tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-81259402192916336742012-02-11T07:35:24.013-06:00Leslie Parsleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13743778482517634823noreply@blogger.comBlogger5961100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8125940219291633674.post-20936065652615208652012-02-09T18:49:00.001-06:002012-02-09T18:51:59.275-06:00

Oftentimes after a major development, I wait until the smoke settles before sifting through the ashes to uncover where the blaze started, but the raging forest fire that began with the Susan G. Komen Foundation's (SGK) decision to stop funding Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) can't be contained. This is due in large measure to SGK's own founder and CEO Nancy G. Brinker who has

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Whew! I don't think in their wildest imaginations a team of the best script writers in the world could have dreamed up such a plot. Mind boggling stupidity and political suicide combine to create a major public relations nightmare of gigantic proportions. In a scene spanning just a few hours, the Susan G. Komen Foundation (SGK) went from wearing pink ribbons to wrapping itself in black shrouds.

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In the spirit of Jonathon Swift, as a friend says, Annette Gross has penned a missive to Karen Santorum. Most likely she will never read it, which is truly unfortunate, but even if she does, it's highly improbable that she will "get it." "Dear Karen, Yesterday I read that you are upset with the gays and feel that what they are doing to your husband is backyard bullying. Well, Karen, I feel

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Imagine gradually losing your eyesight over the years until you reach the point that you can no longer see to drive, or cook, or read. Or grocery shop or walk down the street on your own. Imagine not being able to see your grandchildren as they grow and develop. Or not being able to blog and thus losing contact with all your friends - such as has happened to BJ of DemWit fame. As your bright

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Did you know you can now have threaded comments? I didn't see an announcement but just noticed it on my own blog and checked it out. A nice improvement. Now, if we could only block undesirable assholes. Enabling threaded commenting If you have commenting enabled on your blog, then threaded commenting will work provided you have your blog feed set to "Full," and have chosen the “Embedded"

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What in hell are young people and so-called liberal Libertarians, aka Progressives, thinking about?  Have they completely lost their minds? Or, have they stuck their heads up some orifice in a part of their anatomy a bit south of their waistlines? So Ron Paul has a couple of talking points that appeal to you and me - legalizing weed, dismantling TSA, ending U.S. military involvement overseas

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Well, in a manner of speaking. But it's refreshing to see a small business establishment with the chutzpah to show more loyalty to their loyal customers than to free advertising that might be generated by the presence of overblown windbags - like Rick Perry, Michele Bachmann or Louisiana Gov. Buddy Roemer. Employee Jessica Labrie taped a sign reading "No Politicians, No Exceptions" to the

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Thank God, it'll all be over tonight. For weeks on end, it has been Iowa this, Iowa that - everywhere one turns, here comes Iowa. Rick P. brings along his Austin posse , Rick S. wants to invalidate gay marriage, and Newt gets neutered. Don't we wish? Like rubbish that has collected around dumpsters for longer than anyone wants, all the garbage will finally get gathered up and plunked down

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I shudder to think that these spoiled brats are representative of the next generation.  Read more at BuzzFeed, if you can stand it.

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"Seasons Greetings." "Happy Holidays." "Merry Christmas." 'Peace On Earth." "Bah Humbug." Goodness mercy me! I've spent literally hours looking for just the right greeting and that perfect image to include in my holiday message to family and friends, but it seems that no matter what I might say or how I say it I'm bound to offend "someone." In the meantime, the cards and emails keep coming:  

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In a creative twist to "I'm not racist," an Ohio landlord defends the above sign she had hanging on the gate to her pool: "I'm not a bad person," said Jamie Hein of Cincinnati. “I don’t have any problem with race at all. It’s a historical sign.”  The sign is dated 1931 and from Alabama. The Ohio Civil Rights Commission, however, found that Hein did indeed violate the Ohio Civil Rights Act by

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Occupy Oakland media spokesman Mike King, speaking about efforts to shut down west coast ports: "It's a group that encapsulates basically everything that is wrong with society."  Brilliant. Just brilliant. A leftist's version of Palin-speak. From MSNBC (12/12/2001): Updated at 3:05 p.m. ET: In Oakland, Calif., shipping companies and the longshoremen's union agreed to send home about 150

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The United States has no shortage of religious crackpots on the right side of the political spectrum: Rick Perry, Michele Bachmann, Rick Santorum, and in the not too distant past, Christine "The Bible says that lust in your heart is committing adultery. You can't masturbate without lust!" O'Donnell. So, should anyone be surprised to hear one of them propose what this unnamed Islamic cleric has

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Like pictures, graphs and charts are worth a thousand words.

