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Republicans Dance Because Of Fear

January 19, 2011

Why are House Republicans pressing the issue of repealing health care reform legislation when they surely know their efforts will fail? The answer is found in two words….Tea Party. The House Republicans are going through the motions to repeal health care reform purely for the Tea Party Puppet Theater value, as it were. Tea Partiers [...]

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Rwanda Radio

January 15, 2011

In the early 90's some 800,000 Rwandans were slaughtered in acts of violence. The violence was classified as genocidal acts in that the minority Tutsis were targeted for elimination by the Hutus. Maybe you've seen the movie Hotel Rwanda, starring the capable actor, Don Cheadle. It's worth the viewing. Here is a very detailed and [...]

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The Consequences Of Words

January 14, 2011

I'll have more to say later about the perpetrator of the Tucson massacre. For now…..conservatives have been correct this week in pointing out that there is no evidence that Jared Loughner had any truck with Tea Party groups in Arizona nor that he was directly influenced by Foxian rhetoric or Sarah Palin crosshair maps. Having [...]

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Shouting "Fire" In A Theater

January 12, 2011

Back in 1919, Oliver Wendell Holmes, associate Supreme Court Justice, made this saying popular….. The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man falsely shouting fire in a theater and causing a panic. [...] The question in every case is whether the words used are used in such circumstances and are of [...]

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Did Giffords Politicize Violent Rhetoric?

January 11, 2011

This video, which you may have seen already, is essential to the current debate….. March 25, 2010…. The topic of the segment was the smashing of Ms. Giffords office door after the health care reform vote. Ms. Giffords voted for what the right has labeled ObamaCare. In the middle of the same night that the [...]

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Why Continue Pretending?

January 10, 2011

What's the goal? What good can come from it? Why is it always so predictable? What am I talking about? The pretending. Americans who pretend as if they don't see what is glaringly obvious. I could understand the pretending if we were talking about sports teams, or favorite movies. But we're not. We're talking about [...]

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Sad, Senseless…..Inevitable?

January 9, 2011

Pima County, Arizona, Sheriff Clarence Dupnik commenting last night on the senseless mass murder event yesterday in Tucson which killed 6, including a federal judge and a 9 year old, and wounded 12, including Gabrielle Giffords, U.S. Democratic Representative…. 'When you look at unbalanced people, how they respond to the vitriol that comes out of [...]

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Leaning Forward, Falling Backward

December 28, 2010

Perhaps you've seen MSNBC's new slogan…."Lean Forward." A year ago on the Blog of Mass Destruction…. December 19, 2009…. With corporately-compromised Democrats leaving potential Democratic voters despondent because of their refusal to get tough and do the will of the majority of Americans, it is conceivable that the…..Republican Party TeaBaggers could rise to snatch the [...]

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Simpson: Can't Wait For The "Bloodbath"

November 20, 2010

No, not O.J…..Alan. The Catfood Commission has been a farce from the very beginning. Officially put together under a President Obama order because Congress couldn't agree on forming a Commission, the so-called Deficit Commission is jam-packed with deficit hawks and supply siders. Alan Simpson, ex GOP senator from Wyoming, is one of the co-chairs. Simpson [...]

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Neo-Con Fringers Struggle With Insanity

November 19, 2010

The jury decision to convict one of the accomplices of the 1998 U.S. Embassy bombing in Africa, Ahmed Ghailani, on one count of conspiracy to blow up U.S. government buildings has created another round of insanity to break out amongst the usual-suspect conservative fringers. The trial was held in New York federal court because America [...]

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