Holy crap (religion) and unholy crap (politics)
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TOMORROW
IS SUPER TUESDAY!
VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE
for BERNIE!!!!!
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Greetings, All -
I'm back again! You'd think I'd get tired bitching about the same bullsh_t all the time...eventually, perhaps, but not just yet. It's all just too damn frustrating NOT to bitch about.
After the election, I may slow down a little (e.g., try to shorten these posts because I currently seem to be trying to break Blogger...not that Blogger is exactly functional). I have other writing projects I want to get into. But, for now, I feel just as compelled as Dot Calm did to get the word out and keep getting the word out. There's too much at stake for those of us who can not to do everything we can do!
By now, I'm sure you've noticed that there are no ads on this blog.
There's a reason for that.
Dot Calm was never about making money off her blog
--she just wanted to help the people of this beautiful planet. I feel exactly the same way, so I am just following in her footsteps trying to fill shoes that are way too big for me ever to fill.
Let me explain.
For a lady her age and her generation, Dot was amazingly computer savvy. When she was young (and she was young for a very long time), she could type so fast that she could outrun any keyboard buffer ever built. People would joke that Dot's lovely long fingers moved so fast that they would become a blur when she typed. She ran a typography and fine commercial art business that put her daughters through university. Dot's star proofreader used to say of the big, fancy specialized typography computer, "Dot types so fast that the poor thing can't keep up. It just keeps beeping at her as if to say, 'Uncle! Uncle!!' And Dot would have to pause until the keyboard buffer had flushed everything out to memory and the monitor. She could easily have kept typing, but she had to slow down to accommodate the machine." The amazing part? Dot's lightning-quick typing was as close to 100% accurate as a mere human can get. Dot's best proofreaders never caught more than one typo within the span of weeks...sometimes months. Yup--Dot could sit and make beautiful print-ready type all day every day for weeks on end without so much as an extra letter space left unintentionally in her work. She had a brainful of fancy fonts and coding tricks, keeping tens of thousands of mark-up codes in her head for the big fancy typography computer. Heck, she used to call up the manufacturers of that machine to tell them what it could do as she discovered more capabilities than they ever knew it had. She was a force of nature. On top of that, she was an amazing manager. She was equally adept at managing the business end of the company and coaching her employees: mentoring, nurturing, and growing the business and her employees, who became like family to her, into the best they could be. Such was Dot Calm in her decades-long youth.
Sadly, as Dot got older, the MS took its toll on her hands, her short-term memory, her eyesight, and her energy and strength. But she still spent every waking minute she could researching the issues that matter and getting the word out. She would even get out of bed in the middle of the night to blog if something came to her. Even when she could barely see the computer screen and had to type by holding a pencil in her left hand (she was right-handed) to hunt and peck at keys with its eraser, she still worked tirelessly at this blog. To her dying breath, she worked to help those around her--to leave the world better than she found it. She worked to find and spread the truth.
You all matter just that much to her...and to me.
Dot Calm really was all that and a bag of chips.
And now you also know just a tiny part of why this will always be her blog and why I will forever remain...
-- Dot Calm's shadow
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and, no, it's not Andy Borowitz!
I keep telling Dr. Strangesleep
that the way to wake up his campaign
is to turn gay
for a month or three
to prove that sexual orientation is a choice.
I promised him that,
if he did,
God would forgive him and I would vote for him.
OK, so I lied.
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A Word from Democracy Now!
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Isn't it deliciously ironic
watching Fux Noise panic
watching Fux Noise panic
over the Trumpenstein monster they created?
I love it when right-wingnuts eat their own...!
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Here's why you should VOTE FOR BERNIE:
Millennials are not lazy and entitled--they are just dealing with the raw deal handed to them by the previous generation, which was entitled. Entitled to decent pay, education, opportunity, unions...!
This articulate young woman explains it to her right-wingnut uncle:
Brilliant.
I have a friend who served time in the Air Force trying to earn college tuition. Uncle Sugar reneged on that deal--my friend never saw one red cent of tuition money from the government, despite the agreement they signed. Turns out that, when you sign an agreement with Uncle Sugar, it's only binding on YOU--not Uncle Sugar. Thirty years later, my friend is still trying to complete an undergraduate computer science degree while working 40-60 hours per week. That's not to say that Uncle Sugar didn't give my friend something while he was in the service. Like ruined eyesight from snow blindness (he was stationed in the Dakotas), blown-out knees and back from heavy lifting, all manner of weird allergies due to the weird unknown substances they shot him full of without ever telling him what was in those many, many injections, ...!
