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Latest Articles: Editorial
Is Texas A Terror State?
Post Date: 2009-04-15 09:56:03 by christine
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According to the Department of Homeland Security, Texas fits the Department's profile of potential domestic terrorism described in their newly released report titled, " Right-wing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment". Islamic extremists' acts of domestic terrorism were recently given the dignity, by Homeland Security Secretary Napolitano and President Obama, of being classified as man-made disasters, and abroad, the "war on terror" has been reclassified as an "overseas contingency plan". But an entire non-Islamic class, or perhaps by extension entire states, according to the report, are ...
Anti-Obama Taxpayer Tea Parties steeped in insanity [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2009-04-15 08:39:28 by Refinersfire
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he Web is buzzing with information about how to throw an anti-Obama Taxpayer Tea Party, something organizers hope will be held today from Santa Monica to South Carolina. But no need to burn up your bandwidth reading complicated instructions. Here's a simpler recipe: Go to a hobby store. Buy a scale model of a U.N. One-World-Government Black Helicopter and a tube of glue. Toss the model kit. Sniff the entire tube of glue. You're all set for the party. I can recall only a few outbreaks of such collective insanity as these tea parties in recent years. There was that time in the mid-1990s when a $19.95 video proving Bill Clinton was some sort of serial killer went viral. And then, a ...
The Decline of the English-Speaking World
Post Date: 2009-04-14 20:15:20 by X-15
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I will defend all Western countries but I feel especially close to Britain, which makes it all the more sad to see how humiliated this once-great nation currently is. The English language once conquered the world. Now the rest of the world is conquering the English-speaking countries. If current trends continue, people in Singapore will know English while the nation that created the English language will cease to exist. At the same time as sharia law has gained official recognition as a part of the British legal system and Muslims proudly talk about conquering the Western world, a British woman was arrested because of a supposedly "racist" doll she kept in her window. In ...
Neoconned Again Discredited under Bush, the superhawks reunite for Obama
Post Date: 2009-04-14 13:13:42 by christine
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After successive elections unseated the Republican majority and sent John McCain to defeat, neoconservatism seemed like a spent force. Francis Fukuyama wrote wistfully about life “After Neoconservatism” in 2006. Ian Buruma described the McCain campaign as the neocons’ “last stand” and harrumphed that they “will not be missed.” One would expect neoconservatives to be friendless and circumspect, grumbling about Obama’s inevitable failure as they slump away from Washington. Instead, they are jubilant, palling around with liberals again, enjoying renewed respect. Obama is their hero. On March 31, Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol, Washington Post ...
LOTS OF TEA PARTIES - AND THEN?
Post Date: 2009-04-14 11:14:03 by Itistoolate
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One of Devvy's great articles LOTS OF TEA PARTIES - AND THEN? www.newswithviews.com/Devvy/kidd439.htm many links at the source Click for Full Text!
Obama Maintains His Perfect Batting Average for Appointing Failed Insiders to Key Economic Posts
Post Date: 2009-04-13 20:56:04 by Horse
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Other than Paul Volcker, who Obama has already sidelined (and I know not everyone likes Volcker), all of his economic advisors have been insiders who directly helped to create the current economic crisis. Summers failed as the main guy who pushed for deregulation of derivatives, lowered bank fractional reserve lending requirements, etc. Geithner is the guy who - as chief overseer of the banks located in Manhattan when he was head of the New York Fed bank - gave the big banks a free pass. You can go through the entire list of appointees and the story is the same. Now, Obama is naming the current head of Fannie Mae, Herb Allison, as the new head of the TARP bailout program. Allison has ...
THE BIG BUSINESS/BIG GOVERNMENT AXIS OF EVIL
Post Date: 2009-04-13 20:34:53 by christine
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Self-proclaimed "conservatives" love to tout themselves as ardent supporters of the "free enterprise" system. In the name of "capitalism," they support any and every piece of legislation or governmental decision that caters to business--especially Big Business. Favorite policies of these folks include anything and everything that calls itself "free trade." Furthermore, these same "conservatives" will support just about anything and everything that is said to advance the so-called "global economy." Needless to say, in the name of "free trade" millions of American jobs and thousands of American manufacturing plants have ...
The New Thomas Paine or: Jethro's New Hero
Post Date: 2009-04-13 19:17:26 by Vitamin Z
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If someone could embed this video, that would be spectacular.
Juan Cole: The Great Right-Wing Freak-Out
Post Date: 2009-04-13 12:03:50 by Brian S
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Symptoms of the conservative crack-up were on full display after President Obama's trip abroad. Bill Kristol, take a bow. April 13, 2009 President Obama's recent trip to Europe, Turkey and Iraq was a fairly bland freshman outing in foreign affairs, notable for the enormous good will it generated toward the U.S., along with some practical achievements and a few minor errors. It lacked the drama of the untested young Kennedy grappling over Berlin with the wily old Khrushchev in Vienna in 1961. On the American Right, however, Obama's trip produced a hysteria not seen since radio listeners mistook Orson Welles's 1938 radio production about an invasion from Mars for the real ...