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I'm not an atheist - at least I don't think so - but this kind of "thinking" might tip the hat in their favor. As seen on Facebook. UPDATE (12/12/2011): Thanks to a reader who is a lot more alert than I am, while the letter was indeed published, it was a hoax. See the comments - and please read my subsequent apology.

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How long was a dinosaur's penis? Did they even have one? http://www.metrolic.com/about-dinosaur-mating-162468/

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A profoundly moving and insightful article by Dorothy Anderson, Occupy supporter and LA resident, at Mad Mike's America. I, too, have been a supporter of Occupy, but - like many others - have had some concerns since the beginning about just this kind of thing. How 1% of the Fanatics Co-opted Occupy LA A few Occupy LA left wing tea fanatics destroyed opportunity for economic parity. There has

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Not in the strictest sense. After all, most of us rarely see our articles published or broadcast by a legitimate news source, not that any of us would object should we be lucky enough to attract the attention of one of the big guns. Yet, aren't those of us who "cover" politics and current events "citizen journalists" in a manner of speaking? As such, shouldn't we strive to be as accurate, fair

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This is my newest project. Photo from Bonaparte's Retreat Scooter is somewhere around 10 to 12 years old, a bit older than he looks in this photo. He came to me through Bonaparte's Retreat, created by singer-songwriter and musician Emmylou Harris. I've never dealt with a rescue group with a representative as knowledgeable, caring and supportive as Kate. She is totally dedicated to the

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Tomorrow, tomorrow. I'm having my second cataract and lens transplant surgery and I'm so excited I could probably fly over to the surgery center by virtue of my own hot air. The first one was simply amazing and if the results in my right eye - the worst one - is as good, I'll be dancing all over the keyboard in no time. Just having the left one done has already opened a whole new world,

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Cedars of Lebanon State Park My first cousin invited me to spend last weekend at a middle TN state park on the pretext that hubby was attending a conference. "We can take long leisurely walks in the woods while he's in meetings," she said. "We can talk and play games," she said. "We can just sit out on the porch and enjoy the peace and quiet and listen to the birds," she said. She lied!

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Occupy Knitters - Sfgate Okay, you guys - don't you dare sign off until you've heard what I have to say. You too can do "it" - or, at the very least, you can find a substitute for "it" while still making yourselves useful. Just hear me out, alright? Most of the folks who stop by here are pretty smart, so it's no surprise that we support Occupy Wall Street and all the other Occupies

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Tomorrow morning I'm having eye surgery and have no idea when I'll be able to see well enough to blog. Talk about withdrawal! But here's something to mull over while I'm out of commission. If you haven't already, be sure to scroll down and take in Sheria's guest appearance. The lady is a class act. UPDATE: Wow. In and out within 45 minutes. Just returned from post-operative check and all is

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Perhaps you've seen Sheria's article but it bears repeating here, and there, and everywhere. Her blog The Examined Life is never dull, is always insightful and always, always brilliantly written. I am in such awe of this gifted, knowledgeable and talented lady. This particular article, which she cross-posted to The Swash Zone and which she kindly gave me permission to reprint here, is simply

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"The South shall rise again." Sho'-nuff, Bubba. Dream on. These states' rights states don't put much stock in progress - they're too dead set on taking the country back - way back - all the way back. In a recent article, CNN writer Jack Cafferty asks, "What does it say that most of the ten poorest states are Republican?" I might add, "and mostly Southern."  Cafferty based his article on one

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While listening to Saint-Saens' Carnival of the Animals recently, it wasn't too difficult to make the leap to Republican candidates running wild in the jungle. Maybe it's just the way my feeble mind works when bored with all the hee-hawing and ass kicking. The only problem is that with the exception of Ron Paul as a fossil or Michele Bachmann as a cuckoo, Saint-Saens' animals aren't

