Archive for December, 2007
United States of Jesus Christ
Sunday, December 30th, 2007
In this little experiment that we call America there is the freedom of religion as one of the many foundation blocks of our entire society. Added to that foundation is our freedom of speech. Toss in the Bill of Rights and you have a firm base to build your nation ...
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Biggest lies of the year..part deux
Sunday, December 30th, 2007
I report..you decide..all of this is from FactCheck.or g:
Rudy’s Adoption Deception
Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani claimed adoptions went up 65 percent to 70 percent when he was mayor of New York City, when in fact adoptions at the end of his tenure were only 17 percent higher than at the ...
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Biggest bs lines of the year..
Sunday, December 30th, 2007
Courtesy of Factcheck.or g. They don’t play favorites either:
The year 2007 wasn’t a good one for political honesty. Though not even technically an election year, it provided a bumper crop of falsehoods and distortions nonetheless.
Presidential candidates kept us busy:
Republican Rudy Giuliani made false claims over and over about his record ...
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Who Is Smarter Than The President?
Sunday, December 30th, 2007
I finally got my sea legs back from this calf injury I’ve been nursing for months - gradually building up to my usual Sunday Long Run ~over 1 hour through the park mainly on trails. I got to thinking. I know, you hate it when I start regurgitatin g ...
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Toughlove For Israel
Sunday, December 30th, 2007
Last weekend Ron Paul said the unthinkable: Israel needs to stand up on its own two feet and stop siphoning billions of dollars from American taxpayers. He said: “Why make Israel so dependent? They can’t defend their borders without coming to us.”
[gasp] Blasphemy! What in God’s Name??? You can’t say ...
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Iowa and New Hampshire Decision
Saturday, December 29th, 2007
All of the main stream media is in a buzz and so are all of the candidates running for President. This is the time of the last dash to the finish line and it is not a time for stupid mistakes by anyone associated with any campaign. Iowa and New ...
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Musharraf and Bush: Two of a Kind
Saturday, December 29th, 2007
Suppose it’s shortly before the 2004 election. Presidential hopeful John Kerry is leaving a campaign appearance in Amarillo, TX where there’s a large crowd eager to see him. His limo stops on the airport tarmac and he steps out for a little glad-handing along the police line.
The Secret Service doesn’t ...
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Bhutto and the Creationists of Democracy
Friday, December 28th, 2007
Unlike Pakistan, American’s live in a culture where political assassinatio ns - at least the violent kind - are mercifully rare. We can usually depend on an orderly transfer of our ever-lengthe ning national to-do list from one nitwit to another every few years without bloodshed. But as Benazir Bhutto’s ...
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Swiftboat Veterans Against Jesus
Friday, December 28th, 2007
It looks like the rift is growing between Big Business and the Rapture crowd. This has to be one of the wackiest most twisted political coalitions in history — money-grubbi ng CEOs and Bible-totin tent revivalists. Helllooo!?!? !?!?! 2,000 years ago a wandering prophet preached love, compassion and tolerance ...
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Something To Think About…
Friday, December 28th, 2007
According to my Uncle John’s Unstoppable Bathroom Reader Calendar, if you could shrink the world’s population to just 100 people, AND keep the current ratios as they are, there would be-
-51 women and 49 men
-58 Asians, 13 Europeans, 15 from the Americas, and 14 Africans
-50% of the wealth in the ...
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