tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59762942011-12-01T12:40:51.652-08:00Random thoughts on the nature of being, from a member of the reality-based community.The Other Guyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09282334648251516501noreply@blogger.comBlogger881100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5976294.post-13811396361834900842011-12-01T12:40:00.000-08:002011-12-01T12:40:51.661-08:00

At last. Somebody finally explains the obvious.Raise Taxes on Rich to Reward True Job Creators: Nick Hanauer - Bloomberg: 'via Blog this'

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Political Animal - Proving the 99% right: 'via Blog this'

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I see Republicans -- most recently mega-billionaire Charles G. Koch -- are still pushing the meme that Government spending has been increasing at a "massive" and "uncontrolled" rate. You have to love Republicans. They find one thing which, if looked at correctly -- that is to say, if you squint real hard and ignore everything around it -- could be loosely construed as true. Or not false, at any

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The next time your Republican friends tell you how the growth of government is out of control! you should just show them this graph. Point out that the size of the Federal government, in terms of how many people it employed, was larger during the Reagan administration then it is now. And then take a step backward to avoid being splattered by brain matter when their heads explode. FRED Graph - St

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The Tax Freeloader Myth | The New Republic

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Here's the video proof:

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Let's Do This For The GipperWe need to honor Ronald Reagan, pay homage to his legacy. The "Tea Bag" movement could surely get behind such an effort. But how best to pay our respects to the revered Gipper? I humbly suggest the following:Roll back taxes (adjusting for inflation, of course) to what they were during the Reagan administration.That's it. That's my plan in a nutshell, in its totality.

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The test of time appears to be the most standard of all tests, and the easiest to do. Unless you die, of course, in which case you didn't stand the test of time. The instructions for carrying out the test of time look something like this:Do Wait.See what happens.I say that because I am typing this from a room other than my office, a room that -- up until now -- was off-limits. I speak, of course,

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The health insurance industry, in ten states, can deny coverage to a battered spouse, claiming that it is a "pre-existing condition." When Patty Murray tried to change the law, the bill was voted down. In Committee. By Republicans.

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It's September 14, 2009, eight years and a few days after 2,819 people lost their lives. The Bush administration was always quick to remind us that, thanks to their Awesomeness, "only" 2,819 people were killed on their watch. By terrorists. Striking in the United States. In an attack that the President was warned about by a briefing entitled "Bin Laden Determined to Strike in the U.S."Glenn Beck

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Here's a link to a mirror of Steve Kangas's Web site. There's a treasure trove of liberal reading material here:Steve Kangas's Home Page

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Here's a handy list of Who to write to and Where:FAIR's Media Contact List

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Robert Creamer: Three Reasons Why a Strong Public Option is Likely to be Part of Health Insurance Reform

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Does the government actually run the BEST healthcare?People on the right rail against "socialized medicine" without actually knowing anything about socialized medicine. Somehow, the inclusion of the word "socialized" is supposed to frighten us, especially if we don't know what it means. Coming in a close second is the phrase "government run (insert anything here)." Normally accompanying any rant

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I was reading through this - Daily Kos: Saturday hate mail-apalooza - when the element common to almost every one of the Wingnut Hate Letters struck me: misplaced apostrophes, misspelling, and/or dyslexic spelling. You know the pattern: your becomes you're, lose becomes loose, and anything plural is indicated by an apostrophe followed by an "s" as in "plural's."Here are a few examples from that

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Just in case someone out there forgets what the Bush years were like, when those Texans trampled the pristine grounds of Buckingham Palace...The Mahablog » Anyone Else Remember the Five Chefs?

