April 2011
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Classic Tea Bagger Move →
Here it is…the oldest Tea Bagger trick in the book: stake out an absurdly right wing position, and claim the founders would have wanted it this way.
“We must allow corporations to make billions upon billions of dollars and have untold amounts of influence…the founders would have wanted us to have a corporatocracy!”
“We must deny women their right to reproductive...
September 2010
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George Washington the Genius
Apparently the Constitution was originally intended to prevent political parties; unfortunately, it failed. Here’s George Washington’s take on political parties from his farewell address, I think it’s particularly poignant in these obscenely polarized times, where both sides tend to lie and distort and inflame the passions of the citizenry in an attempt to retain or regain ...
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“The 911 Quran burning in Florida is a dumb idea. I don’t support such...”
– Pamela Geller, a Cordoba House opponent (for the uninitiated the Cordoba House is the so-called “Ground Zero Mosque”, despite being located 2 blocks from Ground Zero, and actually being a multifaith community center).
Commentary: Oh the irony. If this woman had her way, it...
August 2010
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How Does This Happen?!?! →
It’s almost a commonly accepted notion in this country that Republicans are “good for business.” Yet when Democrats propose a bill that one would expect to be a Republican wet dream, $30 billion in low cost lending to community banks (who do the vast majority of small business lending in this country) and $12 billion in TAX CUTS for small business. On what planet do Republicans...
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This Country is Screwed →
Paul Krugman just about sums up where we’re headed if Republicans win back Congress this mid-term election season (for context he was comparing it to Republican’s victories in the 1994 mid-terms and their paralyzing effect on the government):
It will be an ugly scene, and it will be dangerous, too. The 1990s were a time of peace and prosperity; this is a time of neither. In...
March 2010
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Recent Developments in Tea Bagger Land
Well, health care passed. And we’re all still here. No armageddon. No end of America. Life goes on, and we’re all the better for having passed health care reform. That is except for the tea baggers. The theme of this week’s recent developments in Tea Bagger land is: irony.
First, the irony of state Attorneys General suing the federal government over health care. I thought...
February 2010
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The Raw Retardation of Facts (Don't Tell Sarah!) →
I don’t even know who to blame for this one, since this article is completely unsigned as far as I can tell, but some asshole at Investors Business Daily needs to get his facts straight and/or stick to writing about business, because he clearly knows NOTHING of Senate procedures. He calls the democrats hypocrites for wanting to use reconciliation now, when they opposed the so-called...
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Does Scott Brown Hear the Words that are Coming... →
Scott Brown on Obama’s health care proposal, and the possibility of Democrats using a majority-vote reconciliation procedure to pass health care:
If the Democrats try to ram their health-care bill through Congress using reconciliation, they are sending a dangerous signal to the American people that they will stop at nothing to raise our taxes, increase premiums and slash Medicare. Using...
January 2010
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Words Cannot Describe My Disgust
No, this post is not directed at Congressional Dems, I have plenty of choice words for them right now. But more on that later.
No, my disgust tonight is directed at Lt. Gov. Andre Bauer of South Carolina. Lt. Gov. Bauer let the world know the other night why Gov. Sanford did not step down after he used taxpayer funds to take a trip to Argentina to visit his mistress. The reason, Bauer is BAT...
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How can ANYONE believe ANYTHING a Conservative...
Yesterday brought us 3 outstanding examples of blatant Conservative lies, misrepresentations and memory loss. The first comes courtesy of former Bush administration senior adviser Karl Rove who had the balls to criticize Obama on spending increases in a Wall Street Journal editorial. This would not be ballsy under normal circumstances, as I am all for criticizing authority, BUT when...
December 2009
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Conservative Hypocrisy at its Finest
Well, now that finals are over, and the holidays have passed (well almost) it is time to get back to blogging. I couldn’t think of a better place to start than with Conservative hypocrisy. Naturally, said hypocrisy comes directly from the king of Conservative scumbags himself, Dick Cheney. Instead of genuine concern for the well-being of our nation Conservatives have decided to devote...
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Reverse Robinhood: Stealing from the Young...
The only thing I hate more than opponents of health reform distorting the facts is when proponents of health care reform distort facts. This absolutely absurd Daily Kos article infuriated me to the point that I had to interrupt my law school finals induced blogging hiatus to talk about it.
Age is NOT a pre-existing condition. Calling it such is simply ludicrous. Age is not a condition, it is a...
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The People Still Want the Public Option →
As our lawmakers in Washington continue to fail us, a new poll shows that a whopping 60% of Americans want a Public Option, yet we can’t get 60% of Senators to support it. But wait, we have approximately 55% of Senators supporting it, shouldn’t that be good enough. Damn filibusters.
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The Republican Playbook →
Sen. Judd Gregg (R-NH) has created a playbook for the republicans in the Senate on how they can exercise their “minority rights,” which is really just a euphemism for “delay and obstruct.” This is just further proof of what everyone already knew, Republicans have absolutely no interest in passing any sort of health care reform. Their sole strategy is to delay and...
