Debt Ceiling is Raised before Tea Party Understands What It Is: Andy Borowitz

 July 31, 2011Debt Ceiling is Raised Before Tea Party Understands What It IsGOP Begins Hard Work of Creating Next CrisisWASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report) – In an historic eleventh-hour bipartisan accord, the United States’ debt ceiling was raised Sunday night before the...

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The People My Republican Grandpa Warned Me About

By Bob Burnett About author:  Bob Burnett is one of the founding executives at Cisco Systems. When I was a teenager, my grandfather ate dinner with my family and repaid us with a post-dessert homily. His favorite was "the Red menace,"...

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Tea Party Calls the Shots -- Boehner Obeys

Tea Party Tail Wags the GOP DogBy Megan Carpentier, Guardian UK30 July 11 By capitulating to the Tea Party caucus, John Boehner risks becoming the poster child for all that is wrong with Washington. hen speaker John Boehner took the gavel from House minority leader...

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Joe Walsh, Deadbeat Dad and Tea Party Hypocrite -- Good video

July 29, 2011 10:15 PMLawrence O'Donnell Bans "Deadbeat Dad" Joe Walsh From Appearing on His ShowBy Heather www.crooksandliars.comDOWNLOADS: (127) PLAYS: (1395) EmbedAs anyone who follows cable news knows, Rep. Joe Walsh (Blowhard-IL) has done quite a job making a name for...

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Another Bill Maher video -- so much truth, they're not for laughs anymore

It Gets Better video for socialists:  http://www.rawstory.com/rawreplay/2011/07/maher-creates-it-gets-better-video-for-socialists/ ...

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GOP's New Message: We're Gonna' Hurt Some People

Bill Maher had this segment on his show last night -- there is more truth than fiction in it.  View it at: http://www.rawstory.com/rawreplay/2011/07/maher-debuts-gops-frightening-new-motivational-message/ ...

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Outrageous -- Some employers refuse to let unemployed apply for jobs!

More idiocy/absurdity in our upside-down, backwards world: "Help wanted." For millions of unemployed Americans, these two words are a beacon -- a light at the end of a dark tunnel in which they found themselves after Wall Street speculators wrecked our economy. For the unemployed,...

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Social Security payments may be skipped in August--and who knows for how long?

Ah, but not to worry -- the rich won't have to scramble because of it. No, only the middle class and poor--the sick, disabled and the elderly--will suffer. But, you know, as a recent article by Neal Boortz, a wealthy Republican Texan tells us, it's their own fault they don't have jobs or money to...

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Washington vs. America

The people with the pitchforks -- a vast a majority of the nation -- are surrounding the capital. By Brent Budowsky Washington is an island drowning in its own self-interest, surrounded by a hurting and unhappy nation of deeply patriotic citizens who hunger for shared national purpose but find...

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Republican says: Chunk of GOP are either stupid, crazy, ignorant or craven cowards

I'd say ALL of the Above!  Even a Reagan adviser is saying it now! Historian Bruce Bartlett, a former domestic policy adviser to President Ronald Reagan, sat down with MSNBC’s Chris Matthews on Wednesday to discuss the national debt. Bartlett said it was a myth that tax cuts are the key to ...

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The American People Are Angry!: Bernie Sanders

Any intelligent person in this country knows Senator Bernie Sanders speaks the truth.  Americans are mad as hell that their so-called "representatives" in Washington pay no attention to the will of we, the people--and are representing only the richest people in the country!  The...

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The destruction of our country

Krugman is right. By a thousand cuts and now by the chopping off of the head, the Republican fanatics are determined to destroy our country. As more a member of their party than of the Democrats, Obama is aiding and abetting them. On every issue he has caved in, giving them what they were asking for--and...

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The Bush Deficit -- by Jonathan Cohn

 Critics of President Obama never tire of blaming him for today's high deficits. But if blame belongs with one president, it belongs with Obama's predecessor, George W. Bush. The chart above, which the New York Times created based upon figures from the Center on Budget...