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accidentally second amendmented to death.
life because we all know
guns don't kill people.
9 were accidentally second amendmented
life because we all know
guns don't kill people.
9 were accidentally second amendmented
or significant other well-regulated militias.
In other words, as the linked article says,
"A routine week.
Happens all the time."
In other words, as the linked article says,
"A routine week.
Happens all the time."
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Am I the only one
who sees just how much energy
who sees just how much energy
fundies put into fooling themselves?
Am I the only one
who thinks it's a colossal waste?
who thinks it's a colossal waste?
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If Bernie supporters "only want free stuff,"
then why are we the ONLY ones funding
our own campaign?
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AlterNet
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By Kevin Alexander Gray, Democracy Now!
Kevin
Alexander Gray, a civil rights activist and community organizer in
Columbia, South Carolina talks with Democracy Now! about the GOP
Frontrunner's recent endorsement. READ MORE»
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By Eesha Pandit, Salon
This week, the eight remaining justices will hear arguments relating to draconian Texas abortion restrictions. READ MORE»
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By Ari Berman, Democracy Now!
As 12 states head to the polls on Super Tuesday, voting rights could become a pivotal issue in the 2016 race. READ MORE»
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AlterNet
The Republican Party has somehow managed to get even more destructive in eight years. READ MORE»
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Robert Reich, RobertReich.org
Republican politicians in particular have descended into the muck of bigotry, hatefulness and lies. READ MORE»
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Don Hazen, AlterNet
What the establishment hand wringers just don't get. READ MORE»
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Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch
Armed conflict in Iraq, Afghanistan and beyond hasn't brought anything close to lasting peace. Quite the opposite. READ MORE»
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By Adam Johnson, AlterNet
The same logic could apply to K-12 education, roads, parks, or any general public good. READ MORE»
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By Michael Arria, AlterNet
Dow Chemical Co. has decided to settle an antitrust case for big bucks now that Antonin Scalia's gone. READ MORE»
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DNC Vice Chair Resigns, Endorses Sanders, Blasts Clinton's "Interventionist, Regime Change Policies"
By Ben Norton, Salon
Tulsi Gabbard left the Democratic National Committee, which has been accused of pro-Hillary bias, to support Bernie. READ MORE»
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By Alexandra Rosenmann, AlterNet
In this clip, the great professor explains the evolution of liberalism READ MORE»
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By Sarah Burris, Raw Story
The protester was allegedly pushed around and a scuffle broke out. READ MORE»
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Janet Allon, AlterNet
Some truly bizarre things fell out of Trump's mouth this week. READ MORE»
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AlterNet
Clinton had the support of 9 in 10 black voters in a lopsided win. READ MORE»
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Larry Schwartz, AlterNet
Apparently for some, American exceptionalism means exceptional stupidity. READ MORE»
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By David Swanson, Let's Try Democracy
10 principles of oligarchy. READ MORE»
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By Eliza A. Webb , Salon
Clinton refuses to release her transcripts unless Republicans release theirs first. That won't cut it this election. READ MORE»
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By Tom Boggioni, Raw Story
Almost no one in the GOP wants to see the Donald take the nomination. READ MORE»
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Steven Rosenfeld, AlterNet
The strategy to blunt Clinton's growing momentum. READ MORE»
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Steven Rosenfeld, AlterNet
The strategy to blunt Clinton's growing momentum. READ MORE»
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By Thom Hartmann, AlterNet
Bernie is simply calling for what the architects of Medicare had in mind all along. READ MORE»
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By Amy Goodman, Jose Antonio Vargas, Democracy Now!
Trump
University students who paid up to $50,000 were promised they would
meet Trump, but instead "got to take a picture with a cardboard cutout."
