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An open letter to conservatives
Post Date: 2010-03-24 12:36:22 by Skip Intro
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An open letter to conservatives Dear Conservative Americans, The years have not been kind to you. I grew up in a profoundly Republican home, so I can remember when you wore a very different face than the one we see now. You've lost me and you've lost most of America. Because I believe having responsible choices is important to democracy, I'd like to give you some advice and an invitation. First, the invitation: Come back to us. Now the advice. You're going to have to come up with a platform that isn't built on a foundation of cowardice: fear of people with colors, religions, cultures and sex lives that differ from your own; fear of reform in banking, health care, ...
Healthcare Reform Helps Obama as Republicans Hurt Themselves
Post Date: 2010-03-23 13:17:29 by Brian S
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By John Aloysius Farrell, Thomas Jefferson Street blog As the great debate raged on Capitol Hill over the weekend, I happened to run into Norm Ornstein, the American Enterprise Institute scholar. It was a happy encounter, since I needed an expert to validate a notion that was rattling around in my brain, about the political winners and losers in the healthcare debate. Ornstein confirmed something I had read, or been told, once upon a time: that in predicting the outcome of an off-year election, no indicator is more reliable than a president's popularity. Voters may be upset about the lagging economy, or generally disgusted with Congress and its ways, but if Barack Obama has a relatively ...
David Frum: Waterloo
Post Date: 2010-03-21 19:50:29 by go65
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Conservatives and Republicans today suffered their most crushing legislative defeat since the 1960s. It’s hard to exaggerate the magnitude of the disaster. Conservatives may cheer themselves that they’ll compensate for today’s expected vote with a big win in the November 2010 elections. But: (1) It’s a good bet that conservatives are over-optimistic about November – by then the economy will have improved and the immediate goodies in the healthcare bill will be reaching key voting blocs. (2) So what? Legislative majorities come and go. This healthcare bill is forever. A win in November is very poor compensation for this debacle now. So far, I think a lot of ...
Rampant Patriotism Breaches On America's Right
Post Date: 2010-03-21 19:17:09 by Brian S
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During the Bush years, the Bush-following Right's Glenn "Instapundit" Reynolds, a law professor at the University of Tennessee, frequently accused opponents of the Iraq War of being "unpatriotic," endangering the Troops, and committing treason: "They're not so much 'antiwar' as just on the other side," he often wrote. Today, the same Glenn Reynolds wrote (emphasis added): If I were the Israelis, not only would I bomb Iran, but I'd do so in such a way as to create as much trouble for China, Russia, Europe and the United States as possible. Calling on a foreign country to act in a way that creates "as ...
Is China's Politburo spoiling for a showdown with America?
Post Date: 2010-03-15 07:45:26 by A K A Stone
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China has succumbed to hubris. It has mistaken the soft diplomacy of Barack Obama for weakness, mistaken the US credit crisis for decline, and mistaken its own mercantilist bubble for ascendancy. There are echoes of Anglo-German spats before the First World War, when Wilhelmine Berlin so badly misjudged the strategic balance of power and over-played its hand. Within a month the US Treasury must rule whether China is a "currency manipulator", triggering sanctions under US law. This has been finessed before, but we are in a new world now with America's U6 unemployment at 16.8pc. "It's going to be really hard for them yet again to fudge on the obvious fact that China ...
Rush Limbaugh, Inadvertent Socialized Medicine Fan
Post Date: 2010-03-10 10:48:54 by go65
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The low-end of the right-wing, hate-talk AM dial has a socialized medicine supporter! OK, an inadvertent public option supporter. It all started in January, when Rush Limbaugh was rushed to a hospital in Hawaii with chest pains. At a press conference after his recovery, he crowed: “Based on what happened here to me, I don’t think there’s one thing wrong with the American health care system. It is working just fine, just dandy.” What Limbaugh appears to not have known is that since 1974, Hawaii has had a state-wide employer mandate for health insurance. The employer mandate is one of the key points of health care reform that right-wingers like Limbaugh have railed ...
Are There Any "ACER ASPIRE" Laptop Owners Here?
