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An "Old Army Vet" and liberal, qua liberal, with a passion for open inquiry in a neverending quest for truth unpoisoned by religious superstitions. Per Voltaire: "He who can lead you to believe an absurdity can lead you to commit an atrocity."
(14 comments) SHARE Tuesday, April 6, 2010 How damned stupid do you have to be, to be a conservative voter?
How many of the family members who are now without one of their family members remain so inclined to vote for less government, smaller government, not quite so intrusive government? This isn't to suggest any really were, but if any were . . . how about it today?
(19 comments) SHARE Monday, April 5, 2010 Calling it like it is: Ugly, dumb, and TREASONOUS
These folks, one and all, are just as much terrorists, and just as much a threat to civil society and to democracy's fabric as any threat we might envision from beyond our shores.
(8 comments) SHARE Thursday, March 25, 2010 On Reaching about for my Chief Joseph Moment
I am a better person, a superior human being than any Republican voter. A Republican voter is unworthy of being in my presence.
SHARE Friday, March 19, 2010 Really, view this Columbus-Dispatch vid of your friends
Do not pass this one by. Turn your volume up, at least so you can hear the comments coming from the Republican crowd. Your "friends," your neighbors. Actually view the 2-minute video from the Columbus-Dispatch newspaper; especially at the 1-minute mark.
(95 comments) SHARE Sunday, March 14, 2010 The Texas Board of Education: America's Taliban.
Who are these educational experts, deciding what will be in the textbooks that more than half of America's school children learn from? The list is composed of clowns. But, if clowns are supposed to be funny, this group is Freddy Krugerish terrifying.
SHARE Friday, March 12, 2010 GOP Loves Talk about "Frivolous Law Suits" Relative to "Tort Reform."
The highly consequent fact that pillories the Republican argument absolutely is that California's limiting malpractice legislation hasn't stemmed at all the soaring rise of medical costs in the state, nor the unconscionable escalation of health insurance premiums!
(3 comments) SHARE Thursday, March 11, 2010 One Way or Another, We're All in That Hurt Locker.
Essentially what it is they're saying is "I got mine, (insert the expletive of your choosing) you." Whether they actually have "it," or just think they do, that's the sentiment.
SHARE Saturday, February 27, 2010 Wisconsin's conservative Paul Ryan eats organic
The interview question put to the Republican congressman was what he thought of Michelle Obama's anti-obesity campaign. The Republican's reply said much, much more about where he and his GOP colleagues are coming from than anything he could possibly have intended. His reply: "I eat organic."
SHARE Friday, February 26, 2010 Largemouth bass have swallowed the bait, hook, line, sinker, & boat.
One of their characteristics is a mean disposition, among other fish they're not the dumbest. But they're still just plain, tiny-brained, stupid fish, and like Republican voters, conservatives (no discernable difference, any longer), and the tea baggers, they're known to swallow just about anything. They prey on anything that's smaller and dumber than they are, including plastic worms.
(3 comments) SHARE Saturday, February 13, 2010 I want to know, just what the hell have we become?
On July 4, 1776, 56 men signed their name to a document that was in effect an indictment of treason against the Crown, and that would have led directly to their being hanged or shot, had their bold and brave effort failed. I am embarrassed and ashamed of who we have too much become.
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, February 11, 2010 Dipping into the Whackoe-mole Sauce
Ya can't use your seed corn to make tortillas this afternoon and expect to have corn on the cob next year. Or, more technically, though not much more, you cannot spend the same dollar twice.
(3 comments) SHARE Thursday, February 11, 2010 America's tenth decile, the "sitting around guys."
Without knowing it, a business model decision that weighs costs with benefits is the Fortune 500 type of decision every young, urban core, gang-banger made, as do all prospective members to the gang.
SHARE Wednesday, February 10, 2010 It's a noose, not a bow-tie.
It's the federal judiciary, most particularly . . . no, quintessentially, it's all about THE SUPREME COURT. It, and it alone, decides EVERYTHING that will matter to the corporatist.
SHARE Sunday, February 7, 2010 The 14% solution, and all that jazz.
Democrats working with Republicans suggests some computerized confection of one of the funniest (to me) Seinfeld episodes with Dancing with the Stars. Either because Elaine does not know the steps, or because she refuses to follow the script is exactly what the Republicans have been doing, ever since the Obama inaugural.
(83 comments) SHARE Saturday, February 6, 2010 Refusing The Call; Will selfish Seniors hand over the USA's future to China?
Based on the treasure we're stealing from our youth during those final months and days, the evidence suggests very few believe as much as they say they do. Deuteronomy 30:19 commands us to "choose life." It doesn't say to throw every last buck into the sewer, trying to avoid what's going to be the conclusion anyway.
(3 comments) SHARE Wednesday, February 3, 2010 Friday Night Smackdown - A Sign of the Times
"If a family today cannot afford . . . how much health care insurance will they be able to buy with a $5,000 tax credit that comes into play during the next tax filing year, and after they've spent $15,000 the previous year for health insurance?"
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, January 22, 2010 Dear Dr. Franklin, I've sad news to impart.
What you and all of the attendees to that convention in 1787 feared, the potential of money and its aggregation in a few hands to corrupt every inclination and perception of a democratic republic, has at last come to pass.
SHARE Friday, January 22, 2010 The American dream and ethos on the edge.
It's one thing to be frustrated and angry. It's another altogether to be stupid. The voters in Mass. demonstrated their mass stupidity on the 19th.