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Here's a link to the Treasury study showing who raised and/or cut taxes, by how much, and by what percentage of GDP. Not that the Republicans out there will pay any attention to this, since it's fact-based...http://www.treas.gov/offices/tax-policy/library/ota81.pdf

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Here's the full article, for more explanation of this chart:FiveThirtyEight.com: Politics Done Right: The Clinton Economic Record and Rising Tides

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More income things I need to remember:Effective Federal Tax Rates by Decile

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Check out this SlideShare Presentation: Income Distribution in the United StatesView more presentations from cmulbrandon. (tags: income economics)

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Some seven-and-one-half years ago, on September 11, 2001, 19 men -- reportedly armed with box cutters, although that has never been proven -- burst through the cockpit doors of four jets, and eventually flew three of them into the twin towers of the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Perhaps you remember that.Nineteen men, most from Saudi Arabia, reportedly armed with box cutters. Their plan

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(It's an old post. I never finished it. But it deserves a shot at life, doesn't it?)Atlas Juggs is distressed. And who wouldn't be? In one of her more memorable performances, she dissects Nancy Pelosi's speech upon assuming the position of Speaker of the House, and presents us with her favorite quotes. Her "money quote?" Let me present this in her own words:"You want to know what my money quote

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There's been a flap in the news lately about this remark by the verbally challenged John Kerry:"You know, education -- if you make the most of it, you study hard and you do your homework and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well."If you don't, you get stuck in Iraq."There was no flap in the news after this statement by the verbally challenged George W. Bush:"Our enemies are innovative

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Steven Howards happened to pass by Vice-President Cheney one day, and mentioned as he passed that he disagreed with Cheney's policies. The exact words he used are not known, but are said to be close to “I think your policies in Iraq are reprehensible.” When Mr. Howards came back, he was arrested, handcuffed, and tossed into jail for "assaulting" the vice-president.Yes, folks, you did wake up in

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Dennis Hastert (Asshole, Illinois) has looked at these facts:Mark Foley, Republican congressman from Florida, has resigned from Congress.ABC revealed the fact that Foley had been having "sexually explicit" IM chats with congressional pages, ages 16 and 17, for some time.This fact was revealed to ABC by a Republican aide. Once ABC aired the story, former (and perhaps even current) pages contacted

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So far, it's been a slow news day with respect to the Foley scandal. At this point, major members of the GOP (Gathering of Pedophiles) have resorted to either blaming some other Republican or, shock of all shocks, blaming the pages for Congressman Foley's perverted advances.At any rate, now you know better than to leave your children alone with either a Catholic clergyman or a Republican. Or Matt

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Here's an item from today's news that bears repeating:The Republican Congress spent 100 hours investigating the possible use, by the Clinton administration, of the White House Christmas card list as a source of names of possible donors.The White House Christmas card list.100 hours.Now, bear in mind that in the Bush White House, the White House Christmas card list and the donor list are one and

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Here's a thought: If the Republicans could protect America as well as they protect pedophiles, the attacks on 9/11 would never have been successful.I'm just sayin'.

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Today, the S&P 500 Index closed at a 5-1/2 year high.Let me rephrase that: Today, the S&P 500 Index finally recovered to where it stood in March of 2001.That's March of 2001. George W. Bush had been President since January of that year, and has been President ever since. And the stock market, which was tanking already, has taken 5 and one half years to recover. Five and one half years.Remember

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On March 19, 2003, George W. Bush declared war against Iraq and sent in American troops to... well, we're not really sure. And, as it turns out, George W. Bush can't actually declare war. Only Congress can. But George did declare that he had the right to "pre-emptively attack" any country that he perceived to be a threat. And we all know what a perceptive guy George W. Bush is.OK, so we now have

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I've decided to see all my movies at the movie theater. Why? Simple: I need to see them there so I don't have to see them at home. And that should be all the reason I need, I think, and all the reason any of you need, as well. Do it There so you Don't have to Do It at Home. This is the rationale behind many of the things we do, isn't it? Restaurants, for example. We Eat it There so we Don't have

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I read an interesting article today that made me wonder this: Some on the right like to have sex with puppies. In fact, some have argued for the right to have sex with goats in public places. But is it fair to smear all those on the right with the same brush? I think not. I think there are those on the right who would argue that such a thing is wrong, against the laws of man and of God. And I

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OK, I admit it. I don't have first-hand experience. I haven't even heard stories. All I've done so far is seen the crawl on one of the televisions at the gym I frequent, and that was enough for me to fill in the blanks. The story? Here's MSNBC's take: Judge rebukes wiretap program. This has been the bread-and-butter issue for all those nice folks on, say, LGF (well, that and just about anything