The smooth criminal transition from Bush/Cheney to Obama
Post Date: 2009-04-12 00:27:06 by christine
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To sober, clear-eyed observers of history and political deception, the ascension of Barack Obama held the promise for unprecedented new dangers: a revitalized New World Order, led by the Anglo-American empire’s neoliberal criminal faction and an iconic, deceptive new facilitator; and a continuation of Bush/Cheney criminality and war, under smarter and much more effective management. Now, just months into their tenure, the Barack Obama administration has more than fulfilled the murderous promises he made to his elite constituency, deepening the mass destruction of Bush/Cheney, while charming its victims all over the world into enjoying their own demise. The empire’s facilitator ...
1776 AND TODAY: IT IS TIME TO REFRESH THE TREE OF LIBERTY
Post Date: 2009-04-11 13:53:47 by christine
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I have just finished watching two of my favorite motion pictures, “The Patriot” with Mel Gibson and “Red Dawn.” Although produced in liberal Hollywood, they did capture—in our imaginations—at least, the view that some Americans, at the time when their country and countrymen needed them the most, responded courageously to tyranny and evil with personal determination and great sacrifice. Collectively, we are brutally aware of the death of our once great Republic over the past few decades, slowly at first, and then with a swiftness that takes your breath away. We have seen a vital, productive, and unique culture raped, pillaged, and brutalized by the most ...
Federal Government Turning Citizens into Criminals [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2009-04-10 13:31:21 by christine
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As the price of cigarettes rises -- in the New York City metropolitan area they now cost nearly $10.00 per pack or about $100.00 for a carton of ten packs -- and there are more and more government programs aimed at controlling sale and use, the US and state governments are creating a new organized crime enterprise. For example, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives New York office last Thursday arrested two suspects who purchased untaxed cigarettes from undercover ATF agents while also selling the agents counterfeit New York State/City Tax Stamps. Guang Ming Wang, age 58 and his son, Feishan Wang, age 30, both residents of Queens, NY, were arrested by ATF Agents without ...
Integration Negatively Affected Discipline for Black Kids
Post Date: 2009-04-10 07:20:11 by Turtle
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Outcomes of integration haven’t been as positive as hoped. According to a number of African Americans equal opportunity was the goal of civil rights, not integration. Results have shown negative consequences, some say. {snip} Dumars [Ophelia Dumars, mother of Joe Dumars, a famous basketball player] declares that “after integration discipline broke down.” New ways of parenting from the white community were introduced that conflicted with the strict parenting set down by black parents. She said in her day there weren’t the high percentages of African Americans in jail because parents and community members made sure they were disciplined strictly and understood ...
Citing Racism, Walgreens Pulls 'Chia Obama'
Post Date: 2009-04-09 11:04:29 by tom007
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Citing Racism, Walgreens Pulls 'Chia Obama' By David Kravets EmailApril 06, 2009 | 10:41:17 AMCategories: The Ridiculous Picture_18 Walgreens is ordering the removal of the "Chia Obama" from its stores in Tampa and Chicago, saying the ceramic-plant figure of the chief executive is inappropriate for sale. Spokesman Robert Elfinger said store managers have the ability to market products of their choice. But the top brass of the Deerfield, Illinois-based drug chain was not amused by some of its Tampa and Chicago managers' choices to market the President Obama likeness. "We got some complaints from people that they thought it was racist," Elfinger said in a ...
Meaningless High School
Post Date: 2009-04-09 07:01:55 by Turtle
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When I was in high school my life consisted mainly of four things: high school, family, partying, and science-fiction. The first two were close to meaningless, and the last two meant a lot. In fact, they were pretty much the focus of my high school life. It took me years to figure out what the answer was to that puzzle of why the first two meant so little and the last two so much. I didn't have a bad family life. It was just that, like a lot of kids then and now, family just didn't mean that much (I'm sure I would have realized just how much it meant if I didn't have it). Finally, I realized the answer was pretty simple: it had to do with meaning. The first two had little ...
Incompetent Mistakes From a Rookie: Gauging the first two months
Post Date: 2009-04-08 10:32:37 by litus
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Everybody knows that most newly-inaugurated Presidents get a honeymoon of sorts. The press takes it easy on them. The pundits try to keep their snark in line. And the public generally cuts the new President more slack than the rookie pitcher throwing for the Yankees in his debut outing. For the most part the honeymoon lasts about a hundred days or so. I'm happy to report that we haven't given him the pass others have. Politics doesn't take a day off, and we still dislike this new president. He gets no quarter from us, or from the majority of center-right bloggers out there. (For the record, we'd put John McCain under the same microscope. We are, after all, equal opportunity ...
You Are What You Read?
