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Tea Partiers: The Incarnation of Dick Cheney

September 15, 2009

Updated below
Humans will lie about almost anything…..check that….Humans will lie about anything. I'm not sure whether the human habit of lying can be attributed to evolution or not. Perhaps we have been programmed over 15,000 years or so to deceive other humans for self-preservation purposes.
Whatever the reason…..dishonesty, lying, deception….have always been human traits.
In the 90's, [...]

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Pity Party

September 14, 2009

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National Tea Party expectations….
We’re going to Washington to give them a piece of our minds(we have more to spare!). We are joining hundreds of thousands (maybe as many as 1,000,000) fellow patriots in DC. get in on the act now.
Number of attendees according to Michelle Malkin's extremist-right website……
Celebrating the 9/12 rallies; Turnout estimated [...]

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Medina Resident Writes Hate-Letter

September 8, 2009

I don't often take on one of the letters-to-the-editor appearing in the daily Beacon Journal. But, today, I'm going to….
Ms. Adrienne Appleby-Bures of MEDINA writes in explaining how she opposes President Barack Obama's planned talk to schoolchildren today. Medina School leaders have decided to censor the President's talk to make sure it's "safe" to show [...]

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Medina Schools Will Censor Obama

September 5, 2009

In a front page Beacon article today entitled, "Obama message optional in schools", staff writer John Higgins relates what Medina City Schools Superintendent, Randy Stepp, has decided to do about Tuesday's Obama speech to school kids. Censor it.
Superintendent Stepp says he has received "about 100 e-mails and calls" and they are "evenly split over the [...]

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Message To Obama: "Don't Talk To Our Kids"

September 4, 2009

Crazy sh*t…. The extremists among conservatives in America are pegging the radical meter by threatening to take their kids out of public school the day President Obama is scheduled to speak via teevee to all school children. Obama, say the extremists, is seeking to indoctrinate students with……well…I have no idea…but it's scary and sneaky.
On September [...]

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Reviewing The Rage, Part 2

August 30, 2009

On August 12, I wrote this….
The "rage" is not over government spending….or tax rates…..or deficits….or any of the flimsy excuses laid down by oh-so-serious conservatives and libertarians.
The rage, the passion has been caused by the man, now the president, Barack Obama. He is a black man. He is a Democrat. And that's what the bust-ups [...]

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Lake Public Schools: We Value Belief In God

August 28, 2009

It seems that the Lake Local School district is being challenged by the Freedom From Religion Foundation.
Lake Local Schools, a public school system just south of my old stomping grounds, has this sentence in their "mission statement"……….
We Value: Responsibility, honesty, respect, integrity, commitment, belief in God and religious freedom, our community, our partnerships, and every [...]

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"Wake Up America"

August 20, 2009

Today, I read in the Community section of the Beacon what Geauga County Republican state senator Tim Grendell, speaking at yesterday's Cuyahoga Falls, Republican Party Tea Bagging protest event, said to a crowd of 7000 Tea Baggers….
"I was not born in a socialist country, and I will not die in a socialist country."
Unless [...]

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Dangerous National Threat

August 19, 2009

Much has been said about the young black man outside of an Arizona health care reform town hall. The one who had an AR-15 semi-automatic assault weapon strapped to his back.
Some rather imaginative conservatives have suggested that the assault weapon toter was an Obama plant. The man was black and Obama is black, so, [...]

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The Right To Intimidate With Guns

August 18, 2009

From the AP….
About a dozen people carrying guns, including one with a military-style rifle, milled among protesters outside the convention center where President Barack Obama was giving a speech Monday – the latest incident in which protesters have openly displayed firearms near the president.
These Timothy McVeigh wannabes are kind of like vampires. Vampires only [...]

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