The contradiction between the GOP global warming plan and the GOP Social Security plan

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Tuesday July 05, 2016 · 9:24 PM PDT

2016/07/05 · 21:24

The problem with the Republican plan for dealing with global warming (i.e., drill baby drill) is that it conflicts with the Republican plan for Social Security and Medicare. If their global warming plan is implemented, there won't be enough ice floes left to put all the elderly out upon.

Sister burn

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Thursday November 19, 2015 · 1:47 PM PST

2015/11/19 · 13:47

"I can understand why many people want to slam our doors shut against refugees. I get it, I really do. What I cannot understand is how these same people can call themselves Christian." -- Sister Marilyn Lacey, Sisters of Mercy, Menlo Park, CA

Because they lack any sense of hypocrisy or common decency, Sister. Any other questions?

Revenge is a dish best not served at all

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Friday May 15, 2015 · 9:21 PM PDT

2015/05/15 · 21:21

Like arsenic and cyanide, it is poison to a person, or to a society for that matter.

Look at the Middle East for a perfect example. The Palestinians attack the Israelis in revenge for the death of someone in the last Israeli vengeance attack. Israel attacks the Palestinians in revenge for the casualties of the Palestinian vengeance attack. The cycle goes on and on and never ends. Nobody ever feels satisfied by the punishments meted out. Nobody ever stops to think, “maybe this isn’t good for me, maybe this isn’t good for my nation.” They just go after it, year after year, generation after generation, revenge after revenge.

Which brings us to Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s sentence, and the death penalty in general...

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Friday March 21, 2014 · 6:00 AM PDT

2014/03/21 · 06:00

So the usual racist arguments were made against using race as a factor in college admissions for the University of California system -- "our" people deserve the majority of college admissions slots because "our" people are more intelligent, superior, and harder working than "those" people. "Those" people were under-represented in the U. Cal system because they're lazy. Because they're just inherently stupid. If we let "those" people into our universities, "our" people, the people of the "smart" race, will be punished for being superior to everybody else.

The only real surprising thing is that this argument wasn't made by mouth breathing Okies from the Central Valley with a habit of prancing around in the woods wearing bedsheets. No. It was made by Asian-Americans, talking about why it was okay that the number of Hispanic and black students in the U. Cal system has plummeted to historic lows not seen since pre-civil-rights-era days.

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Tuesday October 08, 2013 · 3:14 PM PDT

2013/10/08 · 15:14

A common talking point amongst righties to explain why we must cut the budget / default on the debt / whatever is, "We're broke!" But are we? I examined the numbers to see:

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Thursday July 16, 2009 · 1:26 PM PDT

2009/07/16 · 13:26

Now that HR3200 has been formally introduced in the House, the right wing is going through it with a fine-tooth comb looking for lines they can take out of context to scare people with. They believe they've found it in the parts of the law that move regulation of private health insurance from McCarran-Ferguson to ERISA: "ObamaCare outlaws private health insurance!"

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Wednesday June 17, 2009 · 10:08 PM PDT

2009/06/17 · 22:08

The right-wing libertarisphere has been a'buzzin' today with a new discovery: A mild-mannered economist named Paul is actually a dastardly supervillain named "Captain Bubble"! They've spent just oodles and oodles of time detailing this evil supervillain's crimes. But little do they know the true story of Captain Bubble vs. the Legion of Central Bankers. Here I am to enlighten you, ladies and gents: The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth!

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Which superhero or group is the greatest?

7 votes Vote Now!

Which superhero or group is the greatest?

Captain Bubble

1 vote

Oracle Alan

0 votes

Helicopter Ben

0 votes

The Austrians

2 votes

Dude!

4 votes

Obama is not eligible to be President

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Monday December 08, 2008 · 8:46 PM PST

2008/12/08 · 20:46

Well, at least that's what the lunatic fringe of the right wing is saying. He's not a natural-born citizen, they say. That birth certificate that is posted on Obama's web site and has been held by actual reporters? Lies. All lies. The fact that the State of Hawaii says that it's the real birth certificate and that they have the original on file? More lies. And so on and so forth. Whatever inconvenient facts you bring up, they always have some way to "discredit" it.

Now me, I say we give these right-wing lunatics some help. There's still a few more inconvenient facts that they haven't figured out some way to hand-wave away. So let's have a little contest:

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Tuesday September 30, 2008 · 10:53 PM PDT

2008/09/30 · 22:53

There is a quote going around Left Blogistan by Thomas Jefferson. The quote goes like this:

I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around [the banks] will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs.

Thing is, this quote doesn't mean what folks seem to think it means. Below, I explain.

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23 votes Show Results

Will deflation be a problem for you?

23 votes Vote Now!

Will deflation be a problem for you?

No, I have no debts because I'm too poor and no one will loan me money

7 votes

No, I have no debts because I'm wealthy

3 votes

Yes, I have debts

12 votes

Don't know

1 vote

President Bush signs up for English lessons

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Wednesday June 07, 2006 · 9:44 PM PDT

2006/06/07 · 21:44

Bush Says Immigrants Must Learn English

New arrivals to this country must adopt American values and learn English, President Bush said Wednesday, pushing anew for his proposal to overhaul immigration rules. He also announced that, starting tomorrow, he will be unavailable for press conferences and other events because he will be busy taking remedial English classes.

Amongst the American values that President Bush mentioned in his speech that the new immigrants need to learn and adopt are: Read More

Rappin' on the Potomac

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Tuesday May 30, 2006 · 9:49 AM PDT

2006/05/30 · 09:49

Let's see: Republican pols are interested in easy money, bling, whores, infidelity, theft, gas-guzzling cars, and shooting people in the face.

The proof is clear: Republican politicians are all rappers!
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The new sequel to Brokeback Mountain

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Wednesday February 08, 2006 · 6:24 PM PST

2006/02/08 · 18:24

Their love was forbidden. They hid it even from themselves. But love, in the end, was something that could not be denied. From Ang Lee, director of Brokeback Mountain, comes his new story of forbidden love: Read More

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We're not broke, we're just deadbeats

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Captain Bubble vs the Legion of Central Bankers

Obama is not eligible to be President

Jefferson, deflation, and bailout city

President Bush signs up for English lessons

Rappin' on the Potomac

The new sequel to Brokeback Mountain