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Lock these idiots up and throw away the key. The cheer leading squad at Gilbert High School had a really neat idea to help raise money during Breast Cancer Awareness Month. At Friday night's football game and the next home football game, 56 freshman, junior varsity and varsity cheerleaders planned to wear pink shirts that they had purchased for $470. But a very prudish puritanical principal has

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The National Conference of State Legislatures has put up a fantastic web page detailing voter laws for each state. It contains an interactive map, information on when the new voter suppression laws take effect in each state and whether or not they are being challenged. PLEASE DO NOT WAIT UNTIL THE LAST MINUTE TO REGISTER. IN SOME STATES IT CAN TAKE TWO WEEKS TO PROCESS. BE SURE TO VERBALLY

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From Daily Kos: In a very determined effort by Colorado's Republican Secretary of State, Scott Gessler, to make sure as few people as possible actually get to vote in Colorado, U.S. troops serving overseas won't get to vote. Pueblo County Clerk Gilbert “Bo” Ortiz will comply with Secretary of State Scott Gessler’s order not to send ballots to soldiers out of state who are legally registered

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Extreme English commented after one Right Wing Review post: "I can barely stand to read it. Must have been sickening to write it!" Sickening and too depressing. Thus, the fat lady has sung. I was just hoping that if readers could see the non-stop hemorrhaging that is bleeding out from every pore of our nation, we might come together to fight the cancer that is the Republican Tea Party (RTP). 

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Rep. Cliff Stearns (R-Fla.) In an act chillingly reminiscent of the House Un-American Activities Committee, Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee chairman Rep. Cliff Stearns (R-Fla.), has called for a far-reaching investigation into Planned Parenthood and its handling of federal funding. After Republican lawmakers tried and failed to defund Planned Parenthood during federal budget

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Donald Rumsfeld, "one of the greatest Americans that has ever lived," was at Boston's Old South Meeting House to push his book of lies on the unknowing. The price of admission was to pay whatever it's worth for a copy of Known and Unknown. Included in the crowd of three hundred who forked out the dough were members of the Veterans of Peace and Code Pink. They weren't the least bit interested

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If readers have the stomach for it, and since I don't focus on the GOP candidates - or Fox News for that matter - click the images on the right to review the myths, misstatements and lies that came out of the debate on Thursday night. Assault on Women ALERT: Utah governor Gary Herbert signs controversial law that charges pregnant women and girls with murder for having miscarriages caused by "

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Mountain Grove, MO Town Square Before the days of the Internet, people in small town America gathered at the local diner for a diet of companionship, gossip and sustenance. Everybody knew everybody's business but in general the chatter would be friendly enough - idle chit-chat about their neighbors, the weather and politics. The party line telephone system offered neighbors another

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What a week this has been. Watching the lying marathon between the eight Republican Tea Baggers (RTP) the other night gave us, not for the first time, eight good reasons not to vote GOP. The lies were so numerous, in fact, that non-partisan fact checkers had a hard time keeping up - which is why this blogger will compile all of them in one neat little package in another post here shortly. Right

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I can't think of a single Republican I've ever even considered voting for, not that there haven't been a few smart ones along the way. Too young for Eisenhower, and Nixon, as my grandmother used to say, would have sold his own grandmother to the Communists to get elected. Well, he didn't go quite that far but he wasn't called Tricky Dicky for nothing and there's actually reason to believe he

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It's about hate. http://jbm479.wordpress.com/2011/09/12/hate/

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As mentioned previously, Republican candidates are not a major focus of this series. The only exception might be if one of them should say something remotely intelligent. While I don't really anticipate such a thing happening, to be fair and balanced please call it to my attention should you hear of such an unlikely event. That was my intended lede before Ron Chusid at Liberal Values blew it for

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If it ain't broke, don't fix it. Or -- if it ain't broke, break it. In a field which has been fraught with innovative "new" ideas for the past fifty years, where the students have been guinea pigs for one "cockamamie" theory after another, there's been a lot of breakage. With the invasion of technology in the classrooms, Southern Beale argues: "As we embrace the new, let's not ditch the old." I

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It's easy enough to poke fun at the certified nuts and extremists featured in this week's review, and to treat them with well deserved sarcasm, which I most certainly do. If only I could forget the article I wrote not too long ago about the 14 characteristics of fascism, maybe I would have less cause for concern, less reason to be afraid or so damn angry. None of the stupidity, hate and