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Senator George Allen (Idiot, Virginia) is having some trouble identifying a Mohawk haircut. It seems that he referred to a staffer for his opponent, James Webb, as "Macaca," a type of monkey. (Macaque, to be precise.) A spokesman for Allen later clarified Allen's comments, saying that the Senator was referring to the staffer's haircut, and said "Macaca" instead of "Mohawk." Here's a picture of

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So you thought you had good grounds for the impeachment of King George Bush, did you? Lying. Incompetence. And worst of all, violation of his oath of office.Well, here's the bad news: George W. Bush has not violated his oath of office. I know, I know... you're hoping that I don't know what I'm talking about. Unfortunately, I do, but I want you to know that I feel as badly about this as I'm sure

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So first we learned that the NSA was listening in on phone calls... to or from overseas, we were assured. "If al Qaeda is calling you, we want to know about it" said King George. And it seemed like there might be more, especially when Attorney General TortureGuy couched his non-answers about the NSA wiretap program to make it clear that he wasn't not answering questions about some other program,

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Here's the good news, kids: Your phone company owes you a thousand bucks. Owes you a thousand bucks, that is, if their name happens to be AT&T or Verizon or BellSouth. If it's Qwest, you have my sympathy.ThinkProgress has the goods. You see, the phone companies -- everyone but Qwest -- violated the law when they turned over our phone records to the NSA. The Stored Communcations Act, to be

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It might have been a bad dream from the old cold-war days, that dream where I wake up and find that I’m living in the Soviet Union. But it wasn’t a dream; it was real. The latest item in the unending stream of the inconceivable is the news that the NSA isn’t just spying on some of us, the ones who make or receive long-distance calls. No, they’re spying on almost all of us, everyone except the

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One of Jack Cafferty's questions of the day today was "Does it concern you that your phone company may be providing your phone records to the government without your knowledge or permission?"Since I'd like to remember what I said, and I don't have time to ask the NSA for a transcript, here's my contribution to that discussion:Does it concern me that the NSA is compiling a record of who I've

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Here's the first in a series of spots I wish the Democratic Party would run.Moral Values?I'll have more of these in the days or weeks or months or years to come...

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The latest Pew Poll has Bush's approval rating at 33 percent. We're down to raving fundamentalist Republicans here, folks. Moreover, this poll shows that people have a hard time deciding whether Bush is an idiot (21 chose this), a liar (17 chose this), an ass (8 think so) or just a jerk (7 offered this descriptor). Of course, the largest number of respondents (29) used the word "incompetent" to

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In George Bush's America, you can unleash the blind fury of the world's greatest war machine if you have just the merest of suspicions that someone you don't particularly like just might be up to something. It doesn't matter what the rest of the world thinks. It doesn't matter what the experts on the ground think. It doesn't even matter what your own experts think.In George Bush's America, you

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When they came for the vegans,I remained silent;I was not a vegan.When they locked up the people with anti-war bumper stickers,I remained silent;I did not have an anti-war bumper sticker.When they came for the people who got calls from overseas,I did not speak out;I was not a person who got calls from overseas.When they came for the people who wore t-shirts that Bush people didn't like,I did not

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Well, well, well. The right-wing Bush blind loyalists have gotten themselves into a righteous snit and are now loudly bleating the latest talking points: whoever let the New York Times know that the NSA was tapping phones without bothering to check with the courts was leaking crucial information to the enemy. That is to say, this person or persons had committed a treasonous act, was helping our

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Junior says we should honor the sacrifice of our sons and daughters in Iraq by... sacrificing more of our sons and daughters.Yes, he really said this. Perhaps what he really meant was that to forestall the realization that he has sent 2,000 of our sons and daughters to die in vain, we need for more of our sons and daughters to die in vain so that the realization that they died in vain will

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The death toll of American soldiers in Iraq is about hit 2,000, if it hasn't already by the time this post is published. Now, it's just a number, not too terribly different from 1,996, but we tend to treat round numbers as if they're special. The Bush administration knows this, and they know that the announcement that the death toll has now surpassed 2,000 will be a big deal, will be all over the

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Turkey, cappicola, and provolone on whole-wheat sourdough with fresh pesto, green leaf lettuce, and tomato. Yowza! The interplay of the flavors was just right, with nothing overpowering anything else.Sorry... That whole Fitzgerald thing was making me hungry.

