People United Means Action
From the category archives:
The distraction continues, though I see a bright spot opening up this week. Meanwhile, in Boston, the town is a-twitter over the news that mayoral challengers Michael Flaherty and Sam Yoon will join forces, sort of, to try to unseat the 4-term mayor as a team.
Also close to my home, the residents of a thriving [...]
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Socialism is the stupidest word in the American dictionary. It’s meaning has been so obscured by propaganda and ideological assumptions over the past 60+ years that its only usefulness as a word today is to scare people into thinking the government is going to take all your money and give it to their pals.
Oh. Wait [...]
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Six months ago today obama had his first full day in office as president. Reports from all over make it clear he’s lost his famous mojo.
Health Care Reform? Likely off the table until after the August recess of Congress. Flanks from all sides have turned in on obama in the middle, who is trying so [...]
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A beautiful blog post by Afrocity Brown to start the day:
“I won’t feel sorry for Sarah Palin. She does not need this from me or any woman. We have all been Sarah at sometime in our life. Peer pressure, enemies and bullies are an awful fact of life. Catty behavior, nasty rumors spoken in high school [...]
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As theamericanway said in comments. You might as well turn it off and get ALL your news from the internet. Seriously. Pretend it broke or something. Break it yourself so you won’t be tempted. Most of us have a TV addiction, that is, we turn it on out of HABIT, not because we expect to [...]
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PatriotDEMs reminds us that the enemy of our enemy is not necessarily our friend.
The French feminist reaction to obama’s speech in Cairo, in which he said he would protect the freedom of islamic men to hold “their” women down [...]
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Very few Americans (21%) approve of obama’s GM take-over plan. Fully 67% think the plan is bad.
And, speaking of polls, the Boy King is down a lot ahead of his most awesomest EVAH concession speech to Islam on Thursday.
The looting continues. Via Corrente:
“Here’s the scheme: Rattner is demanding the bankruptcy court simply wipe away the money GM owes workers for [...]
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Evidence of endemic pro-bama-ganda mounts: During his first two months in office, Bill Clinton benefited from the 27% of news stories about him that were positive or praising in tone. George W. Bush dealt with a press only slightly less enamored of him: 22% of stories about him were positive.
But along comes barack obama and the [...]
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What Violet Sox said:
The president makes me sick. Literally, physically sick. When asked if he felt obligated to appoint a woman to the Supreme Court, he channeled his inner Larry Summers to respond:
“Actually I can’t tell you the number of women, including Michelle, who say, ‘Choose the person you think is going to be best’”
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The ballot initiatives in California have gone down in flames. The state now faces a $50 Billion shortfall. As dwp pointed out, California governors have been recalled for shortfalls less than one twentieth of that size. Is Ahnold about to become the Surrenderator?
California has the world’s seventh largest economy. What happens in our Golden State [...]
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