Well, it seems I have to apologize for the shootings in Colorado the other day. Not the guy who did it, the "joker" guy. And, despite the fact that this a-hole who called himself the Joker died his hair red which was wrong. According to my nerd friends, everyone knows that the Joker had green hair due to a chemical accident when he jumped into a vat of toxic sludge to escape the Batman during a crime being committed at a chemical plant while he was Jack, aka The Red Hood. Even though the crime itself was just a ruse for the mob to kill Jack, aka The Red Hood. Duh!
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11 comments (Latest Comment: 07/23/2012 01:56:07 by Will in Chicago)

Despite "conserve" being the root word of "conservative", Republicans have decided that conserving natural resources is a liberal ideal and are therefore against it. They claim there is a "liberal agenda", and that "we" want to take away Americans' right to drive gas guzzling cars and dump millions of tons of CO2 into the air. If them thar socialist countries in Europe are trying to cut down on emissions, then - by God - doing so here would be anti-American, to hear them tell it.

So they claim our desire to change the status quo is really just to force an ideology on all Americans. But what is their motivation for maintaining the status quo? They hide behind vague claims of "freedom" and "America" and probably apple pie and Chevrolet. The real reason, of course, is much simpler than that:

Money.
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122 comments (Latest Comment: 07/21/2012 02:27:08 by clintster)

It all started innocently enough.

Back on Sunday, June 24, I spent an afternoon outside hovering around the grill. There was much meat, a few martinis, and I had just laid in my summer supply of smokes, so I capped the evening with a Victor Sinclair churchill.

But....I was sitting their leisurely puffing away, and I felt a little 'off'. Bloated perhaps, like I ate too much. That does happen from time to time, so I didn't think much of it.
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15 comments (Latest Comment: 01/24/2013 20:24:04 by TriSec)

Good Morning.

Today is our 3,936th day in Afghanistan.

We'll start this morning as we always do; with the latest casualty figures from our ongoing war, courtesy of Antiwar.com:

US Military Deaths - Afghanistan: 2,042
Other Military Deaths - Afghanistan: 1,045

We find this morning's cost of war passing through:

$ 1, 353, 180, 900, 000 .00
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74 comments (Latest Comment: 07/17/2012 21:52:31 by livingonli)

Mitt wants to move us back to the past. Back to "woof woof, who let the dogs out", back to the W. Bush era of tax cuts for the rich while fighting corporate wars that are not in our budgets so we can borrow more money to fight them. Back to "let the auto industry fail while I reward my Wall St friends".

Well, I'm all about moving forward.

Turning those old pay phones into something useful:
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2 comments (Latest Comment: 07/15/2012 19:12:03 by BobR)