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Reality Check: Iran Is Not A Nuclear Threat
Post Date: 2010-09-17 18:51:16 by Brian S
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Forget the neoconservative hype. The facts show Iran is not and has not been a nuclear threat to either the United States or Israel. By Scott Hortonposted September 17, 2010 at 12:42 pm EDT Los Angeles — Politicians, lobbyists, and propagandists have spent nearly two decades pushing the lie that Iran poses a nuclear weapons threat to the United States and Israel. After a brief respite in the intensity of the wolf cries over the past two years, the neoconservative movement has decided to relaunch the “Must Bomb Iran” brand. The fact that Iran is not and has not been a nuclear threat to either nation is rendered irrelevant by a narrative of universal ...
Tea Party Take Over – The Answer To Obama’s Prayers
Post Date: 2010-09-17 15:17:29 by Brian S
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With no end to the jobs drought in sight and an economy struggling to get air, life has not been particularly good this year for Barack Obama. So difficult are the challenges faced by the White House, had you asked me at the beginning of the week if I thought the president stood much of a chance to be re-elected, I would have argued that failing a massive and unlikely turn around in the jobs picture and a dramatic change in fortune in Afghanistan, we would be welcoming a Republican president into office come January 2013. But that was before Tuesday, September 14, 2010 – the day Sarah Palin may well have guaranteed that the Democrats will remain the majority party in the Senate and the ...
Primary Day 2010: The Tea Party’s Snarl
Post Date: 2010-09-17 13:19:37 by Skip Intro
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Primary Day 2010: The Tea Party’s Snarl Democratic operatives are ablaze with excitement over the victory of two particularly dubious Tea Party candidates in Tuesday’s Republican primaries, envisioning smoother paths to victory in the races for governor in New York and United States senator in Delaware. But for voters of all stripes, Tuesday’s primaries should illuminate the growling face of a new fringe in American politics — and provide the incentive for level-headed voters to become enthusiastic about the midterm election. Republican leaders have to decide if they want the tiny fraction of furious voters who have showed up at the primary polls to steer them into ...
The Tax Cut Racket [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2010-09-17 08:37:19 by war
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“Nice middle class you got here,” said Mitch McConnell, the Senate minority leader. “It would be a shame if something happened to it.” O.K., he didn’t actually say that. But he might as well have, because that’s what the current confrontation over taxes amounts to. Mr. McConnell, who was self-righteously denouncing the budget deficit just the other day, now wants to blow that deficit up with big tax cuts for the rich. But he doesn’t have the votes. So he’s trying to get what he wants by pointing a gun at the heads of middle-class families, threatening to force a jump in their taxes unless he gets paid off with hugely expensive tax breaks for the ...
A Vote for GOP is a Vote for Boehner
Post Date: 2010-09-16 10:10:16 by go65
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With their loud voices and antic style, the "tea party" activists may lead voters to expect something new and different if the Republican Party returns to power. But observing the man who would wield that power if his party wins a midterm majority should swiftly dispel that illusion. There is nothing fresh or surprising about Rep. John Boehner, R-Ohio, the would-be speaker, a figure so closely associated with corporate special interests that he looks, sounds and behaves exactly like a lobbyist. He golfs, drinks, smokes and maintains an unusually bronzed complexion thanks to company jets that whisk him away to his favorite Florida resorts. He seems as if he could have stepped ...
Sarah Palin Will Defeat Barack Obama Tuesday, November 6, 2012
Post Date: 2010-09-16 06:56:54 by A K A Stone
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The Republicans with the aid of the tea party have took a right turn. It is a turn back in the right direction. This is known as the Palin affect. She is largely responsible for the parties moving to the right. She has helped knock off a string of establishment candidates seeking election this year. She is showing that she is truly from the right and the voters are responding. The Democrats are in panic and they know their party is shrinking. People don't want a party that is anti America. They are sick and tired of Barack Obama and his baby killing democrats. Sarah Palin will have some favors when the Presidential campaign starts. She has proved with her endorsements that she backs ...
