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    A crack in the republican bedrock

    A new term has arisen amongst the Republicans that I hope gains some traction in general use. The term is "vampire capitalist". Many of their arguments have been based on the idea that unfettered capitalism/free markets are always good. This has been a rock-solid, almost universal stance...
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    Pat Robertson Says Liberals Abort Their Babies to Be More Like Lesbians

    http://gawker.com/#!5795828/pat-robertson-says-liberals-abort-their-babies-to-be-more-like-lesbians And he thinks lesbians can't have children. I can't even imagine what it's like to live in such a Bizzarro world as he does. How can anyone take him seriously, let alone send him money...
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    Mike Huckabee's shocking and appalling ignorance

    http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2011/03/01/huckabee_obama_kenya/index.html Huckabee does a critique of Obama's foreign policy using complete BS. His excuse that he meant to say Indonesia instead of Kenya is laughably transparent because of all that he concluded from the...
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    Texas gets tough on illegals, unless you want a personal Mexican

    http://www.cnn.com/2011/POLITICS/03/01/texas.immigration.bill/index.html?eref=mrss_igoogle_cnn "As proposed, House Bill 2012 would create tough state punishments for those who "intentionally, knowingly, or recklessly" hire an unauthorized immigrant. Violators could face up to two years in...
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    Tennessee Tea Parties demand textbooks contain no mean things about Founding Fathers

    "The material calls for lawmakers to amend state laws governing school curriculums, and for textbook selection criteria to say that “No portrayal of minority experience in the history which actually occurred shall obscure the experience or contributions of the Founding Fathers, or the majority...
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    Fox demonstrates how to be insensitive to 9-11 families

    http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/09/fox-map-911-body-parts/ "Rupert Murdoch's media empire has set what may be a new standard of shamelessness by marking the anniversary of the World Trade Center attacks with the publication of a map of human remains that appears to have been developed for the...
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    Angry protesters descend on mosque

    http://www.ctpost.com/news/article/Angry-protesters-descend-on-mosque-606515.php "BRIDGEPORT -- About a dozen right-wing Christians, carrying placards and yelling "Islam is a lie," angrily confronted worshippers outside a Fairfield Avenue mosque Friday." ""Jesus hates Muslims," they...
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    Recognition of excellent service from Crucial

    We are usually quick to bitch about poor service from companies, so I felt it only fair to report a very good service experience. I had had 2 512mb sticks of Crucial Ballistix DDR2 800 for a long time. They were originally in a rig with 2 1gb sticks to make 3gb in a Win XP rig. They were...
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    Steele declared that the war in Afghanistan "was a war of Obama's choosing"

    http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/07/steele-afgahnistan-a-war-of-obamas-choosing-that-us-didnt-want-video.php?ref=fpa "At a Republican Party fundraiser in Connecticut on Thursday, Steele declared that the war in Afghanistan "was a war of Obama's choosing" that America had not "actively...
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    Some Republicans consider BP deal a U.S. "shakedown"

    http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE65G42D20100617?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews "He called it "a tragedy of the first proportion, that a private corporation can be subjected to what I would characterize as a shakedown, a $20 billion shakedown."" "Georgia Republican Representative Tom...
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    Fox News poll on civil rights law

    page link - http://www.foxnews.com/politics/index.html "No, the federal government shouldn't decide whether businesses can select their own customers 72% (11,014 votes)" With so many Fox viewers on the forum, I would guess 7 of 10 might agree with this. I'd like to hear from any of...
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    Texas nutjobs going for the gold with schools

    The wackos in Texas have been at it for some time, but this is really over-the-top. http://gawker.com/5540483/meet-the-crusader-behind-texas-textbook-whitewash TheOnion couldn't do better: "# Remember that thing called the slave trade? Well, it turns out what you learned was all wrong...
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    10-Day-Old Baby Denied Health Care Coverage

    It seems that a newborn was denied being added to a policy by BC/BS because it had a pre-existing condition. "The congenital heart defect causes the two major vessels that carry blood away from the heart to become switched. It's a condition rarely detected before birth." link...
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    Tucson schools create race-based system of discipline

    link How mentally impaired would you have to be to think this is a good idea? The people involved in implementing this should be tossed out.
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    Court says police can use GPS to track anyone

    link I believe they should be required to demonstrate a compelling interest in tracking anyone i.e. presenting cause to obtain a warrant. This is especially true since it becomes a virtually no cost surveillance system where they could theoretically track hundreds of people without having...
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    Con. Res. 121: Encouraging the President to designate 2010 as "The National Year of the Bible"

    link They must have meant to leave me out as it never: unified me with my Christian overlords, never healed me, never conferred strength to me. Maybe they can celebrate all of the millions the OT god killed or ordered killed in his name. A rich part of our heritage to be sure. I would...
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    McCain on Larry King last night

    I'm surprised that no one mentioned this already. On last night's show, King brought up Joe Biden, and McCain started his response with "Joe the Biden" and had to start over. Guess McCain has said "Joe the plumber" too many times. King started a scenario with something like "You're flying...
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    76 Nobel Laureates in Science Endorse Obama!

