February 2012
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I would like to investigate how it is that every...
I know ALEC is the clearinghouse for the worst crap passed in right wing legislatures, but to push through laws that no one even agrees with?? What’s the end game?
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This is what Santorum's brand of "education" looks...
Let me tell you about my experience with a home-schooled child. Certainly not all home schooling is bad, but when parents’ rationale to home school is entrenched in their own fundamentalist religion, it’s out of ignorance and often racism. I am a math teacher with a private tutoring business for the past twenty years. I have worked with all kinds of students, but nothing like the...
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Only batshit crazies agree with Santorum on having... →
From Ian Millheiser:
GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum’s statement yesterday claiming that there should not be absolute separation of church and state does not simply place him at odds with the First Amendment, or with presidents ranging from John F. Kennedy to Ronald Reagan, it also places him wildly out of step with the American people.
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Never underestimate the power of hearing the words...
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Here's why religious fundamentalists like Santorum...
It’s a total cop-out. If sex is solely in order to procreate, it’s simply an obligation divined by God. There is no need for the man to engage in seduction, foreplay, variety, oral sex, etc. Just plant his seed into his partner (who’s not on birth control). No wonder conservative men are such bad lovers.
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Virigina was the 8th state to passed some sort of...
Alabama, Arizona, Florida, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas already have these laws, so I have a purely practical question: Considering these tests are not prescribed by the doctor thus medically unnecessary, are put in place by the pious legislatures to “shame” a woman out of proceeding with an abortion, and are certainly not free, who is paying for the tests? And regardless...
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“If you were Satan, who would you attack, in this day and age? There is no one...”
– Rick Santorum, warning that the United States is under attack by Satan, the Father of Lies. I personally think it’s Satan’s work that 18% of this country is mentally ill under the guise of their own home-schooled religiosity, making it even remotely possible that they could elect...
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“Six months before this thing got going, every Republican I know was saying,...”
– Former Reagan strategist Ed Rollins quoted in “The Lost Party: The Strangest Primary Season in Memory Reveals a GOP That’s Tearing Itself Apart,” by John Heilemann in New York Magazine
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“And if Roe v. Wade were overturned tomorrow, nobody would even notice.”
– Wendy Long, who’s running against Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) for the U.S. Senate. And by “nobody,” she means the one million women who had an abortion in the U.S. last year.
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“Every one of the Romney campaign’s major themes, from the attacks on President...”
– Paul Krugman in Romney’s Economic Closet
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Kansas passing law that raises taxes on those... →
Art Laffer of the Reagan years is still going around the states “consulting” on reverse Robin Hood tax reform, while bragging how he got Reagan to increase taxes on the poor.
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I wish the Virginia legislature would pass a bill...
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The giant XL cojones of TransCanada bring together... →
Can you believe a Canadian company is asserting eminent domain claims on American homeowners’ lands for a project that the U.S. government has rejected?
You can sign this petition to stand against this arrogance.
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Republicans: For government so small, it fits into...
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Dennis Miller, Glenn Beck and the FOX morning crew prove ‘conservative comedian’ is an oxymoron.
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“How do you become a mom if you are into birth control?”
– RUSH LIMBAUGH, posing a rhetorical question as only a white male conservative can, in radio remarks broadcast on the Fox News Channel.
Here’s a question, Rush: What the fuck gives men the alleged right to ask such stupid fucking questions?
(via inothernews)
Rush Limbaugh = 20 pounds of bullshit...
What woman will file the first lawsuit against the... →
The brilliant Dahlia Lithwick chimes in.
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“They had no problem having similar to a trans-vaginal procedure when they...”
– Dana Loesch on CNN, proving the source of her acrid personality: What kind of shitty sex must Loesch be having to assert that consensual intercourse between a man and a woman is “similar” to a plastic rod penetrated into the vagina by a stranger even if the woman does not want the test?
Here are the underwater dog photos that are all... →
“The Virginia Legislature has passed this law that allows — or mandates — that a...”
