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[O]ur union is not strong. It is paralyzed. Many Americans were more eagerly anticipating Steve Jobs’s address in San Francisco on Wednesday morning than the president’s that night because they have far more confidence in Apple than Washington to produce concrete change. One year into Obama’s term we still don’t know whether he has what it takes to get American governance functioning again. But we do know that no speech can do the job. The president must act. Only body blows to the legislative branch can move the country forward.
Body blows? I like the sound of that.
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Former President of the University of Tennessee says Obama not an ideologue, then smears him as a pointy-headed perfesser.
Funny how contempt for intellect works out so well for people whose base is controlled by know-nothing radio, TV and blog pundits.
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Yoo and Bybee have been cleared by Obama’s DOJ.
I guess we’ll just have to deal with them wingnut style, i.e., walk into their church some Sunday morning and blow their brains out in front of their friends, family and God Hisself. Then later, after our shooters have been convicted, we can whine about how unfair the judicial system is.
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I’m sure they had good intentions, but stealing babies is not cool.
Still, if you really believed your God was THE God, you’d almost have to steal babies because not to would be to condemn them to eternal damnation. Innocent babies, eternal damnation: you make the call.
Ditto your atheist neighbor’s kids, and all the heathen kids at your kid’s daycare center.
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Coming home to roost:
California investigator murdered in Mexico (wtf is this about?)
The Wellstoning of Mike Connell
Mama Tebow didn’t have access to legal abortion?
Liberal Fascism still getting reviewed, panned
Another prophetic toon from Ted Rall
Lambert on the give and take (and why that won’t ever happen again)
Real conservatives leaving GOoP, going indie
Marijuana not going away (clean air, however, is)
As well as the usual O’Keefe:
Word finally getting out that O’Keefe never wore the pimp suit in an ACORN office
Rachel Maddow on how O’Keefe’s big mouth has already convicted him
More background on the plotters and their (thus far) shadowy minder
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“I think I can put food on the table.”
OK if you’re a former DLC chair, but when Latrell Sprewell said something remarkably similar, he was all but laughed out of the NBA.
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New research claims 99% of bittorrents are of copyrighted material.
Take with many many grains of salt. A non-RIAA band owns the copyright on all their material, but will most likely encourage uploading to bittorrent sites. In fact, most indie bands upload their own music, not waiting for fans to do it for them. In fact since copyright automatically is assigned to all created content, it would be impossible for bittorrent users to distribute content that is not copyrighted (legally torrents may only distribute content on which copyright has lapsed [as of last year that would be anything created before 1642] or if the copyright holder gives permission).
Secondly, I use four bittorrent sites. One of them expressedly forbids uploading any content if the artist objects. Essentially that means no RIAA or MPAA content.
I don’t doubt that a majority of bittorrents are of material the artists/labels/studios would rather not have shared but 99%? No fucking way.
But even if bittorrent users are all evil (and not just me), this cartoon still makes a lot of sense:
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CBS: Yes to the anti-choice folks, no to GLBTs.
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Just do it. Cut the bastards out of the loop entirely.
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I’m not a gun guy or a vet, so this Ranger Against War post was news to me.
RAW is baffled by the jesus scopes controversy, the size of the order for one, the need for scopes even more so.
Apparently, unless you’re using a sniper rifle, a trained marksman shouldn’t need a scope for anything within 450 yards, and the Army’s rifles aren’t accurate beyond that. Grunts have no use for scopes, especially given that they’re not supposed to shoot first in Afghanistan, and who’s going to shoot at us from beyond 450 yards? [RAW explains that you use mortars or artillery for foes further away than 450 yards.]
Sounds like the real scandal isn’t the Bible verses, it’s the contract itself.
Surprise, surprise.
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Etc:
I didn’t know we just rammed sanctions on Iran through Congress, did you?
Alan Dershowitz, war crime enabler — not just a douchebag anymore
You wouldn’t think there’d be any profit in scamming the jobless, but you underestimate the willingness of con men to emulate Wall Street by taking some schmucks last dime
Lies the liars tell about credit card debt
If feminist orgs weren’t the captives of their own memberships, this strategy just might work (and it would work if feminist orgs were outwardly focused instead of obsessed with their own internal politics which are exacerbated by those who abuse the consensus process)
The re-emergence of haggling is not, imho, a good thing (I like Norwegian rules: you set a price that lets you make a profit, and if it’s too high, no one buys from you)
Smart dust (one day you’re going to wake up and you won’t recognize the world you’re living in)
More on the recording industry’s track record of suppressing innovation and promoting crap (who knows, maybe Holly was Wellstoned by Decca)
Sarah Palin expounding once again on shit she knows nothing about: feminism
Patti Smith and Robert Maplethorpe (never had a threesome with Sarah Palin)
Missouri denies survivors benefits to trooper’s “widower”
Blowing factoids out their ass
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Microsoft sex-drugs party? Much as I’d love to believe it one owner owns a pharmaceutical company, another appears to have a bio-tech background, and googles for the third owner keep pulling up folks who served in the Israeli armed forces.
Sex and drug parties have little place in business outside of the recording and movie industries, but stories like this one are all too familiar to those corpos who’ve crossed paths with religious liars who insist on demonizing their former business partners.
Sorry, this is one anti-MS story I don’t buy.
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Biggest lie I saw today:
You’re forgiven if you read this to mean that UHG occasionally demands its customers provide more tests and specialists instead of UHG’s real speciality: revising the rules so as to obstruct access to more treatments and specialists.
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Rip, I guess we knew ye.
Apparently the real Torn is closer to the characters he portrays than you might have thought.
78 years old? Looks good for an old souse.
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Sprewell was laughed at because he said $12 million wasn’t enough to feed his family. This guy’s statement is just as stupid, but not quite the same.
Scopes on rifles in a war zone can be used to see at a distance, and keep one’s weapon ready, even if one isn’t going to shoot that far. Kind of like binoculars, except with only one eye and a large gun attatched the it.
Folks,
I’ve done a follow on to this article re;ACOG.
Will be posted this week.
jim