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By Richard W. Behan, CounterPunch
The
banks have earned hundreds of billions of dollars in practices that
were once prohibited—until the Clinton Administration legalized them. READ MORE»
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By Alexandra Rosenmann, AlterNet
"We stand for a living wage," Roosevelt said in 1912. Sound familiar? READ MORE»
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By Bethania Palma Markus, Raw Story
If the 2016 presidential race seems surreal, there’s a good reason for it. READ MORE»
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Adam Johnson, AlterNet
The lawsuits Trump is facing over his snake oil school expose his contempt for the aspirational working class. READ MORE»
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Paula Young Lee, Salon
The mysterious International Order of St. Hubertus is steeped in the heritage of European nobility, the "royal hunt" — and war. READ MORE»
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By Adele M. Stan, The American Prospect
“I grab and grab and grab! You know, I get greedy; I want money, money!” The crowd roars. READ MORE»
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By Alexandra Rosenmann, AlterNet
How can the Grand Old Party catch up to present day if they're not even discussing the present day? READ MORE»
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By Rachael Revesz, The Independent
In
a $125 million lawsuit she later dropped, the woman accused Trump of
‘outrageous conduct’ — but is now sticking by her allegations. READ MORE»
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By Travis Gettys, Raw Story
The 30-year-old Jones was watching his three children at their grandparents’ house, where they live.
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Amanda Marcotte, Salon
The religious right was formed to protect segregation, so it's no surprise they're drawn to Donald Trump. READ MORE»
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Frank Joyce, AlterNet
Especially if you keep at it for a long time. READ MORE»
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Stephanie Russell-Kraft, AlterNet
Be careful before you sign a non-compete agreement. READ MORE»
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By Sonali Kolhatkar, Truthdig
Ordinary American women are expected to celebrate a victory, whether it impacts their lives in a positive manner or not. READ MORE»
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By Reynard Loki, AlterNet
The divestment movement just got an intriguing new proponent. READ MORE»
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Adam Johnson, AlterNet
The police are very underrated at getting what they want done. READ MORE»
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Steven Rosenfeld, AlterNet
Trump is positioned to win big on Super Tuesday. READ MORE»
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Martha Rosenberg, AlterNet
Robert Califf's ties to Big Pharma run very deep and the Obama nominee just sailed through the U.S. Senate. READ MORE»
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By Juan Cole, Informed Comment
Networks and newspapers are trying to explain away racism from a prominent GOP candidate. READ MORE»
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By Sophia Tesfaye, Salon
Since Iowa, Sanders has overtaken Clinton for the majority of the month in the Reuters daily tracking poll. READ MORE»
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By Sarah Lazare, AlterNet
Rising
Islamophobia summons the ghosts of America's bloody past to justify
permanent war abroad and an assault on freedom at home. READ MORE»
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THIS IS WHY WE ALL MUST VOTE FOR BERNIE!!!!! DOOOOOO ITTTTTT!
You know you want to!
You know you want to!
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By Michael Arria, AlterNet
Dr. Robert Califf was confirmed by a vote of 89-4. READ MORE»
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By Travis Gettys, Raw Story
The 38-year-old Trump said his father’s coarseness resonated with angry blue collar workers.
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Steven Rosenfeld, AlterNet
"Is the Republican Party truly not going to resist its own debasement?" READ MORE»
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Adam Johnson, AlterNet
Clinton says it's the first time anyone's asked her about saying "superpredators need to be brought to heel." Why? READ MORE»
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Kali Holloway, AlterNet
Apparently, they had some problems with spellcheck. READ MORE»
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What won't they tell us about Bernie's economic plan? That IT WILL WORK?
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By Dave Johnson, OurFuture.org
Leading economist's study shows the plan would create a stimulus, but the mainstream media isn't covering it. READ MORE»
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By Sophia Tesfaye, Salon
Unlike Ted Cruz's shameless sacrifice of his spokesman, Trump finds his id echoed by his controversial campaign spokeswoman. READ MORE»
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By Alexandra Rosenmann, AlterNet
The billionaire having his way with our election is horrifying other billionaires used to having their way with our elections. READ MORE»
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By Robin Scher, AlterNet
Apparently, the second amendment trumps the first. READ MORE»
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By Laura Clawson, Daily Kos
The Trump Organization fights on—to deny its workers their right to organize. READ MORE»
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By Arturo Garcia, Raw Story
A satire becomes all too real. READ MORE»
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Innocent children deserve better than to be condemned to a life of slavery when they seek refuge here
The report, released by Sens. Rob Portman and Claire McCaskill, respectively the chairman and ranking member of the Senate Subcommittee on Investigations, makes it clear that the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) – the agency responsible for the children’s welfare – failed to take the necessary steps to ensure children were being placed with safe, responsible guardians.