– BILL MAHER, remarking on Virginia’s personhood bullshit, on Real Time
“The Republicans are positioning themselves to be the leading party in a new...”
– Robert Slayton (via azspot)
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Do you think the state of Virginia forcing a pregnant woman seeking an abortion to have an ultrasound scope deeply inserted into her vagina for a medically unnecessary test even when she does not consent is state-santioned sexual assault? What if it were a finger or a dildo, without her consent?
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“Something tells me, that if the upcoming election could be decided on social...”
– Rush Limbaugh, telling his listeners that the GOP could win in a landslide in November if the election were decided on social issues.
This is telling because it’s evidence that Limbaugh has given up his three-year wish that the economy fails, and that the GOP is no longer connected to its...
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Isn’t it strange that a guy named Grover wants a puppet as President?
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Support for Alexander Ryking
He is the reason I started posting my political rantings and ravings on Tumblr. I’d only been posting on Tumblr for maybe a week and I was like “how did my post get that blue Politics tag?” Once I figured it out, I truly felt the egalitarian nature of the whole community — Ryking didn’t know me, never communicated with me, but the stamp of approval he doles out as a...
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“The media is reeling these numbers, that I do not believe are accurate, when it...”
– Sarah Palin and her word salad, appearing on FOX News this morning, agreeing with past FOX assertions that the Labor Department is “cooking the books.” Although this is not new or surprising, I am reminded of the time when FOX Newsholes cheered when the Olympic Committee did not award...
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Should I leave this note on my rude neighbor's...
I know you speak English because your voice bellows from your balcony through the hurricane impact glass of the hermetically sealed sliding glass doors of our bedroom to wake us up in the middle of the night. This is after two nights in a row of being awoken from a sound sleep at 2:00 and 4:00 in the morning by the vibrations coming through the drywall from the loud, thumping music you play at all...
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“To those Christians who have venomously and vomitously cursed the Court family...”
– Federal judge Fred Biery from Texas. You’ve got to read this entire smackdown! http://rudepundit.blogspot.com/2012/02/texas-judge-reams-newt-gingrichs.html
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Isn't it ironic (part 2)?
The Catholic Church disallows any women in its leadership ranks, and those women who do serve in the church are celibate, yet the dress-wearing, pedophile-protecting Bishops think they have the right to dictate women’s health and private choices.
I would like to know ONE WOMAN who buys into this control crap. IF YOU DON’T WANT TO TAKE BIRTH CONTROL OR HAVE AN ABORTION, DON’T DO...
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Virginia House passes government mandated,... →
The Virginia state House of Delegates voted 63 to 36 to pass a bill requiring that women seeking abortions undergo a transvaginal ultrasound, which requires a probe being inserted into the vagina. Delegate Charniele Herring (D-Alexandria) criticized the bill, saying “We’re talking about inside a woman’s body. This is the first time, if we pass this bill, that we will be dictating...
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“It hollows out our No. 1 priority, which is safety, and frankly, it hollows out...”
– U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray Lahood (Republican!), commenting on the GOP House’s proposed transportation bill that is such a lobbyist-infested-circle jerk that John Boehner has delayed the vote because he couldn’t even get his own teabaggers on board.
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FINALLY! Interior Secretary Salazar implements... →
Natural-gas drillers will be required by U.S. rules to inspect their wells after hydraulic fracturing on public land to ensure the safety of drinking-water supplies
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Did anyone else notice Raylan Givens on Justified...
Love that show!
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Republicans on the wrong side of pretty much... →
Do you support or oppose a recent federal requirement that private health insurance plans cover the full cost of birth control for their female patients?
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All: 66-26 Republicans: 50-44 <—- Even Republicans disagree with their “leaders” Independents: 64-26 Moderates: 68-22 Women: 72-20 Catholics: 67-25 Church-going Catholics: 48-43
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Keurig pod coffeemakers are the HP printers of...
The single serving coffee pods, like the inkjet cartridge refills, are where the profit lies. Pods end up costing the equivalent of $50 per pound of coffee, not to mention the amount of waste generated.