February 2011
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RIGHT-WING VALUES
So now a conservative judge in Florida — a Reagan appointee — has said the individual mandate requiring you to buy insurance is unconstitutional, and therefore all of Obamacare is unconstitutional.
His argument? Congress has no power requiring people to buy a specific product. By that logic, Social Security and Medicare are unconstitutional, too. The government’s...
January 2011
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FORGIVE MY OUTRAGE (I'm paying attention)
Look at these two happy men. Daniel Kapinski (D-IL), chairman of the House so-called “pro-life” caucus, and the Catholic Archbishop of Chicago… a so-called “moral authority.”
Why are these men happy?
Kapiniski joined Republicans to introduce a new bill redefining what the federal government considers rape so as to further restrict federal support for abortions.
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Opposition Rallies to ElBaradei as Military... →
Al Jazeera English Blacked Out Across Most Of U.S. →
THIS SHOULD REALLY PISS YOU OFF!
The only news network with genuine “you are there” coverage of the revolution in Egypt is al-Jazeera. Yet the only way you can view al-Jazeera in the US is to find it on the internet. Why? The handful of media mega-conglomerates who decide what you see on TV acquiesced to the Bush administration and refused to include al-Jazeera in their cable...
Paranoia Doesn't Mean They're Not Out To Get You |... →
Yearning for Respect, Arabs Find a Voice -... →
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100!
Wow. I got online today to discover that I now have 100 followers! Awesome.
Thanks to all of you who find these musings interesting. It’s fun and sometimes meaningful.
Gun Rights Battle Heads To Bars, Churches,... →
Critic Of Native American Prayer In Trouble With... →
Rabbis warn Rupert Murdoch: Fox News and Glenn... →
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Four hundred rabbis, including the leaders of all the main branches ofJudaism in the US, have signed an open letter calling on Rupert Murdoch to sanction the head of Fox News and one of the channel’s most famous hosts for frequent inappropriate references to the Nazis and the Holocaust.
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“You diminish the memory and...
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AMERICA'S SHAME (and mine, too)
In 1945, Vietnamese nationalists welcomed American troops into Saigon to accept the Japanese surrender. Their colonial masters, Vichy France, had collaborated with the Japanese, so surely, the Vietnamese thought, America would help them become free of France now that Japan was defeated. They waved American flags. Ho Chi Minh, whom a CIA cable called “the George Washington of his...
College Freshmen Stress Levels High, Survey Finds... →
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RE. FSU COLLEGE REPUBLICANS
Regarding the FSU College Republicans bake sale, in which they gave full cookies to African Americans, half-cookies to whites, and one-quarter cookies to Asians…
Leave aside the fact that the kind of “affirmative action” they portrayed is illegal.
The dirty little secret in college admissions — especially at elite universities — is that by far the biggest...
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MUSLIMS AND MEDIA
President Obama had a line in his State of the Union speech — “Muslim Americans are Americans too,” which was bold and magnificent and sadly… necessary.
I teach a class in World Religions and took my students to the Islamic Center in Nashville last month. The imam there is a young, very engaging man who has done a world of good for the local Muslim community. At the...
Utah lawmakers propose M1911 as official state gun... →
Fox & Friends Segment Replaces SOTU Audience... →
I know it sounds improbable, but a new low for FOX News
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WHY WE WON WORLD WAR II
Your history books make it much more complicated than it was…
Elton John's Us Weekly Cover CENSORED | PHOTOS |... →
THANK GOD FOR THE MORAL POLICE!!
Michele Bachmann Iowa Speech | Bachmann Founders... →
It’s not surprising how much of the Angry Right’s politics is built on top of really wacky, imaginary history
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UNDERSTANDING OBAMA... and ourselves
I’ve always maintained that the key to understanding Obama is to study Abraham Lincoln.
Both men were rather detached, cerebral and able to inspire crowds with lofty language. Both men were brilliant and cautious by nature. Both men sought areas of consensus with their adversaries even as their adversaries rebuffed them. Both men had genuinely progressive core principles and...
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CLAIMING JESUS
Actually, Jesus would have been olive-skinned (like today’s Palestinians), not brown-skinned… but he definitely wasn’t the white guy we see everywhere around us in Western art, and he CERTAINLY was never the viciously judgmental, wealth-worshiping, power-grubbing, reactionary moralist America’s Christian Right makes him out to be. And if (as Christians claim) you can...
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GO JETS !!
Born and bred New Englander… taught from birth to hate the Yankees (which is ENTIRELY justifiable) and as things evolved, all New York teams… this is the first time in my life I am rooting for a New York team to win the AFC championship game… AND the Super Bowl.
My reasons, of course, begin with the Patriots. If the Jets win the Super Bowl, the Patriots owners will be...
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WANNA SEE SOMETHING REALLY FUNNY?
FOX News questioning the credibility of ABC News. STFU!! ROTFL!!!!!
Utah Mayor Hopes To Use Unmanned Blimp To Fight... →
Fox News Most Distrusted Name In News: Poll →
UNFAIR AND REALLY UNBALLANCED
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CHRISTIAN MORALISTS
Our Christian moralists — fundamentalist preachers, street corner prophets, church member protesters with angry signs, popes and priests, born again “family values” politicians, even brainwashed children — are perfectly able to overlook (i.e., claim for themselves God’s immediate forgiveness) their own scandals with gay prostitutes, pedophilia and adultery…...
