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The Candidates, pt 6
Author: velveeta jones    Date: 06/05/2011 14:56:01

Continuing our look at the exciting lineup of GOP 2012 noms would be incomplete if we didn't acknowledge Mrs. Sarah Palin. Sarah, aka Mama Grizzly, has previously said she would not run for President in 2012, but she has also said that she would be Governor of Alaska, that she could see Russia from her house, that North Korea was our ally, and, more recently, that Paul Revere fired his 9mm Glock in the air while yelling “The Red Coats are coming and be sure to buy my newest single out on iTunes this week” through town, so her word has little weight.
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5 comments (Latest Comment: 06/05/2011 22:38:39 by AuntAzalea)

When the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor...
Author: TriSec    Date: 06/04/2011 11:04:45

Good Morning.

Sarah Palin is an idiot.

There, I said it.
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18 comments (Latest Comment: 06/05/2011 04:19:32 by Raine)

GOP Death Spiral
Author: BobR    Date: 06/03/2011 12:26:09

In 2004, the Republicans were riding high. They had the White House and both houses of Congress. Their ineffectivity and corruption finally wore down the electorate, though, and the Democrats took the House and Senate in 2006. In 2008, they increased their margins in Congress (admittedly by running conservative Dems in conservative states) and took the White House. Their inability to quickly fix the jobs situation resulted in a voter backlash in 2010 that gave the Republicans back the House, with a "mandate" to fix the jobs situation and balance the budget.

Instead, the Republicans seem insistent on legislating their conservative social ideology, and cutting wildly popular programs rather than raise taxes on the rich, or restore tax rates to Reagan-era levels. The backlash against their plans has been loud and obvious, but rather than reflect and moderate their approach, they are doubling down on it. It seems both quixotic and suicidal.
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48 comments (Latest Comment: 06/03/2011 21:19:16 by Raine)

Stupid Season, again.
Author: Raine    Date: 06/02/2011 12:50:17

With a year and a half to go before the 2012 elections, we have officially entered stupid season. I think I am getting burnt out on stupid, be it Chris Christie using a state helicopter to show up at his child's baseball game, anything associated with Sarah Palin, Herman Cain, Rick Scott, Eric Cantor, Pawlenty, -- right now I just have little patience trying to talk of the stupidity of what is going on. I don't want to talk about them. I do anyway because I believe an informed people makes for a healthy government. I still care. We are in our fourth year here on this blog, with another few spent at our former home, it's been more than a half a decade that we've been doing this, and yes I still care. Sometimes, I just get tired.

What floors me most is the fact that so few people seem to care. So few people seem to be curious about what is being done to the middle and lower class in America. We try to educate here on this blog. There are many places on the internet that do the same. Sometimes it feels more like a fight against disinformation rather than for enlightenment.
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65 comments (Latest Comment: 06/02/2011 21:02:59 by Raine)

Hacktivism
Author: BobR    Date: 2011-06-01 10:13:42


Hacktivism:
(a portmanteau of hack and activism) is "the nonviolent use of illegal or legally ambiguous digital tools in pursuit of political ends. These tools include web site defacements, redirects, denial-of-service attacks, information theft, web site parodies, virtual sit-ins, virtual sabotage, and software development."
-- From SensAgent


At the risk of sounding like a luddite, let me reminisce about the good old days. People used to buy newspapers and read them for their news (which supported jobs like reporters and fact-checkers). People used to actually talk to each other face-to-face, or occasionally on the phone. And when a political statement needed to be made, people showed up in droves with hand-made signs and protested... and they didn't expend more energy recording it on their phones to post online than they did actually participating.
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62 comments (Latest Comment: 06/02/2011 03:45:34 by Raine)

Ask a Vet
Author: TriSec    Date: 05/31/2011 10:29:27

Good Morning.

Today is our 2,995th day in Iraq, and our 3,511th day in Afghanistan.

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

American Deaths
Since war began (3/19/03): 4454 3511
Since "Mission Accomplished" (5/1/03): 4313
Since Handover (6/29/04): 3595
Since Obama Inauguration (1/20/09): 226
Since Operation New Dawn: 36

Other Coalition Troops - Iraq: 318
US Military Deaths - Afghanistan: 1,598
Other Military Deaths - Afghanistan: 891
Contractor Employee Deaths - Iraq: 1,487
Journalists - Iraq: 348
Academics Killed - Iraq: 448

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

$ 1, 202, 126, 250, 000. 00



Well, it was all over the news yesterday. Perhaps that preacher in California just missed the date, because if the KKK counter-protesting Westboro Baptist isn't one of the signs of the Apocalypse....I don't know what is.
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64 comments (Latest Comment: 06/01/2011 02:47:08 by livingonli)

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Author: Raine    Date: 05/30/2011 13:01:09



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1 comments (Latest Comment: 05/30/2011 16:04:42 by livingonli)

Go at it
Author: velveeta jones    Date: 05/29/2011 12:46:08

Open Blog today whilst I deal with some drama.
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2 comments (Latest Comment: 05/29/2011 23:46:36 by TriSec)

Got Gas?
Author: TriSec    Date: 05/28/2011 10:35:50

Good Morning!

I've got to buy gas today. Thankfully, the price has dropped by about 15 cents and is back down under $4/gallon in these parts. But was it the market, or the oil companies?

I've got a pet theory about that. Think back a while. Do you remember $3 gas? how about $2 or even $1?
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3 comments (Latest Comment: 05/28/2011 16:21:50 by trojanrabbit)

Friday, Finally.
Author: Raine    Date: 05/27/2011 12:40:06

It's been a personally challenging week and thankfully, it's Friday on a holiday weekend!

So, in light of that, let's just have a free and easy blog.

Have a wonderful weekend.

and
Raine
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54 comments (Latest Comment: 05/28/2011 03:57:20 by Will in Chicago)

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