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From the monthly archives:

December 2007

N.Y.Times Finally Getting It

December 31, 2007

Perhaps this editorial in the N.Y.Times is an oblique shot directed at the Times bosses for hiring Bill Kristol as their new columnist……whatever the reason….this one smokes with reality….
The country and much of the world was rightly and profoundly frightened by the single-minded hatred and ingenuity displayed by this new enemy. But there is no [...]

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For Those Calling For Bipartisanship

December 31, 2007

Digby has another excellent take on what's becoming somewhat of a groundswell……an ignorant groundswell to be sure….and an ignorant, non self aware, fact free groundswell….to boot….
The bipartisan busybodies just don't notice (or care) that as a movement which doesn't believe in government, the conservatives are just as successful in the minority, obstructing any progressive advance [...]

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Willard Romney On His American Kingship

December 30, 2007

The primary reason so many progressives have called for the impeachment of Junior Bush/Cheney is because of their wide-ranging and multiple abuses of executive power. That's really the crux of the issue.
Cheney picked himself to be Bush Junior's Vice President, and even before the inauguration in 2001, the Dick was making plans, in secrecy [...]

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Who Is The Most Loathsome Of 2007?

December 30, 2007

Every year at this time lists are made. Top fifty this and top one hundred that. It's all a bit silly, really, but it's what we do.
I found a list that I kind of like. It's found here.
The fifty most loathsome people for the year 2007. Gotta' love a list like that. And each [...]

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When Newspapers Print Lies

December 28, 2007

In today's Akron Beacon Journal opinion page, an opinion page that is losing touch with reality moreso each and every week, there is a piece defending waterboarding written by Mark Bowden. The piece focuses on Abu Zubaydah, captured in March 2002, and subsequently tortured. That torture included waterboarding.
Bowden writes this in defense of torture….
When captured [...]

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Empty Words

December 27, 2007

Immediately after September 11th, 2001, the President of the United States, George W. Bush, stated repeatedly that Osama bin Laden had to be "brought to justice". In fact, Junior went further. He said with bin Laden, justice meant "dead or alive".
It's nearly 2008. Osama bin Laden has not been "brought to justice" [...]

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Walking In A Wingnut Wonderland

December 27, 2007

Touring around the far right blog sites, if you can hold your nose long enough, is actually quite an informative journey. For example, I noticed that many of the righties do not like the fact that Preacher Mike Huckabee is doing so well in early primary polling. With Iowa only a week away now, and [...]

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Against Torture? You Must Have "Isolationist Tendencies"

December 26, 2007

From Bush's press conference last week comes this exchange. It needs deconstructed…..
There's an audio disjoint (Yahoo's fault)…1:22 duration….

….deconstructing…..
What was the reporter's question? The reporter asked if Bush "is concerned" about what the rest of the world's countries think of the U.S. in light of how we treat detainees. The reporter is oh-so-sensitive to Bush's feelings [...]

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Buyer's Remorse

December 25, 2007

Part of the Republican Party's strategic plan over the last 25 plus years has been to rally fundamentalist, evangelical and conservative Christians to vote for GOP candidates through the questionable practice of moral values baiting. This plan has been uncannily similar to the GOP's southern strategy of race baiting, which has worked so well [...]

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The Reverend After Dark:Dave Edmunds & "Run Run Rudolph" 1987

December 22, 2007

I just couldn't resist. Here's Dave Edmunds doing Chuck Berry's "Run, Run Rudolph" as MTV partied down and ushered in 1987. Dave Edmunds is a true rock and roller and with the 2 guitar attack and the dancers….well…. it's a rockin' holiday good time.
Parental Warning: There is no nudity. However, booty is shaken. [...]

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