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This is the first of what may or may not turn into a regular week-end post. The main focus will be on what's happening in the world of the right-wing follies that may or may not be reviewed in the mainstream media. The presidential candidates probably won't be the major stars, mainly because yours truly is already sick to death of their lack of collective talent.  Instead they will have minor

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If readers haven't yet met up with The Pragmatic Progressive, now is the time to make their acquaintance with this outstanding article by Dave Phillips. -------- "I think it’s fair to say that many progressives and liberals are disappointed in the Obama Presidency. There is no small number of us on the left that feel he has compromised too often, not fought hard enough on core issues, and

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This is the kind of humor I used to hear when I resided at the Denver Press Club 24/7. Perched on my favorite bar stool, someone would start something and we'd have a round robin, off-color, pun-fest that could go until we had to hit the loo - either from booze overflow, or from laughing so hard it hurt, or both. Anderson Cooper goes solo, rivaling the output of ten or so media types, as he

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More revisionist history from La Bimba: BACHMANN: What people recognize is that there's a fear that the United States is in an unstoppable decline. They see the rise of China, the rise of India, the rise of the Soviet Union and our loss of militarily going forward.   Where's she been for the last 20 years? Oh, I know. On her knees. Hear it at Think Progress.

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I am going to tell you a story, as told to me by an old man who lived at the time and participated in many of the events I am going to relate. It is stranger than fiction, more wonderful than any fairy tale, yet as true as the Gospel. So begins a document that has been in the possession of my family for generations. No one has been able to positively identify the author but it is

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"The bank is something more than men, I tell you. It's the monster. Men made it, but they can't control it." John Steinbeck, Grapes of Wrath Steinbeck's historic novel chronicles the harrowing journey of the Joad family after they are forced to leave their home in Oklahoma during the Great Depression. Trapped by the Dust Bowl, their poverty and the social injustices of the time, they leave

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This is your chance to hear my unmelodious flat monotone with a southern twang. It is also my maiden voyage into the world of radio. Tomorrow, Sunday, I will be making an appearance on Women's Voice at 11 a.m. EST. Fortunately, there is no video. Depending on whether or not I can fool people into thinking I know what I'm talking about, I may become an irregular feature. The subject, of course,

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I'm still picking my teeth up off the floor after reading the following from Rasmussen Reports. Stunned! Speechless! Dumbfounded! It's absolutely delicious. "As America lurches toward new and unfamiliar status as a nation that defaults on its debts, commentators around the world are wondering how the democratic government that was once the most admired in the world -- for many reasons -- is now

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Apparently bullshit doesn’t bother other people because I posted a rant about this on Facebook and only one person commented, which may or not be indicative of what happens, or doesn’t, on this social network. Maybe the smoke coming out of my ears clouded their view. Maybe everyone’s there to be seen but not to hear – unless, of course, you leave a comment on their post. My little

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From The Opinionated Liberal. 1) Because Jesus said "Thou shall give tax cuts to the obscenely wealthy. 2) If you believe the government should stay out of your life! Unless of course, it's at the doctors, at the church, in the bedroom, involves guns, or a woman's body. 3) Because despite the only reference to God in any government documents from the Founding Era is the word "Creator" in

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Walker Shouted Down at Gateway Technical College 7/12/11 from Kevin Mulvenna on Vimeo.

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The party of small government wants to invade our what? Our asses, you say? The certifiably crazy woman from Minnesota who sits on the right hand of God has signed a pledge sponsored by The Family Leader (a kissin' cousin of Focus on the Family) which contains a clause that essentially says black children were better off under slavery than they are now. Slavery had a disastrous impact on

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Note: This is a modified version of last year's July 4th article. Besides guzzling beer, shooing flies off the fried chicken and potato salad, and watching fireworks at the end of the day after we've become sufficiently bleary-eyed and sunburned, the Fourth of July might also be dedicated to a 15 minute read of the document which represents what this day is all about. The Declaration of

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As everyone in the whole wide world should know by now, last night the New York Senate approved the same-sex marriage law by a vote of  33 to 29. This bill would not have passed had it not been for four courageous Republicans who chose not to be pawns for the forces of evil which have been allowed to hijack their party. The immoral conservatives opposed the bill on "moral grounds," or so they