Post Date: 2010-03-03 16:52:56 by Murron
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Are There Any "ACER ASPIRE" Laptop Owners Here? I just got my first laptop, it's an Acer Aspire 5517 and wanted to know if anyone else here has a laptop, and if you could post any 'tips', 'helpful hints', 'warnings'...ect? I sure would be very appreciative of any advice and/or opinions. After about 3yrs, my monitor for my Compaq went dead, so I called around to see where I could go locally and buy another...every shop and store in our area were out of monitors. I either had to wait, or order one, so I decided to just get myself a laptop. Right now I have it conn ected to my ISP (DSL) provider, but later I will get the router so I can go mobile. ...
Tea Baggers: Where Were You When Bush Demolished U.S. Economy?
Post Date: 2010-02-28 17:45:21 by Brian S
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If you want a stern dose of reality I recommend visiting an important website, one to keep you in touch with the real world in a society where media and political spin abound. The site is USDebtClock.Org and all you need to do is look at the steadily changing, ever flickering numbers that literally jump out at you to get in touch with the real economic world. As I write this the grand total stands at over $12.4 trillion. That encompasses $40,239 owed per citizen. While this figure has been quoted frequently when this verboten topic has been discussed the real figure of overriding importance that has tended to be overlooked is the amount per taxpayer. While $40,239 is a far from ...
It's George Wallace's GOP Now
Post Date: 2010-02-26 21:21:07 by Skip Intro
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It's George Wallace's GOP Now Like Wallace and his supporters 40 years ago, today's conservative populists are long on anger and short on coherence. by Jonathan Rauch Saturday, Feb. 27, 2010 The history of the modern Republican Party in one sentence: Barry Goldwater and Nelson Rockefeller got into an argument and George Wallace won. OK, footnotes are required. The most important is that racism, a central factor in Wallace's career, is marginal in today's Republican Party. In fact, if there is anything Republicans like about President Obama, it is the racial breakthrough that his election represents. Nothing in this article implies that the GOP is a racist party. ...
Zapatista Candidate for Ohio Governor
Post Date: 2010-02-26 15:46:08 by Murron
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Democrat, a Republican, a Green, and a Libertarian aren’t enough, we’ve got a Zapatista candidate for governor. Sean Swain is running as a write-in – from his prison cell. Again. Swain ran in 2006 (the Secretary of State’s Office doesn’t record any write-in votes on its web site). This time again he’s running from Mansfield Correctional Institution and I must say – he’s got a pretty impressive web site. His goal: ”Steer Ohio into a corporation- and bank-free future.” He also claims to be the only candidate to seek endorsements from Fidel Castro, Hugh Chavez, and of course, Subcommandante Marcos http://cincinnati.com/blogs/politics/2010 ...
The Road to Armageddon
Post Date: 2010-02-26 12:45:01 by Brian S
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Operation Northwoods was a plot drawn up by the US Joint Chiefs of Staff for the CIA to commit acts of terrorism in American cities and fabricate evidence blaming Castro so that the US could gain domestic and international support for regime change in Cuba. The secret plan was nixed by President John F. Kennedy and was declassified by the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Review Board, says Paul Craig Roberts. The Washington Times is a newspaper that looks with favor upon the Bush/Cheney/Obama/neocon wars of aggression in the Middle East and favors making terrorists pay for 9/11. Therefore, I was surprised to learn on February 24 that the most popular story on the paper's website ...
Pee-Wee for President? (Luap Nor A/K/A Republican Party's "Crazy Uncle")
Post Date: 2010-02-21 20:15:10 by _Jim
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Ron Paul has won the CPAC straw Presidential vote with 31 percent of the total. This is dismaying, to the extent one takes it seriously. Ron Paul is the crazy uncle in the Republican Party's attic. He is not a principled libertarian like, say, Steve Forbes. Rather, as I noted in this post, where I likened him to Pee-Wee Herman, Paul has a rather sinister history as a hater and conspiracy theorist. He has no business being taken seriously as a Presidential contender--and that's before we even start talking about his inadequate vision of national security or his disgraceful performance in the 2008 Presidential debates. - - - - - The "Pee-Wee Herman" of the Republican ...
