doubt in my mind that Dolly is a minion of Satan. I'm sure others will agree after reading your list of her sins: Dolly covered Led Zeppelin's occultic song "Stairway to Heaven"...she also covered the atheistic song "Imagine" by the ungodly John Lennon. She plays a whore in the "Best Little Whore House in Texas."...in her public life she dresses like a whore in exposing herself from top to bottom. ...as soon as you go into Dollywood you ...
‘Tea baggers’ Bave Hijacked Orginal Tea Party Message
Post Date: 2010-10-13 11:54:57 by Brian S
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Editor, I respect the original libertarian Tea Party of Rep. Ron Paul, Adam Kokesh and Gary Johnson. I applaud their opposition to the territorial pissing in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan, their support of individual civil liberties and the U.S. Constitution, and their libertarian stances on social issues. As for the Christian tea baggers who jumped on the Tea Party bandwagon — such as Sarah Palin and her cackle of rads like Susana Martinez, Jan Brewer, Sharon Angle and Christine O’Donnell — they come off as hypocritical in their positions. Is the Tea Party a libertarian non-religious movement or a radical Christian conservative movement? The tea baggers are always ...
GOP Parade Of Horribles: Carl Paladino
Post Date: 2010-10-12 13:55:05 by Brian S
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Today's editorial pretty much expresses my views on the rash of suicides of gay youth, the awful sexual torture of three gay men in New York and how windbag bigots like Republican candidate for New York governor Carl Paladino contribute to an atmosphere anti-gay prejudice. As the piece says, those wallowing in such ignorance provide "the hurtful slurs that eat away at the self-esteem of those who are gay or lesbian" and make "someone feel it's okay to verbally and physically harass, maim or even kill." But Paladino said something in his "Today Show" interview with Matt Lauer that needs to be highlighted for its pot-calling-the-kettle-black quality. ...
Don't Cut Defense
Post Date: 2010-10-12 00:17:03 by Brian S
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One thing that any new Republican majority in Congress will have to resist is the siren song to cut defense spending. Unfortunately, that temptation is real and growing. Which is why three prominent conservative leaders in Washington -- the Heritage Foundation's Ed Feulner, the American Enterprise Institute's Arthur Brooks, and the Weekly Standard's Bill Kristol -- took to the Wall Street Journal last week to argue for more robust defense spending. Feulner, Brooks, and Kristol are absolutely right. They note, for instance, that baseline defense spending -- that is, defense spending minus the cost of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan -- is just 3.6% of the Gross Domestic Product ...
Get the anti-science bent out of politics
Post Date: 2010-10-11 16:33:55 by go65
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As a scientist, I shouldn't have a stake in the upcoming midterm elections, but unfortunately, it seems that I -- and indeed all my fellow climate scientists -- do. Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) has threatened that, if he becomes chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, he will launch what would be a hostile investigation of climate science. The focus would be on e-mails stolen from scientists at the University of East Anglia in Britain last fall that climate-change deniers have falsely claimed demonstrate wrongdoing by scientists, including me. Rep. James Sensenbrenner (R-Wis.) may do the same if he takes over a committee on climate change and energy ...
Sarah Palin: Is The Bloom Off Her Rose? [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2010-10-09 20:07:06 by Brian S
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Tea party-backed candidates for the US Senate are offering tepid comments on Sarah Palin's qualifications for high office. Other Republican candidates decline to join her at GOP fundraiser. Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin speaks at a benefit dinner for Faulkner University in Montgomery, Ala., Thursday, Oct. 7.(Jamie Martin/AP) By Brad Knickerbocker, Staff writer posted October 9, 2010 at 4:52 pm EDT Did we miss something, or is the bloom a bit off Sarah Palin’s rose? Two prominent tea party-backed candidates for the US Senate are offering tepid comments on her qualifications for high office. Other major GOP candidates find they have “scheduling ...
Mr. Paladino and the System
Post Date: 2010-10-09 20:00:20 by Brian S
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Carl Paladino, the Republican nominee for governor of New York, portrays himself as a business-hardened outsider who would reform Albany’s corrupt and bloated bureaucracy and drive out the pay-to-play special interests. “I’m just a regular guy from Buffalo,” he says. A look at his record as a developer shows that he has been an eager recipient of just the sort of government largess he so bitterly condemns and a generous contributor to politicians who can best do him favors. His flourishing real estate business was stoked with tax breaks, multimillion-dollar state leases and government land giveaways. At the same time, he used his partnerships and corporations to donate ...
Obion County Fire Tragedy Symbolizes Tea-Party-Republican Vision of Government [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2010-10-07 18:49:22 by Brian S
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This week, MSNBC's Keith Olbermann reported the story of the Cranick family's house fire. When the family's Obion County, Tennessee house caught fire on the night of October 5th, the fire department from the nearby town failed to respond since the Cranick's had forgotten to pay a $75 fee. Firefighters finally responded to a call by Cranick's neighbor, who had paid his fee. They sprayed the property line to protect the home of the neighbor and watched at the Cranick's home burned to the ground. The firefighters had been ordered not to intervene to save the Cranick's house -- even though they were already at the scene -- because, apparently, it would have ...