"Good list, but you've left out the crazy granny in the attic, Murron, off of it." [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2010-09-13 15:50:23 by Murron
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#17. To: Samuel Gray (#13) "So, I guess it's just you, the failed businessman Browneye, Paul Blart, Black Mall Cop/e_type_nigra, Yukon the diaper changer, Mad Dog, and last, but not least, Liberator, everyone's favorite sycophant, who sucks more ass in a week than a Hollywood lipo clinic." "Good list, but you've left out the crazy granny in the attic, Murron, off of it." JRiggs posted on 2010-09-13
Poster Comment:ROTFLMAO... You're right on que JRiggs, you came a running when you heard your masters voice, 4um's menopausal mamma's boy on steriods, who's still battling those nasty mood swings, that ought to be good for a few browny points. ...
Newt Gingrich On The Economy: Is There Any Politician More Congenitally Dishonest Than This Cretin?
Post Date: 2010-09-13 14:07:50 by Brian S
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DOWNLOADS: (23) PLAYS: (546) Embed Ya know, in a lot of ways, I really hope that Newt Gingrich runs for president, as we keep hearing he's threatening to do. (Thus the book tour, the wife's movie, etc. etc.) Because he really does represent the REAL Republican Party: the festering, corpulent, bloated, gaseous, slimy, and congenitally dishonest side of the GOP that guys like Mitt Romney are good at disguising. With Newt, it's really on display, and pretty hard to miss. Like yesterday with Chris Wallace -- who actually displayed some smidgens of integrity with some tough questions -- on Fox News Sunday, talking about the economy: WALLACE: Let me ...
U.S. Accelerates in 2011 as Demise of Consumer Is Exaggerated
Post Date: 2010-09-13 11:19:34 by Brian S
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Sept. 13 (Bloomberg) -- Reports of the demise of the U.S. consumer have been exaggerated. Households are reducing their debts and building savings faster than he anticipated, said Richard Berner, co-head of global economics for Morgan Stanley in New York, giving them more room to spend in the future. “The deleveraging timetable is nearly a year ahead of schedule,” he said. Debt payments as a share of disposable income fell to 12.46 percent in the first quarter from a peak of 13.96 percent in 2008 and are about in line with the 12.09 percent average of the last 30 years, based on Federal Reserve data. Berner sees the ratio falling to what he considers a sustainable range of 11 ...
Another Government Has Been Subtly Creeping In (my title)
Post Date: 2010-09-12 23:06:18 by Murron
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Another Government Has Been Subtly Creeping In (my title) September 12, 2010 Millie Most people can recognizes an abusive marriage, the wife is scared to put on lipstick because her husband will beat her if she does. Its her fault for provoking him. If she didn’t wear the lipstick, if she didn’t act that way, well then he wouldn’t have had to beat her. But we’re not recognizing it here, that the world is beginning to tiptoe on eggshells as if there were an angry abusive drunk sleeping it off in the next room. Whether or not radical Muslims feel they have a reason to be angry at the US, they hold this country in the palm of their aggression. We now may not exercise ...
The Silent Dignity Of Solemn Remembrance Drowns Out The Voices Of The Crackpots
Post Date: 2010-09-12 18:51:04 by Brian S
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For the kin of those who perished and other witnesses of evil on that fine blue day in 2001, the anniversaries are never adequate. Yesterday, though, was the hardest. Solemn remembrance had been fouled by bating between world religions, stoked by a crackpot pastor with a ministry of flames and hatred. A pastor who can't leave well alone. Minutes before the ceremonies of commemoration – in Manhattan, at the Pentagon and in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, where the fourth plane went down – Terry Jones strode into a New York TV studio to state that he would not be burning any Korans, ever. There was no applause. He had flown in from his horse-barn church with its horse-trailer sign ...
Gingrich Endorses Social Security Privatization Part of Ryan’s Roadmap
Post Date: 2010-09-11 17:13:37 by Brian S
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Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI), ranking member of the Budget Committee and incoming chairman if Republicans capture the House in November, has a budget plan called “America’s Roadmap,” which slashes Medicare and Social Security in an ostensible effort to end the budget deficit. While right-wing pundits have been quick to applaud the plan, elected Republicans and those hoping to be elected are much more hesitant to endorse deep cuts to popular social programs. Many have shied away from endorsing the plan. One such politician was former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich (R), who dubbed Rep. Ryan “extraordinarily formidable” but had not explicitly endorsed his plan. But ...
