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2009-08-29T15:41:00.001-07:00

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2009-07-18T13:01:00.000-07:00

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2009-07-06T16:12:00.001-07:00

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2009-01-29T15:37:00.001-08:00

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2008-11-04T19:25:00.001-08:00

BYE BYE GOP

Remind you of Brown and FEMA:"Heckuva Job Brownie"

2008-09-13T15:21:00.000-07:00

So liking cows is the qualification needed to head the Ag Division in Alaska under Caribou Barbie

From NYTimes:

So when there was a vacancy at the top of the State Division of Agriculture, she appointed a high school classmate, Franci Havemeister, to the $95,000-a-year directorship. A former real estate agent, Ms. Havemeister cited her childhood love of cows as one of her qualifications for running the roughly $2 million agency.
Ms. Havemeister was one of at least five schoolmates Ms. Palin hired, often at salaries far exceeding their private sector wages.

Does Palin even know what the truth is?

2008-09-13T14:26:00.000-07:00

Over at Andrew Sullivan:

I cannot quite keep count at this point of the bald-faced lies that the McCain-Palin campaign has been telling to a pliant, pathetic, useless excuse for an American press corps. But here's the latest. We were all told by the McCain-Palin campaign that Sarah Palin had visited Iraq earlier this year:

This was another simple lie. Not a distortion, a lie. But, as we know, the McCain-Palin campaign tells massive lies and when called on them, first try a dodge, rather than the truth.

Her alleged visit to Ireland was also, it turns out, a refueling stop. She didn't leave the plane. I swear to you I'm not making any of this up.

What happened to McCain?

2008-09-13T14:23:00.000-07:00

In the last month, McCain has become the biggest liar in the modern history of presidential politics. He makes Bill Clinton look like George Washington.

--Andrew Sullivan

AIPAC

2008-07-04T10:25:00.000-07:00

AIPAC is gonna shit a brick over this survey

A different poll, this one conducted by the University of Maryland, has found that 71% of Americans want the United States to take a non-biased, neutral stance towards the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Terrorist fist bump?

2008-07-02T12:25:00.001-07:00

Will Fox News be reporting on this "terrorist fist bump" as well?

What the GOP has done for America

2008-06-30T12:17:00.000-07:00

1. 9/11
2. Anthrax attacks -- still unsolved and forgotten by most
3. 2 stock market collapses
4. Housing market collapse
5. Collapse of the value of the dollar
6. Highest gas prices in history

No wonder McCain refuses to acknowledge Bush

Liberal dictionary

2008-06-27T14:36:00.000-07:00

Racist = slang for someone who believes in the "rule of law."

These are the people The Bush wants to bomb

2008-06-25T16:02:00.000-07:00

Which Middle East country held spontaneous candlelight vigils for victims of the World Trade Center Attack on 9/11?

* Kuwait - No.
* Saudi Arabia - No.
* Israel - No.
* Iran - Yes.

Why does the GOP hate America?

2008-06-24T13:03:00.000-07:00

When an organization tries to undermine the very foundation of our country, how can we not ask?

From the New York Times:

Justice Department officials over the last six years illegally used “political or ideological” factors to hire new lawyers into an elite recruitment program, tapping law school graduates with conservative credentials over those with liberal-sounding resumes, a new report found Tuesday.

“Many qualified candidates” were rejected for the department’s honors program because of what was perceived as a liberal bias, the report found. Those practices, the report concluded, “constituted misconduct and also violated the department’s policies and civil service law that prohibit discrimination in hiring based on political or ideological affiliations.”

Let the hate begin

2008-06-23T14:36:00.001-07:00

Note: This is NOT how the cartoonist originally drew this cartoon. It was edited for nefarious purposes.

GOP makes us safe from terror?

2008-06-23T14:28:00.001-07:00

What everyone seems to forget is that the Republican party was in TOTAL control of the United States when the single worst tragedy in our history occurred. They were forewarned about the impending attacks and did what?

The Real Truth

2008-06-20T13:20:00.000-07:00

Deals With Iraq Are Set to Bring Oil Giants Back

From the New York Times

Four Western oil companies are in the final stages of negotiations this month on contracts that will return them to Iraq, 36 years after losing their oil concession to nationalization as Saddam Hussein rose to power.

Exxon Mobil, Shell, Total and BP — the original partners in the Iraq Petroleum Company — along with Chevron and a number of smaller oil companies, are in talks with Iraq’s Oil Ministry for no-bid contracts to service Iraq’s largest fields, according to ministry officials, oil company officials and an American diplomat.

The no-bid contracts are unusual for the industry, and the offers prevailed over others by more than 40 companies, including companies in Russia, China and India.

