Archive for October, 2007
Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007
Lots of people are losing their homes these days and everyone has a take on who’s at fault. Are home buyers feckless spendthrifts who took ill-advised dips into a shallow mortgage pool? Or, are Armani-suite d lenders a bunch of loan sharks who prey on “the little guy”.
Um, yes.
Certainly home ...
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Monday, October 22nd, 2007
Bob Jones University in South Carolina once threatened to arrest its gay alumni, up until the year 2000 banned inter-racial dating on campus, and has previously called Catholicism a cult and the Pope the anti-Christ. Rumor also has it that the university refuses (or at least refused) to honor ...
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Monday, October 22nd, 2007
Here’s another example (as if we didn’t have enough already) of phony flagwaving Republicans yelling “Support Our Troops!” while stabbing them in the back.
The SCHIP bill that Bush vetoed — with help from his drones who upheld the veto — contains two provisions for helping the families of soldiers who’ve ...
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Monday, October 22nd, 2007
Clarence Thomas, in his new book titled My Grandfather’ s Son, draws perhaps one of the most inane conclusions I’ve heard in a long time. Thomas contends that affirmative action rendered his Yale law degree virtually worthless…le ading him to literally and figuratively attach a paltry value of fifteen cents ...
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Sunday, October 21st, 2007
One of my jobs as Netroots Coordinator for the Grayson campaign is to search the Net for mentions of the candidate and his competition. I have to say for the most part it’s been rewarding, most of the mentions have been very supportive. Occasionally however you run across nonsense that ...
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Sunday, October 21st, 2007
Hello everyone. How’s everybody been lately? I know I haven’t been around much the last few weeks but I have a good reason. I’m now neck deep in a political campaign. I’ve recently accepted a position as the Netroots Coordinator for Alan Grayson’s bid to represent Florida’s 8th District in ...
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Sunday, October 21st, 2007
An interesting pattern is developing which may provide incontrovert ible evidence that the Bush administrati on’s foreign policy is an unmitigated failure. In reviewing the evidence, this failure may result from the propensity of George Bush to form opinions of foreign leaders based upon unfounded, instantaneou s, and impulsive impressions.
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Saturday, October 20th, 2007
That George Dubya fella sure is one jolly joker. His winning personality always shines through with a funny quip or a Norm Crosby-style verbal gaffe - all strictly scripted of course. Ask him about the chances of Vladimir Putin staying in power past the end of his term and let ...
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Saturday, October 20th, 2007
No you aren’t hallucinatin g. “Congress and “vertebrae ” in the same sentence — for this brief moment anyway — is not an oxymoron.
There have actually been two — TWO! — spinal sightings in Congress in the past two days. Enjoy the moment. The one that’s really gotten the ...
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Saturday, October 20th, 2007
The Republican Party remains unconvinced by their front running presidential candidates. This weekend religious conservative s are holding a Values Voter Summit in Washington DC…hoping to identify a candidate they can support. Despite the many pundits who believe Rudi Giuliani is headed towards the Republican Party’s nomination, I have my ...
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