I've Decided. Burn that Piece of Shit they Call the Koran [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2010-09-11 00:01:36 by A K A Stone
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The Koran is a text from Satan. It ruins people and makes them evil. Burn that evil piece of shit book. Burn them all. Wipe your ass with them. Piss on them. Spit on them. Rip the pages out and line your bird cage with it. It is not a holy book. Muslim, Muslim Gettin Even All right I got something to say Yeah, it's better to burn Korans Yeah, than to let them stay All right Ow Gonna start a fire C'mon! Rise up! gather round Take the Koran throw it to the ground Burn it up let's go for broke Watch the night go up in smoke Burn on, Burn On Drive muzzies crazier, no serenade No fire brigade, just Pyromania What do you want? What do you want? I want Koran To Burn, yes I do Long ...
Republicans Are Playing the Tea Party for Saps
Post Date: 2010-09-10 20:55:21 by Brian S
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Here is a question I have for Republican candidates, Independent voters, and the elderly: Should the Medicare prescription drug benefit be repealed? There is no need to ask the question of Democrats--they like the benefit, and improved it this year by closing the infamous "donut hole" when they passed healthcare reform. But Republicans must be planning to repeal the biggest federal expansion of Medicare. Nothing could be more socialistic, right? It added gazillions to the deficit and our long-term debt. President Bush may have wisely recognized that modern medicine is changing, and that more and more of us make it into our golden years by virtue of expensive pills and salves, ...
A Requiem for Reason
Post Date: 2010-09-10 16:00:09 by Skip Intro
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Much hoorah, there is, over the mosque that may or may not be built in New York. I don’t give a tinker’s damn (whatever precisely that may be; I presume that tinkers’ oaths were thought more efficacious than others) whether they build it or not. The matter does however put to rest for me any hope of rationality in human affairs. This, I grant, could be accomplished with a very small bed. At this writing, the government’s war for oil and AIPAC has more or less solidly metamorphosed, among the rubes at least, into a war against Islam. Men of thunder and portent peddle the notion like starving encyclopedia salesmen. No less a political howitzer than Pat Buchanan says that ...
Nine Years After 9/11, Let's Stop Fulfilling Bin Laden's Goals
Post Date: 2010-09-10 14:59:16 by Brian S
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The attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, succeeded far beyond anything Osama bin Laden could possibly have envisioned. This is not just because they resulted in nearly 3,000 deaths, nor only because they struck at the heart of American financial and military power. Those outcomes were only the bait; it would remain for the United States to spring the trap. This StoryNine years after 9/11, it's time to stop helping bin LadenA war more costly than we thoughtWhere were you on 9/11?: Where were you on 9/11? The goal of any organized terrorist attack is to goad a vastly more powerful enemy into an excessive response. And over the past nine years, the United States has blundered into the 9/11 ...
Intimidation! Threats! Warnings! U.S. Government, Cowards, Spreading Fear, Terror, If We Do Not Bow to the Demands Of Radical Islam On American Soil!! (my title)
Post Date: 2010-09-10 12:56:41 by Murron
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Intimidation! Threats! Warnings! U.S. Government, Cowards, Spreading Fear, Terror, If We Do Not Bow to the Demands Of Radical Islam On American Soil!! (my title) You can almost smell the FEAR, and it's enough to make a bowl of magots PUKE! If our Founders could, they would rise up from their graves today, and destroy this nation themselves, and cleanse it of the Cowards who disgrace them and all who shed their blood to build it!~ Murron The Ground Zero Mosque Imam has decided to hold the nation hostage to his mosque. According to him in an interview with CNN, if we do not build the mosque at ground zero it will jeopardize our national security. If some nut in Florida burns korans? ...
