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Archive for October, 2008

Americans ought to be ashamed that today is a National Holiday dedicated to Christopher Columbus.
Columbus Day has it’s origins in the archaic and discredited myth that Christopher Columbus was a brave explorer who “discovered” America and initiated widespread contact between Europeans and Native Americans. The fact that Columbus Day is still a national holiday [...]

Sarah Palin, who supports overturning Roe vs wade, opposes birth control (even among married couples), opposes Abortion in all cases including rape and incest, and who, as Governor of Alaska, forced rape victims to pay for their own rape kits has decried Barack Obama’s pro-choice views as “extreme”, according to a recent article on CNN.com.
As [...]

A Quick Tact Quiz for My Readers:
Question: You are a prominent politicians hosting a political rally. While talking about your opponent, your supporters yell “TERRORIST!”, “TRAITOR”, and “KILL HIM!”. Which of the following choices is the right course of action:
A) Calmly ask your supporters to refrain from such inappropriate language
B) Have security remove and detain [...]

10 Oct, 2008

Sarah Palin: the GOP’s “Dragon Lady”

Posted by: James In: Politics| Scandal

Has anybody wondered why Levi Johnston, the boy who knocked up Sarah Palin’s teenage daughter Bristol, had to be forced into marriage?
The Troopergate Scandal has the answers: Sarah Palin will destroy anybody who crosses her family. While this may be admirable qualities for a mother, it’s a maniacally dangerous quality for a Vice President.
The “Troopergate” [...]

I just received this heads up from a friend of mine: apparently, ABC is refusing to broadcast the below advertisement because of fears that it may offend ABC’s Big Oil Corporate Underwriters..

We Can Solve It, the Environmentally-conscious PAC sponsoring the ad, needs your help in their letter writing campaign to pressure ABC to broadcast the [...]

09 Oct, 2008

1,000 Word Picture of the Day

Posted by: James In: Humor

In a move that is sure to rattle Republicans more than Barack Obama’s misinterpreted “lipstick on a pig” comment, conservative columnist David Brooks decried Sarah Palin as a “fatal cancer to the Republican party”. He went on to say that, like George W. Bush, Sarah Palin prejudicially scorns not only liberal ideas, but ideas entirely. [...]

Under the administration of Republican Governor Robert Ehrlich, The Maryland State Police used terrorist watch lists to spy on non-violent political activists opposed to the Death Penalty and the Iraq War over a period of 14 months between 2005 and 2006.
Over 50 of these activists had their names entered into State and Federal Databases originally [...]

08 Oct, 2008

John McCain’s PTSD-fueled Vietnam Flashback

Posted by: James In: Humor

In talking about the economy at a rally in Pennsylvania today, John McCain had a rather amusing gaff:
“Across this country, this is the agenda I have set before my fellow prisoners.“

As I see it, there are five possible explanations for this gaff:
1) He had been hoping to invoke his experience as a Prisoner of War [...]

08 Oct, 2008

Another Republican “False Outrage” Moment

Posted by: James In: Bullshit

What’s wrong with this picture:

If your answer to this question is “nothing”, then you’re probably a normal, grounded individual.
If, however, your answer was “Newsweek didn’t airbrush away Sarah Palin’s imperfections”, then you are a proud member of that hysterical minority referred to as a “neoconservative”.
Yes, neoconservatives are upset that the “liberal media” have dared to [...]

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