There was suspicion among many in the Arab world and among parts of the American public that the United States had gone to war in Iraq precisely to secure the oil wealth these contracts seek to extract. The Bush administration has said that the war was necessary to combat terrorism. It is not clear what role the United States played in awarding the contracts; there are still American advisers to Iraq’s Oil Ministry.

I guess that picture is finally true now.

War whores

2008-06-19T12:47:00.000-07:00

"We didn't go to war because we wanted to bring democracy to the Iraqi people," - Doug Feith.

God crazy

2008-06-10T13:37:00.001-07:00

Never have I been happier to be an Atheist than after watching Kirk Cameron and this idiot:

McCains family values??

2008-06-08T19:24:00.000-07:00

The wife John McCain left behind....

McCain likes to illustrate his moral fibre by referring to his five years as a prisoner-of-war in Vietnam. And to demonstrate his commitment to family values, the 71-year-old former US Navy pilot pays warm tribute to his beautiful blonde wife, Cindy, with whom he has four children.
But there is another Mrs McCain who casts a ghostly shadow over the Senator’s presidential campaign. She is seldom seen and rarely written about, despite being mother to McCain’s three eldest children.
But when McCain returned to America in 1973 to a fanfare of publicity and a handshake from Richard Nixon, he discovered his wife had been disfigured in a terrible car crash three years earlier. Her car had skidded on icy roads into a telegraph pole on Christmas Eve, 1969. Her pelvis and one arm were shattered by the impact and she suffered massive internal injuries.
‘My marriage ended because John McCain didn’t want to be 40, he wanted to be 25. You know that happens...it just does.’
Some of McCain’s acquaintances are less forgiving, however. They portray the politician as a self-centred womaniser who effectively abandoned his crippled wife to ‘play the field’. They accuse him of finally settling on Cindy, a former rodeo beauty queen, for financial reasons.
McCain was then earning little more than £25,000 a year as a naval officer, while his new father-in-law, Jim Hensley, was a multi-millionaire who had impeccable political connections.

McCain supports the troops???

2008-06-08T19:15:00.000-07:00

McCain’s record on legislation supported by major veterans organizations :Source

* On Webb’s GI Bill, he expressed opposition, and he was AWOL when it was time to vote on May 22.

* Last September, he voted against another Webb bill that would have mandated adequate rest for troops between combat deployments.

* On a badly needed $1.5-billion increase for veterans medical services for fiscal year 2007 — to be funded through closing corporate tax loopholes — he voted no. He also voted against establishing a trust fund to bolster under-budgeted veterans hospitals.

* In May 2006, he voted against a $20-billion allotment for expanding swamped veterans medical facilities.

* In April 2006, he was one of 13 Senate Republicans who voted against an amendment to provide $430 million for veterans outpatient care.

* In March 2004, he voted against and helped defeat on a party-line vote a $1.8-billion reserve for veterans medical care, also funded by closing tax loopholes.

So this is how McCain supports the troops. With friends like him, who needs enemies?

O'Reily producer schooled by master

2008-06-08T13:22:00.000-07:00

What The Factor producer Porter Barry get schooled in the art of journalism and class by Bill Moyers. Video

9/11

2008-06-07T13:22:00.000-07:00

The mastermind of the 9/11 attacks has the same views as the GOP:

At his arraignment here Thursday, the alleged 9/11 mastermind said he would not accept any attorney, even a fellow Muslim, “who is sworn to your American constitution.” Displaying a surprising understanding of such concepts as federalism and dual sovereignty, Mohammed referenced recent decisions by state courts in California and Massachusetts under the powers reserved to them under the Tenth Amendment.

“I consider all American constitution” evil, he said, because it permits “same-sexual marriage and many other things that are very bad,” he told the military judge, Col. Ralph Kohlmann. “Do you understand?”

So nice to see the GOP and the terrorists are of the same mind. If you vote for the GOP in November, you vote for the terrorists.

Hamas likes McCain

2008-06-05T20:25:00.001-07:00

"Hamas does not differentiate between the two presidential candidates, Obama and Mccain, because their policies regarding the Arab-Israel conflict are the same and are hostile to us, therefore we do have no preference and are not wishing for either of them to win," - Hamas official Sami Abu Zuhri.

Now, to follow Republican logic, an oxymoron if ever there was, since Hamas would be fine with McCain winning the election, they therefor must support McCain. If Hamas supports McCain, how can someone who is supported by a terrorist organization possibly keep America safe.

Let's see if Obama now demands that McCain denounce the support McCain is getting from Hamas.

History

2008-06-03T22:27:00.001-07:00

It feels really good to have witnessed history being made tonight. Whether or not you like Obama is irrelevant, what matters is that for most Americans, they will be able to tell their children and grandchildren that they witnessed an historic event tonight, and that our country is just a little bit better than it was this morning.