The Olympic Death Wish
Post Date: 2010-02-21 18:07:57 by _Jim
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There is something very, very wrong about the Olympics that no one is talking about; it's the same thing that was wrong with Expo67. There is a real prospect the Olympic 'spirit' will end in slavery and civilizational death. The Olympic Death Wish by Frank Hilliard Let's start with this quote from today's Globe & Mail, one of many extolling the spirit of the Olympics. Visitors all say Vancouver is a positive love fest: Juggler David Aiken - a.k.a. The Checkerboard Guy - performs two shows a day. Mr. Aiken said the atmosphere at Vancouver's Olympic epicentre is electric. A veteran street performer, he said it's a joy to watch people from different nations ...
Have Conservatives Learned Their Lesson?
Post Date: 2010-02-19 16:14:04 by go65
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On Wednesday, conservative leaders produced a long-awaited and closely held Mount Vernon Statement. Conservatives and politicos waited with bated breath, and then collectively said "is that it?" There's nothing wrong with restating longstanding principles, but it didn't seem to tell us much about "the state of conservatism." What did tell me something very disturbing about the state of conservatism was Mitt Romney's speech at CPAC. It was a well-written and well-delivered speech, and I agreed with much of what I heard on C-SPAN Radio. But after all the talk about how Republicans have learned their lessons, how they know that they went badly awry during the ...
Sarah Palin and the mutual loathing society
Post Date: 2010-02-18 14:51:48 by Skip Intro
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Sarah Palin and the mutual loathing society The Republican presidential nominee, an Arizona senator, was a maverick, which was part of his charm. He spoke and acted impulsively, which was part of his problem. Voters thought his entertaining dimensions might be incompatible with presidential responsibilities. For example, he selected a running mate most Americans had never heard of and who had negligible experience pertinent to the presidency. This was 1964. Barry Goldwater, whose seat John McCain occupies, chose to run with Bill Miller, a congressman from Lockport, N.Y., near Buffalo. Miller, Goldwater cheerfully explained, annoyed Lyndon Johnson. After the Goldwater-Miller ticket lost 44 ...
While The GOP Bashes Obama For Adopting Bush Terror Policies, The U.S. Makes Gains Against The Taliban And al-Qaida
Post Date: 2010-02-17 17:31:17 by Brian S
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An extraordinary array of Republicans have been bashing the administration for "Mirandizing" Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab over the last few days -- including Lindsey Graham, Kit Bond, Rudy Giuliani, Mitch McConnell and Michele Bachmann, to name a few -- even as the media admirably did its job reporting that the Bush administration had Mirandized every single terror suspect caught on its watch as well. Despite those facts, former Vice President Dick Cheney stepped up the attack on Obama Sunday on ABC's "This Week" -- and also admitted he's a war criminal (but more on that later.) Meanwhile, U.S. forces captured the most powerful Taliban leader they've grabbed ...
5 Phrases Black People Must Abolish If We Are Ever To Get Ahead.
Post Date: 2010-02-12 15:47:58 by dont eat that
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My job as a socially responsible blogger is to sometimes say sh*t that hurts, with intentions of waking people up and steering them in the right direction. One thing that continues to hold black folks back is bassackwards self-limiting behavior that's best evidenced in some of the Negro Talking Points that many of us utilize on the regular. Until we eliminate these phrases from our collective vocabularies, we will stay losin'. And I don't want us to stay losin', I want us to start winnin'. In that vein, I present to you, a quintet of things Black people need to stop saying, as of today. 1. "My Baby Got Good Hurrrr!" - Black people, for the last time: there is ...
Palin Exposes the Tea Partiers' True Colors [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2010-02-11 09:44:51 by go65
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The tea party movement started as a welcome protest against the alarming growth of federal spending and federal control. It had a strong anti-statist flavor, or seemed to. But judging from the applause for Sarah Palin at its convention, the movement's suspicion of government power is exceeded only by its worship of government power. Her keynote address at last week's gathering in Nashville may have been the curtain raiser on a 2012 presidential campaign. "I think that it would be absurd to not consider what it is that I can potentially do to help our country," she told Fox News when asked about that option. I'm glad it was she and not I who first used the word ...
Let's start a movement to.....
Post Date: 2010-02-10 20:35:12 by sneakypete
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Let's start a movement to get manufacturers and providers to start making and selling bigger cell phones! I can't be the only one with thick,arthritic fingers that fumble and drop the damn thing half the time while trying to open it to answer a call,or to accidentially push the wrong button on the sides and either hang up or shut off the ringer. Who the hell was it that had the brain fart to put function buttons on the sides of these things,anyhow? And this ain't even addressing the problme of tiny little buttons that are hard to see or hit with thick fingers. And no,the phones don't need to be the size of full-sized phones like you have hanging on your well. Just big ...