Fox News Fail: Are Viewers Getting Smarter?
Post Date: 2010-10-05 23:21:22 by Brian S
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Yesterday, the cable news ratings showed that Fox News -- that bastion of conservative bias and lies -- is losing viewers. Thus far, their viewership has decreased by 21 percent and their top shows all posted double digit losses, while MSNBC’s shows grew and the network attracted more younger viewers. So, maybe people are actually interested in getting the truth? Personally, I am thrilled. This summer, I was involved in a story about the Pledge of Allegiance that Fox News blew up. I broke it and they ran with it. Career-wise, it was great as it bumped up the numbers for the site I was editing, but it was the first time I saw the Fox News spin at work. And it was disturbing. They ...
Fear and Favor
Post Date: 2010-10-05 15:26:29 by Skip Intro
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A note to Tea Party activists: This is not the movie you think it is. You probably imagine that you’re starring in “The Birth of a Nation,” but you’re actually just extras in a remake of “Citizen Kane.” True, there have been some changes in the plot. In the original, Kane tried to buy high political office for himself. In the new version, he just puts politicians on his payroll. I mean that literally. As Politico recently pointed out, every major contender for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination who isn’t currently holding office and isn’t named Mitt Romney is now a paid contributor to Fox News. Now, media moguls have often promoted the ...
Got an ad from Ted Strickland Today
Post Date: 2010-10-04 23:22:34 by A K A Stone
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The ad I got in the mail today was a direct shot at Kasich. It was called Kasich's dirty dozen. It pointed out and reminded me of Kasich's votes to against the second amendment. He voted for the assault weapons ban that Schumer sponsored. He voted against repealing the ban later in 1996. The ad also said that Strickland had a perfect voting record on the second amendment with the NRA. The Ohio buckeye gunowners or something like that also endorsed him along with a couple of other gun groups. I already said I wasn't voting for Kasich and this strengthens that conviction. Not enough to get me to vote for Strickland though. Even though he hasn't pissed me off to much as ...
The New Antiwar Populism; The Neocons Are In A Panic Over It
Post Date: 2010-10-04 16:30:00 by Brian S
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The War Party is running scared – and with good reason. Writing in the Washington Post, neocons Danielle Pletka and Thomas Donnelly are in a panic that the rising “tea party” movement, which upended the Republican establishment at the polls, is about to abandon “the defense of freedom” in faraway Afghanistan in favor of rescuing what’s left of our freedom closer to home: “Since World War II, a touchstone of American conservatism has been the defense of freedom. The freedoms of others were regarded as essential to secure and enjoy our own. In 2010, however, the conservative movement – and the party that seeks to represent it – is at a crossroads. ...
Tea Party vs. War Party? [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2010-10-03 18:16:36 by Brian S
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"We're all on the same page until the polls close Nov. 2," Richard Viguerie, the longtime conservative strategist who has allied with the Tea Party, told The New York Times. After that, "a massive, almost historic battle for the heart and soul of the Republican Party begins." Indeed, such a battle seems unavoidable. Consider. The great issue uniting and motivating the Republican Party and Tea Party is the deficit-debt crisis, a national debt nearing 100 percent of gross domestic product and a deficit of 10 percent of GDP. As to the cause of the deficit that could precipitate a run on the dollar, double-digit inflation, even a default, the Tea Party and GOP also ...
Republicans I Will Not Vote For
Post Date: 2010-10-03 15:09:36 by A K A Stone
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The election is coming up and it looks to be a sweep for Republicans this time around. I will not vote for John Kasich. He wants to be Governor of Ohio. He is a supporter of NAFTA and globalization. So it is a no vote for him. Mike Dewine is also a no vote. He also voted for NAFTA and similar bills. He supported the gutting of habeas corpus. Screw him too. Rob Portman. I probably will not be voting for him either. Isn't he a globalist too?
The Very Useful Idiocy of Christine O’Donnell
Post Date: 2010-10-03 12:02:18 by Skip Intro
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ALL it took was some 30,000 Republican primary voters in a tiny state to turn Christine O’Donnell into the brightest all-American media meteor since Balloon Boy. For embattled liberals, not to mention the axis of Comedy Central, “Saturday Night Live” and Bill Maher, she’s been pure comic gold for weeks: a bottomless trove of baldfaced lies, radical views and sheer wackiness. True, other American politicians have dismissed evolution as a myth. Some may even have denied joining a coven. But history will always remember her for taking a fearless stand against masturbation, the one national pastime with more fans than baseball. Yet those laughing now may not have the last ...
