Thursday, August 2, 2012

Headlines - Thursday August 2

"Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for president. One hopes it is the same half." – Gore Vidal who died today at age 86
 
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The number of worldwide terror attacks fell to 10,283 last year, down from 11,641 in 2010 and the lowest since 2005, the State Department reported today.

What's made the difference? The State Department cites the May 2011 killing of Osama bin Laden and other top al Qaeda members killed last year

And yet, Conservaturds say Obama is weak on National Security.

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Jesus' General: Partaking Little Sally's Flesh: The Persecution of a Puppeteer Pastor

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Forbes: The Cult of Chick-fil-A

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Hey, Tea Party morons! That wingnut House you put in power almost two years ago just stabbed you in the back by rejecting an extension of the Bush tax cuts for people earning less than $250,000 per year unless the top "earners" get to keep their budget-busting tax cuts, too, and passed a bill to that effect after rejecting the Senate version.

On Monday when Boston detectives burst in to arrest yet another Catholic priest for distributing child pornography, they found his computer humming away with more downloads.

Urbaniak is from Poland. Wanna bet the Archbishop of Warsaw shipped him overseas for some undisclosed reason?

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The war on women continues apace It's incomprehensible to me that the Violence Against Women Act is suddenly controversial, but in this tea-party-moron dominated House of Representatives, it is. Fortunately, Democrats hold the Senate and they are standing up for us and telling the House that they won't be allowing the misogynistic tea folk to weaken it by watering it down and limiting it's protections to certain groups like Native Americans and trans-gendered individuals. Senate Democrats, led by Patty Murray of Washington refusing to water it down caused Chuck Grassley to object to Senate passage by Unanimous Consent and drag it out a while longer.

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Iowa Rep. Steve King: Why Is It Wrong To Dog-Fight If It Is Okay To Rape And Kidnap These Children?

 

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