PR Nightmare for Wine Company Supporting HSUS
Post Date: 2010-02-09 12:06:01 by mininggold
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PR Nightmare for Wine Company Supporting HSUS By Cindy Posted: February 4, 2010 The folks at Yellow Tail Wine must have thought they were making a great humane statement when they contributed $100,000 to the radical animal rights group HSUS and agreed to have “special [yellow tail] displays bearing The HSUS name and logo in stores across the country.” Instead, it has turned into a public relations nightmare for the company, burning up the social media platforms with protests over their support of the group that is threatening animal agriculture production as we know it in this nation. An avalanche of postings on the [yellow tail] Facebook page and Twitter have caused the ...
The Rude Pundit "Sarah Palin Is a Fucking Retard:"
Post Date: 2010-02-08 19:04:57 by Brian S
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Forget about Sarah Palin writing on her hand. Forget about her resigning as governor of Alaska a little over halfway through her first term for no reason other than she was tired of it. Forget that her husband thinks Alaska should be its own country and was essentially co-governor. Forget that she shoots wolves from helicopters for fun. Forget all about those things as arguments against Sarah Palin when you are dealing with the people who love her. They don't care. All of those things just make her delightfully regular and sympathetically human.
See, Sarah Palin is graded on the hot chick curve. Men wanna fuck her and women with low self-esteem wanna be her, so whatever she does just ...
Tea Party Sarah is a Neocon
Post Date: 2010-02-08 12:58:58 by Brian S
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February 7, 2010 Sarah Palin delivered a speech prior to her keynote at the Republican Tea Party fest in Nashville scheduled for this weekend. In addition to touching on government spending and the bankster bailout, Palin said the underwear bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab should have been grilled before he was read his miranda rights. “We need a commander in chief, not a professor of constitutional law,” she said, according to the Wichita Eagle. In fact, Obama was not a professor of constitutional law. He was a “senior lecturer” at the University of Chicago Law School. In academia, there is a vast difference between the two titles, not that we should expect Palin (or ...
Wars Sending U.S. Into Ruin
Post Date: 2010-02-08 12:51:23 by Brian S
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U.S. President Barack Obama calls the $3.8-trillion US budget he just sent to Congress a major step in restoring America’s economic health. In fact, it’s another potent fix given to a sick patient deeply addicted to the dangerous drug — debt. More empires have fallen because of reckless finances than invasion. The latest example was the Soviet Union, which spent itself into ruin by buying tanks. Washington’s deficit (the difference between spending and income from taxes) will reach a vertiginous $1.6 trillion US this year. The huge sum will be borrowed, mostly from China and Japan, to which the U.S. already owes $1.5 trillion. Debt service will cost $250 billion. To ...
Don't Give Me The Liberal Sob Story On Assisted Suicide
Post Date: 2010-02-02 10:23:28 by A K A Stone
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Quit with the sob story liberal line of reasoning. Life isn't fair. It ends for everyone, some horrifically and beyond anyone's control. (aka see Haiti) No one begrudges anyone dignity, but quite frankly, your line of reasoning that I'm inherently denying anyone anything is bullshit! Pain is a fact of life. Also a fact of life is that the eternal side is far greater than this side. For people that do not believe that, fine, their choice. But to put other peoples' pain on me/us is flat out wrong just as it is to put their financial burdens on me/us!!! It doesn't make me callous, but at times of excruciating pain in my life or in those that I've known, I ...
Tim Pawlenty: Not Ready for Prime Time (The GOP's math problem)
Post Date: 2010-02-01 18:31:25 by go65
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In The Politico this morning, Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, who apparently aspires to be the Republican presidential nominee in 2012, has a grossly ill-informed article in which he rants about the deficit without proposing any spending cuts and insisting on still more tax cuts. Like all Republicans these days, Pawlenty wants to have it every possible way: complain about the deficit while ignoring everything his party did to create it (Medicare Part D, two unfunded wars, TARP, earmarks galore, tax cuts up the wazoo, irresponsible regulatory and monetary policies that created the recession that created the deficit, etc.), illogically insisting that tax cuts are a necessary part of deficit ...
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