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Fine. All the other blogs -- most of which have an actual audience -- either do a "Friday random 10" or "cat blogging" or both. Since neither of the cats is cooperating at the moment, here's a Random 10 list:Fire - Jimi HendrixMr. Moonlight - BeatlesSecond Hand News - Fleetwood Mac Tattoo - The Who Halley Came to Jackson - Mary Chapin Carpenter Lover Man - Billie Holiday Lyin' Eyes - The Eagles I

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Senator Bill Frist (Hypocrite-TN) used to own some stock in a company called HCA. His dad and his brother and one of their friends founded the company, and Bill's brother is still one of the directors of the company. Since Bill is a Senator, all of his stock holdings go into something called a blind trust. But if you're a Senator, there are special "ethics" rules that apply to blind trusts.

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Funny thing about this hurricane season... we've had a lot of them. We're about to run out of names, and that hasn't happened before. Not only that, but we seem to be getting some particularly bad hurricanes. Here's what the nice folks at NOAA just had to say about hurricane Rita...000WTNT63 KNHC 212146TCUAT3HURRICANE RITA TROPICAL CYCLONE UPDATENWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL545 PM

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Michael Brown. He's the head of FEMA, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the folks charged with responding to... well, to emergencies. Like natural disasters. Hurricanes. Things like that. It takes a tough person to run an agency with so much responsibility. So who did President Bush choose to head FEMA? Michael D. Brown, Lawyer. Estate planning guy. Man-about-town, perhaps.And what does

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One New Orleans resident describes the conditions in her apartment building as the flood waters began to rise. Within thirty minutes, the water had risen above the level of the front door. The force of the onslaught tore the door from its hinges. As the water level rose, the family living on the first floor began to pound on the ceiling and scream for help. The pounding grew gradually weaker, and

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We all know the story of Nero and what he did while Rome burned. In this time of crisis, as Louisiana, Mississipi, and other areas struggle to recover from the effects of hurricane Katrina, it's good to know that our President has devoted his full attention to the needs of the citizenry.Uh... George? "Hands-On" doesn't mean you grab the nearest toy and play with it.

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Ever since I started watching coverage of the Katrina disaster unfolding in New Orleans and Mississippi, I've been experiencing non-stop Déjà Vu. For example, when the CNN talking heads mention looting, I see a clip of a group of men wading through the streets with some kind of clothing or sheets or white towels slung over their shoulders. And then I see someone walking out of a convenience store

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Pat Robertson, who has already asked The Almighty to strike down one or more members of the Supreme Court, is now advocating the assasination of Hugo Chavez, the democratically elected President of Venezuela. The problem, you see, is that Venezuela has oil. Lots of it. They're the fifth-largest producer of oil in the world. And America consumes one-fourth of the world's oil. Fifth, fourth...

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...or is it that the Pentagon was for increasing troop levels before they were for decreasing them?I guess I'm just confused here. After a month of strategically placed leaks that spread the word about Bush's plans to decrease troop levels in Iraq next year, we now hear that the Pentagon actually plans to increase troop levels before the scheduled October 15 vote on the constitution.So let me get

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Sanator Dick Durbin (D-IL), speaking on the Senate floor, had this to say about the treatment of prisoners at Guantanamo:'When you read some of the graphic descriptions of what has occurred here -- I almost hesitate to put them in the record, and yet they have to be added to this debate. Let me read to you what one FBI agent saw. And I quote from his report: "On a couple of occasions, I entered

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The Pro-Lynching SenatorsThe Senate, for many decades, killed each and every anti-lynching bill sent to it from the House. Yesterday, at long last, the Senate finally expressed its remorse at this shameful past. Well, most of the Senate. Senator Mary Landrieu of Louisiana introduced Senate Resolution 39, a resolution apologizing to the victims of lynching and the descendants of those victims for