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WHY I REALLY DON'T LIKE DAN SHAUGHNESSY
This is Dan Shaughnessy, a sports writer for the Boston Globe, which once had a stable of world-class sports writers and now features a clown like this guy. I’m a born and bred New Englander, a thoroughly-informed and life-long fan of all Boston sports, so I’ve literally read Boston sportswriters since I was a kid. I have perspective. And I really don’t like Shaughnessy. ...
Palin misses her moment - The Boston Globe →
Despite the writer’s conclusion, I personally hope Palin is the GOP presidential candidate in 2012. She’d get creamed.
PS. There is no way the GOP will let that happen.
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PAX AMERICANA
American Empire… along with US troops stationed in 177 countries “protecting our freedom.”
Mobile Apps Come With Huge Privacy Loopholes,... →
The Big Brother the Right never talks about… it’s corporate
Don Lattin: Harvard Psychedelic Club: 1956 Footage... →
The Government and LSD
Boy's Tongue Stuck to Frozen Pole After 'Christmas... →
The kid shouldn’t have done it because it wasn’t a “double dog dare.”
Egypt's Muslims attend Coptic Christmas mass,... →
From an Arab internet news service. I’m quite sure you won’t see this story in the US media. It makes Muslims look good.
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PALIN'S MAP
Poor Sarah. She’s always a victim. The “Lamestream Media” is always out to get her — though they actually have little opportunity since she only communicates via one-way media… her Facebook account, tweets, and emails with Glenn Beck.
On top of that, the people who criticize her when she makes patently ignorant and uninformed statements? It’s sexism!
As...
Japanese Teens, Married Couples Losing Sex Drive:... →
Uh-oh.
Solar Panel Maker Moves Work to China -... →
This article shows so much. Solar panels are an industry of the future. Massachusetts taxpayers pay to help this solar company get started. Then that companyn moves its jobs to China, where the future job market is.
The solutions here are not simple.
A Tale of Two Moralities - NYTimes.com →
GREAT COLUMN! THE TRUTH
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MARTIN
Martin Luther King, Jr. would have been 82 today had he not been assassinated at the age of 39. Here he is at age six.
What would he think about our nation today?
He would be immensely proud of our first black President, who is also the most publicly-disrespected President by an opposition party and media in modern times. Dr. King would know this is by no means a coincidence, and he...
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LIVE FROM TUSCON: AN AMERICA WE CAN BELIEVE IN
Did you see it? It was America at its best, which I’m certain made the haters among us furious.
A Native American gave the invocation — not the truncated, judgmental, and patriarchal spirituality Western religions have devolved to, but a true, healthy and whole spirituality. He spoke to the masculine and feminine spirits of sky and earth. To the animals and flora of nature. To...
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OPENING EMAIL: A CRIME!
A man from Rochester Hills, MI is facing a trial and could go to jail… for reading his spouse’s email. The law Leon Walker is being prosecuted with usually covers crimes like identity theft or stealing trade secrets, but not in this case. Mr. Walker opened his wife’s email account on a laptop they shared at home to see if she was having an affair. Turned out she was. She...
AMAZING NEWS FROM FOX!
borowitz report
January 11, 2011
Fox News Reports No Link Between Matches, Gasoline and Fire
Beck Busts ‘Mainstream Media Myth’
NEW YORK (The Borowitz Report) – The Fox News Channel today attempted to bust what it called a “mainstream media myth” by reporting that there was no link between matches, gasoline and fire. “Gasoline and matches don’t start fires,” said Fox host Glenn Beck. ...
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FRUSTRATED WITH TUMBLR?
Is anyone else frustrated with Tumblr? You try to sign on and up on the screen pops “30 reasons why you’ll love Tumblr,” but the fields for your user name and password DON’T appear so you can’t sign in. You try 4, 6, 8 times and hope you get to sign in. Sometimes you can, sometimes not.
I would be happy with only one reason to love Tumblr… they let me sign...
CRISIS AT FOX NEWS
BOROWITZ REPORT
January 10, 2011
Fox News Warns That Without Angry Rhetoric It Will Have 24 Hours to Fill
Would Create ‘Giant Hole’ in Program Schedule
NEW YORK (The Borowitz Report) – Calls for a reduction in violent political rhetoric have plunged the Fox News Channel into chaos, with a Fox spokesperson warning today that such a move “would leave us with 24 hours to fill.” “Let’s not...
Tom DeLay Sentenced To Prison | TPMMuckraker →
in case you’ve forgotten,Delay’s illegal money helped Republicans take over the state house in Texas which in turn let them gerrymander Congerssional districts which in turn helped Radical Right Republicans take over the Congress which in turn let Congress become an enabler of the Bush administration — not a check and balance branch of government — and this in turn led...
A Right to Bear Glocks? - NYTimes.com →
Climate of Hate - NYTimes.com →
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OF GUNS AND CIGARETTES
When cigarette companies finally got hauled into court after decades of advertising, concealing the science about cancer, etc., they argued that people made their own individual decisions to smoke and therefore they — the companies — were not responsible.
It’s true people make their own individual decisions, but it is also true that cigarette companies were partially, even...
“The law discriminates against rape victims in a manner which would not be...”
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Fox News Gets Angry As Election Nears - CBS News →
Back in 2008…