Locked and Loaded: The Secret World of Extreme Militias (Time/CNN hit piece)
Post Date: 2010-09-30 14:29:29 by Hondo68
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ODF militiamen Frank Delollis, right, signals for a patrol party to turn around while searching the Old Roseville Prison property in Roseville, Ohio for enemy combatants during the Ohio Defense Force's annual FTX on Aug. 21, 2010. Camouflaged and silent, the assault team inched toward a walled stone compound for more than five hours, belly-crawling the last 200 yards. The target was an old state prison in eastern Ohio, and every handpicked member of Red Team 2 knew what was at stake: The year is 2014, and a new breed of neo-Islamic terrorism is rampant in Michigan, Illinois, Indiana and Ohio ... The current White House Administration is pro-Muslim and has ordered a stand-down against ...
Perhaps the Most Ridiculous Thing to Come Out of Washington Since George McClellan (Redstate on GOP Pledge)
Post Date: 2010-09-24 10:39:05 by go65
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The House Republicans’ “Pledge to America” is out. A thrill will run up the leg of a few Chris Matthews’ types on the right. As Dan noted on Twitter, the Contract with America was 869 words and this is 21 pages. The Contract told you everything you needed to know about how a Republican Congress would be different from a Democrat Congress after 40 years of Democrat control. These 21 pages tell you lots of things, some contradictory things, but mostly this: it is a serious of compromises and milquetoast rhetorical flourishes in search of unanimity among House Republicans because the House GOP does not have the fortitude to lead boldly in opposition to Barack Obama. I ...
A GOP Pledge to Do Nothing [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2010-09-24 10:38:08 by go65
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I had a good chuckle at Erick Erickson’s enraged piece on the Republican pledge, now being circulated by Democratic spinmeisters. Question for Erickson: What did he expect? Here is the GOP cruising to a handsome election victory. Did you seriously imagine that they would jeopardize the prospect of victory and chairmanships by issuing big, bold promises to do deadly unpopular things? But if the document is unsurprising, it’s also unsurprising that Erickson and those who think like him would find it enraging. The “Pledge to America” is a repudiation of the central, foundational idea behind the Tea Party. Tea Party activists have been claiming all year that there exists ...
Tea With Little Sympathy For US
Post Date: 2010-09-19 19:35:41 by Brian S
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The Tea Party’s startling win in the Delaware Republican primary is a cruel blow to Grand Old Party hopes of gaining control in the US Senate. Christine O’Donnell was the Tea Party’s choice and had the backing of Sarah Palin, darling of the conservative insurgents. Mike Castle, the man she defeated for the party’s nomination, had been the clear favourite to win in November. Every respected pollster sees Ms O’Donnell, with her record of political failure and train of financial baggage, as a weak candidate likely to lose to the Democrat in the general election. With the margin of control in the Senate expected to be narrow, that is bad enough. But do the implications ...
The NeoCons Make Unapologetic Call for McCarthyism against Muslims
Post Date: 2010-09-18 21:56:09 by Brian S
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One of the successors to the NeoCon organization PNAC, the Center for Security Policy, released a report the other day that makes an unapologetic call for trumped up McCarthyism targeted at Muslims. The study rather humorously models itself on Team B–the alternate analysis Poppy Bush ordered up to paint the Soviet Union as an ongoing threat in 1976. They do so, apparently, in an effort to invoke St. Ronnie’s use of Team B’s “analysis” for electoral gain and ultimately to point to the usefulness of ideology to generate political support for foreign policy adventures. But nowhere do they bother to mention that Team B’s analysis was famously, embarrassingly wrong. ...
Neocon Grand Chess Game Has Failed In Afghanistan
Post Date: 2010-09-18 19:58:06 by Brian S
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The Neocon grand chess game as per Zbigniew Brzezinski has failed in Afghanistan. America is in no position today or for the foreseeable future to hegemonise Central Asia and contain China through the dismemberment of Pakistan as the region where this conflict would have been played out. India has failed in this grand design. The Neo Cons for the moment have been driven away by the American Public – yes they will return in one form or another, this is inevitable but the world and strategic shape of the region would have changed. The reality is, America needs a stable Central Asia, it needs Chinese Money and certainly is in no hurry to dismember Pakistan and get bogged down in a ...
Why Do Americans Get The Constitution So Wrong?
Post Date: 2010-09-17 18:53:53 by Brian S
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There’s no excuse for misquoting and misunderstanding the US Constitution. But public figures ranging from Nancy Pelosi to Rush Limbaugh do it all the time. By Lion Calandraposted September 17, 2010 at 11:01 am EDT Philadelphia — Today, more than the Fourth of July, honors America’s independence. On this day, 223 years ago, the U.S. Constitution was born, giving Americans the freedoms that they hold dear, the freedoms that men and women have died to defend.And yet, despite its brevity (slightly more than 7,500 words, compared to the roughly 77,000 words of the first Harry Potter book) very few Americans know about the document that is the cornerstone of their way ...
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