Sign the petition from CREDO and Daily Kos: Tell Sens. Portman and McCaskill to ensure that HHS has all the necessary resources to protect child refugees fleeing violence.
The Senate report found that before placing children with U.S. sponsors, the HHS Office of Refugee Resettlement failed to do proper background checks of the adults who claimed the children, failed to notice when sponsors took custody of multiple unrelated children, and failed to visit the homes into which they were placing children. The stories outlined in the report demonstrate not only the profound negligence of HHS, but the degree to which people take advantage of that negligence to exploit and harm children.
In the past five years, 90,000 children have been placed with sponsors. We will never be able to know how many are now living in slavery. Violence in Central America is increasing and we are likely to see similar levels of unaccompanied minors seeking safety in the U.S. in 2016.
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Let's swing the Senate back toward the People
The vacancy on the Supreme Court left behind by Antonin Scalia's death has heightened the already extraordinary stakes of this year's elections to a degree that simply cannot be overstated. For the first time since the late 1960s, there's a real possibility that the court could house a clear liberal majority, and with that, profoundly alter the contours of American politics as we know them.
The scope of possible topics the court could rule on in just the next few years is breathtaking. Almost every major issue is on the table: Reproductive rights, climate change, redistricting, affirmative action, voting rights, policing, campaign finance, capital punishment, immigration—there's no end to this list. Five liberal justices could protect the rights of the vulnerable, safeguard the environment, and even strengthen our democracy itself in ways so far-reaching that progressives have scarcely dared to imagine them. That makes this vacancy the campaign issue of 2016.
That's why Daily Kos is going all-in on the Senate this year.
Can you chip in $1 to each of Daily Kos's endorsed candidates for Senate?
Right now, the Republicans who control the chamber have sworn a blood-oath to block anyone President Obama might nominate, no matter how outrageous their obstinacy makes them look. But their majority is precarious: They hold only 54 seats, which means the Democrats can take the Senate back this November if we pick up as few as four seats from the GOP.
Fortunately, the playing field favors us, as Republicans are on defense protecting a number of vulnerable seats, including several held by blue-state freshmen who lucked into office during the 2010 wave. Earlier this cycle, Daily Kos endorsed former Wisconsin Sen. Russ Feingold, whom polls show is in a strong position to knock off Republican Sen. Ron Johnson, the man who unseated him almost six years ago. Now, with the Supreme Court in play, we're expanding our roster of endorsees to include three more Democrats who are taking on other at-risk GOP senators:
- New Hampshire Gov. Maggie Hassan, who is neck-and-neck with Sen. Kelly Ayotte
- Missouri Secretary of State Jason Kander, who is aiming to knock off Sen. Roy Blunt; and
- Arizona Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick, who definitely is not going to be good news for Sen. John McCain
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Pass the ERA!
Hi, I’m Patricia Arquette. In my Oscar acceptance speech last year, I took a moment to address gender inequality – the fact that American women still make as low as 44 cents for every dollar made by our male counterparts, and experience sex discrimination as a fact of daily life. I didn’t do it to cause a scandal, or detract from my honor that night. I did it because I felt I had a duty to shine a light on this problem, to use my voice to demand constitutional equality for all women.
The gender wage gap has devastating economic consequences for women and their families, and the situation is most dire for women of color and LGBT women. It is no wonder that 1 in 5 children go hungry in America. There is a direct link between underpaying women and child hunger. Until equal rights are guaranteed in our constitution, wage inequality and other discriminatory practices affecting women in America will continue unabated.
Many people believe equality for women is already a constitutional right. The sad reality is that the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), which asserts simply that equality cannot be denied on the basis of sex, has been batted around and knocked down since its introduction in 1923, and it still awaits passage today.
Join me in calling on Congress to do what it should have done 90 years ago, and pass the Equal Rights Amendment.
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Alan Grayson fights for Us the People
A
little over six years ago, on the Floor of the House, President Obama
invited the House Republicans to show their health care plan to him. To
make it look good for themselves on C-SPAN, they waved something at him
that looked like a healthcare plan.