Post Date: 2009-04-08 06:28:53 by Deasy
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I want to proclaim loudly, immediately, and for the public record, that my personal library contains several Dr. Seuss books, a well-thumbed set of Lord of the Rings, dozens of cookbooks, several English style manuals, four biographies of St. Bernadette and at least a couple of Bibles. Now, before you decide that my personal library is about as interesting to you as my personal gall bladder, let me explain. I am expecting to be arrested someday. Oh, I don't know for what. But I'm a political hellraiser, so they'll think of something. Maybe they'll say I stepped on some endangered species of microscopic rug-bug when I got out of bed one morning. Or maybe the folding stock I ...
Reparations for gay Americans
Post Date: 2009-04-08 00:19:08 by mirage
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As recently as a generation ago, marriage equality and full civil rights for gays and lesbians seemed like a remote and quixotic hope. Today, while setbacks such as California’s Proposition 8 and the continued scourge of the Defense of Marriage Act serve as reminders that more struggle remains ahead, shifting attitudes—especially among younger Americans—make full homosexual citizenship look, increasingly, like an historical inevitability. Victory may require five or maybe 20 years. Yet I have no doubt that “don’t ask, don’t tell” and same-sex adoption bans will be as unspeakable and inexplicable to my grandchildren as counting a slave as three-fifths of a ...
The Essential Revolutionary Idea
Post Date: 2009-04-07 07:26:31 by Deasy
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Think back to the year 1775. The anniversary is coming up again on April the 19th. You remember. It's not September 11, which is our new so-called Patriot day according to House Joint Resolution 71. Why did the Minutemen go out to confront the British? What forced their hands and drove them to stand and die? The shot that was heard around the world was fired because the Minutemen and their families thought they would never be free of abusive British control unless they took up arms to decide the issue. What could make them do this? The British were their business partners and military allies. The king had given them their lands. Why bite the hand that fed them? To understand their ...
Politics and the Garden of Eden
Post Date: 2009-04-06 20:01:11 by Turtle
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The only religious joke I tell is one I made up: the human race has Fallen and can't get up. Okay, so it's not very good, even for one of my always-bad puns. But as bad as it is, I think it is a true statement. Even a bad joke often has truth in it. The idea that the human race is "fallen," that is, imperfect, exists in all religions. In the Western world it's because we were, whether figuratively or literally, kicked out of the Garden of Eden. The story of the Garden of Eden is one of my favorite myths. When I say "myth" I don't mean it's untrue. Instead I mean that it is universally applicable to all people, in all places, at all times. A myth ...
Lib Blogs Kick into Frothing Overdrive in Reaction to Pittsburgh Shootings
Post Date: 2009-04-05 14:34:58 by christine
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In the wake of the violence in Pittsburgh earlier today, the pro-Obama liberal blogs are blaming those of us who support the Second Amendment for the murder of four police officers. David Neiwert, of Crooks and Liars, has grabbed a hold of comments made by Edward Perkovic, described as alleged shooter Richard Poplawski’s best friend. Perkovic said Poplawski feared “the Obama gun ban that’s on the way” and “didn’t like our rights being infringed upon.” Neiwert basically placed the blame for the murders on Fox News host Glenn Beck and Wayne LaPierre, executive vice president of the NRA, because they are worried about the Second Amendment under the Obama ...
Twenty Minutes That Will Add to Your Life
Post Date: 2009-04-04 14:45:43 by Turtle
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Click here I have no use for conspiracist thinking. Such thinking has killed more people in the history of the world than anything else. Conspiracist thinking plus the State, conspiracist thinking plus religion....gencoide upon genocide. This includes Truthers holding trials for the coming decades and getting exactly nowhere. This video will not embed, but only link. But the guy knows what he is talking about. He's not the only one, either. People can moan and groan all they want, make themselves feel good by pretending world-wide fascism is coming, or that the Iluminati really exists, or all the rest of that nonsense. I'm not one of them.
For Those of You Born 1930 - 1979
Post Date: 2009-04-04 10:24:37 by Turtle
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First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they were pregnant. They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can, and didn't get tested for diabetes. Then after that trauma, we were put to sleep on our tummies in baby cribs covered with bright colored lead-based paints. We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets, not to mention, the risks we took hitchhiking. As infants & children, we would ride in cars with no car seats, booster seats, seat belts or air bags. Riding in the back of a pick up on a warm day was always a special treat. We drank water from the ...
Fish Hook Through The Eye - And Other Delights
Post Date: 2009-04-03 20:26:41 by tom007
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http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/04/surgeryvids.html
Ed Gov, Not Fed Gov
Post Date: 2009-04-02 10:27:20 by christine
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For some time now, I have been considering running for Governor of the State of Idaho. I heard that! Stop laughing. Seriously. Hear me out. Most view me as being right wing, some extremely so. I occasionally characterize my politics as to the right of Attila the Hun, so I feed into that perception. Fact is, though, that I am staunchly pro-Constitution and favor self reliance and self determination above most things. Why Don't We Do It on the Shoulder of the Road? In an attempt to reach a broader swath of Americans whom I perceive to be increasingly disaffected from government, I have moderated my rhetoric lately, but neither my beliefs nor my core message. I see "middle of the ...
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