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Will Health Care Reform Pass?

November 21, 2009

Tonight's the vote on whether to allow debate in the Senate on the health care reform bill. 60 votes are needed to begin debate….yes, BEGIN debate.
If you've been following this congressional soap opera develop…..in a glacially slow fashion…..you also know that it appears as if Senate Democrats will have the votes tonight to BEGIN [...]

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Muslim McCarthyism & Death Prayers

November 20, 2009

Pat Robertson (Wingnut for God), Pete Hoekstra(R-MI), Chuck 'Pulling the Plug on Grandma' Grassley (R-KS), Jon Kyl (R-AZ) and Sarah Palin (Celebrity)…..all have something very much in common.
Rachel Maddow explains…..

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Bashing Muslims is back in vogue…..not that it ever fell out of favor within the [...]

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Food For Thought

November 17, 2009

The richest nation in world history has a problem…
About 14.6 percent of U.S. households, equal to 49.1 million people, "had difficulty obtaining food for all their members due to a lack of resources" during 2008, up 3.5 percentage points from 2007 when 11.1 percent of households were classified as food insecure.
…anti-hunger groups pointed to the [...]

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Disloyal Opposition

October 30, 2009

Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY)
Sen. Christopher Bond (R-MO)
Sen. Jim Bunning (R-KY)
Sen. Thomas Coburn (R-OK)
Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX)
Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC)
Sen. Michael Enzi (R-WY)
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC)
Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT)
Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK)
Sen. Jefferson Sessions (R-AL)
Sen. David Vitter (R-LA)
Sen. Roger Wicker (R-MS)
Those are the Republican senators who voted against cloture on a bill extending unemployment benefits. Apparently, [...]

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The Insane Gang-Rape Clown Posse

October 8, 2009

Republicans don't take too kindly to trial lawyers. Not lawyers, as such….but "trial" lawyers. To hear conservatives and Republicans talk the way they do about them-there "trial" lawyers, you might be led to believe that, whoever they are, trial lawyers are just slightly less dangerous to our nation than al-Qaeda members.
One recent example of this [...]

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Terrorizing Children For Jesus

October 5, 2009

The man in the above picture was arrested on September 15 and charged on September 25 with possession of child pornography…..
Ottawa police have issued an arrest warrant for a Roman Catholic bishop from Nova Scotia facing child pornography charges…….
(Bishop Raymond) Lahey was re-entering Canada at the Ottawa International Airport on Sept. 15 when members of [...]

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Exceptionally Imbecilic

October 2, 2009

Yesterday, the House voted 258-163 to approve a non-binding recommendation prohibiting the transfer of detainees from Guantanamo to the U.S. for trial or imprisonment. 88 Democrats voted with the majority.
Here's the typical defense for continuing, indefinitely, American offshore gulags…..
"There is no reason these terrorists, who pose a serious and documented threat to our nation, [...]

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Partly Funny With A Chance Of Crazy

September 25, 2009

The imaginative Steve King (R-IA) says that gay marriage is a "purely socialistic concept."
Have you noticed how conservatives and Republicans see socialistic threats, like, everywhere? Damn odd, if you ask me.
Here's Rep. King in the House explaining how President Barack Obama is the "star of ACORN, the lead, chief organizer."

King is a wild and crazy [...]

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Carter On The Obama Opposition

September 16, 2009

Former President Jimmy Carter…..
2:34

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“I think an overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity toward President Barack Obama is based on the fact that he is a black man, that he is African-American," Carter said.
“Racism … still exists and I think it has bubbled up [...]

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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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