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IOKIYARI don't ever forget the phenomenon, but the definition of the acronym (IOKIYAR) simply refused to take up residence in my long-term memory. So here's something from Goldfish Don't Bounce on the subject: IOKIYAR. It includes a bonus link to Digby, which I'll leave out. We should check back in two, four, and six years to see if anyone has decided to hold Republicans to the same standards as

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Okay, so it's actually Saturday... Here's Ginger giving a somewhat reluctant Cato his nightly bath.

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In the old days, when we thought there was only one, we wrote "Internet" with a capital I. But now, thanks to George W. Bush, we know that there are many internets. And because it is not one unique entity, there is no longer any need to capitalize it. When referring to the internets, a lowercase i will suffice.

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Ginger wonders whether Social Security will be there when she retires, blissfully unaware that she was never covered.

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Four More Years The Terror of War This little Iraqi girl was sitting in a car one moment, perhaps sleeping, as her parents drove at night through the streets of Tal Afar. Perhaps she was jolted awake by the warning shots; perhaps the sound of gun fire is common in Iraq, and is a signal that the driver should drive faster. Insurgents? Americans? Bandits? Who knows. But stopping to find out too

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More Friday Cat Blogging I remembered this week. Here's Cato, posing for a glamour shot.

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Donald Luskin is an Idiot The only thing better than being clueless is being blatantly clueless, in full public view. Such is the fate of one Donald Luskin, a Contributing Editor for National Review Online. Luskin actually has the temerity to inform us that there will be a Social Security crisis arriving in just five short years. The crux of this crisis? We, the Working Schlubs of America (and

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Sandra Shows Up GeorgeNews Item: Sandra Bullock donates $1 million to the tsunami relief effort. (She also donated $1 million following 9/11.)News Item: President George W. Bush, multi-millionaire, son of a multi-millionaire, donates $10,000 to the tsunami relief fund. That's fully 1 percent of Bullock's contribution. Also of interest is the fact that Mr. Bush only donated after several days of

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Humanity Hanging on a Cross of IronDigby recycled this quote over on Hullabaloo. This is a case where there can be no improvement over the original, and I like having this quote handy:"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not

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Friday Cat Blogging Well, if all those other blogs can do it, I should hop on the bandwagon. Here's the selection for the end of 2004 - Dec 31.

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Let Them Eat Cake When told that the people were hungry, Marie Antoinette is said to have remarked "Let them eat cake!" When asked about concerns over the American trade deficit, George Bush remarked "Let them buy American products!" This, of course, comes from a president who has already suggested that the best way for us to survive flu season is to avoid getting sick. Four more years? We can

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Jefferson: There's a Light at the End of the Tunnel "A little patience, and we shall see the reign of witches pass over, their spells dissolve, and the people, recovering their true sight, restore their government to it's true principles. It is true that in the mean time we are suffering deeply in spirit, and incurring the horrors of a war & long oppressions of enormous public debt. But who can

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A Uniter? The President-elect, George W. Bush, has pledged to reach out to Kerry supporters, saying "So today I want to speak to every person who voted for my opponent. To make this nation stronger and better, I will need your support, and I will work to earn it.” What are the odds of this happening? Let's look at the record. Back in 2002, after the Republicans gained a clear majority in the

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Not My President I was traveling around the blogosphere yesterday, looking for reactions to the ongoing election, when I came across a post by someone named Maximos on RedState.org. The early exit polls looked good for Kerry and bad for Bush. Confronted with the possibility of a Bush loss, this blogger wrote "But while I certainly won't regard Kerry as my president (no commonality of beliefs

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Enemy Mine? In a stunning admission, administration officials declared the American public to be the enemy. Regarding the disclosure of the theft of more than 754,000 pounds of high explosives (some of the most powerful explosives known), a "senior administration official" said that the news was not made public sooner because standard intelligence practive is "not to let the enemy know such

