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April, 2012 archive

Bob’s for Jabs 2

Via the Richmonder, who promises to be right there with Bob as long as he’s considered a contender for the vice-presidential nomination.

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All the News that Fits 2

Left Blogistan has been having a lot of fun celebrating the ignorance:

Two of Romney’s surrogates dropped Cold War references when referring to Obama’s foreign policy failures. One said the White House has abandoned Czechoslovakia (a country that hasn’t existed since 1993) and the other said Obama wasn’t strong enough to prevent “the Soviets” from “pushing into the Arctic.” The outdated references revealed Romney’s advisers on foreign policy to be largely relics of the past – thereby proving the Obama campaign’s point.

But there’s a larger point that is being missed amongst the snark.

This was not a mistake. It was strategy–a strategy to which research and facts are irrelevant.

Republican don’t care about truth. They are willing to say anything that they think will help their cause, hoping that the lies will have enough truthiness to live until election day.

I will not be surprised when I listen to a radio show about foreign policy to hear someone call in with a comment about how President Obama lost Czechoslovakia.

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Dustbiters 0

More masters of the universe are out of their jobs–so routine I don’t even check for the list on Friday evening any more:

The first two on the list deserved punishment for crimes against spelling, regardless of their fiduciary behaviour.

In related news, some of our local masters of the universe are facing time. I suspect that they are not so special as to be the only ones deserving of that privilege.

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Rebecca West:

I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.

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Foxy Shady 0

Via Raw Story.

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Your Tax Dollars at Work 1

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Spill Here, Spill Now, Scapegoat Dept. 0

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Bike Lane 0

As one who both bicycles and drives, I find this rather appalling.

Via sfgate dot com:

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The Adventure of the Empty Houses 0

Jim Galloway went to check out a neighborhood where his daughter was working; he found it to be an unfinshed subdivision with a streets, vacant lots all prepared for construction with pipes and conduits already in place, a couple of houses, and “mortgage rage.”

The friendly man disappeared, replaced by one whose face was twisted in anger. He stepped back, reached behind his back, pulled out a badge and declared himself to be a law enforcement officer.

This road was private, he roared. (Not true — street had been deeded to the county years earlier.) He ordered us to leave. When we demurred, he pulled out a cell phone and feigned a phone call to the sheriff’s office.

The man was not armed. But had we kept going, that condition might have changed by the time we made the return trip past his house – and so we retreated.

Follow the link to learn why he dubbed it “mortgage rage.”

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Driving while Brown 0

The merchants of hate.

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Justice Delayed . . . 0

. . . may still be justice.

FOR THE SECOND time this year, a group of accused Occupy Philly protesters walked out of court free and clear after a Philadelphia judge on Thursday dismissed all charges against them.

“I feel like this is a good day for the First Amendment and for the right of people to speak out against economic injustice,” Dustin Slaughter, 32, said after leaving the courtroom the Criminal Justice Center.

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The lone prosecution witness, police Capt. William Fisher, who was head of the Civil Affairs Unit at the time, described the ensuing 3 1/2-hour protest as “a mob scene” of 300 to 400 people exhibiting an “air of animosity.”

“Air of animosity” my anatomy.

They were arrested for being.

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Thomas Paine, via PoliticalProf:

To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.

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And Now for Something Completely Different 2

Via PoliticalProf.

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WMD 0

Unlock the magic now (warning: NSFW).

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The Voter Fraud Fraud 0

The Republican voter suppression campaign begins to take its toll.

Glomarization reports on a woman who has voted for 70 years, but who no longer can because she doesn’t have the right papers.

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Wasp 0

Wasp

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The Rich Are Different from You and Me 0

Tom Tomorrow

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What Would Jesus Cut? 0

Making somebody more hungry . . . is not a way to end their poverty.

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Think Spring 2

Azaleas in bloom

Robin in grass

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Your Tax Dollars at Work 0

Graph showing what each millionaire's tax cut could pay for in services


Click for a larger image.

Via BartCop.

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