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So says Janice Hahn, Democratic candidate for California's 36th Congressional District, about her Republican opponent Craig Huey. Hahn filed a complaint with the FEC asking for an investigation because she believes there are close links between Huey and a Super Pac which produced the ad. The P.O. box from one of his campaign vendors and this Super PAC Turn Right USA had the exact same address in

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Even for right-wing thugs, this web ad is nauseatingly vulgar. In 2000 Los Angeles launched a program to "train reformed gang members and other members of high-crime communities to prevent gang violence." L.A. City Council member and Democratic congressional candidate Janice Hahn supported this effort. She is now the target of an exceptionally ugly ad by the conservative Turn Right USA. Give me

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Last month, the Tulsa World published a letter headlined "Strange birds" that seems really to have been about birds and not about politics. And then came this one,"More strange birds," published on May 29: "The birds described by William Snyder ("Strange birds," May 12) are not herons, but rather the yellow-bellied sapsucker (Republicus Vulturus). The sapsucker is native to Oklahoma, and

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This is a gently edited repost from August 15, 2009. I don't know about you guys, but I feel the need for a break from all the mind numbing craziness that seems to be robbing us of our own sanity and sucking our life blood out of our veins. This video really gives you a feel for the massive size of the Woodstock crowd and the human drama playing out around the main events. There were young

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The fascism series has to be put on hold. I'm absolutely furious with Blogger and am going to make the jump to WordPress. Along with many other users and for the second time in two weeks I can't sign in. It'll be interesting to see if this posts. I can read my blog and link to and leave comments on other blogs but I can't leave a comment on my own damn blog. When I try to comment, I select the

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Of the 14 characteristics of fascism that Dr. Lawrence Britt analyzes, none is so crucial to our rights as the last one he describes: fraudulent elections - "control of the election machinery, intimidating and disenfranchising opposition voters, destroying or disallowing legal votes, and, as a last resort, turning to a judiciary beholden to the power elite." Voting, as guaranteed by the

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Conspiracy theories don't hold much appeal for me. While they may contain a small sliver of truth, they're rarely supported by conclusive evidence. So, it is not without some degree of hesitation and trepidation, if not a little irony, that I promote my own conspiracy theory. Except that it isn't just mine alone. All one needs to do is google "fascism in America" to find millions of articles

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by Maureen Gill Why is there suddenly so much misunderstanding about liberalism as in terms of political choice and personal philosophy? Maybe it was always present and I never noticed. In any event, I find it rather alarming… especially because I see that there’s a great deal of misunderstanding even among liberals themselves and hell, if we don’t know who we are or what we represent… well,

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High tension. Obama speaks. by Tony Garcia Unrelated Note: Needed a break. Will return shortly with the rest of the Fascism series.

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In this case, the monkeys are the legislators themselves, which some might claim is an insult to our cousins in the wild. They wouldn't be wrong. Eighty-five years after the Scopes Monkey Trial, last week the Tennessee General Assembly overwhelmingly passed a bill that would make it easier for public schools to teach creationism. The bill would require educators to "assist teachers to find

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And you have Mr. Obama. You have forsaken the little people - little people like me, little people who heard your call for change, little people who worked tirelessly for your election, little people who by the millions went to the polls to cast their votes for you because you gave us hope for a better future, and little people like me who have relentlessly defended your decisions in the face of

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As I read Dr. Lawrence W. Britt's article Fascism Anyone? I couldn't help but compare his 14 characteristics of fascism with the events over the past few years and, most especially, since the Republicans took control of the House of Representatives and numerous state governments in January of this year. Published in June 2003, Britt writes in his introduction, "fascism’s principles are wafting

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Anyone who bothers to read or listen to the speeches of Martin Luther King has his or her favorite. There was the profoundly moving I Have a Dream speech delivered before over 250,000 at the 1963 March On Washington. There was his Nobel Prize Acceptance speech in 1964. There was his Beyond Vietnam - A time to Break Silence speech delivered at New York's Riverside Church on April 4, 1967 - a

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Of course, all the blame for the huge Democratic losses in 2010 and the resulting takeover by the weirded-out, dumied-down, cartoon characters of today's repugnant Republican Party can't be blamed on young liberals. There is a certain segment of the older generation with the same level of, ahem, maturity: instant gratification, "I want it all and I want it now," "he promised," "he's a