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Saddam had the intent to build WMDs? Hesiod puts it all into proper perspective: Counterspin Central: The unofficial "FIRST AMENDMENT ZONE.": "INTENT VS. CAPABILITY"

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Programmers Abandon Global Variables! One surprising development arising from the recent Presidential Debates has been the near-universal decision of American programmers to forsake the use of global variables. This follows a statement by John Kerry that any decision to engage in preemptive war must pass a global test "where your countrymen, your people understand fully why you're doing what

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Bush Administration Solves Iraq Problem! The Bush Administration, faced with unrelenting bad news from Iraq, applied all of its brain power, know-how, cunning, resolve, and strategery, and came up with the ultimate solution: It banned the release of the bad news! Read the story here: Concord Monitor Online and remember: What you don't know can't hurt you!

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Cheney Opposed War in Iraq Guess who's opposed to the war in Iraq? Dick Cheney! Joel Connelly, of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, dug up a speech that Cheney gave in 1992. (Cheney was the Secretary of Defense during the first Gulf War, and was integral to the decision to end the war without going to Baghdad to get Saddam Hussein.) Read the article for yourself: In the Northwest: Bush-Cheney

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Bush Campaign Signs Hermann Goering as Campaign Advisor! "...the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country." Hermann Goering

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Chivalry is Alive and Well! Here we see a splendid example of the care with which Fine Upstanding Republicans treat those with whom they disagree. Note how the gentleman carefully anchors one hand on the young woman's back, for maximum leverage, while sharply pulling her hair with his other hand. Yahoo! News - Top Stories Photos - AP

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More Proof the Economy is Blazing! Vice President Dick Cheney says the economy is doing great. How does he know? Simple! Folks are flocking to e-bay to sell their stuff! One has to wonder, though... if people have to sell their belongings just to survive, how well can they really be doing? DNC: Kicking Ass: "Vice President Dick Cheney said that the nation's economic figures would be even

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All You Need to Know I believe this sentence, from a New Republic story by Ryan Lizza, says all you need to know about a son of privilege who never had a problem with getting someone else to do the fighting for him. The New Republic Online: Two-Sided Story: "Not only did someone else get shipped off to Vietnam when Bush landed his Guard duty, but once Bush was bored with flying and abandoned his

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Scotty the Contortionist Here's the statement (thanks to http://www.democrats.org) wherein Scott McClellan suggests that we can best avenge September 11 by going out and killing lots of people who had nothing to do with it: McClellan notes 1,000th American death in Iraq

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Honor September 11 Victims by Killing an Iraqi! In a statement acknowledging the death of the 1,000th American soldier in Iraq, White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan sought to tie the war in Iraq with terrorism in general by suggesting that the best way to remember those who died on Septemember 11th was by killing Iraqis. McClellan failed to offer any other alternatives, which left me in a

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Bush Claims Deficit, Largest Ever, is Smaller! As amazing as it may seem, the Bush administration has reacted to the record deficit projected for this year, $422 billion, by saying that "the strengthening economy is helping to bring down the deficit." You may blink now. Yes, Mr. Bush now has the temerity to claim that the deficit -- the largest one in our nation's history -- has somehow been "

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Brave Young Republicans So... What kind of person kicks a person -- especially a young woman -- while she's being held on the ground by three burly security people? A Brave Young Republican Lad, that's who. Here's a link to WABC-TV's video of this fine human being demonstrating good ol' Republican Family Values.

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Bush by the numbers, by Graydon Carter

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Pretend President Feasts on Fake Turkey Well, if anyone needed any convincing that the Bush administration was all about style, not substance -- about service to special interests, not service to the country -- then I'd suggest the following article for some enlightening reading: The Bird Was Perfect But Not For Dinner (washingtonpost.com)

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The Truth about the Federal DeficitCongressman Gene Taylor, from Mississippi, has a number of useful links regarding the use of Social Security funds to make the Federal Budget appear to be in better shape than it really is. For example, when the Bush administration recently announced that the budget deficit for 2003 had dropped to "only" $374.2 billion, they conveniently forgot to mention that

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