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Epic fail, New York. 24-38
(via blairespeaks)
That about sums it up…epic fail. Religious zealots like “Reverend Senator” Ruben Diaz Jr., and the conservative bigots of the GOP “won” the day. Gay marriage in NY is defeated for another year. I am disgraced to be a Long Islander (only 1 LI senator voted for equality), I am disgraced to be a New Yorker and I continue to be disgraced to live in...
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Marriage Equality on the NY Senate Floor - WATCH... →
(via blairespeaks)
God I hope this passes. It disgusts me to live in a state that doesn’t respect basic human rights.
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Sarcasm in Politics →
Someone has taken the seemingly sarcastic measure of trying to have a ballot initiative placed on the ballot for the 2010 election in California. This prankster is attempting to have an initiative pass that would ban divorces in California. This makes perfect sense, seeing as how Californians are so concerned about the “sanctity of marriage” (see Prop. 8). What better way to promote...
November 2009
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If cousins can, then why can't the gays?? →
(via blairespeaks)
Because if we let gays marry and if we fully embrace cousin marriage then people are going to want to marry their dogs, and their pigs and their cows, and then we’ll have to bow to NAMBLA and let men marry little boys and all of sorts of other bad things will happen. And cause the bible says gays are sinners.
Editor’s Note: This post is pure sarcasm.
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My Worst Nightmare →
No commentary necessary.
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Now This is a True Patriot →
Elevating the American people over politics is as patriotic as one could possibly be.
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WatchToday’s Sign That Fox News is Not News
Dana Perino, former Bush press secretary and current Obama nominee to the Broadcasting Board of Governors is apparently a big fan of revisionist history. According to Perino no terrorist attacks on the US occurred under the Bush administration. Apparently 9/11 did not actually happen. Must have been a collective bad dream, or some FlashForward (the...
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This is Pure Common Sense →
Suspected terrorists do not deserve guns, this logic is so simple that someone in Congress is bound to screw it up…
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Republican Purity Test
If you are a Republican congressional candidate, in order to get the support of the RNC, you must agree with them on at least 8 of the following issues:
“(1) We support smaller government, smaller national debt, lower deficits and lower taxes by opposing bills like Obama’s “stimulus” bill;
(2) We support market-based health care reform and oppose Obama-style government run health care;
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At Least Some Conservatives Are Reasonable →
Sounds like a reasonable guy who I just happen to disagree on most issues. At least he has denounced the crazy birthers and the cable news shows that fuel their fire.
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Today's Sign that Fox News is Not News →
Here’s Fox News, blatantly distorting the facts about the public option. No surprises here considering that they are merely the PR arm of the Republican Party.
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Do as I Say, not a I Do (or Adventures in...
More details are emerging concerning evangelical Conservative Sen. John Ensign’s (R-Nev.) affair with his best friend’s wife. So much for “family values” and the “sanctity of marriage.”
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Net Neutrality- We Need This →
Come on people, do NOT let these evil ISPs destroy everything that is good about the internet. Call your reps, call your senators and tell them, in the immortal words of the dude “I do mind, the dude minds. This will not stand , ya know, this aggression will not stand, man.”
Also, don’t buy into the absurd and patently false rhetoric that Conservative hypocrites like Glenn...
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More on the Age-Related Provisions in the House... →
I mentioned this in my earlier post about the House’s bill. The young are getting screwed in the house bill. The working class are getting screwed in the current senate bill due to its tax on “cadillac” health care plans. Can’t Congress get anything right? Tax the rich, ala the 5% surcharge in the House plan, and allow insurers to continue to set rates that are...
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Health Care Ghetto?!?!?! →
So Sen. Lamar Alexander says that the democrats health care reform really consists of moving 15 million people into medicaid, which is essentially a “medical ghetto.”
While its true that Medicaid is not the most desirable coverage, it is infinitely better than having no coverage. How is Medicaid worse than the current system, where 30 million Americans are in a “medical...
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Health Care and Morality
I may be an atheist, but I have just as much, if not greater morals than any religious person. Point-in-case: the health care debate. Conservatives constantly cry about the “right to life” of fetuses—unborn, not living fetuses—yet they are so quick to dismiss the “right to life” of the thousands of people that die in this country every year because they lack...
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It's So Easy to Hate Glenn Beck →
Why is it so easy you might ask? Because he is SO dumb. Let’s take a look at some of what he is claiming in this video:
American’s showed up by the hundreds of thousands at various tea parties to demand the opposite of this: stop spending money.
Hmm, alright Glenn, I’ll assume your numbers are correct. I’ll assume that “hundreds of thousands” of tea...
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Lou Dobbs on the Daily Show →
I have a new found respecting for Lou Dobbs after seeing him go 20+ minutes with Jon Stewart. He seems pretty moderate, and I feel like he and I would agree on a lot of issues, with the exceptions being immigration and his support of the birther movement. I totally agree that this country needs to get back to the center on most issues, but health care is not one of them.
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Conservatives Really do Represent the Dumbest... →
Apparently republicans think that ACORN stole the election for Obama. Not just a few of them, but 52% of them. This would have required ACORN to stuff ballot boxes to the tune of 9.5 million ballots. Not that Conservatives would let facts get in the way of some perfectly good Obama bashing.