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Sing along tonight while gazing at the "biggest" moon in 17 years. A little back to the future? I see the bad moon arising. I see trouble on the way. I see earthquakes and lightnin'. I see bad times today. [Chorus:] Don't go around tonight, Well, it's bound to take your life, There's a bad moon on the rise. I hear hurricanes ablowing. I know the end is coming soon. I fear rivers over flowing

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dot dot dot dash It's probably a safe bet that Ludwig von Beethoven didn't know from Adam about the Morse Code during the years between 1804 through 1809 when he wrote his Symphony No. 5. That's because this international code wasn't adopted until sometime in the 1890s. But the first four notes heard over the BBC during World War II would bring the Brits to a standstill because it

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The Bloggy-Wobbly Blues have had me by the throat for the past few weeks. Since I blame everything else on the right-wing, why stop now? We've had some ugly times in this country of ours - during the hay days of the KKK, the McCarthy era, the horrid House Un-American Activities Committee, the John Birch Society - but they looked like tea parties compared to the current well financed movement

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Moving and inspirational. The best I've seen so far.

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This morning I would like to thank the Republicans. Yes, you heard right. Thank you, GOP. Your greed, lies and abject stupidity have finally galvanized Democrats, Independents, and even conservatives, into a united force that will chew you up and spit you out. No guns necessary. Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Thanks to Gwendolyn Holden Barry.

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For the union makes us strong.

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Anyone know? Can't link to our friend's blog from my roll or after a Google search. Surely he hasn't deserted us.

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Octo's continuing efforts to pull the plug on Glenn Beck includes the following letter to Roger Ailes. Readers are encouraged to steal it, and copy and paste it under their own letterhead. Of course you may want to write a letter using your own words; just use the name and address Octo has provided. Nothing could be simpler. I'm just old-fashioned enough that I took the liberty of adding "Mr.

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In April 1919 the Supreme Court unanimously affirmed the conviction of Charles Schenck for distributing a leaflet critical of the draft and U.S. war effort. Writing for the Court in Schenck v. United States, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote: “The question in every case is whether the words used are used in such circumstances and are of such a nature as to create a clear and present danger

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Tom Lehrer wrote and performed National Brotherhood Week in 1967. Since we're experiencing such a euphoric atmosphere of love thy neighbor throughout the nation, I thought this might be an opportune time to take a few moments to reflect on how far we've come since the late 60s. Lyrics following the video. Oh, the white folks hate the black folks, And the black folks hate the white folks. To

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Remember, if you will, that Arizona is the state that denied previously authorized life saving organ transplants for 98 low-income patients in order to save $4.5 million due to a $1.5 billion budget deficit. Today, Governor Jan Brewer, who once claimed Arizona was under "terrorist attack," and state Attorney General Tom Horne, of the ban on ethnic studies fame, announced at a news conference

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While this isn't on the same par as an alleged John Boehner affair, which would be rich indeed, we'll have to settle for a substitute. Parsley's Pics is not becoming a sleaze blog by design; it's just that these Family Values types make such good exhibits for, A: Hypocrisy and B: Stupidity. They just don't get it that publishing on the Internet gives them far more exposure than they could

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God, or someone, has his ways. Jose Luis Ochoa, 35, of Lamont, California, was killed by his own cock. He even armed it with the knives that caused his mortal wound. Mr. Ochoa was declared dead at a local hospital nearly two hours after he was injured in neighboring Tulare County on Jan. 30, said the Kern County coroner. He had been stabbed in the calf by a rooster armed with knives, and

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In another frontal assault on women, those sneaky little devils are at it again. "This week, the GOP House is considering H.R.3, a bill so restrictive it would limit a woman's access to reproductive care even when her life was in danger." Hearings begin tomorrow. In an article for The Huffington Post by Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand and Sen. Richard Blumenthal:   The 2010 elections were about one

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Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days - or so the saying goes. If true, these guests reek to high heaven and need to be tossed out with all the other smelly fish. MICHELE DUMBO BACHMANN The Dumbo Octopus is strange compared to others of its kind as it prefers to swallow its prey whole. GLENN BLOWFISH BECK Slow and clumsy. Uses its highly elastic stomach to quickly ingest