The Chasm Between the Right and the Rest
Post Date: 2010-09-09 11:42:59 by Brian S
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Newt Gingrich has just sent out an e-mail to his supporters entitled "America at Risk, A War with No Name," which argues for the development of a "long overdue serious strategy in fighting terrorism and the ideology behind it." "Radical Islamists are people who want to impose Sharia (or Islamic) Law on the entire world... Radical Islamists view their struggle as a religiously inspired and approved jihad." The Obama administration, he continues, has renamed the Global War on Terrorism, (all with initial caps) the "Overseas Contingency Operation." The Administration, he asserts, is blind to the danger abroad. Despite eight disastrous years of the ...
Hey I love Science Fiction, Fantasy and End of the world movies..
Post Date: 2010-09-08 21:37:51 by A K A Stone
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I like Science Fiction, Fantasy and end of the world movies. I wonder who out there likes them too. Here are a few that I like in no particular order. Star Trek, Lord of the Rings, THX1138, Logans Run, Planet of the Apes, Star Wars, Demolition Man, Conan, Krull, Sword and the Sorcerer, Excalibur, 1984, Six String Samurai, Minority Report. There are a few off the top of my head. I'm looking for good movies. Any recommendations?
We Can Still Change the World
Post Date: 2010-09-07 20:27:15 by A K A Stone
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It's hard to imagine stranger times than these, though stranger times surely lie ahead. It seems that before we had much of a chance to perfect it our civilization entered its inevitable period of decline. That it happened just when it did of course was not inevitable at all IMHO. No, I believe it could have all been very different. I won't elaborate on that theme, I've beaten it like a drum for years. I'll just refer the curious to this previous diary, The Dirty F@#*ing Hippies Were Right! Midnight-in-America-650px * One Pissed Off Liberal's diary :: :: * I think our founding fathers, for all they got right, erred horribly when they intentionally designed a system ...
If u support Pastor Terry Jones
Post Date: 2010-09-07 20:12:24 by A K A Stone
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If u support Pastor Terry Jones from Florida w Burn a Koran Day I think ur a moron & ur jeapordizing our troops. Its simply a hate crime.
Glenn Beck May Be a Clown -- But the Shady Right-Wingers Who Pull His Strings Are Dangerous
Post Date: 2010-09-07 14:56:48 by Brian S
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Glenn Beck is a charlatan. A clown. A buffoon. He belongs on a second tier stage in Vegas, and he very well may end up there, some day. He is not dangerous, but his ability to exploit the legitimately angry dispossessed reveals something that is dangerous. Decades of right wing economic policies have undermined unions, the middle class, the social safety net, and the sense that we are all in this together, moving into a better future. Few believe their children or grandchildren will inherit a better world. People are afraid, and they don't understand why they are afraid. And while Glenn Greenwald is correct that by not seizing the mantle of populism, the Democrats have created a void ...
What America Has Lost; It’s clear we overreacted to 9/11...
Post Date: 2010-09-05 18:53:11 by Brian S
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Nine years after 9/11, can anyone doubt that Al Qaeda is simply not that deadly a threat? Since that gruesome day in 2001, once governments everywhere began serious countermeasures, Osama bin Laden’s terror network has been unable to launch a single major attack on high-value targets in the United States and Europe. While it has inspired a few much smaller attacks by local jihadis, it has been unable to execute a single one itself. Today, Al Qaeda’s best hope is to find a troubled young man who has been radicalized over the Internet, and teach him to stuff his underwear with explosives. I do not minimize Al Qaeda’s intentions, which are barbaric. I question its capabilities. ...
Dear President Obama
Post Date: 2010-09-04 20:33:02 by Ignore Amos
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Dear President Obama, My name is Harold Estes, approaching 95 on December 13 of this year. People meeting me for the first time don't believe my age because I remain wrinkle free and pretty much mentally alert. I enlisted in the U.S. Navy in 1934 and served proudly before, during and after WW II retiring as a Master Chief Bos'n Mate. Now I live in a "rest home" located on the western end of Pearl Harbor , allowing me to keep alive the memories of 23 years of service to my country. One of the benefits of my age, perhaps the only one, is to speak my mind, blunt and direct even to the head man. So here goes. I am amazed, angry and determined not to see my country die ...
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