    link I doubt that this will mean much to many people here, but I think it is something to consider. These people have a little more on the ball than the "I read that he is an Arab" kind of people.
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    Federal mine safety official's credentials questioned

    link Bush seems to have a knack for picking people for jobs that they aren't able to do. And he is bull-headed enough to override people who tell him not to appoint them. "Bush the Bumbler" seems apt nickname for history.
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    Bush envisions U.S. presence in Iraq like S.Korea

    link So, GWB has not intended to bring the troops home all along. He finally got around to telling us now. Some of us had inferred this from the size and quality of the bases that we have built there, only to be scoffed at. Well, fearless leader has confirmed it. Imagine how hard we...
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    U.S. shuts Web site said to reveal nuclear guide

    link What a brilliant idea from the ones that claim only they can save us from the bad guys. It seems that not only is the government inclined to disregard intel they don't like, when they come into it in large batches, they let John Q. Public sift through it for them. This would be...
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    Cheney links rise in Iraq violence to US election

    link Fox news has a longer version posted where he also dodges his no-brainer on waterboarding and lauds his wife's bout with Wolf as the smackdown. Anybody have any ideas why he is making a big deal about the internet? I doubt that he is trying to make us aware that the bad guys are not...
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    House Approves Strip Search Bill

    link How can a politician's mind work to come up with ideas like this? Will there actually be any real support for this? Are the people who passed this afraid to have people know that they voted for it? Are some politicians so corrupt that they would pass such crap to help a party...
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    God would be an atheist

    Religion fosters bad behavior I found the correlations and conclusions in this piece to be interesting, if not enlightening. There have been myriad threads here that included elements addressed in it. The whole thing is a very interesting read IMHO.
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    EMachines Semperon 3400 - $215 NR

    1 day special Pretty hot for a basic rig considering that XP home oem is $89 by itself. Has a PCI-e slot as well.
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    Western Union Blocks Arab Cash Transfers

    link Have we lost our minds? These people must either think we are lunitics or are trembling in our boots. What a recruiting line for the bad guys: "If your name is Mohammed or Ahmed, you are assumed to be a terrorist. If you have the name, why not have the game?". This is even...
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    KBR awarded contract for emergency detention facilities

    link With a maximum budget of $385mil, I guess the government has some solid intel that we are about to be overrun by a massive wave of illegals crossing the borders. And gee, if the plans and funding are already in place anyway, it would be pretty simple to lock up other groups that might...
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    A 'Fragile Foundation'

    link One of my first thioughts when I read this article was that I could cut and paste sections of it and create an article about the U.S. i.e.: Good leaders must be hard to come by these days.
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    Christian Wrestlers Body Slam For God

    link Not politics, for sure. Maybe even not news either. But funny as hell to me. Guess that "old time religion" method is not as effective in today's world of entertainment overload. I usually reserve the mixing of religion and entertainment to the 700 club. Though I would personally...
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    court upholds Mississippi ban on sex toys

    link I fail to see how any government body could present any compelling reason why it should restrict and micro-manage its citizen's sex lives like this. Why is there not a citizen revolt over things like this? Must be a fear that the people at your church will condemn you if you say it is...
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    A bill that allows public high schools to offer classes on the Bible

    link I almost don't know what to say. Using the Bible as a history textbook is .......well, I do want to be nice, but......... Sounds like teaching teaching about Adam and Eve, Noah's flood, etc. as history is the next alternative to teaching these things as science. What's next? Bible math?
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    Tom Green County mulls faith-based prison

    link Where will this crap end? Could Satinists open a faith-based prison? Muslims? How about one as benign as Wicca? I even admit to having a not very nice (but funny, IMHO) thought when I first read this. If it were run by Catholics, would priests be lining up to work there? Would...
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    Ebonics suggested for district

    link The kindest description that comes to mind about this is that it is pure, unadulterated BS. Ebonics is not a language that is naturaly occurring, and therefore has no place in the schools. It's been tried before, and it is as foolish now as it was then. Ebonics is a totally...
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    Studies: Most foreign fighters didn't wage terror before Iraq war

    link The gist of this article mirrors my own opinion of the reality of our "war on terror". GWB claims the insurgent activity in Iraq is proof that we are winning this so-called war. In reality, it may be proof that we are losing. Again, I find myself at odds with GWB's assessment...
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    Congress moves to restrict court rulings on God

    link Sounds to me like a major bid to strip power from the courts. And the idea that it has a religious theme is discusting. I hope it dies after it (and the sponsors) becomes well known. If not, I hope it would be unconstitutional.
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    Congressman Slams Maher Over Army Remark

    link Nowhere in the article does the Congressman say that Maher's comments are false. Should I conclude that he feels, if the truth hurts, it is treasonous to utter it aloud?
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    Some more taunting

    link More intolorance by guess who? I guess some people don't think there is any benefit in getting along with others of differing ideas. I do not see this as the road to peace and harmony among men.
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    DeLay woes prompt rush to refile forms

    link This is too funny. All of a sudden, people are paying attention to the rules. Maybe we need a government scandal every 6 months or so to keep them on their toes.
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    Parents to teachers: No more red pencils

    link So where did all of these weaklink, fragile kids come from? I don't remember seeing any 50 years ago when I started school. How do people come up with idiodic crap like this? It reminds me of BS like not keeping score, so that there are no "losers". I am even dumbfounded whe I...
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    Belgian minister regrets Bush-chimp comparison

    link I can't help but find this humorous. the comparison has been around for quite a while, but to see it in this context is funny all over again. I hope they don't make the "Axis of Evil" over this.