Editor’s Note: I reserve the right to recycle this for a future edition of “Today’s...
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The Nanny State is Forever Expanding →
Apparently the Nanny State has now determined that people are too dumb to handle being able to drink Sparks and other caffeinated alcoholic beverages. This is absolutely ridiculous. I drank an excessive amount of Sparks in college, and I survived just fine. No sexual assaults, no drunk driving, no serious injury and no “other dangerous behavior.” Unless other dangerous behavior...
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Today's Sign That Fox News is Not News →
President George W. Bush once said “fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can’t get fooled again.”
Well for the second time in the last week or so Fox News has used incorrect footage to attempt to portray a Conservative rally or cause as being larger than it really was. This one was blatant.
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“If he wants to be a reverend, then let him go back to the church. If you want to...”
– - Cathy Marino-Thomas,
President of Marriage Equality New York
shouting about state Senator Ruben Diaz (D-Bronx), a Pentacostal minister who has stated he will vote no on gay marriage in NY. (via Village Voice I also love the clever title and sub-title of this article)
I just love this quote...
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More Criticism of Republican Filibusters →
Here’s a highlight: Republicans tried 3 times to derail the extension of unemployment benefits with a filibuster, a measure which ultimately passed 98-0, WTF?!?! Will someone hold these scumbags accountable for their blatant obstructionist tactics? You lost the election! Stop being sore losers and let the majority have their way. I think a suggestion I read in an earlier article needs to...
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A Conservative on Palin →
Interesting piece discussing Sarah Palin’s new book from a Conservative viewpoint. The author seems to feel that Sarah claims populist beliefs, but is really offering the same old pro-business Conservative agenda that really amounts to the opposite of populism. Can you say lipstick on a pig?
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Bill O'Reilly Doesn't Care About the Constitution! →
In case you are doubting whether Bill-O is actually a right-wing, partisan hack, I give you this: Bill-O doesn’t care about the Constitution because it refutes his ass-backwards belief. Not only that, but Bill-O goes on to call his guest, who is defending the Constitution a “pinhead” for defending the Constitution. I guess this makes Bill-O the white, Conservative answer to...
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I'm All For Religious Profiling as Well →
I completely agree with former Gov. Sarah Palin that we should certainly be profiling Muslims based on their religion. At the very least we should be giving these people a little more scrutiny. But I’m all for profiling across the board. We should also be profiling right-wing nut jobs and the assholes who incite them.
Editors Note: this post is dripping with sarcasm…in case you...
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Conservative Hypocrisy re: Judicial Filibusters
Conservatives have officially become the ideology of scumbags in the Senate. In one of the most disgusting displays of hypocrisy that Washington has seen in a long time 29 Senators voted to maintain a filibuster of Pres. Obama’s first judicial nominee.
Such a filibuster would not be so horrendous, had several of the Senators not decried the very use of the same tactic just a few short...
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The People Want Health Care Reform →
While overall support for the health reform bill is almost dead even — 48% for to 49% against — the people have spoken clearly on many of the more specific aspects of the proposal.
66% of Americans favor mandating employers with payrolls over $500,000 to offer health insurance to their empoyees.
52% of Americans favor a plan that creates a public plan to compete with private...
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Today's Sign That Fox News is Not News →
Fox News Yesterday (paraphrased, since every commentator says the same thing): “America’s the best, no American leader should ever follow the customs of a foreign country while visiting with said country’s leaders, unless of course that custom is holding hands and kissing a Saudi Prince, and the American leader happens to be a Republican…”
Fox News Today (paraphrased...
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Today's Sign That We Need Health Care Reform
Say what you will about Keith Olbermann, but the video in this link, and the accompanying description from his producer, almost make me ashamed to be an American.
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This is Why I Hate Organized Religion
Because people often use religion to justify their own bigoted beliefs. I’ve said it once, and I’ll say it again, there is NO CREDIBLE REASON why 2 consenting adults should not be able to get a civil marriage if they want one. In fact, I believe it’s mandated by the Constitution (something about equal protection of the laws, and the 14th Amendment, and maybe some Supreme Court...
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DC Board of Elections Stands Up to Bigots →
…and after skimming through the city’s Human Rights Act, it would appear they actually have a leg to stand on. Not to mention the whole 14th Amendment of the Constitution, equal protection of the laws thing that everyone seems to constantly forget.
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Guns on Amtrak
So apparently the NRA is attempting to use an amendment to a transportation funding bill to make America a little less secure. The NRA is pushing a measure that would withhold funding from Amtrak unless they allow passengers to carry firearms in their checked luggage. The measure already passed the Senate by an overwhelming margin.
There is absolutely no conceivable reason, in light of...
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Teacher Salaries
In my next life, I’m going to come back as a teacher. My mother’s a teacher, and she busts her ass, and she certainly earns every penny they pay her, but she is certainly the exception. In her late 40’s, with tenure in hand, she still puts in 20-30 hours a week learning new technologies like Smartboard and keeping up with the latest curriculum. Most of her tenured colleagues...