tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8826969773590398312024-09-19T11:08:11.385-04:00“Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.” ― Robert A. HeinleinA Liberal Gun Ownerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05004680967087504928noreply@blogger.comBlogger39125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-882696977359039831.post-67768840028384079952011-11-10T10:00:00.000-05:002011-11-10T10:00:15.033-05:00

Having had paid attention in History and Western Civ, as well as to current events, I know that there have been cultural swings, back and forth, toward, and away from, the Puritanical. (How many commas was that? Seemed like a lot...) I just never thought I would see so many in such a short time. (Commas, as well as cultural shifts...) One thing that is certain, and historically demonstrated

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 Cantor Cancels Inequality Speech After Protesters Line Up To AttendJust like a NeoCon. As soon as the merest whiff of dissent hits the air, the carefully crafted demagoguery breaks down. Why exactly is it that you see the exact same behavior from people like him and Bill O'Reilly, and What-his-fatness Limbaugh? As soon as you don't agree, and say so, you're shut down, shut up, and spoken

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In yet another of his attempts to whip up the uneducated and uninformed masses of Red-Publican listeners, Rush "His Fatness" Limbaugh has made wild, unfounded accusations against our POTUS. He accurately reports that Obama is sending troops to Uganda to help quell some violence. Where he gets it all KINDS of crazy wrong is when he uses the name of the violent group to support his accusations.

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A couple of years ago, in 2009, a small group of Al Gore Haters, looking to discredit his constant pontificating on Climate Change, actually broke into the email accounts of some of the prominent researchers. Therein, they found the programming code used for plotting the data: ; ; Apply a VERY ARTIFICAL correction for decline!! ; yrloc=[1400,findgen(19)*5.+1904] valadj=[0.,0.,0.,0.,0.,-0.1,-0.25

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The following post was supposed to go up early this morning. Something else caught my attention, and had to be dealt with first. After spending two hours vomiting (both literally, and in the more prosaic meaning, by writing) over that something, I can now return to my planned schedule. During a discussion of the overall perceived benefits and/or disadvantages of the OccupyWallSt. protests, one

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Wow. Just wow. For those who wanted to see examples of demagoguery... Tea Party Nation Leader says #OccupyWallSt. organizers and protesters are Communists and Nazis In the sixth of some very short paragraphs, he claims that communists and nazis are socialists "hate freedom and liberty and both want to see freedom and liberty replaced with tyranny." Just. Wow. Here we have what is probably the

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The following was inspired, in its entirety, by seeing a town vehicle, marked "Town Of *place name* Electrical Inspector" drive past me, as I was returning from dropping my children at school.  Funny, how the mind works... I have long considered myself a devout Libertarian. That description can be very confusing to some. Understandably so. (If you follow the above link, you'll find a Wiki

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"The Gun Is Civilization" By Maj. L. Caudill, USMC (Ret) Human beings only have two ways to deal with one another:  reason and force.  If you want me to do something for you, you have a choice of either convincing me via argument, or force me to do your bidding under threat of force.  Every human interaction falls into one

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5 law officers among 70 charged in Arkansas drug trafficking bust I know this is a fairly average news report, but ONE thing just LEAPS out at me. "800 federal and local authorities arrested 51 of the 70 people, officials said." It took 800 Law Enforcement and National Guard to make this bust? 800!?! Why?  Please see items 4 & 12 here...

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The Fourteen Defining Characteristics of Fascism By Dr. Lawrence BrittSource Free Inquiry.co5-28-3 Dr. Lawrence Britt has examined the fascist regimes of Hitler (Germany), Mussolini (Italy), Franco (Spain), Suharto (Indonesia) and several Latin American regimes. Britt found 14 defining characteristics common to each: 1. Powerful and Continuing Nationalism - Fascist regimes tend to make

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"Go All Taliban"

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From Huffington Post Herman Cain's 9-9-9 Plan Lifted from The SimCity?

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So far, I have been using what I hope has been logic to demonstrate the "evil" of the Dark Side Republican Conservative Right Wing political party here in the U.S. After many micro-seconds of thought, I decided to try a different tactic. There are many out there (I'm not one of them...) who hold forth that the Conservatives are the forefront of a wave of Religious/Moral correction. A shift

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Now this just makes me angry. See if you can guess why. (I wish I could ascribe credit and copyright to this, but I have no idea where it came from. Suffice it to say that I hold no claim to it.) I was once married. I was so very much in love. But, as time went on, she changed. As part of that change, she began to blame me for things that she saw as wrong. She would completely ignore the things

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Rick Scott, the ex-corporate CEO turned Tea Party governor of Florida, had some choice words for college majors who aren't looking for degrees that are useful to corporations. My initial reaction to this, my knee-jerk, gut felt reaction is to say: Of course he doesn't want kids to get a degree that might require they be versed in critical thinking and scientific method. Rick Scott, being a

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The GOP, before #occupywallst, and then during #occupywallst

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NRA-ILA :: Silence from the Naysayers

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"Parks and Demonstration America cannot expect a bunch of disenfranchised park-dwellers to come up with a solution to its economic woes -- they have a political ruling class to do that." The Daily Show With Jon StewartMon - Thurs 11p / 10cParks and Demonstrationwww.thedailyshow.comDaily Show Full EpisodesPolitical Humor & Satire BlogThe Daily Show on Facebook

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Keith Olbermann reads the First collective Statement from Occupy Wall Street.

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Up to this point, I have only seen National Fox News snippets on the protests. None of them coming even close to being either objective, or portraying the police response as over the top. In this report, even after having been subjected first hand to the police response, the reporter is at best, neutral. I would have thought that the experience would have led the reporter to be more indignant.

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I want to apologize for the weirdness of the ads recently. I think I got it figured out. They should fit the visual style of the blog, now. I hope.

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In a recent NPR story, they reveal that Senator Reid has proposed a tax bill that would put more tax burden on higher income people. I just don't know how to react to this. It is an honest attempt to fix things, or is it just a move to appease the recently disgruntled masses? Either way, I don't think it's enough. Additionally, since its just a proposal at this point, I doubt it will get enough

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Saw this on Facebook, did a trace-back and I think it was originally posted by one Lucas Rohenaz

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