Happy holidays and Festivus!
I'll be gone for a few days, so talk amongst yourselves.
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Connell canceled two flights on suspicion his plane might have been sabotaged: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24TCUbKFnh0
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Is anyone happy about Rick Warren?
WorldNut Daily's Joseph Farah blasts Rick Warren for "embracing" the "evil" Obama by agreeing to give the invocation at Obama's inauguration.
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The only real difference between Dick Cheney and Ted Bundy is that Bundy felt a twinge of remorse at the end.
Oh. And Bundy never shot a friend in the face while drunk. So score one for Ted.
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Bill Kristol wondes: How high can I shovel it today?
In today's entry, he praises the "straight talkers" like Dick Cheney. Commenting on Big Dick's recent defense of telling Pat Leahy to f**k himself:
No spin. No doubletalk. A cogent defense of his action — and one that shows a well-considered sense of justice. ("I thought he merited it.") Indeed, if justice is seeking to give each his due, one might say that Dick Cheney aspires to being a just man. And a thoughtful one, because he knows that justice is sometimes too harsh, and should be tempered by civility.And just to show he's bipartisan, Billy offers this oh-so irreverent thought on the Illinois Hair Helmet:
Blagojevich is even more terse: "I want to make money." And when an opportunity came along — a vacant Senate seat — he didn't sit around studying polls and consulting focus groups. He got to work. He knows — as Americans have always known — that the good things in life aren't free. As he put it eloquently in discussing the vacant Senate seat, "I've got this thing, and it's [expletive] golden, and, uh, uh, I'm just not giving it up for [expletive] nothing."So is this just li'l Billy's way of rubbing our noses in it by way of saying "look what utter shit I can submit to the Times and GET PAID FOR IT"? Or can we expect his next column to reflect on the underappreciated Human Resource Management Skills of Charlie Manson?It's also nice, in this day and age, to see an example of family togetherness and marital harmony. Rod and his wife, Patti, seem to be in accord on so many things. For example, in a disinclination to turn the other cheek...
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Why men are never depressed:
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Who needs a pardon? http://www.boomantribune.com/story/2008/12/22/135617/58
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Everyday, the head idiot on Morning Schmoe likes to remind his audience (in his own inimitably arrogant manner) that the primary reason this country had slid into the economic cesspool is because the poor, lower and middle classes had this inexcusable desire to buy homes they just couldn't afford. This former Congressman (who had a dead girl turn up in his office) and expert in economics will not let anyone forget that it was the irresponsible behavior of these people, with their shameless desire to be part of the Bush-touted "Republican ownership society" that has led us to disaster. Never mind the fact that banks did NOT have to lend to anyone, that mortgage companies were doling out loans with no money down, and many of these loans had no authorization/credit checks. None of that matters to him. Poor people shouldn't own homes - they bring economic calamities.
If we can forget for a minute that Mr. Dead-Girl-In-Office is a moron, lets take a look at what happened to Iceland, and perhaps we understand what happened in the US.
http://distributorcapny.blogspot.com/
If we can forget for a minute that Mr. Dead-Girl-In-Office is a moron, lets take a look at what happened to Iceland, and perhaps we understand what happened in the US.
http://distributorcapny.blogspot.com/
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The Alaska Dispatch, gives some insight on the racist discussions going on over at TeamSarah.org.
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I'm mentioning this again:
Corporate socialism has now officially run amok. According to a report from the Associated Press, as much as $1.6 billion of the taxpayer funded $350 billion bank bailout fund has gone directly to top executives at America's leading financial institutions.
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Pope Ratzinger, who led the coverup of child abuse by priests, says saving humanity from homosexual or transsexual behavior was just as important as saving the rainforest from destruction, and that homosexuality is a "deviation, an irregularity, a wound." http://uk.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idUKTRE4BL2FE20081222
Well, at least Barack Obama hasn't invited him to speak at inauguration.
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There used to be a game show called "Supermarket Sweep", in which contestants had a certain amount of time to stuff as many groceries as possible into a shopping cart and whoever had the most value in their cart at the end was the winner. The Bush Administration reminds me right now of the hosts of that game show, with the banks and the financial industry being the people tearing around with shopping carts -- all trying to stuff as much as possible of the United States Treasury into their pockets before getting outta Dodge.