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Sadly--what we have come to: "Christian" fundamentalists dictate the way things will be

Jesus would not recognize them.  They practice none of his teachings.  Fear and prejudice rule in their narrow-minded belief system.  EXCERPT:   The American Evangelicals felt that after Reagan, they were entitled to power, Palmer said. That is why they couldn’t understand the election...

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Dr. Jeffrey Long tells of his research that proves to him there is life after death

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mptGAc3XWPs&feature=related  -- Dr. Jeffrey Long interview Whether or not one believes in life after death, the sincerity and earnestness of the people sharing their near-death experiences can't be denied. It can't hurt to listen to their accounts and feel...

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Sincere open-hearted woman tells of near death experience

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOVawdK06HY This woman speaks from her heart about her experience and what she learned from it. ...

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Super Congress won't be accountable to the people

But then, do you really think Congress is accountable to the people now?  If you ever thought "We, the people" had any say in anything, with the advent of a Super Congress, you can say goodbye to that notion forever.  Here comes the end of our world as we have known it: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/23/super-congress-debt-ceiling_n_907887.html...

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The documentary "SPIN" -- a must-watch

A documentary made more than 20 years ago -- imagine how much more advancedthey have become in SPIN these days! Do you believe we EVER get the truth in news? Behind the scenes at the so-called TV "news." You think the news is manipulated?This film shows how they do it by catching them in the act over and over again. You'll never look at TV news...

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Hey, ya know what we need in this country? More guns for the idiots!

Any right winger will tell you gun ownership is very important--and that you should never leave your house without your weapon. If you're at a party or a car show,  you never know when you might have an argument with some S.O.B. you will want to shoot. SIX PEOPLE SHOT TO DEATH AT TEXAS...

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Republicans will never say YES to Obama, no matter how much he capitulates to their demands

The Party That Can't Say YesBy The New York Times | Editorial23 July 11 or days, the White House has infuriated its Democratic allies in Congress by offering House Republicans more and more in exchange for a deal to raise the debt ceiling and prevent default. But it...

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Doing God's work, Nutso style

Another right-wing fundamentalist teaching us how to be a Christian. Fundamentalist beliefs/instructions of the twisted, radical nutso type (Michele Bachmann springs to mind) are these: despise anyone who is a different color or lives a different lifestyle or has a different sexual orientation--and...

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How Things Really Work in Washington

SO TRUE, SO TRUE! (Sob)  http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/rj-eskow/37492/is-enforcement-bad-for-business-mr-banker-boehners-boysll-fix-that-for-ya-permanent-like ENFORCEMENT BAD FOR BUSINESS, MR. BANKER?  BOEHNER'S BOYS CAN FIX THAT FOR YA'--PERMANENT-LIKE, YA' KNOW WHAT I MEAN? By RJ Eskow ...

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Medicare is the Solution -- Not the Problem

http://www.readersupportednews.org/opinion2/272-39/6724-medicare-is-the-solution-not-the-problem This essay offers sensible, practical wisdom from Robert Reich.  Yet we know Big Pharma and health insurance companies will NEVER allow it.  Their billions (exacted from us for their crummy policies...

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What is wrong with people? Have we all lost our minds?

I believe this country's people are either stupid or stupified-- and most are probably both. Corporate Tax Holiday in Debt Ceiling Debate -- Where's the Uproar? By Matt Taibi, Rolling Stone Have been meaning to write about this, but I’m increasingly...

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Quote of Truth from Jon Stewart

"Democrats: a moment of dissent, a lifetime of capitulation." --Jon Stewart, The Daily S...

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A quote from the Diamond Sutra

One of my all-time favorite quotes (helps to keep one balanced in an insane world): Thus shall ye think of all this fleeting world: A star at dawn, a bubble in a stream; A flash of lightning in a summer cloud; A flickering lamp, a phantom, and a dream. ...

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Murdoch Henchman may be responsible for Climate-Gate

http://www.readersupportednews.org/opinion2/276-74/6704-murdoch-henchman-responsible-for-climate-gate EXCERPT: On November 20th, 2009, somebody broke into a computer server at the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia, and stole thousands of emails and computer files. The documents...

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