Blank
pieces of paper. The Republicans waved blank pieces of paper at the
President of the United States. That was their healthcare plan.
I
didn’t like that. So I took to the House Floor armed with nothing but
poster boards, an American flag tie, and a lot of courage. This is what I
said:
“It’s
my duty and pride tonight to be able to announce exactly what the
Republicans plan to do for health care in America … . It’s a very simple
plan. Here it is: The Republican healthcare plan for America: ‘Don’t
get sick.’
If you have insurance, don’t get sick.
If you don’t have insurance, don’t get sick.
If you’re sick, don’t get sick.
Just don’t get sick!
If you don’t have insurance, don’t get sick.
If you’re sick, don’t get sick.
Just don’t get sick!
And the GOP’s “backup plan”:
If you do get sick, America, the Republican healthcare plan is this: 'Die quickly.’”
If you do get sick, America, the Republican healthcare plan is this: 'Die quickly.’”
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Your body, YOUR choice
Breaking
news: A federal court has just upheld Louisiana's clinic-shutdown
law—forcing all but one clinic in the entire state to shut down.1
Already
50 percent of the clinics in neighboring Texas were forced to close
under a similar shutdown law, and Mississippi, the state to Louisiana's
east, has only one clinic left.
Now it all comes down to the Supreme Court, which will hear arguments on the Texas clinic-shutdown law NEXT WEEK.
We're pulling out all the stops to show the Court that women will NOT go back to the days of back alley abortions.
Will you chip in $15 to stop these clinic-shutdown laws and defend access to abortion at the Supreme Court?
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Tell Senator Toomey: #DoYourJob
Sign the petition to Do Your Job! Fulfill your responsibility to advise and consent to President Obama's upcoming nomination to the vacant Supreme Court seat.
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Stand up against the NRA
This month, gun-lobby-backed senators hauled Attorney General Loretta Lynch before a Senate committee hearing to discuss the President's actions -- but used the opportunity to politically grandstand instead of discussing any real policy questions. And a prominent House member threatened to defund the entire Department of Justice to try and block the president's stronger enforcement of our gun laws. [2]
This is political grandstanding at its worst, and it comes at a dangerous cost. It's further proof that the NRA's favorite politicians will stop at nothing to protect the gun lobby -- while doing nothing to protect American lives.
Join Everytown and Daily Kos in telling your senator and representative to stop this extremist bill and fight to protect the president's common-sense actions.
The gun lobby is powerful -- but so are the American people. I know we can win this.
Keep fighting,
Carissa Miller, Daily Kos
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I want to stop CORPORATE socialism--
I want government that doesn't rob ME
to give to the rich and powerful who don't
NEED my money to LIVE.
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Cruz, Rubio, Carson, and Kasich are all
soooo hateful, horrible, toxic, evil, and repulsive
that I can't even say
ANYONE BUT T-RUMP!
VOTE FOR BERNIE!!!!!
I don't need "free stuff,"
but I sure as hell don't want
the rich and the corporations
getting their "free stuff" at my expense!
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Tonight I saw the initial showing of Michael Moore’s
new documentary, “Where to Invade Next.” This is not a review
(that may come later). This is an alert.
See this movie as soon as you can. It
probably won’t last long at the theaters.
This is Michael Moore’s best film. He has
mellowed, and that is all to the best. Production values are A+.
This is propaganda at its best.
Of course, as with any Michael Moore film, there will be
political disagreements. I was surprised how few I had—just one
political issue, not mentioned prominently at all, and fleeting references to one
political movement that I opposed and was glad failed (Michael was in favor, of
course). There are very few political movies where I disagree that
little. I know some of you will find a lot more to oppose, but you are
not doing yourself a favor by not seeing it.
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Tell that to Dot Calm's daughter
in law enforcement--the JD with a gun--
who worked her way through law school
taking four classes a week for four years
while working 40-60 hours a week.
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Another pearl from David Franke, whose tongue is permanently ensconced in his cheek...
Scalia: and you laughed when I said "conspiracy"
A secret society. Austrians. Bohemians. Von Hapsburg. Dark green robes. Titles such as Grand Master. A mail drop in Washington, D.C. The Bohemian Club in San Francisco. A Washington lawyer with the suspicious name of Allen Foster (Foster Dulles, anyone?), who is unavailable for comment because “he’s traveling in Argentina” (Argentina!). “A woman answering a phone associated with Foster hung up when asked for comment.” DO YOU NEED ANY MORE PROOF???!!!!
