A tea story: This is the Tea Party in a nutshell: a movement of angry reactionaries marked by zealous intolerance of anyone who doesn't fit their demographic profile of a real American, combined with a sociopathic desire to enforce the proper punishment on anyone who doesn't live up to their old-time Judeo-Christian values of crime and punishment.
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William Rivers Pitt: Thank God for Fred Phelps
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Greenwald: They Hate Us for Our Occupations
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Fed nominee blocked by GOP senator as unqualified just received the Nobel Prize.
"To my Alabama way of thinking, winning the Nobel Prize in Economics is just one more reason Peter Diamond isn't qualified to be on the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System."
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She did what she had to do. "In a record-breaking journey, a female humpback whale has travelled across a quarter of the globe, a distance of at least 10,000km. The event, reported in the Royal Society journal Biology Letters, is the longest documented movement by a mammal. Its voyage was also twice the distance that the whales typically migrate each season to new breeding grounds. Scientists say the extreme behaviour shows how "flexible" these animals are. The female whale was spotted and photographed twice - once at its regular breeding ground in Brazil, then later off the coast of Madagascar. The shortest distance between these two locations is 9,800km."
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In a case highly similar to that of Atlanta's "Bishop" Eddie Long, a pastor in Las Vegas has been arrested and charged with 11 felony counts of molesting teenage boys. According to police, Pastor Billy Eskstine McCurdy used biblical verses to coerce the boys into sex.
North Las Vegas police arrested Billy Eckstine McCurdy, 57, following an eight-month investigation into allegations that he sexually assaulted teen boys at his home. McCurdy is the pastor at Revival Temple Church of God in Christ at the intersection of Tonopah and Vegas drives. At the church Friday night, men in all black suits said no church officials were prepared to comment on the arrest. The new charges involve two teen boys who said McCurdy forced them into sexual relationships with him. They told police he used his position in the church and Bible scriptures to force them into sex acts, authorities said. Both boys testified at a grand jury, which indicted McCurdy Thursday on six counts of sexual assault and five counts of open or gross lewdness. He was being held at the Clark County Detention Center without bail.
Police expect other victims to come forward. Five years ago a similar charge was brought against McCurdy, but the case was dropped because prosecutors felt they could not prove their case. Back then McCurdy's parishioners rallied behind him. The historically black (and virulently anti-gay) Church of God in Christ (COGIC) has long been accused of covering up sexual misconduct by its pastors.
Some more TAX FREE molesting: http://joemygod.blogspot.com/2010/10/las-vegas-evangelical-pastor-arrested.html
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There's never a shortage of smarm among evangelicals.
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It Walks Amongst Us - the undead Beast (Dick Cheney), creature without a pulse is rebounding from five weeks in the hospital this summer, and plans about 10 stops on the speaking circuit in coming months – along with some hunting trips as well, according to friends. Protect your old people, 'cause Blam-Blam is looking to shoot someone in the face again! (Politico)
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Does Bristol Palin not realize that her child is going to grow up in a world where her antics will live forever via YouTube? Or does she just not care? "Famous for getting knocked up, then denouncing copulation, Bristol Palin is determined to keep her sex life in the public eye. On Dancing with the Stars last night, she ripped a man's shirt off and humped him in slow motion....That closing image of the Palin clan smiling and clapping afterwards is priceless." <(Gawker has video at the link, but it is not for the feint of heart.)
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Raped in the USA
Ken Buck to defend himself this week for not prosecuting rape
Another Canadian/American health care myth destroyed
The next time some uninformed moron tells you that the U.S. health care system is so great and perfect that Canadians flock south in droves for American style health care, feel free to shove this chart in their face..
See that sliver of red in the chart? Well that's how many Canadians opt for American health care in place of their own government-run Medicare program where EVERY SINGLE Canadian and landed immigrant is entitled to full world-class health care without ever having to open up their wallets or get permission from an insurance provider. Not only is Canada's single-payer system universal but it provides health care at a lower expenditure than the U.S. system ($3400/per-capita versus $6400 respectively).
Canadians running south seeking medical treatment? Not happening and another myth destroyed.
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Obama will appeal DOMA, i.e, he will defend anti-gay law he claimed was 'abhorrent' - but that was during the campaign when he supported the public option, opposed offshore drilling ....
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So, let's be clear about this: Bashing Obama for knowing Illinois politicians or where he went to Church in Chicago or where he was born or being a community organizer, that's OK.
Asking Joe Miller why he is against government handouts when he colluded with is wife so she could file for unemployment assistance or why he takes the state's oil money (him, wife, 8 kids, means they collect $12,810) or why he has six figures of credit card debt or why he availed himself of government-backed student loans, that's not OK.
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Miller's Libertarian rant about the welfare
state and fiscal responsibility."
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