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The Republicans are busy little bees and they're trying to stick their little stingers to rape victims and the entire voting public, people like you and me and even their own voters. Bzzzzz. PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN FINANCING Remember their self-congratulatory "Pledge to America" which stung Democrats for "limiting openness and debate" and vowed to "ensure that bills are debated and discussed in

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WTF? This Sunday's lineup for talk show pundits is typical: all but one is a Republican. Bitching among ourselves accomplishes nothing. Send emails, write letters. Get active. Point out at least three falsehoods. There's not enough room to list all of them. Back them up with facts. Meet the Press: Sen. McConnell Face the Nation: Bill Daley This Week: Gingrich, Ron Reagan, Michael Reagan

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The Republican Study Committee, a conservative House GOP caucus, wants "to return non-defense spending to 2008 levels and non-security spending to 2006 levels. It would cut funding for veterans programs, scientific research at the Department of Energy, Homeland Security, transportation, housing, education, legal services, foreign aid and the arts, according to a summary released by the RSC." If

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The only difference between the massacre in Tucson and previous acts of terrorism is that for the most part we now have a lazy, spineless, good-for-nothing corporate media. The main stream media, to a certain extent, has become synonymous with the right-wing media and is just as dedicated to brainwashing the public. Unlike Fox News they haven’t quite become the propaganda arm of the Republican

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Not until I fired up the computer around 6:00 PM on January 8, 2011 did I learn about the terror in Tucson, “Old Pueblo” as it’s called, the town with the small-town atmosphere and the town I’ve always considered  a bit more enlightened and humane than other areas in Arizona. My initial reaction was one of anger - anger at the far-right for stirring up anger, anger at the mainstream media for

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A beautiful, smart and classy First Lady Dear parents, Like so many Americans all across the country, Barack and I were shocked and heartbroken by the horrific act of violence committed in Arizona this past weekend. Yesterday, we had the chance to attend a memorial service and meet with some of the families of those who lost their lives, and both of us were deeply moved by their strength

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So wrote NC Mecklenberg County commissioner Bill James in one email from a string of several between county board members last month. His remarks were made in response to County Commissioner Chair Jennifer Roberts’ request to send a letter thanking some members of the Charlotte-area congressional delegation for their “yes” votes on “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” (DADT) repeal. Roberts was to send the

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". . . something is very broken in Rwanda. On one Spring day in 1994, the murder of one million people began." - - - - - "The corpses may be gone and the leaders may have been tried and convicted, but the heart of Rwanda, I believe, is dead." BJ at DemWit writes: "My dear friend Father Tim Farrell and five women of Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Farmington, New Mexico, spent the month of

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And Republicans talk about elitists? Listen to this guy Mike Kelly as he, Michele Bachmann, Anthony Wiener, and Debbie Wasserman Schultz have a shoutfest that leaves Harry Smith stuttering on Face the Nation. Sorry about the ad. Wiener: “Apparently my Republican friends believe the tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires – somehow the bill fairy pays for that.” Kelly [to Wiener]: “You’re

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When I think of colleges and universities in the Commonwealth of Virginia my mind conjures up such institutions as Sweet Briar, University of Virginia, College of William and Mary, Washington and Lee, Virginia Military Institute, and Randolph-Macon, to name only a few. But if the state's public school students depend on their history books to pass a college entrance exam, they'll be lucky to

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Remember Sarah Palin's claim that the Health Care proposal would create "death panels"? And how John Boehner picked up the drum beat, rat-a-tat-tatting government-encouraged "eu-tha-nas-i-a"? Remember how this colossal lie went viral and almost derailed hopes for Health Care reform of any kind? Remember how some on the left went viral in their criticism of Obama and the Democrats for not

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Found via friend Julie on FB.

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I MEAN - REALLY! I CAN HARDLY CONTAIN MYSELF. VISIT PROGRESSIVE ERUPTIONS FOR GOOD FOOD AND WARM MEMORIES OF AN ITALIAN KIND.

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The left, including this writer, has made a career out of denouncing right-wing extremism, mainly the Tea Party and those Republicans more interested in destroying a president – and in the process, the country – than they are in working to solve the very serious problems facing our country. Liberals justifiably mock the right’s ignorance of basic civics, the country’s history and the

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