Remember the outrage over the notion that people whose incomes are so low that after exemptions and the standard deduction, they don't pay income tax, receiving a stimulus check? Where is the similar outrage over the idea that when a company suffers losses, whether due to business conditions or simple mismanagement, that the government should refund their taxes?
Once again we are seeing what I've called the "tipping point of evil" being played out by the Bush Administration on its way out the door; the rule that if an administration is heinous enough to reach that tipping point, the public will be simply beyond outrage and will have little stomach for accountability. Remember, however, after we are ALL scrambling for the scraps tossed us by those who caused this mess, just who it was that brought us there. And remind your conservative friends, too. Because I suspect they will be thinking Sarah Palin is the answer to all their problems.
Once again we are seeing what I've called the "tipping point of evil" being played out by the Bush Administration on its way out the door; the rule that if an administration is heinous enough to reach that tipping point, the public will be simply beyond outrage and will have little stomach for accountability. Remember, however, after we are ALL scrambling for the scraps tossed us by those who caused this mess, just who it was that brought us there. And remind your conservative friends, too. Because I suspect they will be thinking Sarah Palin is the answer to all their problems.
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Justice is being delayed or disrupted in state courtrooms across the country thanks the law-and-order Republican crowd and the Bush economic miracle.
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Red state socialism: http://entequilaesverdad.blogspot.com/2008/12/spreading-wealth.html
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Israel is getting way beyond ridiculous. us. Now they've got plans to demolish a Palestinian kindergarten. It is, of course, being done in the interests of "national security."
From here, it looks like they're intent on creating more terrorists. Demolishing a village and ensuring kids don't get an education is a pretty good way of proving you're a right bunch of bastards.
From here, it looks like they're intent on creating more terrorists. Demolishing a village and ensuring kids don't get an education is a pretty good way of proving you're a right bunch of bastards.
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"Other than his brave military service, introducing Sarah Palin to Americans is the greatest thing John McCain ever did for his country."—Ann Coulter, on Sarah Palin being bestowed Human Events' "prestigious 'Conservative of the Year' Award for 2008 for her genius at annoying all the right people."
Those are some awesome standards for that award, btw.
Those are some awesome standards for that award, btw.
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A new government report showing huge increases in the incidences of domestic violence, rape, and sexual assault over a two-year period in the United States deserves immediate attention from lawmakers and the incoming administration, Human Rights Watch said today. The statistics show a 42% increase in reported domestic violence and a 25% increase in the reported incidence of rape and sexual assault.
The National Crime Victimization Survey, based on projections from a national sample survey, says that at least 248,300 individuals were raped or sexually assaulted in 2007, up from 190,600 in 2005, the last year the survey was conducted. The study surveyed 73,600 individuals in 41,500 households. Among all violent crimes, domestic violence, rape, and sexual assault showed the largest increases.
The National Crime Victimization Survey, based on projections from a national sample survey, says that at least 248,300 individuals were raped or sexually assaulted in 2007, up from 190,600 in 2005, the last year the survey was conducted. The study surveyed 73,600 individuals in 41,500 households. Among all violent crimes, domestic violence, rape, and sexual assault showed the largest increases.
And these numbers reflect only reported domestic violence and sexual assaults, which continue to be the most under-reported crimes.
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Warmonger John Bolton on humanitarian intervention: do it with your own sons and daughters, not with mine:
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Rice showered in jewelry by Arab leaders
The Associated Press said Monday that Bush's top diplomat was gifted "at least $316,000 in gem-encrusted baubles from the kings of Jordan and Saudi Arabia alone."
Who says being complicit in illegal attacks of sovereign countries, the death of over 4 thousand American soldiers, untold innocent Iraqis, the plunder of our own country, being complicit in torture, and shredding our Constitution, doesn't pay?
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4,213 soldiers killed in Iraq that we know of; 629 in Afghanistan.
And so it begins
The families of three men who were killed last week during a search of a grain warehouse want to press charges against American soldiers under the terms of a new security agreement between the U.S. and Iraq.
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