Justice Scalia spent his last hours with members of this secretive society of elite hunters!
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Republicans so funny.
They hate O'Bama so much
they even block a REPUBLICAN
SCOTUS nominee!
They hate O'Bama so much
they even block a REPUBLICAN
SCOTUS nominee!
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I don't know if this story is for real...
I haven't Snopes'ed it...
but I would only be half be surprised if it were!
The link is here.
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Thanks to Donald Trump and the rest of the
steaming pile of Republican't candidates,
"Idiocracy"
has become a documentary
has become a documentary
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Conservative Clown Car says,
"The undocumented in the U.S.
pay $11.6 billion in state and local taxes annually.
Montana’s 4,000 undocumented immigrants
paid 'only' $2.2 million in taxes
while California’s three million paid $3.1 billion.
These ain't 'unintended consequences' either."
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Just like Ben Carson
and the other Republican candidates,
Rafael "Ted" Cruz, Jr., would rather
be caught telling a lie than telling the truth.
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I guess Republicans will have to plant
a whole lot more evidence so that they can finally
come up with something credible.
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You think ISIS is a threat to Americans?
How about the Republican war on women?
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As Americans Against the Republican Party says,
"If you don't think businesses should pay
a living wage,
that means you think taxpayers should be
subsidizing their survival.
Or that people who are working but are
cheated out of a living wage should starve."
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Am I the only one noticing
that a barrel of oil
costs the same
as filling your gas tank?
Both are about $30 right now.
Why are we paying for the whole
damn barrel
each time we just need a few gallons?
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Movie Time!
Now that you've survived the unholy crap, here's some holy crap for you...
OMG...I knew Franklin Graham was a shit just from listening to the hate and filth that spews from his mouth, but his father, Billy? I thought Billy Graham was reasonably decent...until I saw this video by wordoffakes. Cringeworthy. Why wait for your mansion in heaven when you can preach the prosperity gospel and get your mansion, Bentley, and $20M private jet now?
The writers of Forrest Gump plugged him into contemporary American history, splicing the character into real times, places, and events with real people. And yet no one would ever argue that Forrest Gump is a real, actual American hero. So why does my Tea Party Christian friend insist that architectural finds prove the Bible when they prove no such thing?
Not only does God not heal amputees, but He won't even heal the eyesight of his precious preachers. But you can bet your bottom dollar that He'll heal your cancer if you beg him hard enough and believe hard enough. ... yeah, right.
Evolution of the Bible, part 1
Part 2
This is for my Tea Party Christian friend, who swears that all versions of
the Bible are God's perfect word, which means that they're all identically the same as the original
Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek texts while all of them say different things. you can go to biblegateway and read the texts next to each other, side by side. I'll bet they never expected atheists to use their site more than Christians!
Part 3
Have you ever heard of the Geneva 1560 Bible? It is a Protestant Bible, not Catholic, so don't go blaming them. It predates the King James 1611 and has 80 books, like the King James 1611 but not like the later King James and other newer Bibles we're used to seeing with 66 books. So, who decided that 14 books of God's perfect word were in fact NOT God's perfect word?
As wordoffakes suggests, check the NIV, the world's best selling Bible, for these 16 scriptures:
Matthew 17:21Mark 7:16
Luke 17:36
John 5:4
Acts 8:37
Romans 16:24
Matthew 18:11
Mark 9:44
Luke 23:17
Acts 15:34
Matthew 23:14
Mark 9:46
Acts 24:7
Mark 11:26
Acts 28:29
Mark 15:28
Oh wait--they're missing! the NIV people decided that these verses were no longer the perfect word of God! Whiskey tango, Christians?
And now for a bit of fun!
John Oliver on televangelists
An update
Oh noes--they closed down Our Lady of Perpetual Exemption...not before raising tens of thousands of dollars (typically one buck at a time) for Doctors Without Borders by mail and phone to the number 1-800-THIS-IS-LEGAL.
John Oliver on putting a woman on the $10 bill. I vote for Dr. Sally Ride.
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